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The Edge is a land of two worlds: above and below. It took me my childhood to learn about above; when I was 19, I went to learn the wonders of below: a world of darkness and silence, so dark that you can see the lights of brain cells discharging; so silent that blood in the veins can be heard.

In these two series, set on selected dates in January 1895 and December 1896, we follow the day-to-day shenanigans of Bridgford station master Joe Braddock and his staff, along with a motley crew of passengers and passers-by. Each episode is a self-contained drama, as well as telling the ongoing story of the crises and challenges tackled by the team, and their rivalries, enmities, friendships and burgeoning romances.

A collection of Larkin's best-known poems, read by the poet. The Sunday Sessions consists of 26 poems, the contents of two tapes recorded by Philip Larkin in Hull in February 1980 - reportedly, each on a Sunday, after lunch with John Weeks, a sound engineer and colleague of the poet. The tapes contain work from Larkin's first major collection, The North Ship as well as poems from his best-known collections, The Whitsun Weddings and High Windows.

Research shows that increasing your muscle strength is the single most important thing you can do for your physical and mental health. This book shows you how--in just 30 minutes a day, once or twice a week--using the science-backed MSTF method. The mixed messages we’ve received about exercise...

Trapped in a London flat, Beth remembers a transgressive love affair in 1960s Paris. The most famous writer in Russia takes his last breath in a stationmaster’s cottage, miles from Moscow. A father, finally free of his daughter’s demands, embarks on a long swim from his Canadian lakeside retreat. And in the grandest house of all, Danni the Polish housekeeper catches the eye of an enigmatic visitor.Rose Tremain awakens the senses in this diverse collection of short stories.

Sir John Phillips, the Harley Street surgeon, and his beautiful nurse, Jane Harden, are almost too nervous to operate. The emergency case on the table before them is the Home Secretary - and they both have very good, personal reasons to wish him dead. Within hours he does die, although the operation itself was a complete success, and Chief Detective Inspector Alleyn must find out why....

As he teetered on a narrow rock ledge, a yak's bellow short of the stratosphere, with a rubber mask strapped to his face, a pair of mittens the size of a sea lion's flippers, and a drop of two kilometres below him, it's fair to say Mark Horrell wasn't entirely happy with the situation he found himself in. He had been an ordinary hiker who had only read books about mountaineering. When he signed up for an organized trek in Nepal with a group of elderly ladies, little did he know that ten years later he would be attempting to climb the world's highest mountain.

Brought to you by Penguin. On a stifling afternoon at Police HQ in Algiers, Superintendent Taleb, coasting towards retirement, with not even an air-conditioned office to show for his long years of service, is handed a ticking time bomb of a case which will take him deep into Algeria's troubled...

Detective Patrik Hedström and Erica Falck are back, in an irresistible Scandi crime thriller for fans of Jo Nesbo and Lars Kepler. A community torn apart As a heavy mist rolls into the Swedish coastal town of Fjällbacka, shocking violence shakes the small community to its core. Rolf Stenklo, a...

The emperor: Nero, emperor of Rome and feared by his subjects for his temper and cruelty, is in possession of an ancient document predicting that Rome will burn. The spy: Sebastos Pantera, assassin and spy for the Roman Legions, is ordered to stop the impending cataclysm. He knows that if he doesn't, his life - and that of thousands of others - is in terrible danger. The chariot boy: Math, a young charioteer, subject to the wiles and schemes of the emperor and the spy.

Many today may see the relationship between God and humanity as one of passive submission and thus unquestioning. Two outstanding Dominicans, Timothy Radcliffe and Lukasz Popko, suggest otherwise. Questioning God explores Biblical conversations with God and there is no genuine conversation without true questions.

The Cold War was an undeclared war, fought silently and carefully between ideological opponents armed with the most fearsome weapons mankind has ever seen. Hughes-Wilson takes a cool look at this war, from the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 to the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the dissolution of the USSR thereafter. He examines the suspicion and paranoia - on both sides - of the greatest stand-off in history.

A missing young girl. A horrifying conspiracy. Jack Widow will kill to save her. Under a sweltering Texas landscape, Jack Widow waits at a dust-covered bus station, when he meets Claire Hood, a grandmother, clearly in distress. Claire is on a solo mission to rescue her abducted granddaughter. Minutes after meeting her, the unthinkable happens. Claire drops dead - natural causes. Right there in front of Widow. Widow isn’t the type of guy to let wrongs go. He picks up her bus ticket and takes her place on a quest that will give him a reason to kill.

Random House presents the audiobook edition of Odin's Wolves by Giles Kristian, read by Philip Stevens. We lusted for an even greater prize: one that can never be lost or stolen or burnt.... Raven and his fellow Vikings have suffered. Good men have died. Hard-won treasure has been lost. But for these Norsemen, there is something more precious than gold or silver, and that is fame - for this is what a warrior leaves behind when he has breathed his last.

April 1897. Auf dem Brocken wird ein verbotenes Ritual vorbereitet – und etwas hört zu. Als eine junge Schottin spurlos verschwindet, wendet sich Karl May an Sherlock Holmes. Die Spur führt in den Harz – an einen Ort, an dem Mythen nicht vergangen sind.

Die übernatürlichen Phänomene spitzen sich weltweit immer weiter zu und nehmen ungeahnte Ausmaße an, wie sie die Welt noch nie erlebt hat. Überall greifen Angst und Schrecken um sich. Am Himmel erscheinen unheilvolle Zeichen und kein Ort scheint mehr sicher vor dem drohenden Unheil. Die junge Nonne Madeleine gerät immer tiefer in ein Netz aus uralter Magie, vatikanischen Intrigen und dunklen Prophezeiungen, die sich nun zu erfüllen drohen. Die apokalyptischen Reiter und sogar Satan persönlich treten auf den Plan – die Endzeit scheint greifbar nah.

Jack und Cliff versuchen, das Rätsel der geheimnisvollen Schatzkarte zu entschlüsseln. Die Spur führt sie hinaus aufs offene Meer … doch dort lauert die Gefahr. Nur knapp können sie der Kollision mit einem Schnellboot entrinnen – doch das Ruder der Ghost ist beschädigt und sie stranden an einer Boje – und finden dort den entscheidenden Hinweis.

Jack und Cliff beobachten zwei Männer, die sich auf dem Friedhof an einer Heiligenstatue zu schaffen machen. Wer sind die Fremden und was suchen sie dort? Ist an der Statue etwas versteckt? Jack und Cliff nehmen die Fährte auf und entdecken, dass die Männer eine geheimnisvolle Karte besitzen. Eine Schatzkarte?

Überall auf der Welt geschehen unerklärliche Dinge – Blutregen, Heuschreckenschwärme, verzerrte Himmelszeichen. Der Vatikan ahnt, dass sich biblische Prophezeiungen erfüllen. Eine junge Ordensschwester wird nach Prag entsandt, um einen Fall von Besessenheit zu untersuchen. Doch schon bald stößt sie auf eine Spur, die sie rund um die Welt führt – und zu einem Mann, der seit Jahrhunderten tot sein sollte: Edward Kelly. Was als kirchliche Ermittlung beginnt, wird zum Auftakt eines apokalyptischen Albtraums, in dem Himmel und Hölle um die Zukunft der Menschheit ringen.

Auf dem entlegenen Marsmond Phobos landet ein Team von Mitarbeitenden eines großen Konzerns, um die Arbeiten zu überwachen. Doch was als Routineeinsatz beginnt, entwickelt sich rasch zu einem beklemmenden psychologischen Albtraum voller Paranoia und Furcht. Denn die vermeintliche Ruhe trügt: Rätselhafte Vorfälle häufen sich. Die Stationsleiterin wird tot aufgefunden, und unheimliche Spuren in den finsteren, verlassenen Gängen deuten auf eine fremdartige Präsenz hin.