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The New Testament tells the extraordinary and moving story of the life of Christ and the founding of His Church. This generous selection from the texts which lie at the root of 2,000 years of European civilization ranges between the powerful sincerity of the Evangelists and the ecstatic vision of John's New Jerusalem.

Antonio's friend Bassanio is in love and needs money to go courting. Using Antonio as his collateral, he borrows money from Shylock. But when the debt comes due, Shylock demands repayment in the form of a pound of Antonio's flesh. Hugh Griffin, Harry Andrews, Ian Holm and Roy Dotrice perform Shakespeare's tragicomedy.

"Blogs" are fast replacing traditional media as the source for reliable information, and now Hugh Hewitt, who The Wall Street Journal calls the "unofficial historian of the blogging movement," shares practical ways you or your business can benefit from a presence in the blogosphere. "Blog" is...

Join the adventure! Chronicles of EGG: Deadweather and Sunrise, the first in a major, brand new children's series is available as a digital, unabridged audiobook read by the actor Hugh Lee. DEADWEATHER, a sweaty little pirate-infested island, is home to EGG, thirteen years old and prey to a pair...

Peter James is an international best-selling thriller writer with 12 consecutive Sunday Times number ones, responsible for the critically acclaimed Roy Grace thriller series. Hugh Bonneville is a BAFTA, Emmy and Golden Globe nominated actor across both stage and screen, most recognised for his role as Robert Crawley in the ITV drama Downton Abbey and blockbusters such as Paddington and Notting Hill. Bonneville has narrated the audiobook of Peter James’ thriller Absolute Proof.

Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis are joined by Jon Holmes, Laura Shavin, Mitch Benn and special guests including Andi Osho and Tina C for more bitingly satirical comedy. Produced by Victoria Lloyd...

Fifteen-year-old Freedom Smith is a born fighter, it's in his gypsy blood. Freedom's no angel, but he's no killer either. When he's falsely accused of murder, the law gives him the chance to prove his worth, by in infiltrating a sinister fight game that's recruiting runaway boys. But what he discovers is something else. Something big. A mind-bending world of dangerous science, and a fight that never ends.

Ambrose Bierce was an American editorialist, journalist, short-story writer, and satirist, who wrote many chilling stories of the supernatural. "The Middle Toe of the Right Foot" is one of his best.

This collecton features some of Twain's best known stories as well as some lesser-known gems, such as "A Mysterious Visit", "The Facts Concerning the Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut", and "The Loves Of Alonzo Fitz-Clarence and Rosannah Ethelton".

In this hilarious spoof of the detective story, a team of detectives try unsuccessfully to capture an stolen white elephant. This dramatized version features a full cast of characters.

"Frihedens åndedrag" er tredje og sidste bind i Nádas' monumentale romanværk om to familier fra Berlin og Budapest. Af deres liv og skæbner væves et storslået billedtæppe, som spejler Europas historie i det 20. århundrede fra mellemkrigstiden og frem til Berlinmurens fald. Péter Nádas brugte 18 år på at skrive "Parallelle historier", som af de ungarske anmeldere blev hyldet som "Krig og fred for det 21. århundrede". Et fascinerende og provokerende romanværk i tre bind, som befæster hans position som en af vor tids allerstørste fortællere og har fået kritikere verden over til at sidestille ham med forfattere som Marcel Proust, Robert Musil, Thomas Mann og Lev Tolstoj.

In HOW TO PRODUCE COMEDY BRONZE, legendary TV producer Jon Plowman lifts the hood on the comedy industry so you can peer inside and wonder how any of it ever got made in the first place. In a career spanning 30 years Jon has learned (almost) everything there is to know about comedy and now wants...

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Moominvalley in November by Tove Jansson, read by Hugh Dennis. If you haven't met a Moomin yet, you're in for the most magical fun! 'They can't have moved away without saying a word!' Winter is coming, and the Fillyjonk, the Hemulen, Toft, Mymble, etc...

This fascinating BBC Radio 4 documentary tells the story of three key figures in the strange history of lobotomy, and for the first time explores the popularity of the operation in the UK. The story starts in 1935 with a Portuguese doctor called Egas Moniz, who pioneered a radical surgical...

‘Stop Messing About - the first all-nude radio show. Nervous listeners are advised to keep their eyes closed... and it’s forbidden to take photographs.’ Taking over the mantle of 'Round the Horne', 'Stop Messing About' carried on the comedy tradition, which reunited Kenneth Williams with...

A selection of 1960s sketches from "Round the Horne" featuring the outrageously camp couple, Julian and Sandy. Oozing with innuendo and double-entendre, they engage on a variety of entrepreneurial endeavours, from Guided Tripettes to the Bona Guest House, Bogmouth...

"I nattens mørke dyb" er andet bind i Péter Nádas' monumentale romanværk, "Parallelle historier", der nu endelig foreligger i dansk oversættelse. Et europæisk hovedværk om to familier fra Berlin og Budapest. Af deres liv og skæbner væves et storslået billedtæppe, som spejler Europas historie i det 20. århundrede fra mellemkrigstiden og frem til Berlinmurens fald. Péter Nádas er blevet sammenlignet med litteraturhistoriens helt store sværvægtere som Thomas Mann, Robert Musil, Leo Tolstoj og Marcel Proust.

Europæisk hovedværk om to familier fra Berlin og Budapest. Af deres liv og skæbner væves et storslået billedtæppe over det 20. århundredes historie fra mellemkrigstiden og frem til Murens fald i 1989. Centralt i romanen står tre usædvanlige mænd: Hans von Wolkenstein, hvis tyske mor har forbindelser til nazisterne; Ágost Lippay Lehr, hvis indflydelsesrige far har tjent Ungarns forskellige politiske regimer gennem årtier; og András Rott, som har sin egen dystre fortid. "Parallelle historier" er en vidunderlig, grum, poetisk og nøgtern roman om Europas kultur og krise.

How do we find God in a senseless world where we are overloaded with information and technology, distraught by the futility of politics and are constantly being controlled by the machines of progress? In a world obsessed with power and control, many are finding the inner peace we all seek by taking a step back instead of "forward" to identify with nature and common sense, back to the Garden of Eden in a sense. God has a far deeper and more personal meaning beyond the increasing complications of world religions and the rapid "progress" that mankind claims to be experiencing.

Based on decades of research and the aid of scholars from around the world, God Kings brings a scholarly and educated look into the world of Royal bloodlines. The implications of this work are enormous as they involve a lineage traced back to Odin, once believed to be a Norse god, whose lineage then merged with the bloodline of Jesus Christ himself.