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Set in the town of Travnik, Bosnian Chronicle presents the struggle for supremacy in a region that stubbornly refuses to submit to any outsider. The era is Napoleonic and the novel, both in its historical scope and psychological subtlety, Tolstoyan. In its portrayal of conflict and fierce ethnic loyalties, the story is also eerily relevant. Ottoman viziers, French consuls, and Austrian plenipotentiaries are consumed by an endless game of diplomacy and double-dealing.

Andrew Sachs reads Jonathan Swift's humorous and unforgettable tale of a strange man in some very strange lands. Gulliver had always wanted to see the world. But whenever he steps on board a ship, bad luck always seems near at hand. He is shipwrecked, abandoned, marooned and mutinied against - and each time lands in a strange and curious place.

A left-leaning judge liberates four of the most dangerous al-Qaeda terrorists from Guantanamo Bay and the CIA field officers track them back to Pakistan's northwest frontier mountain range. But the men vanish and rejoin the dark and mysterious forces trained by Osama bin Laden high in the Hindu Kush. These are men with hatred for the United States and Great Britain, and they are sworn to hit back at the USA, which imprisoned so many of their high command.

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of What a Carve Up! by Jonathan Coe, read by Richard Goulding. It is the 1980s and the Winshaw family are getting richer and crueller by the year: Newspaper-columnist Hilary gets thousands for telling it like it isn't; Henry's turning hospitals into car...

'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...

“Gripping…Ackerman and Stavridis stage a harrowing global conflict that pits military might against an appetite for justice… equal parts haunting and entertaining.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review A gripping drama and chilling prophecy about the possible path to war for a planet...

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।

Brought to you by Penguin. THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER Discover Ali Smith's dazzling, once-in-a-generation series, the Seasonal Quartet, a tour-de-force quartet of novels about love, time, art, politics, and how we live right now What unites Katherine Mansfield, Charlie Chaplin...

À Oran, une ville paisible d’Algérie, la routine bascule lorsque des rats morts apparaissent dans les rues. Bientôt, la peste s’abat sur la population. Confinés, séparés, terrifiés, les habitants luttent non seulement contre la maladie, mais aussi contre la peur, l’isolement et la perte. Parmi eux, le docteur Bernard Rieux, témoin lucide et bouleversant, incarne la résistance silencieuse et la solidarité face à l’absurde.

LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 'A deeply humane and genre-defying work of love and … hope’ OCEAN VUONG ‘Beautiful, brilliant’ R. F. KUANG ‘Dazzling’ OBSERVER ‘Will shatter your heart’ GLAMOUR ‘Powerful’ SUNDAY TIMES An extraordinary story of the journey of one...

Brought to you by Penguin. Julian Lawndsley has renounced his high-flying job in the City for a simpler life running a bookshop in a small English seaside town. But only a couple of months into his new career, Julian's evening is disrupted by a visitor. Edward, a Polish émigré living in...

"The Queue ... has drawn comparisons to Western classics like George Orwell’s 1984 and The Trial by Franz Kafka. It represents a new wave of dystopian and surrealist fiction from Middle Eastern writers who are grappling with the chaotic aftermath and stinging disappointments of the Arab...

'Deserves to be an instant classic. I haven’t loved a book this much in a long time . . . What Strange Paradise . . . reads as a parable for our times . . . Such beautiful writing . . . This is an extraordinary book.' – New York Times From the widely acclaimed author of American War, Omar El...

In today's high-octane business world, you need all the advantages you can get. Success isn't just about making the right decisions or adopting smart strategies. Success also depends on knowing what's going on around you. As a business leader, imagine if you could almost always tell when people were lying to you, or if you could successfully persuade colleagues, workers, or bosses to always go along with your ideas. The truth is, you can.

“It is a sin to write this. It is a sin to think words no others think and to put them down upon a paper no others are to see. It is base and evil.” Deep issues of conscience are explored in Ayn Rand’s dystopian tale of a man who dares to fight against a system that invades his very mind and identity.

Brought to you by Penguin. New Year’s Eve, 1975. Two hunted men leave Mexico City in a borrowed white Impala. Their quest: to track down the mythical, vanished poet Cesárea Tinajero. But, twenty years later, they are still on the run. The Savage Detectives is their remarkable journey through...

For years, ex–Navy SEAL Maxwell Moore has worked across the Middle East and behind the scenes for the Special Activities Division of the CIA, making connections, extracting valuable intelligence, and facing off against America’s enemies at every turn. And then…news of a potentially...

Siew Li leaves her husband and children in Tiong Bahru to fight for freedom in the jungles of Malaya. Decades later, a Malaysian journalist returns to her homeland to uncover the truth of a massacre committed during the Emergency. And in Singapore, Siew Li's niece Stella finds herself accused of...