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Brought to you by Penguin. A magnificent new translation of the Odyssey by best-selling author and classicist Daniel Mendelsohn Setting aside the streamlining, modernizing approach of many recent translations, Mendelsohn artfully reproduces the epic’s formal qualities – meter, enjambment...

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast production of Homer’s epic seafaring adventure, dramatised by award-winning poet Simon Armitage and starring Tim McInnerny, Amanda Redman & Benedict Cumberbatch. ‘My fame is written in the heavens, and my fate too...’ So speaks Odysseus as he starts to recount his...

Homer's masterpiece tells the story of Odysseus, the ideal Greek hero, as he travels home to Ithaca after the Trojan War, a journey of 10 years and countless thrilling adventures. Rich in Greek folklore and myth, featuring gods and goddesses, monsters and sorceresses, The Odyssey has enchanted listeners around the world for thousands of years.

The life-and-death hunt for a notorious Nazi criminal unfolds against a background of international arms deals. As the story leads to its final dramatic confrontation on a bleak winter's hill-top, the question every reader asked at the end of The Day of the Jackal will inevitably be asked again...

Kassandra was raised by her parents to be fierce and uncaring, the ideal Spartan child, destined for greatness. But when a terrible tragedy leaves her stranded on the isle of Kephallonia, near Greece, she decides to find work as a mercenary, away from the constraints of Sparta.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. One ordinary morning, Breanna's life ended. The next moment, it began. She stepped into another world and found everything she never knew she was missing — a man whose grief she understood before he spoke a word, people who became her family before...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. She survived four years of it. He survived what came next. And for the first time, he understood everything she had never been able to tell him. He thought he knew. He had her memories — fragments transferred in the dark of another ship in another...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Seven books ago, someone chose her. Deliberately. Precisely. Before she was born. This is the volume where she finally finds out why. And whether she would have said yes — if anyone had thought to ask. She has been living inside the answer without...

When war comes, the Earth is not ready. An immortals war arrives, the only warning a flash of light and energy 660 million kilometers away. A curiosity, passed off to NASA and tucked away in a note to be ignored. Only the flash of light is not the end, it is the beginning. Admiral Zachary Quinn is about to have a very bad day, and he is not alone. The war is here. Our response must be fast, it must be sure, and it must be victorious. Who wants to live forever?

After ten years of war, the legendary hero Odysseus embarks on a perilous journey home, facing vengeful gods, seductions, and treacherous creatures. As his kingdom falls into chaos, his wife, Penelope, waits for his return—while the world changes around them.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. She can survive anything the galaxy throws at her. The question is whether she can survive what she now knows. She survived the training. She made peace with the ancient darkness inside her — no longer two things fighting for control, but one unified...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. He knew what she was when he married her. Brave. Fierce. Stubborn. Extraordinary in ways neither of them had words for yet. He didn't know what was hiding inside her. She barely knew herself — not really, not until she was forced to see it clearly for...

To save the world and our future, Sigma Force must embark on a dangerous odyssey into an ancient past whose horrors are all too present in this page-turning thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author James Rollins that combines cutting-edge science, historical mystery, mythology, and...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. She didn't ask for this child. She didn't choose this. But the moment she knew this baby existed, the choice was already made. Nobody touches her child. Nobody. She is still healing from what was done to her. Her body is mending faster than anyone...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Rylo Dax has faced down enemies that would make lesser warriors quit. He has carried grief that would have broken most men. He has survived things he was never supposed to survive. Nothing prepared him for this. She's back. She's alive. But the woman he...

To boost waning interest in interstellar travel, a mission is sent into deep space to learn the truth about "moonriders," the strange lights supposedly being seen in nearby systems. But Academy pilot Valentina Kouros and the team of the starship Salvator will soon discover that their odyssey is no mere public-relations ploy, for the moonriders are not a harmless phenomenon. They are very, very dangerous-in a way that no one could possibly have imagined.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The twins are coming whether the universe is ready or not. And the moment she holds them — one in each arm, her son who has his father's eyes and his father's silences, her daughter who laughs at everything as though joy is a language she was born...

When Aesca Lampi wakes up in the form of her character from Eldest Fantasy Wars Online, she's annoyed by the historical inaccuracies. (Video-game-style scrolls? Really?) That is, until a building collapses on top of her, revealing she's on a fantastical island centered around the impossibly tall, glowing Tower of Aetherius . . . with an array of dangerous creatures—including jaguar hybrids, velociraptors, and giant, flesh-eating lizards—in the way. (Oh, joy.)

Arthur C. Clarke’s 2061: Odyssey Three is truly a masterful elaboration on one man’s epic vision of the universe. Only rarely does a novelist weave a tapestry so compelling that it captures the imagination of the entire world. But that is precisely what Arthur C. Clarke accomplished with...

Vince and his co-workers were waiting to catch a plane back from their business trip when aliens turned Earth into the setting for a deadly reality show.