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What if your marketing kept working while you slept, answered customers at midnight, and kept paying you long after the work was done?For most small business owners, coaches, and freelancers, marketing feels like a second full-time job. You post every day, chase leads, answer the same questions...

A thrilling Special Forces memoir - from Selection to the Falklands war, Northern Ireland, and beyond this is essential listening for anyone interested in the SAS. Many aspire to serve with the Special Air Service, arguably the world's most prestigious regiment, but few achieve their aim. In...

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Snowman by Michael Morpurgo, inspired by the original story by Raymond Briggs, read by Richard Armitage. One December morning, James is thrilled to wake up to see snow falling. He spends the whole day making his perfect snowman; he has coal eyes, an...

British M16 Agent and former SAS trooper Jack Tate is trying to escape his past when he witnesses a terrorist attack of unthinkable scale. An electro-magnetic pulse knocks out the US power grid, killing anything with a computer processor, throwing the whole country into chaos. Under the cover of the blackout, a clandestine operation aims to assassinate prominent public figures on US soil. Looting and violence spreads across the country. And Jack Tate’s past comes back to haunt him. 

Born in Rhodesia, raised on rebellion and rock ’n roll — Angus Shaw came of age as his country tore itself apart. Drafted into a brutal bush war, he and his friends — the “Mutoko boys” — faced madness, death, and disillusionment in a land slipping into chaos. From the smoky bars and marijuana fields of rural Rhodesia to the front lines of Africa’s bloodiest conflicts, Shaw lived and reported it all — Idi Amin’s Uganda, Somalia’s warlords, Liberia’s anarchy, and Rwanda’s unspeakable genocide.

Welcome to Twinkleland Kingdom, where everything is 100% perfect. Except Princess Pea - she loves getting muddy and having fun and she's not keen on choosing her own perfect unicorn at the Royal Unicorn Parade. Until the final unicorn turns out to be a podgy, pongy, proud, magic-horned...pig?...

A WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF 2022: POLITICS Significant strides have been made in recent years in the movement for LGBTQ+ rights, visibility and empowerment, but the conversation is far from over. After years of feeling the crushing dearth of information on bisexuality, psychological scientist and...

I should have known something was up when my father started acting nice and caring toward me. He’s never been the nurturing type. He’s never really paid me much attention at all, too busy hiding from loan sharks or drinking himself to sleep. Still, when he starts to pay attention to me, I can’t deny that a part of me is hoping our relationship might finally be improving. Then he leads me into the chapel and informs me that I’m there to marry one of the loan sharks he owes. So, I do the only thing that I can. I run. When my car breaks down on the side of the road, I think I’m screwed.

If there had been no cover-up of Robert Kennedy's complicity in the murder of Marilyn Monroe in 1962 and he had been prosecuted based on compelling evidence at the time, the assassination of JFK by Bobby's enemies would not have happened - changing the course of history and preventing the murder of media icon Dorothy Kilgallen. 

Spezialagent Aidan Snow auf der Spur mysteriöser Attentate und politischer Unruhen, die auf irgendeine Weise miteinander in Verbindung zu stehen scheinen – in einer Thriller-Reihe, die Fans von David Baldacci, Chris Ryan und Tom Clancy lieben werden. In Großbritannien wird Aidan Snow...

Escrita em 1936, A Milionária apresenta Epifânia, uma das mulheres mais ricas da Europa. Inteligente, impetuosa e acostumada a comandar tudo ao seu redor, ela transforma negócios, casamento e relações afetivas em disputas das quais espera sempre sair vencedora. Mas o encontro com um médico muçulmano, aparentemente imune ao poder de sua fortuna, coloca suas certezas à prova.

1969. Five years ago, teenager Alexandra Tozer was murdered. Her sister Helen Tozer will never forget. Returning home after quitting the Met Police, she brings with her the recovering Detective Sergeant Cathal Breen, who slowly becomes possessed by the unsolved case. But Breen is on a trail, for...

Unipiggle and Princess Pea are so excited to be on HOLIDAY! They can't wait to build sandcastles and explore the magical underwater town, Mermaid Springs. But then the King is swept away in a WHIRLPOOL. The mermaids think he has been taken by a mysterious undersea creature...who likes to BURP a...

Police Sergeant William South has a reason for not wanting to be on the murder investigation. He is a murderer himself. But the victim was his only friend - like him, a passionate birdwatcher. South is warily partnered with the strong-willed Detective Sergeant Alexandra Cupidi, newly recruited to the Kent coast from London. Together they find the body, violently beaten, forced inside a wooden chest. Only rage could kill a man like this. South knows it.

Myth is our wild way of telling the truth, of sharing stories that have our living earth speaking through them. There is an old insistence that we each have a twin we know nothing about. A wild, curious twin that was thrown out the window the night we were born, taking much of our energy with them. This story is a quest to find and court our wild twin, for they have something important to tell us. If there was something we were here to do in our few, brief years, we can be sure that the wild twin is holding the key.

Two of the world’s most popular and trusted pet care advocates reveal new science to teach us how to delay ageing and provide a long, happy, healthy life for our canine companions. The definitive, cutting-edge guide for every dog parent. The #1 New York Times Bestseller and Sunday Times...

Think you have a good memory? Think again. Memories are our most cherished possessions. We rely on them every day of our lives. They make us who we are. And yet the truth is they are far from being the accurate records of the past we like to think they are. True, we can all admit to having suffered occasional memory lapses, such as entering a room and immediately forgetting why or suddenly being unable to recall the name of someone we've met dozens of times. But what if we have the potential for more profound errors of memory?

There came an elastic aftershock of creaks and groans and then, softly softly, a chinking shower of rubbled cement. Leaves calmed and trunks stood serene. Where, not a minute before, there had been a suburb, there was now only woodland standing amid ruins. There is no warning. No chance to prepare. They arrive in the night: thundering up through the ground, transforming streets and towns into shadowy forest. Buildings are destroyed.

Come fall in love with the mountain men of Fallen Peak as they each find their happily ever after.

Escrita em 1895, a peça apresenta Napoleão antes de se tornar imperador, quando, aos 26 anos, comandava o Exército da Itália. Suas tropas estavam famintas, malvestidas e enfraquecidas pelas doenças, mas o jovem general conseguiu reorganizá-las e conquistar a confiança de soldados e oficiais experientes.