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Title: Some of Us Are Liars
Author: Fiona Cummins
Narrator: TBD
Format: Unabridged
Length: 10:00:00
Language: English
Release date: 06-19-2025
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense, Police Stories

Summary:
There's your side, my side, and the truth. It’s the simplest thing in the world. Entrusting your young son into the care of your beloved family. But when tragedy strikes, how do you face the future when your life is in pieces? The Kellaway sisters - Winter, Jen and Alyssa - share an unbreakable bond which hides a lifetime of secrets. A-list celebrity, Winter, is hosting the party of the decade to celebrate Jen’s wedding but the day which dawns full of love and promise ends in devastation and recrimination. Detective Saul Anguish is called in to investigate and uncovers a long buried and shocking family truth. And as the trail takes a sudden, dramatic turn, they must now all face the truth that you can never leave the past behind.

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Title: Inner Game of Tennis: One of Bill Gates All-Time Favourite Books
Author: W Timothy Gallwey
Narrator: Dan Woren
Format: Unabridged
Length: 10:00:00
Language: English
Release date: 06-05-2025
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Genres: Sports & Recreation, Non-Fiction, Self Development, Health & Wellness, Psychology, Other

Summary:
The timeless million-copy phenomenon that provides not only the key to peak performance in tennis, but the secrets to success in life itself. 'Groundbreaking . . . I still give it to friends today' – Bill Gates Described by Billie Jean King as her 'tennis bible', Timothy Gallwey's international bestseller has been essential reading for players of all abilities since it was first published in 1974. With a new foreword from Bill Gates. Instead of concentrating on how to improve your technique, Timothy Gallwey starts from the understanding that 'every game is composed of two parts, an outer game and an inner game'. The former is played against opponents on the court, but the latter is a battle within ourselves as we try and overcome self-doubt and anxiety. It is often won or lost before a ball has been hit. In his revolutionary approach, built on a foundation of Zen thinking and humanistic psychology, Gallwey will teach you how to trust the intuitive wisdom of your body and achieve a state of ‘relaxed concentration’. With lessons on gamesmanship and breaking bad habits, it is no surprise that Gallwey’s method has had a far-reaching impact both on and off the tennis court. Whether you want to win at tennis, write a novel, get ahead at work, or simply unwind after a stressful day, Gallwey shows you how to tap into your utmost potential. No matter your goals, The Inner Game of Tennis gives you the definitive framework for long-term success.

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Title: Normally Weird and Weirdly Normal: My Adventures in Neurodiversity
Author: Robin Ince
Narrator: TBD
Format: Unabridged
Length: 10:00:00
Language: English
Release date: 05-01-2025
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Genres: Biography & Memoir, Non-Fiction, Psychology, Arts & Entertainment

Summary:
A powerful, personal exploration of anxiety, ADHD and neurodiversity, Normally Weird and Weirdly Normal reminds us all – no matter how weird we feel – that it’s okay to be a little different. We all are. What if being a bit weird is actually entirely normal? What if sharing our internal struggles wasn’t a sign of weakness, but strength? For over thirty years, award-winning broadcaster and comedian Robin Ince has entertained thousands in person and on air. But underneath the surface, a whirlwind was at play – a struggle with sadness, concentration, self-doubt and near-constant anxiety. But then he discovered he had all the hallmarks of ADHD and his stumbling blocks became stepping stones. In Normally Weird and Weirdly Normal, Robin uses his own experiences to explore the neurodivergent experience and to ask what the point of “being normal” really is. Packed with personal insights, intimate anecdotes and interviews with psychologists, neuroscientists and many neurodivergent people he has met along the way, this is a quirky and witty dive into the world of human behaviour.

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Title: Filthy Rich Vampires: For Eternity: Filthy Rich Vampires Book 4
Author: Geneva Lee
Narrator: TBD
Format: Unabridged
Length: 11:30:00
Language: English
Release date: 04-03-2025
Publisher: Whole Story QUEST
Genres: Romance, Paranormal

Summary:
As Thea takes her place as Queen with Julian by her side, their world splinters. A new game of deceit begins between factions vying for control. Power is the prize, and Thea and Julian are caught in the middle of it. Targeted by the Vampire Council, the Mordicum, and their families, they soon discover an even deadlier threat to their future. Someone killed the Queen whose throne Thea now reigns on, and time is running out to find the killer before they get to Thea. In this stunning fourth audiobook in the bestselling Filthy Rich Vampires series, magic returns to a dying world with devastating consequences.

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Title: Sign of the Cross
Author: Colm Tóibín
Narrator: TBD
Format: Unabridged
Length: 11:00:00
Language: English
Release date: 03-27-2025
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Genres: Travel Tips

Summary:
Between 1990 and 1994, Colm Tóibín made a series of trips through Catholic Europe. His journey led him into close contact with people from all walks of life, from priests to politicians, from the intellectually open to the spiritually bigoted. He then set down his impressions in The Sign of the Cross, a beautifully written book filled with personal detail set within its historical context.

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Title: Homage to Barcelona
Author: Colm Tóibín
Narrator: TBD
Format: Unabridged
Length: 10:00:00
Language: English
Release date: 03-27-2025
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Genres: History, Europe, Travel Tips

Summary:
Colm Tóibín's Homage to Barcelona celebrates one of Europe’s greatest cities – a cosmopolitan hub of vibrant architecture, art, culture and nightlife. It moves from the story of the city’s founding and its huge expansion in the nineteenth century to the lives of Gaudí, Miró, Picasso, Casals and Dalí. It also explores the history of Catalan nationalism, the tragedy of the Civil War, the Franco years and the transition from dictatorship to democracy which Colm Tóibín witnessed in the 1970s. Written with deep knowledge and affection, Homage to Barcelona is a sensuous and beguiling portrait of a unique Mediterranean port and an adopted home.

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Title: Wild Courage: Go After What You Want and Get It
Author: Jenny Wood
Narrator: Unknown
Format: Unabridged
Length: 10:00:00
Language: English
Release date: 03-27-2025
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Genres: Business & Economics, Career Development

Summary:
You know where you want to go. You know you have it within you. You just need the courage to do it. In Wild Courage, Jenny Wood presents the ultimate approach to getting what you want. Reclaiming nine traits – Weird, Selfish, Shameless, Obsessed, Nosy, Manipulative, Brutal, Reckless and Bossy – that are traditionally seen in a negative light, Wood reveals how to apply these qualities in a savvy and sane way to supercharge your chances of getting ahead, whether you‘re trying to snag a promotion, impress your new boss or land a life-changing deal. Inspired by her groundbreaking coaching program, Wood offers an arsenal of tactical prompts to catapult you forward, like how to: - Embrace Your Weirdness: Uncover the power of standing out and making your mark with authenticity. - Champion Your Desires: Learn to prioritize your ambitions with an unwavering belief in your worth. - Broadcast Your Brilliance: Find the courage to showcase your talents without the shadow of doubt. - Fuel Your Obsessions: Let your passions guide you to set and achieve extraordinary standards. - Cultivate Curiosity: Use your inquisitiveness to build lasting relationships and unlock new opportunities. Wild Courage is a powerful playbook that gives you permission to be your boldest self and create a life filled with ambition, success and true fulfilment.

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Title: Date with Destiny
Author: Julia Chapman
Narrator: Unknown
Format: Unabridged
Length: 12:00:00
Language: English
Release date: 03-27-2025
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Genres: Thriller & Horror, Detective Stories, Cozy Mystery

Summary:
From death to danger and malice to mystery, Samson and Delilah have weathered many storms. Finally, things should be going smoothly. Except life’s never that simple in Bruncliffe, is it? As the couple are beset with worries about their upcoming wedding, a charismatic celebrity comes knocking on the Dales Detective Agency’s door, seeking their services. Samson is initially reluctant to help, for many reasons. But things quickly escalate following a shocking murder at Fellside Court and, as a friend comes under suspicion, Samson and Delilah must set aside their personal problems to catch a killer. In a case that will bring so many of Bruncliffe’s secrets out into the open, this final investigation for the Dales Detectives may be the one that breaks them for ever . . . Date with Destiny is the final instalment in Julia Chapman's much-loved Dales Detective series set in Yorkshire.

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Title: Affairs: True Stories of Love, Lies and Desire
Author: Juliet Rosenfeld
Narrator: TBD
Format: Unabridged
Length: 7:25:00
Language: English
Release date: 03-27-2025
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Genres: Non-Fiction, Psychology

Summary:
Working late? Midnight calls? Suspicious texts? More than half of us will have an affair in our lifetimes – but the reasons behind them might not be what you think. Psychotherapist Juliet Rosenfeld shares the secrets, lies and motivations behind real affairs, through the lens of five very different true stories. We meet the man who left his wife in the delivery suite to visit his young mistress and the psychologist who put attraction to a patient above career ethics. We hear from the surgeon who risked everything for someone he'd only ever spoken to online and the previously straight woman who cheated on her husband with a female colleague – and changed all of their lives. In Affairs, this deeply-concealed but exceptionally common aspect of human behaviour is brought out into the light and explored without judgement or shame. True personal stories, ground-breaking research and expert psychological analysis come together to change everything you have ever thought about infidelity.

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Title: How to Survive a Bear Attack: A Memoir
Author: Claire Cameron
Narrator: TBD
Format: Unabridged
Length: 0:00:00
Language: English
Release date: 03-25-2025
Publisher: Knopf Canada
Genres: Biography & Memoir, Science & Technology, Animals & Nature, General

Summary:
In this debut memoir from the bestselling author of The Bear and The Last Neanderthal, Claire Cameron confronts the rare genetic mutation that gave her cancer by investigating an equally rare and terrifying event—a predatory bear attack. When Claire Cameron was nine years old, her father, a professor of Old English, told her he was dying. In the years after he was gone, she found a way to overcome her grief among the rivers and lakes of Algonquin Park, a vast Canadian wilderness area. Around that same time, in 1991, a couple was killed by a black bear in a rare predatory attack in the park. Claire was shocked and, never fully sure of what happened, the attack haunted her.       Now older, with children of her own, Cameron was diagnosed with the same kind of deadly skin cancer as her father. Caught in a second wave of grief, she was told by her doctor, “the ideal exposure to UV light is none.” No longer able to venture into the wilderness as she once had, with long scars on her back, she became obsessed with the bear attack in Algonquin Park again. How could terror rip through such a beautiful place? Could she separate truth from fiction? She headed north to investigate.       Seamlessly weaving together nature writing with true crime investigation in this unflinching account of recovery, How to Survive a Bear Attack is at once an intimate portrait of an extraordinary animal, a bracing chronicle of pain, obsession, and love, and a profoundly moving exploration of how we can understand and survive the wildness that lives inside us.

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Title: Paris Express
Author: Emma Donoghue
Narrator: TBD
Format: Unabridged
Length: 9:00:00
Language: English
Release date: 03-20-2025
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction

Summary:
'Clever, ambitious . . . a smartly structured novel that ratchets up the pace until it's hurtling along as fast as the train itself' -Alice Winn, author of In Memoriam It is 1895. A high-speed steam train is the emblem of progress. Industry and invention are creating ever greater wealth and poverty. One autumn day an anarchist boards the Granville to Paris Express. The train carries others from all over the globe: the railway workers who have built a life together away from their wives, a little boy travelling alone for the first time, an artist far from home, a wealthy statesman and his invalid wife, and a young woman with a secret hidden under her dress. The Paris Express is a thrilling ride and a literary masterpiece that captures the politics, fear, and chaos of the end of the 19th century.

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Title: Tea You at the Altar
Author: Rebecca Thorne
Narrator: Jessica Threet
Format: Unabridged
Length: 10:00:00
Language: English
Release date: 03-20-2025
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Romance, Romantasy

Summary:
The Princess Bride meets Travis Baldree’s Bookshops & Bonedust in this third ‘Tomes & Tea’ cosy fantasy series. Our sapphic adventurers must navigate the ultimate maelstrom – their own wedding! Kianthe and Reyna are ready to finally walk down the aisle, and in just seven days their wedding of a wifetime will become a reality. There's still so much to do but, like all best-laid plans, everything seems to be going awry. Their baby dragons are causing mayhem in the town of Tawney and Kianthe’s uptight parents have invited themselves to the wedding. Yet, worst of all, Reyna has become embroiled in a secret plot to overthrow Queen Tilaine. The world seems against them – and how are they going to live long enough to say ‘I do’? Can’t Spell Treason Without Tea was an instant Sunday Times hardback fiction bestseller. The Tomes & Tea quartet: - Can’t Spell Treason Without Tea - A Pirate’s Life for Tea - Tea You at the Altar - Book Four - to come! Can't Spell Treason without Tea was a Sunday Times HB fiction bestseller w/c 06/05/2024

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Title: Decline and Fall of the Human Empire: Why Our Species is on the Edge of Extinction
Author: Henry Gee
Narrator: TBD
Format: Unabridged
Length: 7:25:00
Language: English
Release date: 03-13-2025
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Genres: Science & Technology, Biology & Chemistry

Summary:
'A marvellously engaging writer' – The Times In ‘Humans Are Doomed To Go Extinct’, an article in Scientific American published in November 2021, veteran Nature editor Dr Henry Gee predicted that Homo sapiens is on a rapid one-way ride to extinction. The article provoked media coverage and comment around the world. In The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire, Gee expands the themes of his much-discussed article to book length, charting both the rise as well as the fall of humans. After 10,000 years of exponential growth, the rate of human population increase is falling, and rapidly, from a peak of more than 2 per cent a year in 1968 to a shade over 1 per cent today. At this rate, in 10,000 years’ time, our species will be extinct. Rapid climate change is threatening the capacity of human beings to survive on this planet. But there are internal stresses, too. The global economy has been stagnant for twenty years, and across the world, humans are not having children as often as they once did. The average human sperm count has been in decline for more than half a century. The reason for the decline is a mystery. Gee paints a picture of extinction within the next 10,000 years – and suggests ways that our exceptional species might avoid its fate.

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Title: Keep Smashing It: Be Strong, Be Brave, Be Confident!: The debut children's book by Jodie Ounsley, also known as being Fury from Gladiators!
Author: Jodie Ounsley
Narrator: TBD
Format: Unabridged
Length: 3:00:00
Language: English
Release date: 03-13-2025
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Genres: Kids, Non-Fiction

Summary:
Be strong, be brave, be confident and keep smashing it with the nation's favourite Gladiator – Fury! You might know me as Fury from the TV show Gladiators. Or you might like rugby and maybe you know me from when I played for England. Or you might have seen some of the work I do telling people what it’s like to live as a profoundly deaf person. You might not know me at all – and if that’s the case, it’s great to meet you. In her debut book, Gladiator, rugby star and champion of the deaf community Jodie Ounsley wants to show YOU that you can do anything you put your mind to – you just have to believe you can. Written with journalist Becky Grey, Keep Smashing It is full of stories from Jodie's life, advice and top tips that will inspire you to back yourself and believe in yourself, and smash the barriers that are in your way. It will show you how to: - Discover your dream - Be comfortable living outside of the box - Learn that our differences are our superpowers - Smash the barriers that the world has put up - Speak up for what you believe in - Pick yourself up and try again Are you ready?

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Title: Meet the Mubbles
Author: Liz Pichon
Narrator: TBD
Format: Unabridged
Length: 5:00:00
Language: English
Release date: 03-13-2025
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Genres: Kids, General

Summary:
A brand new, FABULOUS, all singing, all dancing book of JOY! Meet the Mubbles is the first in a hilarious brand-new, full colour graphic novel series perfect for young readers from Liz Pichon, creator of the global phenomenon Tom Gates series. Filled with colourful characters, boundless fun and lots of adventures this series is a guaranteed hit! Welcome to the Isle of Smile where everyone, including the Wibbles of Wobble Mountain, the singing Earworms and the one-eyed Drib Drabs, lives in perfect harmony – most of the time! But when the Clouds of Joy BUMP together to make a wonky rainbow it means one thing: someone or something is coming to VISIT. Who could it be . . .? Time spent with The Mubbles on the Isle of Smile makes everything better – you’ll see. "Everyone have a BRILLIANT day, and don't forget to be FABULOUS!"

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Title: Wild Life
Author: Amanda Leduc
Narrator: TBD
Format: Unabridged
Length: 0:00:00
Language: English
Release date: 03-11-2025
Publisher: Random House Canada
Genres: Fiction & Literature, Fairy Tales & Folklore

Summary:
Amanda Leduc’s dazzling new novel follows two walking, talking hyenas as they interact with humans over decades. Blurring the line between human and animal, these strange messengers reveal what is possible when the cages that contain us are broken. In 19th-century Scotland, young Josiah is banished by his father for seeing the divine in the animals around him and sent to Siberia with a small Christian mission to purge such nonsense from his soul. Miserably scrubbing the chapel floor one night, Josiah is visited by what he thinks is God in animal form. When his saviours, a hyena and her mate, rescue him from a natural disaster that kills the other missionaries and then bring him safely home, he founds a religion based on his belief that God granted speech to the hyenas as part of a divine plan to heal and exalt the human race. The hyena pair, Barbara and Kendrith, aren't so sure that Josiah has it right. But with their beautiful strangeness, they utterly transform the people they encounter over succeeding generations. As Josiah's church gathers adherents, more and more animals start to speak to humans—from signing baby gorillas to seductive alligators. At first one or two rebellious pets make a break for freedom, but then comes a mass exodus of all animals held captive, forcing people to contend with a wildness in themselves they have spent millennia denying. The end of this remarkable fairytale is both joyful and devastating, completely dissolving the boundary between what's 'human' and what's 'animal.'

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Title: Sucker Punch
Author: Scaachi Koul
Narrator: TBD
Format: Unabridged
Length: 0:00:00
Language: English
Release date: 03-11-2025
Publisher: Knopf Canada
Genres: Biography & Memoir, Non-Fiction, Comedy, Essays & Memoirs, Social Science

Summary:
'Koul puts on a breezy and fleetingly filthy sideshow, but when she writes about gender and race she reveals that knife-throwing is her main act.' —The New York Times From the cultural critic and bestselling author of One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter comes a poignant, bitingly funny, and unabashedly candid new memoir in essays. Scaachi Koul’s first book was a collection of raw, perceptive, and hilarious essays reckoning with the issues of race, body image, love, friendship, and growing up the daughter of immigrants. When the time came to start writing her next book, Scaachi assumed she’d be updating her story with essays about her elaborate four-day wedding, settling down to domestic bliss, and continuing her never-ending arguments with her parents. Instead, the Covid pandemic hit, the world went into lockdown, Scaachi’s marriage fell apart, she lost her job, and her mother was diagnosed with cancer.    Sucker Punch is about what happens when the life you thought you’d be living radically changes course, everything you thought you knew about the world and yourself has tilted on its axis, and you have to start forging a new path forward. Scaachi employs her signature humour and fierce intelligence to interrogate her previous belief that fighting is the most effective tool for progress. She examines the fights she’s had—with her parents, her ex-husband, her friends, online strangers, and herself—all in an attempt to understand when a fight is worth having, and when it's better to walk away.

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Title: My Big Fat Fake Marriage
Author: Charlotte Stein
Narrator: TBD
Format: Unabridged
Length: 10:00:00
Language: Tagalog
Release date: 03-11-2025
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Genres: Romance, Rom-Com, Contemporary

Summary:
Coming soon

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Title: Sleeping Children
Author: Anthony Passeron
Narrator: TBD
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8:00:00
Language: English
Release date: 03-06-2025
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Genres: Fiction & Literature, General

Summary:
‘Without ever raising your voice, you have shattered the family silence that scabbed over tragedy and produced a work so powerful, so moving, that it lingers long after reading. Magnificent!’ Annie Ernaux, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Each member of the family always responded in the same way whenever Désiré’s name came up. Father and Grandfather would say nothing at all. Mother would say a few words and then falter, ‘It's all very sad.’ So, each in their own way, no one seemed to have anything much to say. The truth was that in 1983 my uncle Désiré ran away from our village, in the South of France. And when he returned home from Amsterdam, he was addicted to heroin. And then he died. That was the truth, but not the whole truth . . . Anthony Passeron’s powerful and moving first novel Sleeping Children tells of the arrival of addiction and AIDS in a small village in the South of France forty years ago, of the spread of heroin use among young people (referred to as enfants endormis – ‘sleeping children’ – when lying passed out on the streets) and how the narrator’s uncle contracted HIV from sharing needles. It is a novel of class and aspiration, of pride and denial, secrets and lies, of the grief and shame of a family that had been among the most respected in their village. Woven through the family history is the story of the scientific efforts to understand the terrifying and terrible new disease, to locate and identify the virus that caused it, and to begin the search for treatment and cure. At a time when both sufferers and their families experienced isolation, denial was overwhelming and to be associated with the disease was to be treated as a pariah. Translated from the French by Frank Wynne

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Title: Vanya and the Wild Hunt
Author: Sangu Mandanna
Narrator: TBD
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8:00:00
Language: English
Release date: 03-06-2025
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Genres: Kids, Fairy Tales & Folklore

Summary:
Eleven-year-old Vanya Vallen can talk to books. But more importantly, the books talk back. When her family is attacked by a monster she believed only existed in legends, Vanya discovers that her parents have been keeping secrets, and that monsters do exist. Soon, she is whisked off to the enchanted school of Auramere, where she joins the ranks of archwitches and archivists. Auramere is full of magic … and monsters. And the Wild Hunt is on the prowl. It’s up to Vanya to unmask its leader and stop them from destroying the only place she’s ever truly belonged. Sangu Mandanna’s magical adventure series begins with Vanya and the Wild Hunt, with stunning illustrated by Kristina Kister. Perfect for fans of Rick Riordan, A. F. Steadman and Pari Thomson.

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Title: Is This Working?: The Jobs We Do, Told by the People Who Do Them
Author: Charlie Colenutt
Narrator: TBD
Format: Unabridged
Length: 11:00:00
Language: English
Release date: 03-06-2025
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Genres: Business & Economics, History, World, HR & Office Administration

Summary:
From the sex worker to the lorry driver, the hedge fund manager to the veteran-turned-teacher, this is the poignant, entertaining and deeply insightful story of work in twenty-first-century Britain, as told by workers themselves. For the best part of three years Charlie Colenutt travelled the country to talk to a hundred strangers, from all walks of life, about their jobs. They met in coffee shops and chain pubs and front rooms or on video calls. He found out the number of birds killed a day in a poultry factory, the order in which patients are woken up in care homes, and the reasons why you shouldn’t smile when you are shown your bonus in an investment bank. Together, these interviews form a polyphony of stories about the one thing that most British adults have in common – work.

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Title: Universality: A novel
Author: Natasha Brown
Narrator: TBD
Format: Unabridged
Length: 0:00:00
Language: English
Release date: 03-04-2025
Publisher: Knopf Canada
Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, General

Summary:
Remember—words are your weapons, they’re your tools, your currency: a twisty, slippery descent into the rhetoric of truth and power from a writer who “brilliantly illuminates the entrenched inequalities of our time” (The Guardian). Late one night on a Yorkshire farm, in the midst of an illegal rave, a young man is nearly bludgeoned to death with a solid gold bar. An ambitious young journalist sets out to uncover the truth surrounding the attack, connecting the dots between an amoral banker landlord, an iconoclastic columnist, and a radical anarchist movement that has taken up residence on the farm. She solves the mystery, but her viral exposé raises more questions than it answers, namely: Who wrote it? Why? And how much of it is true? Through a voyeuristic lens, and with a simmering power, Universality focuses in on words: what we say, how we say it, and what we really mean. The thrilling new novel from one of the most acclaimed and incisive young novelists working today, Universality is a compelling, unsettling celebration of the spectacular, appalling force of language. It dares you to look away.

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Title: Blue Lightning
Author: Ann Cleeves
Narrator: TBD
Format: Unabridged
Length: 10:21:00
Language: English
Release date: 03-01-2025
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Police Stories

Summary:
A remote island on lockdown. A killer on the loose. There is no escape for Inspector Jimmy Perez in Blue Lightning, the fourth Shetland mystery from Ann Cleeves. Now a major BBC One drama, Shetland, starring Douglas Henshall. Shetland detective Jimmy Perez knows it will be a difficult homecoming, as he returns to Fair Isle to introduce his fiancée to his parents. With the autumn storms raging, the island is cut off from the rest of the world. Then a woman’s body is discovered at the renowned bird observatory, with feathers threaded through her hair. Perez has no support from the mainland and must investigate the old-fashioned way – alone. He soon realizes that this is no crime of passion, but a murder of cold and calculated intention. There will be no way to escape the island until the storms abate. And so the killer is also trapped, just waiting for the opportunity to strike again . . . Ann Cleeves will be donating her royalties from the sale of this edition of Blue Lightning to support the Fair Isle Bird Observatory. Continue the thrilling crime series with Dead Water.

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Title: But & Though
Author: Jake Hawkey
Narrator: TBD
Format: Unabridged
Length: 2:00:00
Language: English
Release date: 02-27-2025
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Genres: Fiction & Literature, Poetry

Summary:
In But & Though, Jake Hawkey scrutinizes the impact of parental addiction on families, its title a nod to the language of dependency, its circles of prevarication and excuse. Hawkey’s poems chart the loss of a father and the resilient love between siblings, and take an unflinching look at a parent–child relationship sometimes painfully inverted through alcoholism. Hawkey’s fresh perspective and playful style introduces a vital, authentic new voice in British poetry. It will appeal also to those interested in the wider literature of addiction and the complexities of urban working-class life in Britain. Hawkey approaches these subjects from highly original and personal angles, breathing life into his characters and settings. Ultimately, we come to know a young writer attempting to ‘detach with love’ as he strides forward into his own life.

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Title: Shroud
Author: Adrian Tchaikovsky
Narrator: TBD
Format: Unabridged
Length: 19:00:00
Language: English
Release date: 02-27-2025
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy

Summary:
An utterly gripping story of survival on a hostile planet from Adrian Tchaikovsky, author of the Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning Children of Time. They looked into the darkness. The darkness looked back . . . A commercial expedition to a distant star system discovers a pitch-black moon alive with radio activity. Its high-gravity, high-pressure, zero-oxygen environment is deadly to human life, but ripe for exploitation. They named it Shroud. Under no circumstances can a human survive Shroud’s inhospitable surface – but a catastrophic accident forces Juna Ceelander and Mai Ste Etienne to make an emergency landing in a barely adequate escape vehicle. Alone, and fighting for survival, the two women embark on a gruelling journey across land, sea and air in search of salvation. But as they travel, Juna and Mai begin to understand Shroud’s unnerving alien species. It also begins to understand them. If they escape Shroud, they’ll somehow have to explain the impossible and translate the incredible. That is, if they make it back at all . . . Praise for Adrian Tchaikovsky ‘The smartest evolutionary worldbuilding you’ll ever read’ – Peter F. Hamilton, author of Salvation on Children of Time ‘Compelling on human and cosmic levels, and unputdownable’ – Stephen Baxter, author of Proxima on Alien Clay ‘Heart-in-the-mouth fantastic’ – New Scientist on Alien Clay

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Title: Wonder Team and the Space Race
Author: Jordan Glover
Narrator: Ellie Kendrick
Format: Unabridged
Length: 5:20:00
Language: English
Release date: 02-27-2025
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Genres: Kids, General, Mystery & Fantasy

Summary:
It's time to kick off another time-twisting adventure with Leah Williamson, captain of the Euro-wining Lionesses! It’s time to kick off a time-twisting adventure with the Wonder Team! After suffering an injury on the football pitch, Leah is bored of resting at home. Her friends, Mimi and George, know that another adventure in time will cheer her up! Travelling back to 1950's America, the Wonder Team find themselves right in the middle of the Space Race. When one of the lead mathematicians goes missing, Leah and her friends must use all their detective skills to find her and stop the rocket launch ending in disaster. The Wonder Team and the Space Race is the fourth book in the bestselling series written with Jordan Glover and illustrated by Robin Boyden. Don't miss Leah and her friend's first adventures in The Wonder Team and The Forgotten Footballers and The Wonder Team and the Pharaoh's Fortune.

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Title: Air-borne: The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe
Author: Carl Zimmer
Narrator: TBD
Format: Unabridged
Length: 11:00:00
Language: English
Release date: 02-27-2025
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Genres: Science & Technology, Biology & Chemistry

Summary:
A fascinating and original look at the transparent ocean of life in the air around us, tracing the history of its study and revealing what scientists are still learning about airborne life today. Since the Ancient Greeks, the air has been thought of as a carrier of disease. What the Greeks called 'corruption', medieval Arab and European scholars would later term 'miasma'. But it wasn’t until the last century that microbes in the air, rather than the air itself, were identified as causes of disease. In Air-borne, Carl Zimmer, Baillie Gifford-shortlisted author of She Has Her Mother’s Laugh and science columnist for The New York Times, traces the history and pre-history of the young science of aerobiology, from Antonie van Leeuwenhoek’s discovery of microbes under his hand-made microscopes in the seventeenth century, to Darwin’s revelation, while aboard the Beagle in the middle of the Atlantic, that this invisible life can soar across the planet. Zimmer speaks to the modern-day aerobiologists who travel to the troposphere to get a clearer picture of life in the air, and to the NASA scientists who send balloons even higher, to search for life in the stratosphere. Weather satellites and supercomputers are revealing so-called highways in the sky that can deliver organisms hundreds or thousands of miles before dropping it back down to Earth, while the ability of microbes to endure in the upper reaches of the atmosphere has led a number of aerobiologists to consider a possibility that once would have sounded like pure science fiction: perhaps life is thriving in the atmospheres of other planets . . . Through compelling narrative and thought-provoking analysis, Air-borne makes visible an invisible world – one teeming with marvels – and shines a light on the vital work being done to further understand the potentially deadly threats it harbours.

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Title: Book Boyfriend
Author: Austin Siegemund-Broka
Narrator: TBD
Format: Unabridged
Length: 10:00:00
Language: English
Release date: 02-27-2025
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Genres: Romance, Contemporary

Summary:
Devoted fangirl meets hesitant fanboy in this swoony contemporary love letter to readers who love fantasy worlds. From Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegmund-Broka, the authors of Do I Know You? and The Breakup Tour. Jennifer Worth lives to escape into the world of her favorite romantasy series Elytheum Courts, where the romance is swoony and the men are brave, chivalrous . . . and winged. Newly single and craving connection, she travels to an immersive fan experience celebrating all things Elytheum, only to see the last face she expected — Scott Daniels, her work nemesis, whose disinterest in Jennifer's favorite series and standoffishness have made their publishing jobs feel like a feuding fae court. Except, the Scott she encounters there, in his secondhand cosplay outfit, is . . . different. Swaggering, flirtatious, confident. Unlucky in romance himself, Jennifer discovers, and inspired by Jennifer's love for the swoonworthy men of Elytheum, Scott is determined to remake himself into the perfect book boyfriend. Jennifer has no interest in helping the man who vexes her every workday and dismisses her fictional fantasies, but as the immersive convention activities force Jennifer and Scott together, they’re surprised to discover magic like none Jennifer has ever read about. But is enemies-to-lovers romance only for books, or can Jennifer and Scott bring that fantasy to life?

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Title: All the Parts We Exile
Author: Roza Nozari
Narrator: TBD
Format: Unabridged
Length: 0:00:00
Language: English
Release date: 02-25-2025
Publisher: Knopf Canada
Genres: Biography & Memoir, History & Culture, General, Women

Summary:
From a queer Muslim woman and artist, a generous, insightful memoir that traces her journey toward radical self-acceptance and of exile from her ancestral home. As the youngest of three daughters, and the only one born in Canada soon after her parents' emigration from Iran, Roza Nozari began her life hungry for a sense of belonging. From her early years, she shared a passion for Iranian cuisine with her mother and craved stories of their ancestral home. Eventually they visited and she fell in love with its sights and smells, and with the warm embrace of their extended family. Yet Roza sensed something was amiss with her mother's happy, well-rehearsed story of their original departure.          As Roza grew older, this longing for home transformed into a desire for inner understanding and liberation. She was lit up by the feminist texts in her women’s studies courses, and shared radical ideas with her mother—who in turn shared more of her past, from protesting for the Islamic revolution to her ambivalence about getting married. In this memoir, Roza braids the narrative of her mother’s life together with her own on-going story of self, as she arrives at, then rejects, her queer identity, eventually finds belonging in queer spaces and within queer Iranian histories, and learns the truth about her family’s move to Canada.     All the Parts We Exile is a memoir of dualities: mother and daughter, home and away, shame and self-acceptance, conflict and peace, love and pain—and the stories that exist within and between them. In sharp, emotionally honest and funny prose, Roza tenderly explores the grief around the parts we exile and the joy of those we hold close in order to be true to our deepest selves.

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Title: Mixed
Author: Tamar Hodes
Narrator: Sharon Eckman
Format: Unabridged
Length: 6:10:00
Language: English
Release date: 02-20-2025
Publisher: W.F. Howes
Genres: Fiction & Literature, Family Life

Summary:
Mixed is a hilarious yet moving story of family and faith, best served hot (or cold) with a dollop of sour cream. Sisters Ruth and Miriam Green spent most of their childhood loving each other and hating each other, treasuring each other and resenting each other. Now they're grown up their lives have taken them on very different paths, creating a rift which is proving difficult to heal. Ruth has followed her traditional Jewish upbringing. Miriam has not – and while she wants to instil her heritage in her children, they just want to fit in. As resentment, tension and divisions build within the family, can the sisters overlook their differences or will their family be torn apart?

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Title: Foot on the Crown
Author: Christopher Fowler
Narrator: TBD
Format: Unabridged
Length: 12:30:00
Language: English
Release date: 02-20-2025
Publisher: W.F. Howes
Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Historical

Summary:
It is said a legend is just a beautiful lie... In the second half of the first millennium, the legends say that London disappeared for over four hundred years. We know almost nothing about what happened during that time. But if we could shine a light on the city's ruined walls, we would be in for a shock. For here the Romans are long forgotten. King Scarabold now rules what little remains of the city, together with his over-entitled daughter Giniva, her effete brother Leperdandy and their wayward, lunatic relatives - all squabbling and fighting amongst themselves for the future of their corrupted dynasty while trying to hide their most terrible secret. And opposing Scarabold and his wayward family is a horde of bitter enemies - the eerie Sheathwing, Earl of Beetles, the warlike nuns of Étranges Cadeaux, M'Lin the ape, Orobus the serpent, the terrifying Mater Moribund and the sinister child-spies Spackle and Peut - united in their desire to bring the king's troiubled reign to a bloody end. But it's the arrival of a mysterious outsider into the midst of the beleaguered Scarabold's court that seems to offer a semblance of hope. The stranger's name is Watborn and he is a birdcatcher - strong, silent, he will infiltrate the royal family for a purpose that is all of his own . . . As fiendishly-armed warriors gather beneath the walls, the battle for London, its body and its soul is about to begin - and who will be left unscathed at the field's end?

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Title: Wooing the Witch Queen: Maleficent meets romantasy in this hilarious new trilogy
Author: Stephanie Burgis
Narrator: Amanda Leigh Cobb
Format: Unabridged
Length: 13:20:00
Language: English
Release date: 02-20-2025
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Romance, Paranormal, Romantasy

Summary:
Wooing the Witch Queen by Stephanie Burgis is the start of a delightful, funny and seductive romantasy trilogy, set in a gaslamp-lit world where hags and ogres lurk in thick pine forests and genteel court intrigues can turn deadly . . . Queen Saskia is the wicked sorceress everyone fears. After successfully wrestling the throne from her evil uncle, she only wants one thing: to keep her people safe from the empire next door. For that, she needs to spend more time in her laboratory experimenting with her spells. She definitely doesn’t have time to bring order to her chaotic library of magic. When a mysterious dark wizard arrives at her castle, Saskia hires him as her new librarian on the spot. ‘Fabian’ is sweet and a little nerdy, and his requests seem a little strange – what in the name of Divine Elva is a fountain pen? – but he’s getting the job done. And if he writes her flirtatious poetry and his innocent touch makes her skin singe, well . . . Little does Saskia know that the ‘wizard’ she’s falling for is actually an Imperial archduke in disguise, with no magical training whatsoever. On the run, with perilous secrets on his trail, he’s in danger from Saskia's enemies and her new-found allies, too. So when Saskia finally discovers the truth, will their love save them – or be their doom? ‘Stephanie Burgis is a fresh new voice and I can’t wait to see what she does next’ – Ilona Andrews, No. 1 New York Times bestselling author of the Kate Daniels series

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Title: Close Your Eyes and Count to 10
Author: Lisa Unger
Narrator: TBD
Format: Unabridged
Length: 5:52:00
Language: English
Release date: 02-19-2025
Publisher: HarperAudio
Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense

Summary:
'Pacy and gripping, I couldn't read fast enough.' - Sarah Pearse, New York Times bestselling author of The Sanatorium An extreme game of hide-and-seek turns deadly in this riveting new thriller from New York Times bestselling author Lisa Unger When the real game begins, who will make it to the count of 10? Charismatic daredevil and extreme adventurer Maverick Dillan invites you to the ultimate game of hide-and-seek. But as the players gather on Falcao Island, the event quickly spirals into a chilling test of survival. A storm rages as a deadly threat stalks the contestants, turning the challenge into something far more sinister than the social media stunt it was intended to be. Enter Adele, a single mother with a fierce determination to protect her children at all costs. When she begins the game, she unwittingly enters a twisted web of deception and intrigue. Can she maneuver through the treacherous storm and the relentless competition and get home to her family? In a ruthless battle for survival where the stakes are higher than ever, the blurry line between the virtual and the real proves that the only person we can trust is ourselves.

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Title: Salutation Road
Author: Salma Ibrahim
Narrator: TBD
Format: Unabridged
Length: 9:00:00
Language: English
Release date: 02-13-2025
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction

Summary:
Salutation Road by Salma Ibrahim is a beautifully told, speculative literary debut about the everyday struggles of immigration, love and letting go of a past that never really existed. For fans of Nadifa Mohamed and Mohsin Hamid. 23-year-old Sirad Ali is a woman adrift. Abandoned by her father in childhood, she does her best to support her mother and younger brother in their small flat in South London. But she can’t help but wonder if this is the life she really wants. Until one morning, when she boards the bus to work in Greenwich, she finds herself transported to an alternate reality in present-day Mogadishu. There she encounters her double, Ubah – the woman she could have been had her parents never fled to London during the Somali Civil War. And what follows will change both of their lives for ever . . .

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Title: Antique Hunter's: Death on the Red Sea
Author: C L Miller
Narrator: TBD
Format: Unabridged
Length: 10:00:00
Language: English
Release date: 02-13-2025
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Genres: Thriller & Horror, Detective Stories, Cozy Mystery

Summary:
Join Freya and Aunt Carole for more sluething in the highly anticipated second instalment in your new favourite crime series, The Antique Hunters. The Antique Hunter's: Death on the Red Sea is a cosy crime listen for fans of the Antique's Roadshow. 'A bold, bright and delightful jaunt back to the golden age of detective fiction. Expertly plotted and skilfully written, with suspicious characters, devious twists and evocative locations, this pacey page-turner has it all.' – Janice Hallett, author of The Appeal, on The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder 'It’s a delicious read – packed with fascinating details in a picture-perfect setting. Who could resist a treasure hunt with murder at its core?' – SJ Bennett, author of The Windsor Knot, on The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder When a painting vanishes from a maritime museum – and a dead body is found nearby – the newly established Lockwood Antique Hunter’s Agency, Freya Lockwood and her Aunt Carole, are called to investigate. Following a lead that takes them aboard a glamorous antiques cruise sailing toward the Red Sea in Jordan, they quickly discover that the ship's art gallery is filled with stolen antiquities. Each and every one of them is also listed in Freya’s late mentor’s journals detailing unsolved cases. In chasing a murderer with a stolen painting, they may have found something more sinister than they could’ve imagined . . . Their hunt soon turns deadly when they learn that the enigmatic and dangerous art trafficker named The Collector could be on board. But on a ship full of antiques enthusiasts – plus some unexpected familiar faces – will Freya and Carole be able to discover The Collector’s identity and stop his murderous plans before the ship docks? Or will the killer strike again?

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Title: Pearl Button Girl
Author: Annie Murray
Narrator: TBD
Format: Unabridged
Length: 12:00:00
Language: English
Release date: 02-13-2025
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Romance, Sagas

Summary:
Annie Murray's The Pearl Button Girl is book one in the Children of Birmingham series, starting in Victorian Birmingham and following the trials and triumphs of the Fletcher family. Working at the local pearl button factory, Ada Fletcher is doing her best to make ends meet in trying times. When tragedy strikes and her siblings are taken to a workhouse orphanage, Ada is saved from a similar fate by her neighbour, Sarah Connell. But the roof over Ada’s head doesn’t come without a price: the Connells have too many children, not enough money, and Sarah’s reliance on drink means that it isn’t long before Ada needs to escape. Determined to be more than just a factory girl, Ada embarks on a journey to reunite with her siblings. But in a teeming industrial city, will she be able to find long-lost family as well as a home and life to call her own?

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Title: First Time Caller
Author: B.K. Borison
Narrator: TBD
Format: Unabridged
Length: 9:33:00
Language: English
Release date: 02-13-2025
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Genres: Romance, Rom-Com

Summary:
'Sharp, swoon-worthy, and profoundly romantic - First Time Caller is brimming with heart' - LYLA SAGE A hopeless romantic meets a demoralized radio host in this cosy, Sleepless in Seattle inspired love story from fan-favourite author of the LOVELIGHT series, B.K. Borison. Aiden Valentine has a secret: he’s fallen out of love with love. And as the host of Baltimore’s romance hotline, that’s a bit of a problem. But when a young girl calls in to the station asking for dating advice for her mom, the interview goes viral, thrusting Aiden and Heartstrings into the limelight. Lucie Stone thought she was doing just fine. She has a good job; an incredible family; and a smart, slightly devious kid. But when all of Baltimore is suddenly scrutinizing her love life—or lack thereof—she begins to question if she’s as happy as she thought. Maybe a little more romance wouldn’t be such a bad thing. Everyone wants Lucie to find her happy ending. . . even the handsome, temperamental man calling the shots. But when sparks start to fly behind the scenes, Lucie must make the final call between the radio-sponsored happily ever after or the man in the headphones next to her.

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Title: Hidden Dead
Author: Tracy Whitwell
Narrator: TBD
Format: Unabridged
Length: 9:01:00
Language: English
Release date: 02-13-2025
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense

Summary:
The Hidden Dead is the fourth book in a hilarious series featuring Tanz, the accidental medium who, with the help of the dead, has become an unwilling crime-solver. When the dead call, she listens. . . On a night out in a London bar, our accidental medium Tanz meets Einar, a charismatic and sexy Viking travelling for business. He offers Tanz an irresistible proposition: return to Iceland with him for an all-expenses-paid writing retreat and some no-strings-attached fun. Promised a mix of work, play and maybe a bit of romance, Tanz follows her heart (and the voices in her head) off to Iceland on a whim; but when she arrives, she quickly realises that Einar and his charm might not be all they're cracked up to be. Heartbroken, abandoned and left to the mercy of the long, haunting nights, Tanz finds herself surrounded not just by the rugged beauty of a land steeped in legend but also the mysteries that lurk in its shadows. With only the dead for guidance, Tanz is thrust back into the heart of a chilling cold case, where the echoes of the forgotten and the allure of old magic compel her to listen, to understand and to act. . .

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Title: Moonlight Healers
Author: Elizabeth Becker
Narrator: TBD
Format: Unabridged
Length: 5:20:00
Language: English
Release date: 02-12-2025
Publisher: HarperAudio
Genres: Fiction & Literature, Fairy Tales & Folklore, Contemporary Women

Summary:
A powerful debut with a magical twist about one woman's discovery of her family's secret healing abilities -- they can bring people back to life -- and the mysterious consequences she must contend with when she uses them on someone she loves. 'A profound tale of love, family legacy, secrets, and the extraordinary power within us all.... A deeply felt debut.' - PATTI CALLAHAN HENRY New York Times bestselling author of The Secret Book of Flora Lea For generations, the Winston women have possessed an unspoken magical gift: they can heal with the touch of a hand. It's a tradition they've always had to practice in secret, in the moonlight hours, when the fireflies dance and the whippoorwill birds sing. But not every healer has rightfully passed on this knowledge to her descendants, and for young Louise Winston, the discovery of her abilities comes in less-than-ideal circumstances -- she brings her best friend back from death following an accident, the day after he professed his long-held feelings for her, five days before she's supposed to move away. Desperate for answers, and to avoid this new reality between them, Louise escapes to her grandmother's lush Appalachian orchard. There, she uncovers her family's hidden history in a tattered journal, stemming back to her brave great-grandmother who illicitly healed Allied soldiers in war-torn France. But just as Louise begins to embrace her unique legacy, she learns that it can also come with a mysterious cost. And with a life hanging in the balance, she'll be forced to make the most impossible of choices... Spanning eighty years, The Moonlight Healers is a deeply empathetic, heartfelt novel about mothers and daughters, life and death, and the beautiful resilience of love.

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Title: Blood Ties
Author: Jo Nesbo
Narrator: TBD
Format: Unabridged
Length: 0:00:00
Language: English
Release date: 02-11-2025
Publisher: Random House Canada
Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Noir

Summary:
The modern master of Nordic noir is back with an explosive novel about two brothers who, on the verge of losing everything, are willing to do anything to stop that from happening. By all accounts, Carol and Roy Opgard are doing quite well for themselves. Or at least they are doing as well as can be expected in a small town like Os. Carl manages the area's swanky and successful spa, while Roy runs the local gas station and dreams of building it into an entire amusement park complete with a roller coaster. But then news breaks about a new highway that will bypass Os and leave the town cut off and isolated. Something has to be done about that, even if the methods need to be dirty. Fortunately, Roy and Carl have experience with dirty work. Meanwhile, the town sheriff has gotten his hands on new technology that will enable him to take a deeper look at a spate of unsolved murders from years past—including that of his own father. Just as the sheriff reopens his investigation, the death toll begins to climb. Like Roy says about his roller coaster: 'Once it is rolling, it's too late to get off.' Blood Ties is a tense, compulsively readable tour de force about loyalty, family ties and love that is as destructive as it is powerful.

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Title: Bones Beneath My Skin
Author: Tj Klune
Narrator: TBD
Format: Unabridged
Length: 12:55:00
Language: English
Release date: 02-06-2025
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Romance, Science Fiction & Paranormal

Summary:
‘The sci-fi romance adventure you never knew you needed’ – Jennifer L. Armentrout, author of Fall of Ruin and Wrath A supernatural road-trip thriller featuring an extraordinary young girl and her two unlikely protectors on the run from cultists and the government. The Bones Beneath My Skin is a gripping, heartfelt story that explores what it means to be human – by bestselling author TJ Klune. He lost everything. Then he found himself . . . In the spring of 1995, Nate Cartwright has lost everything: his parents are dead, his older brother has disowned him, and he’s been fired from his job. Looking for a new direction, he returns to his family’s summer cabin in the mountains of Oregon. The cabin should be empty. But it’s not. Inside is a man named Alex - and an extraordinary little girl who calls herself Artemis Darth Vader. But there’s far more to her than meets the eye. Soon, it becomes clear that Nate must make a choice: drown in the memories of his past, or fight for a future he never thought possible. Because the girl is special. And forces are descending upon them who want nothing more than to control her. With his uplifting tales of hope and redemption, there is a TJ Klune book for every reader. Praise for TJ Klune ‘Will renew your faith in humanity’ – Terry Brooks, author of The Sword of Shannara on The House in the Cerulean Sea ‘Glorious, a thoroughly entertaining and deeply stirring journey’ – Chuck Tingle, author of Camp Damascus on In the Lives of Puppets ‘His novels are a radiant treat’ – Locus Magazine In the Lives of Puppets was a No. 1 Sunday Times HB Bestseller w/c 24/04/2023.

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Title: Boy from the Sea
Author: Garrett Carr
Narrator: TBD
Format: Unabridged
Length: 11:00:00
Language: English
Release date: 02-06-2025
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, General, Family Life

Summary:
'Compulsive reading. Compassionate, lyrical and full of devilment' - Louise Kennedy, author of Trespasses 'A novel of heart-bumping power and sparkling vividness . . . a breathtaking achievement' - Joseph O'Connor, author of Star of the Sea 1973. In a close-knit community on Ireland’s west coast, a baby is found abandoned on the beach. Named Brendan by Ambrose Bonnar, the fisherman who adopts him, the baby captivates the town and the boy he grows to be will captivate them still – no one can quite fathom Brendan Bonnar. For Christine, Ambrose’s wife, Brendan brings both love and worry. For their existing son, his new brother’s arrival is the start of a life-long rivalry. And though Ambrose brings Brendan into his home out of love, it is a decision that will fracture his family and force this man – more comfortable at sea than on land – to try to understand himself and those he cares for. Told over two decades, Garrett Carr's The Boy from the Sea is a novel about a restless boy trying to find his place in the world and a family fighting to hold itself together. It is a story of ordinary lives made extraordinary, a drama about a community who can’t help but look to the boy from the sea for answers as they face the storm of a rapidly changing world.

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Title: Enemy of my Dreams
Author: Jenny Williamson
Narrator: TBD
Format: Unabridged
Length: 5:36:00
Language: English
Release date: 02-05-2025
Publisher: HarperAudio
Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Historical Romance, Contemporary Women

Summary:
In the last days of the Roman Empire a desperate princess and brutal Gothic warlord forge a dangerous alliance. 'Enemy of My Dreams is a romantic romp through the ashes of a dying empire.' - Luna McNamara, author of Psyche and Eros Julia, only daughter of the emperor of Rome, lives a life of excess and freedom. Wine, philosophy and scandal-she revels in hedonism. But when her father dies and her teenage brother takes the throne, he will stop at nothing to seize control of both the empire and his wayward sister. And now Alaric of the Visigoths, a ferocious warrior who has battled Rome for years, has come to the capital to bargain for his homeland. When Julia rebels against the marriage her brother has ordered her to accept, he responds by publicly punishing her lover in the Colosseum. Realizing how perilous her position is, Julia impulsively turns to Alaric-the empire's sworn enemy, and the one man who can make Rome tremble-and engineers her own kidnapping. Julia, the Roman princess, forges an uneasy alliance with Alaric, the brutal warrior king, in an edgy, sexy cat-and-mouse game of attraction, defiance and lust. 'This novel is a cinematic adventure.' -- JENNIFER SAINT, internationally bestselling author of Ariadne

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Title: Last Twilight in Paris
Author: Pam Jenoff
Narrator: TBD
Format: Unabridged
Length: 5:52:00
Language: English
Release date: 02-05-2025
Publisher: HarperAudio
Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Historical Romance, Contemporary Women

Summary:
'A fast-paced and vibrant wartime tale of holding on to love against the odds and learning to fight for the truth.' ­­- Kristin Harmel, New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Daughter A Parisian department store, a mysterious necklace and a woman's quest to unlock a decade-old mystery are at the center of this riveting novel of love and survival, from New York Times bestselling author Pam Jenoff London, 1953. Louise is still adjusting to her postwar role as a housewife when she discovers a necklace in a box at a secondhand shop. The box is marked with the name of a department store in Paris, and she is certain she has seen the necklace before worked with the Red Cross in Nazi-occupied Europe -- and that it holds the key to the mysterious death of her friend Franny during the war. Following the trail of clues to Paris, Louise seeks help from her former boss Ian, with whom she shares a romantic history. The necklace leads them to discover the dark history of Levitan -- a once-glamorous department store that served as a Nazi prison, and Helaine, a woman who was imprisoned there, torn apart from her husband when the Germans invaded France. Louise races to find the connection between the necklace, the department store and Franny's death. But nothing is as it seems, and there are forces determined to keep the truth buried forever. Inspired by the true story of the Levitan, Last Twilight in Paris is both a gripping mystery and an unforgettable story about sacrifice, resistance and the power of love to transcend in even the darkest hours.

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Title: Modern Divination: Book One in the Spells for Life and Death Duology; dark academia with witches and a magical love story
Author: Isabel Agajanian
Narrator: Unknown
Format: Unabridged
Length: 14:00:00
Language: English
Release date: 01-30-2025
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Romance, Paranormal, Romantasy

Summary:
A Discovery of Witches meets The Atlas Six in Modern Divination by Isabel Agajanian, a dark contemporary fantasy from a brilliant new talent. Modern Divination is the first book in the Spells for Life and Death duology. The colour of magic was gold . . . Twenty-three-year-old witch Aurelia Schwartz has always had to carefully balance her human life with her secret magical one. With a place at an elite Cambridge university college, she almost has everything she could possibly want within her grasp. Just so long as she follows the rules: Make no promises. Tell no one what you are. And never stay the night. Except Aurelia’s gift of green magic has begun to fade. Worse still, someone is hunting witches – and stealing their powers. Reluctantly, Aurelia needs the help of fellow witch – and dreadfully arrogant classmate – Theodore Ingram. Together, they seek refuge among his family in the remote corners of an already-desolate town. But as she grows closer to Theodore, the power-hungry witch-killer, too, draws nearer. And they threaten to destroy everything Aurelia holds dear . . . Modern Divination by Isabel Agajanian is a magical cosy fantasy with witches, featuring an academic rivals-to-lovers romance, found family and yearning. Praise for Modern Divination ‘Lush and atmospheric, full of magic and yearning’ – Olivie Blake, New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six ‘The cosy contemporary fantasy of my dreams’ – Ava Reid, New York Times bestselling author of A Study in Drowning ‘A gem of a book’ – Hannah Whitten, New York Times bestselling author of The Foxglove King

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Title: Hunt for the Golden Scarab
Author: M. G. Leonard
Narrator: TBD
Format: Unabridged
Length: 7:00:00
Language: English
Release date: 01-30-2025
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Genres: Kids, Historical, Mystery & Fantasy

Summary:
Epic blockbusting adventure meets the mystery of time travel in Hunt for the Golden Scarab, the first title of the Time Keys series by M. G. Leonard, bestselling, award-winning author of Beetle Boy, Twitch, Adventures on Trains, and The Ice Children. Sim and his mum never live anywhere long. When dangerous strangers appear one night, Sim discovers why. His mum has been keeping secrets: she has the power to open doors in time. Running for their lives, Sim and his friends are determined to outwit the sinister Council of Keys and be the first to find Nefertiti’s lost tomb and a powerful door to Ancient Egypt. They must piece together long-hidden clues if they are to solve the mystery of her golden heart scarab. Can they find it before the Council finds them?

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Title: Instructions for Heartbreak
Author: Sarah Handyside
Narrator: TBD
Format: Unabridged
Length: 11:00:00
Language: English
Release date: 01-30-2025
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Genres: Fiction & Literature, General, Contemporary Women

Summary:
A beautiful, razor-sharp novel by Sarah Handyside, Instructions for Heartbreak is a life-affirming story about female friendship, self-love and how to survive a broken heart. What if heartbreak came with a manual? It starts with a late-night knock on the door. Dee, Liv and Rosa share a flat in south London, while Katie lives close by with her boyfriend. But, when Katie’s nine-year relationship ends – suddenly and brutally – she turns up on their doorstep with no idea what to do next, or how to do anything after spending so long with her life entwined with someone else’s. Out comes the martini shaker (an old, well-washed gherkin jar) and, with an unused sketchbook, an idea. They’ll make Katie the handbook that she needs to process her heartbreak and start rebuilding her life. There are notes on tears, hangovers and roast chicken, scribblings about music, new bedding and pure, white-hot rage. But Katie is not the only one nursing a broken heart. Rosa is a hopeless romantic, despite still reeling from her ex’s infidelity. Scarred by her ex’s parting words, Dee is committed to being commitment-free. And while Liv knows that breaking up with her girlfriend was what she wanted, she can’t help but wonder if she did the right thing. Tested by big life changes, even the closest friendships can fray – could the heartbreak handbook they intended for Katie contain the words they all need to hear?

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Title: I Am Not Jessica Chen
Author: Ann Liang
Narrator: TBD
Format: Unabridged
Length: 6:24:00
Language: English
Release date: 01-29-2025
Publisher: HarperAudio
Genres: Fiction, Teen, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Tough Topics

Summary:
From the bestselling, and award-winning author of If You Could See The Sun comes a new page-turning speculative YA about a girl who wishes she could be as perfect and successful as her cousin... then wakes up the next morning in her cousin's body. After getting rejected by every single Ivy League she applied to and falling short of all her Asian immigrant parents' expectations, seventeen-year-old Jenna Chen makes a wish to become her smarter, infinitely more successful Harvard-bound cousin, Jessica Chen -- only for her wish to come true. Literally. Now trapped inside Jessica's body, with access to Jessica's most private journals and secrets, Jenna soon discovers that being the top student at the elite, highly competitive Havenwood Private Academy isn't quite what she imagined. Worse, as everyone -- including her own parents -- start having trouble remembering who Jenna Chen is, or if she ever even existed, Jenna must decide if playing the role of the perfect daughter and student is worth losing her true self forever.

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Title: Weight of Freedom
Author: Nate Leipciger
Narrator: TBD
Format: Unabridged
Length: 0:00:00
Language: English
Release date: 01-28-2025
Publisher: Knopf Canada
Genres: Biography & Memoir, World, History & Culture

Summary:
Nate Leipciger, a thoughtful, shy eleven-year-old boy, is plunged into an incomprehensible web of ghettos, concentration and death camps during the German occupation of Poland. Demonstrating incredible strength of character as he struggles to survive, he forges a new, unbreakable bond with his father and yearns for a free future. With memories that remain etched in tragedy and pain even as he looks optimistically to the future, Nate builds a new life in Canada. Introspective and raw, yet ever hopeful, The Weight of Freedom is Nate’s vivid journey through a past that can never be left behind. Introduction by Debórah Dwork ©

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Title: Science of Racism: Everything you need to know but probably don't - yet
Author: Keon West
Narrator: Keon West
Format: Unabridged
Length: 12:00:00
Language: English
Release date: 01-23-2025
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Genres: Non-Fiction, Politics, Science & Technology, Social Science, Political Advocacy, Computers

Summary:
'Illuminating, surprising, unnerving, moving . . . and, sadly, utterly necessary' - Sathnam Sanghera, bestselling author of Empireland Polls show that if you ask the average person even the most basic question – ‘Does racism still exist?’ – about 50% of people will say that it does, while the other 50% will say that it doesn’t. Despite increasingly vocal and polarized opinions on both traditional and social media platforms, as a society we have no more clarity about racism than we did a generation ago. In the ground-breaking The Science of Racism Professor Keon West cuts through the divisive anecdotes and rhetoric with decades’ worth of clear, factual, rigorous science - the data that reveals truths about racism that are shocking and tragic, but also (somehow) funny and entertaining. He explains how we know, for example, that Black people are up to 50 per cent less likely to be called in to interview than identically qualified White people. He shows how we know there's a financial cost of selling items online while Black. He reveals the effects of racism on our friendships, relationships, healthcare and justice system. And he exposes the continued prevalence of racism, and the inadequacy of our many attempts to address it. Whatever you’ve read before, this audiobook will ensure that you never see racism in the same way again.