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Written at the start of the Great War, when his son Borys was at the Western Front, The Shadow-Line is Conrad's supreme effort to open man's eyes to the meaning of war through the stimulus of art. In many ways an autobiographical narrative, this masterpiece of his final period relates the story of a young and inexperienced sea captain whose first command finds him with a ship becalmed in tropical seas and a crew smitten with fever.

The Korean Demilitarized Zone, 1970s: A battered corpse is found a few feet north of the line dividing North and South Korea. When Eighth Army CID Agents George Sueno and Ernie Bascom are ordered by superiors to pull the body to the South Korean side, they have no idea of the international conflict the action will spark.  

Piper Paulson's life is finally on the upswing. She has a new job, a BFF roommate, and a commitment to avoid dating after an ex cost her her peace—and her former career. She may not have two nickels to spare, but that's another day's problem. James Newhouse doesn't have time or energy to deal with . . . well, anything. A hotshot banker with a complicated family, he's determined to keep people at arm's length.

Life has never been easy for Cottonmouth Tomlin. Raised by an uncle in a hardscrabble Arkansas town, Cottonmouth couldn’t leave fast enough. As a young man, he set out to seek his fortune but was soon caught up in a life of low-level misdeeds, taking him from New Orleans all the way to Honduras. Now he’s back in Columbia County, mourning his uncle and worrying on what to do with the broken-down outlaw camp that represents the sum of his family legacy.

One of the world’s foremost writing teachers invites listeners on a joyful journey into the reading and origins of haiku.

England, 1947: A young woman finds herself under close observation in an insane asylum, charged with a violent crime she has no memory of committing. As she tries to make sense of her recent past, she recalls very little. But she still remembers wartime in Yugoslavia. There she and her lover risked everything to carry out dangerous work resisting the Germans - a heroic campaign in which many brave comrades were lost. After that, the trail disappears into confusion. How did she come to be trapped in a living nightmare?

Pam Ayres, one of Britain's best-loved entertainers, personally presents this audiobook which brings together two of her solo stage shows with live audiences. Pam introduces each recording and then, as a bonus, reads a collection of new and previously unrecorded poems from her two most recent books, You Made Me Late Again and Up In The Attic. With poems such as 'My Mother Was Right About You', 'Geriatric Juliet', 'Poor Old Father Christmas', and 'The Hat From Hell', this hilariously funny collection is a must-have for seasoned fans and first time listeners alike.

Catching a sudden look of defiance from his granddaughter inspires Hugo Williams to take up his pen and write this deeply moving new collection of poetry - the first since I Knew the Bride (2014), short-listed for the Forward and T. S. Eliot prizes. He navigates assuredly from thoughtful reminiscences of childhood and accounts of the war, through various climes and sensitively drawn relationships, to grim humour in the hospital ward and growing older with its attendant doubts and disappearances.

"The Border Line" is unusual in that Lawrence dabbles in the supernatural (as he was to do again in "The Rocking-Horse Winner" two years later) and that this is less a story in the traditional sense and more an exploration of the mind of a particular woman, based on his own wife, Frieda. Katherine, in the story, realizes that her real love was her first husband, whom she should, according to Lawrence, have submitted to to gain real happiness. As Lawrence says in the story, thinking of his German wife, perhaps, "Beyond all race is the problem of man and woman."

Alabama, 1973. Den nyuddannede sygeplejerske Civil Townsend drømmer om at ændre verden. Så da hun får sit første job på en sundhedsklinik, er hun lykkelig for at kunne hjælpe andre kvinder med at tage kontrol over deres krop og deres liv. Den første uge på jobbet bliver hun dog overrasket over at opdage, at hendes nye patienter er piger på bare 11 og 13 år. De har ikke engang fået deres første kys, men fordi de er fattige og sorte, er det i systemets øjne grund nok til at tvinge dem til at bruge prævention.

Nogle mennesker ved lige, hvilke ømme tæer de skal træde på. I Brennas liv er det Rye. Når de er sammen, går der sjældent mere end ti minutter, før hun har lyst til at rive hovedet af ham – eller kysse ham. Og det er lidt upraktisk, når han spiller bas i verdens største rockband, Kill John, som Brenna tilfældigvis laver PR for. Men alt ændrer sig, da Rye overhører Brenna komme med en tilståelse i et svagt øjeblik. Nu frister manden, hun har gjort sit bedste for at undgå, hende med det eneste, hun ikke kan modstå … ham.

Cheyenne Dempsey har været forelsket i Cole Mitchell, lige så længe hun kan huske. Han er hendes storebrors ven, og det er som om, han har kun lige opdaget, at Cheyenne faktisk er en voksen kvinde. Cole er enkemand og alene med sin niårige datter, Mariah. Han har været så fokuseret på at være en god far, at han slet ikke opdagede, at han selv længtes efter mere. Mere end bare at være en god far, en god søn, en god politibetjent. Pludselig ser han Cheyenne.

In this eye-opening short story, a tech reporter’s mistake unites two women eight thousand miles apart. One in New Jersey, one in the Philippines. Same name: Sandra Guzman. Same job: content moderators for a mega social media website. What transpires between them is a friendship that changes their perceptions of each other’s privilege and challenges the power of the very industry they work for.

En ung kvinde vågner en tidlig morgen på Sorgenfri Station. Hun kan ikke huske noget som helst af, hvad der skete aftenen inden. Langsomt forsøger hun at optrevle aftenens begivenheder. Dromedaren er en samling noveller, der alle handler om én bestemt fest i kulturhuset DROMEDAREN, et sted i en forstad til København. Noveller kredser om tilstanden i begyndelsen af 20'erne, livet efter gymnasiet, hvor man på den ene side skal være voksen og samtidig stadig huske at nyde sin ungdom.