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Winner of the Victorian Prize for Literature, Australia’s richest literary award, No Friend but the Mountains is Kurdish Iranian journalist and refugee Behrouz Boochani’s account of his detainment on Australia’s notorious Manus Island prison - a work that represents the harrowing experience of the many stateless and imprisoned refugees and migrants around the world.

This dramatisation of Jonathan Franzen's acclaimed, epic, award-winning novel revolves around the troubles of an elderly Midwestern couple and their three adult children, tracing their lives from the mid-20th century to 'one last Christmas' together near the turn of the millennium. A family saga, that sits against the backdrop of this century's changing face of America, the novel was published 10 days before 9/11 but is widely considered an observation of what happened to the American psyche after 9/11.

Toby Stephens stars in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Raymond Chandler’s second Philip Marlowe mystery.Fast-talking, trouble-seeking private eye Philip Marlowe is a different kind of detective: a moral man in an amoral world. California in the ’40s and ’50s is as beautiful as a ripe fruit and rotten to the core, and Marlowe must struggle to retain his integrity amidst the corruption he encounters daily.In ‘Farewell My Lovely’, Marlowe has a chance encounter with a not-so-gentle giant outside Florian’s nightclub.

Stephanie Fuller has had a year from hell, and a vacation to Mexico was supposed to be a way to find her equilibrium again. Instead, she's snatched off the streets and wakes up in a dark, dank underground prison. Nothing could prepare her for what's going to happen to her there or the connection she builds with her fellow captive. When Patrick "Trick" Kramer wakes up in a small cell and learns he's not alone, he quickly puts together the pieces of who took him and why.

Jessica Bowen knows responsibility and learned it at a young age. Living through something horrific she somehow managed to hold most of her family together and build a life for herself. A life that isn't the one she planned but it's one she can be proud of, where she can make a difference and save lives. Until he shows up threatening to destroy everything she's worked so hard to achieve.

Ariel Emerson knows what it's like to lose everyone you love, and she has no intention of going through that again—ever. Then she's snatched off the streets and sold to a monster. Her only hope of being rescued is the man who very thoroughly destroyed her. Not a day has passed for Sebastian "Rock" Rockman that he hasn't regretted lashing out in grief and guilt and destroying the best thing to ever happen to him. He always knew he wanted a second chance, but when Ariel is kidnapped right in front of him he'll have to fight not just to win her heart and her trust, but to save her life.

Your body is a virtual reality-making machine. This course in universal ideas will fine-tune the machine and turn your world into a paradise. This short course of ideas will elevate you to an entirely new and wonderful level of living. They are incredibly powerful and will take you to a place that very few human beings ever go. They are more than mere ideas. They are “the truth” being given to us by a universal intelligence far greater than can be imagined by any human mind.

Tallulah Russel knows she's made a mistake. Unfortunately, it's too late to do anything about it. Snatched from her home and held prisoner in a cabin by a man whose behavior grows more confusing by the minute, she has two choices. She can escape the second she gets an opportunity, or she can put her trust in her kidnapper when he tells her he's the only thing standing between her and certain death.