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Penguin Classics presents Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, adapted for audio and available as a digital download as part of the Penguin English Library series. Read by David Threlfall, the star of the hit Channel 4 series, Shameless. 'The mind of man is capable of anything - because everything...

Brought to you by Penguin. Every life is both ordinary and extraordinary, and Logan Mountstuart's - stretching across the twentieth century - is a rich tapestry of both. As a writer who finds inspiration with Hemingway in Paris and Virginia Woolf in London, as a spy recruited by Ian Fleming and...

Clara Wren thought her arranged marriage to Julian Voss was nothing more than a contract—an heir for his family, freedom for her career. Their quiet divorce seemed to close that chapter, until fate, ambition, and a glittering dating show threw them together again. Under the unblinking eye of cameras and the chaos of online fandoms, every glance, every word between them is dissected, twisted, and adored. Torn between rivals, rumors, and her own rising career, Clara must decide if love is worth the risk of exposure.

One small mistake. One deadly consequence. Elodie Fray wants to be more like her perfect sister, Ada, the one her parents are actually proud of. When she decided to quit her job and pursue her dream of becoming an author, she thought it would be her time to shine, but a year on nothing has...

Brought to you by Penguin. Another undisclosed facet of her million secrets glittered before us... Emerence is a domestic servant – strong, fierce, eccentric, and with a reputation for being a first-rate housekeeper. When Magda, a young Hungarian writer, takes her on to help around the house...

When the body of a young woman is discovered in Portland's Forest Park, Archie is reminded of the last time they found a body there, more than a decade ago: it turned out to be the Beauty Killer's first victim, and Archie's first case. This body can't be one of Gretchen's - she's in prison - but after help from reporter Susan Ward uncovers the dead woman's identity, it turns into another big case.

Brought to you by Penguin. The first thing Vanessa Carvin does when she arrives on the island is change her name. To the locals, she is Willow Hale, a solitary outsider escaping Dublin to live a hermetic existence in a small cottage, not a notorious woman on the run from her past. But scandals...

A concert pianist built on discipline and silence meets the one truth she can’t outplay: a tremor in her right hand and the unfinished songs of a life lived for perfection. In luminous, breath-held chapters, The Distance Between Heartbeats follows a return from burnout to belonging—through a recording studio’s red light, a doctor’s gentle orders to rest, the memory of a lover who taught her to “slow the pauses,” and the terrifying grace of stepping back onstage without guarantees.

When a coma patient starts to have contractions and gives birth to a baby boy, the child's arrival triggers an investigation into serious sexual assault. Detectives McQuillan and Blalock are handed the case, while the internal hospital team collects data to help with the investigation. When Dr. Angela Crawford, who helped deliver the baby, learns that the child will be put in foster care, she and her husband agree to take the little boy in.

Zwei junge Menschen. Zwei gebrochene Seelen. Während Jenna in der Kindheit sexuell missbraucht wurde und versucht, ihr schweres Trauma zu verarbeiten, gerät Mark, der sein Zuhause verloren hat, immer tiefer in einen Sumpf aus Drogen und Prostitution. Jenna und Mark lernen sich auf ungewöhnliche Weise kennen. Sie kämpfen gemeinsam und kämpfen allein – während die Vergangenheit wie ein Schatten über ihnen liegt, und ein Ausweg unerreichbar erscheint. Dies ist die Geschichte zweier gebrochener Seelen.

Charles Marlow recounts his adventures into the Congo and into the brutality of British colonialism.

“The story of true innocents caught up in the machinery of war. Exquisitely researched, beautifully told, this tiny corner of Scotland came alive for me in all of my senses and I found myself rooting for the central characters with all my heart.” —Mary Beth Keane, author of Ask Again, Yes...

The No. 1 bestselling series starring medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta. Dr. Kay Scarpetta is working a suspicious death scene in Cambridge, Massachusetts when an emergency alert sounds on her phone. A video link lands in her text messages and seems to be from her computer genius niece Lucy...

Stevie, a recovering alcoholic and kitchen manager of Chappy’s, a small-chain restaurant, is frantically trying to prevent the people around her from going supernova: her PTSD-suffering veteran son, her uproariously demented parents, the polyglot eccentrics who work in her kitchen, the blind geriatric dog she inherits, and a damaged 5-year-old who landed on her doorstep and might just be her granddaughter. In the tight grip of new corporate owners, Stevie battles corporate’s “restructuring” to save her kitchen.

Heart of Darkness, a novel by Joseph Conrad, was originally a three-part series in Blackwood's Magazine in 1899. It is a story within a story, following a character named Charlie Marlow, who recounts his adventure to a group of men onboard an anchored ship. The story told is of his early life as a ferry boat captain. Although his job was to transport ivory downriver, Charlie develops an interest in investing an ivory procurement agent, Kurtz, who is employed by the government.

Joseph Conrad's searing tale of one of the strangest and most memorable journeys ever taken. Quite simply the scariest book ever written, this is a searing tale of one of the strangest and most memorable journeys ever undertaken - to the heart of a geographical and psychological wilderness from which no-one returns unscarred. For this isn't simply a journey up an uncharted river into a geographical wilderness; rather, it's a trip deep into our collective subconscious.

River steamboat captain Charles Marlow has set forth on the Congo in Africa to find the enigmatic European trader Mr. Kurtz. Preceded by his reputation as a brilliant emissary of progress, Kurtz has now established himself as a god among the natives in "one of the darkest places on earth." Marlow suspects something else of Kurtz: he has gone mad.

The much-anticipated reissue of a novel that is one of Joyce Carol Oates’s personal favorites among her oeuvre; featuring a new afterword by Oates IN THE HEART OF A LANGUID JULY, ELEVEN-YEAR-OLD JOHN REDDY HEART drives a traffic-stopping, salmon-colored Cadillac into the quiet upstate town of...

Sydney, Australia. Charlie Cooper needs more time with his family. With his transfer out of homicide to a quieter station fast approaching, the weary detective's only regret is the decade-long serial killer case he couldn't crack. But when he's called to one last murder scene, Cooper can't believe the victim is the perp he's been chasing for years. Certain the sociopath's latest abductee still lives, the desperate cop races to find her before the clock runs out.

Ally a découvert la vérité. Et cette bombe lâchée au milieu d'un repas a réduit en cendres ses espérances. Pour elle, c'est l'altercation de trop, son cœur malmené par le chanteur en a assez. Profondément blessée, la jeune danseuse s'efforce d'oublier l'impétueux leader des Chainless et de se recentrer sur son but de toujours : la danse. Avec sa candidature envoyée à l'Opéra de Paris, elle touche enfin son rêve ultime du bout des doigts. De son côté, Chester, occupé à promouvoir le nouvel album de son groupe de rock, n'a pas dit son dernier mot.