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Plantaganet Palliser, Prime Minister of England - a man of power and prestige, with all the breeding and inherited wealth that goes with it - is appalled at the inexorable rise of Ferdinand Lopez. An exotic impostor, seemingly from nowhere, Lopez has society at his feet, while well-connected ladies vie with each other to exert influence on his behalf - even Palliser’s own wife, Lady Glencora.

'Harris's novels about the Roman statesman Cicero, are perfect audiobook material.' 50 best audiobooks, Daily Mail 'Masterful' Sunday Times 'Gripping and accomplished' Guardian 'Truly gifted, razor-sharp' Daily Telegraph Ancient Rome teems with ambitious and ruthless men. None is more brilliant...

‘A novel to marvel at’ SOPHIE MACKINTOSH ‘Like Karl Ove Knausegaard at the end of the world’ SUNDAY TIMES ‘Astonishing’ MICHAEL MAGEE ‘Left me awestruck’ HANNAH MURRAY The acclaimed author of The Doloriad returns with a wildly imaginative new novel following a reclusive graduate...

Eniola is tall for his age, a boy who looks like a man. His father has lost his job, so Eniola spends his days running errands for the local tailor, collecting newspapers and begging, dreaming of a big future. Wuraola is a golden girl, the perfect child of a wealthy family. Now an exhausted young doctor in her first year of practice, she is beloved by Kunle, the volatile son of family friends. When a local politician takes an interest in Eniola and sudden violence shatters a family party, Wuraola and Eniola's lives become intertwined.

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Exit West written and read by Mohsin Hamid. Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2017. This is Nadia. She is fiercely independent with an excellent sense of humour and a love of smoking alone on her balcony late at night. This is Saeed. He is sweet and...

National Bestseller “A blend of breathtaking artistry, encyclopedic knowledge of the natural world. . . and ardent commitment to the supremacy of nature.” — San Francisco Chronicle In this beautiful novel, Barbara Kingsolver, acclaimed author of The Poisonwood Bible and the Pulitzer-Prize...

Brought to you by Penguin. A masterful, intensely moving novel about three friends living in political exile and the emotional homeland that deep friendships can provide - from the Booker-shortlisted, Pulitzer prize-winning author of THE RETURN Khaled and Mustafa meet at university in Edinburgh...

Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Julian Rhind-Tutt, star of Green Wing, also known for his roles in The Madness of King George and Tomb Raider. This definitive recording includes an Introduction by Richard Maxwell. After eighteen years as a political prisoner in...

Brought to you by Penguin. Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2024. After years away from her family's homeland, and healing from an affair with an established director, stage actress Sonia Nasir returns to Palestine to visit her older sister Haneen. Though the siblings grew up...

दुनिया के सबसे ज्यादा बिकने वाले लेखक की ओर से, एक और रोमांचक कहानी। केन और एबल का शानदार गाथा के नए भाग मैं । दो पुरुषों के बीच का युद्ध जहाँ उन्हें एक-दूसरे को नष्ट करने का जनून हैं, वही जनून अगली पीढ़ी में भी है। एबेल की बेटी, फ्लोरेन्टीना रोस्नोवस्की, अपने पिता की सभी महत्वाकांक्षाओं को विरासत में लेती है, लेकिन उनसे दौलत नहीं लेती । एक महिला जो सुंदरता और आत्माविश्वास से भरपूर है, लेकिन सबसे बढ़कर अनोखी इच्छाशक्ति से, वह एक ऐसी महत्वाकांक्षा का पीछा करती है जो केन और एबेल, इन दोनों की महत्वाकांक्षा को छोटा कर देती है, क्योंकि वह सबसे दुनिया की ऊंची कुर्सी के लिए लड़ती है, यानि प्रेजिडेंट ऑफ़ यूनाइटेड स्टेट्स ऑफ़ अमेरीका। संगीत : आदित्य कुमार इफ़ेक्ट और फोली: रेनी सिंह आवाज निर्देशक: आदित्य कुमार क्रिएटिव निर्देशक: इन्दर कोचर डिसक्लेमर: इस शो का उद्देश्य सुनने वालों को मनोरंजन के लिए है। यह ऑडियो सीरीज द प्रोडिगल डॉटर - जेफरी आर्चर की किताब पर आधारित है। इस शो का उद्देश्य किसी भी व्यक्ति, एकाई, जाति, समुदाय, जाति, धर्म, संस्थान या किसी भी व्यक्ति, जीवित या मरे हुए को आपत्ति देने या अपमानित करने का नहीं है। सुनने वालों की विवेकपूर्णता की सलाह दी जाती है।

They existed only to serve the state. They were conceived in controlled Palaces of Mating. They died in the Home of the Useless. From cradle to grave, the crowd was one - the great WE. In all that was left of humanity, there was only one man who dared to think, seek, and love. He lived in the dark ages of the future. In a loveless world, he dared to love the woman of his choice. In an age that had lost all trace of science and civilization, he had the courage to seek and find knowledge.

Jo is in a strange new country for university and having a more peculiar time than most. In a house with no walls, shared with a woman who has no boundaries, she finds her strange home coming to life in unimaginable ways. Jo's sensitivity and all her senses become increasingly heightened and fraught, as the lines between bodies and plants, dreaming and wakefulness, blur and mesh.

'The best new writer of fiction in America. The best.' - John Irving Nathan Hill's brilliant debut, The Nix, journeys from the rural Midwest of the 1960s, to New York City during Occupy Wall Street; from Chicago in 1968, to wartime Norway: home of the mysterious Nix. Meet Samuel: stalled writer...

George Orwell's classic satire of the Russian Revolution has become an intimate part of our contemporary culture, with its treatment of democratic, fascist, and socialist ideals through an animal fable.

Britain, the not-too-distant future. Idir is taking the British Citizenship Test. He wants his family to belong. Twenty-five questions to determine his fate. Twenty-five chances to impress. When the test takes an unexpected and tragic turn, Idir is handed the power of life and death. How do you value a life when all you have is multiple choice?

George Orwell’s classic satire of the Russian Revolution has become an intimate part of our contemporary culture, with its treatment of democratic, fascist, and socialist ideals through an animal fable.

Brought to you by Penguin. As Pyle's naive optimism starts to cause bloodshed, his friend Fowler, a cynical foreign correspondent, finds it hard to stand aside and watch. But even as Fowler intervenes he wonders why: for the greater good, or something altogether more complicated? 'The novel that...

Relinquishing thoughts of a materially rewarding life, the respectably educated Felix Holt returns to his native village in North Loamshire and becomes an artisan. He is a forceful young man of honor, integrity, and idealism, burning to participate in political life so that he may improve the lot of his fellow artisans.

'Ventures where only a novel can - inside the mind of a character. The novel is addictive.' - Manu Joseph 'A tingling meditation on impermanence - nourishment, need, aloneness, the heart's acoustic of spade moving soil, hitting stone.' - Sumana Roy A haunting quest for home... Pandita writes...

A compelling dramatisation of Rohinton Mistry's Booker Prize-nominated novel about India's underclass India, 1975. Desperate to preserve her independence from her abusive brother, Parsi widow Dina Dilal turns her cramped city apartment into a sweatshop. But when her eyesight begins to fail, she...