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The World’s Worst Teachers, from Children's author David Walliams. Think your teachers are bad? Wait until you meet this lot. These ten tales of the world’s most splendidly sinister teachers will have you running for the school gates. Dr Dread teaches science and is half man, half monster!...

Brought to you by Puffin. The brand-new, hilarious book from bestselling, record-breaking author, Adam Kay. The olden days were pretty fun if you liked wearing chainmail or chopping people's heads off but there was one TINY LITTLE problem back then . . . doctors didn't have the slightest clue...

Sadie has spent her life chasing the horizon—working aboard her father’s crabbing boat and laughing off myths of the deep—until Kyros boards their ship. There’s a storm. Blood on his hands. Before she can understand what’s happening, Kyros throws her overboard and leaves her to die. Except Sadie doesn’t drown. She isn’t human. She’s something forbidden.

From Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling author Emma Slate comes the third book in the Saddles & Spurs series. I swerved off a mountain road into a ditch to avoid a moose. And then a rugged cowboy in a beast of a truck comes to my rescue. Brooks Keel. The quiet loner at Elk Ridge. The cowboy-biker who looks devastatingly good on a horse and a motorcycle. Ex-con. As a jobless twenty-three-year-old virgin, I have no business getting involved with a bad boy. But between his hard-won smiles and protective streak, my heart —and my body —hunger for him.

Brought to you by Puffin. Learn all about the human body with this audio bundle of Kay's Anatomy and Kay's Marvellous Medicine from bestselling author, Adam Kay. From what's going on inside our bodies, to when and why we discovered how our insides actually work, Adam Kay has every (slimy and...

Serving up razor-sharp caricatures and explosively satirical truth-bombs since January 2000, Dead Ringers is one of Radio 4’s most popular and critically acclaimed comedy shows. In these five series, first broadcast between 2015 and 2019, media mauling and celebrity savaging are once more the order of the day, as Jon Culshaw, Jan Ravens, Lewis MacLeod, Debra Stephenson and Duncan Wisbey poke fun at the worlds of politics and entertainment.

This omnibus contains all five of the bestselling Mated to the King books by Lola Glass. These spicy, enemies-to-lovers romances each focus on a different couple with their own happily ever after. Binge the whole series now!

I’m broke and one bad day away from shattering. I was left holding a debt that wasn't mine and in trouble with a loan shark who doesn't accept excuses. Then Dorian Vale walked back into my life like a ghost I couldn't outrun. Cold in his silence. Calculated in his control. Devastating in ways I never saw coming. He was my brother’s best friend, once. Before the betrayal. Now he's a billionaire with a scandal he can't outrun. And a father who's given him an ultimatum: Find a wife. Or lose everything.

With its wickedly funny mimicry and on-point parodies, Dead Ringers became an instant classic when it hit the airwaves in January 2000. In these four series, first broadcast between 2020 and 2023, the team give us their inimitable impersonations of the famous and infamous: from Donald Trump and Joe Biden to Liz Truss, Professor Chris Whitty and Holly Willoughby.

Wickedly funny and bitingly satirical, Dead Ringers has been lampooning politicans, celebrities and media pundits for over 20 years. In these seven series, first broadcast between 2000 and 2002, the team give us their peerless impressions of the personalities we love to laugh at: from Tony Blair and George W. Bush to Brian Sewell, Posh n' Becks and Kirsty Wark.

She is my greatest fear, my deepest regret, and my innermost longing. Lilian I checked every box there is in life: Forbes 30 Under 30, Tech Innovator, Top Female CEO, and the title claiming me the wealthiest woman on the planet. Others call me cold and calculating, but I know I earned a place at...

One choice. One season. Two different versions of love . . . Willa lives in Oak Falls, a small town where the Fall months are full of red and gold leaves, pumpkin spice and bonfires. Willa loves it but deep down she has sometimes wondered if just maybe she might want more. When she is left some...

The complete BBC Radio collection bringing together two full-cast dramatisations of Douglas Adams' Dirk Gently novels. In Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Dirk Gently has an unshakable belief in the interconnectedness of all things, but his Holistic Detective Agency mainly succeeds in tracking down missing cats for old ladies. Then Dirk stumbles upon an old friend behaving bizarrely - and he's drawn into a four-billion-year-old mystery that must be solved if the human race is to avoid immediate extinction....

Seven more series of the popular BBC Radio 4 impressions show - plus a selection of unbroadcast material. Since the turn of the millennium, Dead Ringers has been giving us its skewed, hilarious take on the famous and the infamous. The show has won a British Comedy Award, a Sony Gold Award, and a Press Guild Award for Radio Programme of the Year - and won a legion of fans with its merciless parodies, mocking every programme, institution and politician you hold dear.

He said he'd nurse me back to health—but first, he had to own me. I walked into his ER with the flu. Now I'm locked in his basement. Dr. Maguire—my neighbor, my stalker, my captor—insists he's taking care of me. That I'm too delicate for the world outside. That no one else could ever love...

'I have 90 years to share: 90 years of joy and sorrow, triumph and disaster, love and loss, laughter and tears; 90 years of watching the world change around me beyond my wildest imagination. Ninety years and still counting...' Amanda Barrie, the iconic Cleo in Carry on Cleo and much-loved Alma...

From Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling author Emma Slate comes the second book in the Saddles & Spurs Series. One night. All passion. No names. I'll never see him again. But when I get on a plane home to Huckleberry Hill for a family emergency, my one-night stand sits down next to me. Cas Bowman. Famous bull rider. And my future brother-in-law's best friend. No one can know we hooked up—not even my sister. And I vow never to let it happen again. But then I remember the feel of him against me and the taste of him on my lips . . .

Spanning six decades, from a 1970s rehearsal dinner at a Malibu mansion to a crystal mine wedding in 1990s Sedona, a bachelorette party at a presidential estate in the 2000s, a penthouse ceremony in 2025, and an intergalactic courtroom in 2089, each of Lady Miss' weddings is less about the groom and more about the scheme. Whether she's blackmailing a senator, pitching a reality TV empire to her mother-in-law, or battling a tech billionaire for advertising rights on the moon, Lady Miss always has a plan, and it never goes the way she expects.

1956: On idyllic Balboa Island, just off the California coast, life seems peaceful and welcoming. But when the lives of three women begin to unravel in shockingly different ways, an unlikely friendship—and the game of tennis—may be the only thing that can save them. Milly Kinkaid's plan to...

The complete collection of the hilarious show-within-a-show about two daytime TV presenters. Sit back, dip your biscuit in your tea, and relax...because Mike and Sue are here! In each episode of this mid-morning spoof, the sofa-bound host couple Mike and Sue and their live studio audience tackle various topics of the day - no matter how clumsily.