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Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free ID: 452044 Title: Together by Christmas Author: Karen Swan Narrator: Anna Rust Format: Unabridged Length: 11:58:36 Language: English Release date: 11-05-20 Publisher: Pan Macmillan Genres: Romance, Holiday, Contemporary Summary: Set in snowy Amsterdam, Together by Christmas is a moving read of secrets, romance and heartbreaking dilemmas by Sunday Times bestseller Karen Swan. 'We couldn't put it down' Bella magazine When Lee first came to Amsterdam, it was with a newborn baby and a secret. Five years later, her life is approaching normal: her career as a celebrity photographer is flourishing, her son Jasper is growing up, and they are enjoying the run-up to Christmas with their tight circle of close friends. But all this changes one morning when Lee finds a book in the basket of her bicycle and scrawled inside it, a desperate message. Who left it for her, and why? Lee feels compelled to help and tracks down the books author, Sam. With an instant, undeniable connection it seems they might have a shot at a real future together. Until her past comes calling. As the snow falls and ice thickens on the citys canals, the secret Lee has never told resurfaces. Suddenly everything she holds dear hangs in the balance. Christmas is a time for being together but what if the truth means she ends up alone? 'A real treat to get absolutely lost in. Go on - spoil yourself!' - Veronica Henry, bestselling author on The Christmas Party by Karen Swan Real readers love Karen Swan: 'Gritty, real and romantic in equal measure' 'Something very special' 'Christmassy, romantic, heartbreaking' 'One of my favourite reads of the year' 'Laughed, cried . . . couldn't put it down' Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free ID: 366249 Title: Diary of a Somebody Author: Brian Bilston Narrator: Ben Miller Format: Unabridged Length: 09:02:09 Language: English Release date: 06-13-19 Publisher: Pan Macmillan Genres: Thriller & Horror, Detective Stories, Cozy Mystery Summary: Shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award. 'Glorious. I will be astonished if I read a more original, more inventive or funnier novel this year.' - Adam Kay, author of This Is Going to Hurt Part tender love story, part murder mystery, part hilarious description of a wasted life, and interspersed with some of the funniest poems about the mundane and the profound, Diary of a Somebody is a stunningly original novel from Twitter sensation, Brian Bilston. Its January 1st and Brian Bilston is convinced that this year, his New Years resolution will change his life. Every day for a year, he will write a poem. Its quite simple. Brians life certainly needs improving. His ex-wife has taken up with a new man, he seems to constantly disappoint his long-suffering son, and at work he is drowning in a sea of spreadsheets and management jargon. So poetry will be his salvation. But there is an obstacle in the form of Toby Salt, his arch nemesis at Poetry Club and rival suitor to Liz, Brians new poetic inspiration. When Toby goes missing, just after the announcement of the publication of his first collection, This Bridge No Hands Shall Cleave, Brian becomes the number one suspect. If he is to regain his reputation and to have a chance of winning Liz, he must find out what has happened to Toby before it is too late. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free ID: 368419 Title: Paul Takes the Form of A Mortal Girl Author: Andrea Lawlor Narrator: Dani Martineck Format: Unabridged Length: 09:29:52 Language: English Release date: 04-18-19 Publisher: Pan Macmillan Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, LGBTQ+ Summary: 'Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl is quite simply one of the most exciting - and one of the most fun - novels of the decade.' Garth Greenwell Its 1993 and Paul Polydoris tends bar at the only gay club in a university town thrumming with politics and partying. He studies queer theory, has a lesbian best friend, makes zines, and is a flâneur with a rich dating life. But Pauls also got a secret: hes a shapeshifter. Oscillating wildly from Riot Grrrl to leather cub, Womens Studies major to trade, Paul transforms his body at will in a series of adventures that take him from Iowa City to Boystown to Provincetown and finally to San Francisco a journey through the deep queer archives of struggle and pleasure. Andrea Lawlors debut novel offers a speculative history of early 90s identity politics during the heyday of ACT UP and Queer Nation. Paul Takes the Form of A Mortal Girl is a riotous, razor-sharp bildungsroman whose hero/ine wends his way through a world gutted by loss, pulsing with music, and opening into an array of intimacy and connections. 'Playful, sexy, smart, and like nothing else I -or you - have ever read before.' Carmen Maria Machado Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free ID: 418729 Title: Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up Author: Alexandra Potter Narrator: Sally Phillips Format: Unabridged Length: 11:53:26 Language: English Release date: 12-26-20 Publisher: Pan Macmillan Genres: Romance, Fiction & Literature, Contemporary Women Summary: As recommended on Davina McCall's podcast! Hilariously read by Sally Phillips, star of Smack the Pony, Bridget Jones Diary and Miranda - Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up is a must-listen for anyone whose life isn’t working out quite how they’d planned. Now a major TV series: Not Dead Yet, starring Gina Rogriguez (Jane the Virgin), Hannah Simone (New Girl) and Lauren Ash (Superstore). Nell Stevens’ life is a mess. When her business goes bust and her fiancé with it, Nell’s happy ever after in California falls apart and she moves back to London to start over. But a lot has changed since she’s been gone. All her single friends are now married with children, sky-high rents force her to rent a room in a stranger’s house and in a world of perfect Instagram lives, she feels like a f**k up. Even worse, a forty-something f**k up. But when she lands a job writing obituaries, Nell meets the fabulous Cricket, an eighty-something widow with challenges of her own, and they strike up an unlikely friendship. Together they begin to help each other heal their aching hearts, cope with the loss of the lives they had planned, and push each other into new adventures and unexpected joys. Because Nell is determined. Next year things are going to be very different. It’s time to turn her life around. A book for anyone who’s ever worried life isn’t going to plan, Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up by Alexandra Potter will make you laugh and it might even make you cry. But most importantly, it will remind you that you’re not alone, because we’re all in this together. "It made me laugh, cry, cheer - I loved it" – Hermione Norris, star of Cold Feet Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free ID: 558726 Title: Diary of a Void: A hilarious, feminist read from the new star of Japanese fiction Author: Emi Yagi Narrator: Nancy Wu Format: Unabridged Length: 04:38:13 Language: English Release date: 08-11-22 Publisher: Penguin Books LTD Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Contemporary Women, Feminist Fiction Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. A prizewinning, thrillingly subversive debut novel about a woman in Japan who avoids harassment at work by perpetuating, for nine months and beyond, the lie that she's pregnant When thirty-four-year-old Ms Shibata gets a new job in Tokyo to escape sexual harassment at her old one, she finds that, as the only woman at her new workplace - a company that manufactures cardboard tubes - she is expected to do all the menial tasks. One day she announces that she can't clear away her colleagues' dirty cups - because she's pregnant and the smell nauseates her. The only thing is . . . Ms Shibata is not pregnant. Pregnant Ms Shibata doesn't have to serve coffee to anyone. Pregnant Ms Shibata isn't forced to work overtime. Pregnant Ms Shibata rests, watches TV, takes long baths, and even joins an aerobics class for expectant mothers. But pregnant Ms Shibata also has a nine-month ruse to keep up. Helped along by towel-stuffed shirts and a diary app on which she can log every stage of her 'pregnancy', she feels prepared to play the game for the long haul. Before long, though, the hoax becomes all-absorbing, and the boundary between her lie and her life begins to dissolve. A surreal and wryly humorous cultural critique, Diary of a Void is bound to become a landmark in feminist world literature. © Emi Yagi 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022 Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free ID: 564602 Title: Abbey Road: The Inside Story of the Worlds Most Famous Recording Studio (with a foreword by Paul McCartney) Author: David Hepworth Narrator: David Hepworth Format: Unabridged Length: 10:08:19 Language: English Release date: 10-06-22 Publisher: Penguin Books LTD Genres: Biography & Memoir, Arts & Entertainment Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. With a foreword by Paul McCartney 'We wanted to live the mystique of this legendary studio' Kanye West 'There are certain things that are mythical. Abbey Road is mythical' Nile Rodgers Many people will recognise the famous zebra crossing. Some visitors may have graffitied their name on its hallowed outer walls. Others might even have managed to penetrate the iron gates. But what draws in these thousands of fans here, year after year? What is it that really happens behind the doors of the most celebrated recording studio in the world? It may have begun life as an affluent suburban house, but it soon became a creative hub renowned around the world as a place where great music, ground-breaking sounds and unforgettable tunes were forged - nothing less than a witness to, and a key participant in, the history of popular music itself. What has been going on there for over ninety years has called for skills that are musical, creative, technical, mechanical, interpersonal, logistical, managerial, chemical and, romantics might be tempted add, close to magic. This is for the people who believe in the magic. ©2022 David Hepworth (P)2022 Penguin Audio Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free ID: 559018 Title: Crow Lake Author: Mary Lawson Narrator: Amelia Sargisson Format: Unabridged Length: 08:34:14 Language: English Release date: 03-17-22 Publisher: Penguin Books LTD Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Family Life Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. From the Booker Longlisted author of A TOWN CALLED SOLACE Orphaned young, Kate Morrison was her older brother Matt's protégé, her curious fascination for pond-life fed by his passionate interest in the natural world. Now a zoologist, she can identify organisms under a microscope, but seems blind to the tragedy of her own emotional life. She thinks she's outgrown her family, who were once her entire world - but she can't seem to outgrow her childhood or lighten the weight of their mutual past. 'I've been trying to tell everyone I know about Mary Lawson . . . Each one of her novels is just a marvel' Anne Tyler 'A remarkable novel, utterly gripping...I read it at a single sitting, then I read it again, just for the pleasure of it' Joanne Harris, author of Chocolat 'Full of blossoming insights and emotional acuity...a compelling and serious page-turner' Observer © Mary Lawson 2002 (P) Penguin Audio 2022 Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free ID: 654122 Title: Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism Author: Yanis Varoufakis Narrator: Yanis Varoufakis Format: Unabridged Length: 07:39:17 Language: English Release date: 09-28-23 Publisher: PGRH UK Genres: Business & Economics, Non-Fiction, Politics, Social Science, General Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. What an amazing piece of work this is. Ground-breaking, thought-provoking and highly accessible. Everyone should read it. The dark, scary, exciting song of our age. 100 out of 100 IRVINE WELSH Capitalism is dead. Welcome to technofeudalism. In his boldest and most far-reaching book, the visionary economist and number-one bestselling author Yanis Varoufakis shows how the owners of big tech became the world's feudal overlords replacing capitalism with a fundamentally new system that enslaves our minds, defies democracy and rewrite the rules of global power. But as Varoufakis also reveals, technofeudalism contains new opportunities to thwart and overturn it, bringing into focus more clearly than ever the revolution we need to escape our digital prison. An epochal, once-in-a-millennium shift . . . this isn't just new technology. This is the world grappling with an entirely new economic system and therefore political power Observer An urgent demand to seize the means of computation CORY DOCTOROW A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR © Yanis Varoufakis 2023 (P) Penguin Audio 2023 Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free ID: 569661 Title: Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories that Make Us Author: Rachel Aviv Narrator: Andi Arndt Format: Unabridged Length: 07:40:28 Language: English Release date: 10-20-22 Publisher: Penguin Books LTD Genres: Non-Fiction, Health & Wellness, Psychology, Mental Health Summary: Brouhgt to you by Penguin. The highly anticipated debut from the award-winning New Yorker writer Rachel Aviv is a ground-breaking exploration of illness and the mind Strangers to Ourselves is a compassionate, courageous and riveting look at the ways we talk about and understand ourselves in periods of crisis and distress. Drawing on unpublished journals and letters, along with deep reporting, it follows people who feel as if they have reached the limits of psychiatric explanations for who they are. Their diagnosis, while giving their experiences a name, also shapes their sense of what their future may look like-and their identities, too. Rachel Aviv is known for her radical empathy: she excels at seeing the world through the eyes of her fellow human beings. Writing first about her own experience of being on an anorexia ward at the age of six, she introduces, among others, a fiercely intelligent mother recovering from incarceration and psychosis; a woman who lives in healing temples in Kerala, where she is celebrated as a saint; and a young woman who, after a decade of defining herself through her diagnosis, decides to stop her medication because she doesn't know who she is without it. Through startling connections, intimate testimonies, and diverse social and cultural perspectives, Aviv opens up fresh ways of thinking about illness and the mind, in a book which is curious, transformative, and above all, deeply human. © Rachel Aviv 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022 Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free ID: 560339 Title: Long Knives Author: Irvine Welsh Narrator: Tam Dean Burn Burn Format: Unabridged Length: 12:48:42 Language: English Release date: 08-25-22 Publisher: Penguin Books LTD Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Police Stories Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Justice can be a blunt instrument 'Men like him usually tell the story. In business. Politics. Media. But not this time: I repeat, he is not writing this story.' Ritchie Gulliver MP is dead. Castrated and left to bleed in an empty Leith warehouse. Vicious, racist and corrupt, many thought he had it coming. But nobody could have predicted this. After the life Gulliver has led, the suspects are many: corporate rivals, political opponents, the countless groups he's offended. And the vulnerable and marginalised, who bore the brunt of his cruelty - those without a voice, without a choice, without a chance. As Detective Ray Lennox unravels the truth, and the list of brutal attacks grows, he must put his personal feelings aside. But one question refuses to go away... Who are the real victims here? © Irvine Welsh 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022 Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com