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The first volume in the best-selling Letters of Note series was a collection of hundreds of the world's most entertaining, inspiring, and unusual letters, based on the seismically popular website of the same name - an online museum of correspondence visited by more than 70 million people. In this volume, Shaun Usher turns to the subject of sex.

One of seven of these 'unmade movies' available on audio, Victory is a dark, morally complex drama set in the Dutch East Indies in 1900. It tells the story of Baron Heyst, a mysterious Swedish recluse living alone on a deserted island whose life is changed forever when he visits a neighbouring island and falls in love with young English violinist Lena. Pursued by predatory older men, Lena is drawn to Heyst and escapes with him to his island retreat....

Lassa Erickson likes normal teenage things, like reading ancient texts on chemical analysis and studying books on advanced alchemy. He's never read anything frivolous like The Joy of Axe Wielding or Uthbert's Guide to Decapitation. So, when he's conscripted into the 11th-century Viking army, and finds himself surrounded by an ocean of the fiercest, toughest, ugliest warriors the world has ever seen, he accepts his hapless brother Sven's brilliant idea of hiding at the back of his first battle, while everyone else does all the fighting.

This miraculous book will teach you how you can grow plants and vegetables without soil by using the hydroponic method of cultivation. This book will lead you towards the many mysterious worlds of hydroculture and hydroponics. It will tell you how you can grow your hydroponic garden at home, and what are the significant benefits of it.

Poet Ian McMillan is our host in this gleeful game of literary tomfoolery, outrageous parody and biting wit. Joining him for some lighthearted competitive wordplay are a quartet of writers and comedians, all ready and eager to run riot through the halls of great literature.

A delightful collection of letters about fathers and fatherhood, curated by the founder of the globally popular Letters of Note website.

Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies with Sidney Noir. This collection comprises of all new stories set in Sidney, Australia, by 14 authors of crime fiction....

Liebe Hörer, der US-amerikanische Schriftsteller Mark Twain ist in der breiten Öffentlichkeit insbesondere für seine Romane über Tom Sawyer und Huckleberry Finn bekannt. Er war ein begnadeter Geschichten-Erzähler, der es verstand, scharfzüngige Gesellschaftskritik in fesselnde Unterhaltung zu verflechten. Warum heißt es bei diesem Hörbuch nach Mark Twain? Der Autor veröffentlichte ursprünglich zwei Geschichten. "Extracts from Adam's Diary" erschien 1904.

With a host of memorable characters and catchphrases, The Fast Show was one of the most popular BBC TV comedy shows ever. The talents of Paul Whitehouse, Charlie Higson, Caroline Aherne, Simon Day and many more come together in this collection of selected TV episodes and special edition of The Fast Show Live.

The first volume in the best-selling Letters of Note series was a collection of hundreds of the world's most entertaining, inspiring, and unusual letters, based on the seismically popular website of the same name - an online museum of correspondence visited by over 70 million people. Now, the curator of Letters of Note, Shaun Usher, gives us wonderful new volumes featuring letters organized around a universal theme.

As children, Gareth and Helen went ignored and utterly unsupervised in their isolated English farmhouse while their mother obsessively tended to her beloved, exquisite garden. When they were little, Gareth would occupy himself by trapping insects under glass and Helen would find ways to entertain herself - but the older they grew, the more sinister their lives became, with no attentive parent to shield them from the predators of the world. Decades later, Helen is in the same crumbling house, unhappily married and looking after their bedridden mother, and Gareth finally returns home.

Die Zukunft - trotz aller Errungenschaften so ungewiss wie nie zuvor. Im 22. Jahrhundert hat die Menschheit Raumstationen in der Unendlichkeit errichtet und erforscht das Sonnensystem - bemüht, im Weltall das zerbrechliche Gleichgewicht aufrechtzuerhalten, das auf der Erde zwischen den zwei Machtblöcken existiert: der "Union" und den "Republiken". Mark Brandis ist Testpilot und fliegt für die neutrale Venus-Erde Gesellschaft für Astronautik (VEGA).