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Between 1980 and 1988 on BBC television and radio, the exploits of the Rt Hon Jim Hacker MP (Paul Eddington) - later Prime Minister - kept the British nation enthralled. Helped - and hampered - by his diligent Permanent Secretary Sir Humphrey Appleby (Nigel Hawthorne) and his Principle Private Secretary Bernard Woolley (Derek Fowlds), Hacker and his department became synonymous with government bureaucracy and administrative double dealing.

After surviving an attack by a mysterious figure, as well as navigating his way through environmental hazards that would likely end a normal person, Jeremy has come through battered, bruised, and broken–but alive. Now, he is being brought to the Kingdom of Harwen to recover and to detail recent events to the Defenders there, where he quickly discovers that his confrontations with these mysterious figures aren’t limited to just his own experiences anymore.

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES AND NUMBER ONE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ‘A flabbergasting feat of political reporting . . . A news bomb on every page’ Tina Brown, Observer ‘A blockbuster’ Guardian ‘Gobsmacking’ Daily Mail ‘Eye-popping’ Economist ‘Deeply reported and gripping'...

Brought to you by Penguin. Operation Barbarossa, Hitler's invasion of Russia in June 1941, aimed at nothing less than a war of extermination to annihilate Soviet communism, liquidate the Jews and create Lebensraum for the German master race. But it led to the destruction of the Third Reich, and...

THE NO.1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A TIMES, FT, ECONOMIST AND INDEPENDENT BOOK OF THE YEAR Acclaimed psychologist Jonathan Haidt reveals how the decline of free-play in childhood and the rise of smartphone use among adolescents is changing our world From 2010, as teens traded in their flip phones...

SOME BOOKS DON'T LET GO... ENTER THE LIBRARY AT YOUR OWN RISK. Fear comes before the fall. In the winding, perilous corridors of Jurgen Leitner’s private library, you never know what you’ll find. A starving cookbook. An ancient scroll that casts cool, predatory breezes. A cloth-bound...

25TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION, WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY THE AUTHOR ‘The first great American novel of the twenty-first century’ ELLE 'Gluttonously fun, plotted like a museum heist' TONY TULATHIMUTTE 'Funny, poignant, soulful and savage' ELIZABETH DAY A brilliantly perceptive and moving novel that...

Nothing was meant to be buried this deep, for this long...Jonny and Frankie have never been better, but over a date night at their favorite burger joint, Matty Too Fatty's, a surprise visit will come in the form of a blood debt being owed. When Jonny was first saved by the Muffin Man on Dreary Lane, a brand was used. A brand that belonged to a very old, very dangerous family of werewolves. Now they've come to collect. But they don't want their pound of flesh. They have a job for Jonny that leads to an underground gambling ring helmed by the boy without strings.

Larek Holsten is different from most people, living in the Kingdom of Androthe where his 7-foot-tall frame is looked at with suspicion and anger from its shorter residents; but as long as it helps him become the best Logger he can be, he doesn’t let it bother him all that much. He and his best friend, an axe with a powerful Fusion that causes it to become sharper and stronger than a normal tool, are feared by the trees in the magical forest north of his home, as he can fell the quickly growing monoliths faster than anyone else in the community.

Winner of BEST NEW AUTHOR at THE TRUE CRIME AWARDS 2025 Highly commended for BOOK OF THE YEAR at THE TRUE CRIME AWARDS 2025 Shortlisted for THE ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION at the 2025 CWA DAGGERS 'Diligent and absorbing' Gaby Hinsliff, Guardian 'Meticulous and unexpectedly gripping' Janice...

THE INCREDIBLE NEW BOOK FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHORS OF INSIDE BROADMOOR AND INSIDE WAKEFIELD PRISON 'Women's prison is a very dark place. Not much light coming through the bars.' Rose West, Myra Hindley, Joanna Dennehy... Women who were locked up for their sadistic crimes. But what...

This is a unique single-volume history of the road to El Alamein - 'the end of the beginning' - and the bloody battle that followed...It was the British victory at the Battle of El Alamein in November 1942 that inspired one of Churchill's most famous aphorisms: 'it is not the end nor is it the beginning of the end, but it is the end of the beginning'. And yet the true significance of this iconic episode remains unrecognised.

This second volume of the brilliant, bestselling Bartimaeus sequence. Two years have passed since the events of The Amulet of Samarkand and the young magician Nathaniel is rising fast through the government ranks. But his career is suddenly threatened by a series of terrifying crises. A...

From The Ice Age to Northern Ireland's Peace Settlement and everything in between, the acclaimed academic Dr Jonathan Bardon presents a history of Ireland spanning 10,000 years. Beginning with the Ice Age and Ireland's first plants and wildlife, this history encompasses the arrival of...

Random House presents the audiobook edition of Lockwood & Co: The Empty Grave by Jonathan Stroud, read by Emily Bevan. Want to hear a ghost story? That’s good. I know a few . . . After their recent adventures, the Lockwood & Co team deserve a well-earned break . . . so naturally they decide to...

Lucy has left Lockwood & Co. A freelance operative, she is hiring herself out to other agencies – agencies that might value her ever-improving skills. But now Lockwood needs her help. Penelope Fittes, leader of the well-renowned Fittes Agency wants Lockwood & Co. – and only them – to...

An unprecedented and intimate account of one of the most business-savvy, influential and defining public icons of our time Kim Kardashian is a self-made mogul, social media genius, fashion icon and unlikely advocate for criminal justice reform. But she is also dismissed as a figure of scandal...

**Named an ‘Amazing Audiobook for Young Adults 2015’ by the Young Adult Library Services Association** “The spine-tingling performance of Lyons’ narration will keep listeners on the edge of their seat.” – YALSA committee "Stroud is a genius" Rick Riordan, author of the Percy Jackson...

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE ESCAPE ARTIST A THE ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Magnificent . . . Important and impressive' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Astonishing . . . Freedland is a master' MICK HERRON 'Remarkable . . . This is how the best history books will be written in the...

The most serious and rigorously sourced book ever published on UAPs (Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena), Not For Disclosure reveals a hidden history that challenges everything we think we know. For over fifty years, Jonathan Caplan KC has gathered extraordinary testimony from scientists...