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Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye

by Joe Sims ...

Explore of the most famous and controversial novels of all time with Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye. ... Read more

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Explore of the most famous and controversial novels of all time with Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye.
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What Do We Know and What Should We Do About Abolishing Prisons?

by Joe Sim ...

Series series What Do We Know and What Should We Do About
This book challenges the myths and misrepresentations that justify the existence of prisons. It traces the history and failure of prison reform over two centuries, addresses a number of key, contemporary issues and argues for the abolition of prisons.It explores:The problem with liberal reformism.The myths around crime, the prison population and prison regimes.People in prison and the harms they ... Read more

$14.29 USD

This book challenges the myths and misrepresentations that justify the existence of prisons. It traces the history and failure of prison reform over two centuries, addresses a number of key, contemporary issues and argues for the abolition of prisons.It explores:The problem with liberal reformism.The myths around crime, the prison population and prison regimes.People in prison and the harms they
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Demystifying Power, Crime and Social Harm

The Work and Legacy of Steven Box

Edited by David Gordon Scott, Joe Sim ...

Series series Social Sciences (R0)
This collection revisits Steven Box’s book, Power, Crime and Mystification, published in 1983, and considers its relevance forty years on. It introduces the critical analysis developed by Box which examined corporate crime, police crime, rape and sexual assault and female crime and analyses the continuities and discontinuities since 1983 in relation to crime, the state and the exercise ... Read more

$53.99 USD

This collection revisits Steven Box’s book, Power, Crime and Mystification, published in 1983, and considers its relevance forty years on. It introduces the critical analysis developed by Box which examined corporate crime, police crime, rape and sexual assault and female crime and analyses the continuities and discontinuities since 1983 in relation to crime, the state and the exercise
... Read more
Punishment and Prisons

Power and the Carceral State

by Joe Sim ...

′Punishment and Prisons is a scholarly, powerful and inspirational critique. With passion and humanity, Joe Sim strips neo-liberal penal policies of their reformist pretensions and demonstrates that prisons will continue to be brutal enforcers of gross economic inequalities until such time as the abolitionist alternative is realised′ - Pat CarlenJoe Sim has long occupied a key position in British ... Read more

$80.99 USD

′Punishment and Prisons is a scholarly, powerful and inspirational critique. With passion and humanity, Joe Sim strips neo-liberal penal policies of their reformist pretensions and demonstrates that prisons will continue to be brutal enforcers of gross economic inequalities until such time as the abolitionist alternative is realised′ - Pat CarlenJoe Sim has long occupied a key position in British
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State, Power, Crime

Edited by Roy Coleman, Joe Sim, Steve Tombs, David Whyte ...

′Following the outstanding introduction by the authors there are fifteen excellent original articles devoted to an integrated theory of the relationship between the state and crime. This work is on the cutting edge of critical criminology. It is a must read.′ - William J. Chambliss, Professor of Sociology, The George Washington University, USA.′This book is a superb compilation of original papers ... Read more

$87.29 USD

′Following the outstanding introduction by the authors there are fifteen excellent original articles devoted to an integrated theory of the relationship between the state and crime. This work is on the cutting edge of critical criminology. It is a must read.′ - William J. Chambliss, Professor of Sociology, The George Washington University, USA.′This book is a superb compilation of original papers
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Lonely No More

The apocalypse isn’t coming—it’s already here.

by Sebastian Baczkiewicz ...

Narrated by Gavi Singh Chera, Olivia Vinall, Matthew Gravelle, Gareth Pierce, Aimee-Ffion Edwards, Gwyneth Keyworth, Joe Thomas, Patrick Kennedy, Joe Sims, Bhasker Patel, Edita Sllamniku, Iestyn Jones, Nay Murphy, Leo Wan, Claire Cage, Michael Bertenshaw, Eiry Thomas, Saskia West, Kimberley Nixon, Luke Newberry, Matthew Tennyson, Sid Sagar, Jonathan McGuinness, James Wilson ...

Unabridged

3 hours 32 min

The incredible eight-part full-cast audio drama written and created by Sebastian Baczkiewicz and directed by Jessica Dromgoole.It’s just a message, right?Daubed on walls, trending on socials, appearing in every language in every country all over the world and always reading the same. Nobody knows where it originated only that it can’t be ignored. And then – in the blink of an eye - everything ... Read more

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The incredible eight-part full-cast audio drama written and created by Sebastian Baczkiewicz and directed by Jessica Dromgoole.It’s just a message, right?Daubed on walls, trending on socials, appearing in every language in every country all over the world and always reading the same. Nobody knows where it originated only that it can’t be ignored. And then – in the blink of an eye - everything
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Infinite Detail

A Novel

by Tim Maughan ...

Narrated by Joe Sims, Marisa Calin ...

Unabridged

9 hours 34 min

**A LOCUS AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST FIRST NOVELA timely and uncanny portrait of a world in the wake of fake news, diminished privacy, and a total shutdown of the Internet.**This program includes a bonus interview between the author and journalist Brian Merchant.BEFORE: In Bristol’s center lies the Croft, a digital no-man’s-land cut off from the surveillance, Big Data dependence, and corporate ... Read more

$26.99 USD

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**A LOCUS AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST FIRST NOVELA timely and uncanny portrait of a world in the wake of fake news, diminished privacy, and a total shutdown of the Internet.**This program includes a bonus interview between the author and journalist Brian Merchant.BEFORE: In Bristol’s center lies the Croft, a digital no-man’s-land cut off from the surveillance, Big Data dependence, and corporate
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Queens of Noise

A Full-Cast BBC Radio Drama

by Louise Wener, Roy Boulter ...

Narrated by Shane Richie, Hannah Arterton, Liza Sadovy, Ben Crowe, Adam Nagaitis, Fiona Macrae, Joe Sims, Anneika Rose, Clare Corbett, Damian Lynch, Matthew Watson, Joe Absolom, Full Cast ...

Unabridged

3 hours 8 min

Is the world ready for The Velveteens? An all-girl punk band try to make it to the topGet your crimper out, your mohawk ready and your best punk pout on - the Queens of Noise have arrived! Set in 1980s London, this modern music drama charts the rise of a girl punk band. Packed with classic hits as well as the girls very own songs, this is a drama with punk power for any music lover. Writers and ... Read more

$19.99 USD

Is the world ready for The Velveteens? An all-girl punk band try to make it to the topGet your crimper out, your mohawk ready and your best punk pout on - the Queens of Noise have arrived! Set in 1980s London, this modern music drama charts the rise of a girl punk band. Packed with classic hits as well as the girls very own songs, this is a drama with punk power for any music lover. Writers and
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Bernardine Evaristo: A BBC Radio Collection

Including original writing for radio, plus full-cast adaptations of The Emperor’s Babe and Hello Mum

by Bernardine Evaristo1 ...

Narrated by Michelle Asante, Paul Chahidi, Sara Powell, Adjoa Andoh, Jude Akuwudike, Petra Letan, Sharon Duncan-Brewster, June Broughton, Lexi Strauss, Tassia Messimeris, Bernardine Evaristo0, Rick Warden2, Full Cast3, Nadine Marshall4, Anthony Welsh5, Damson Idris6, Joe Sims7 ...

Unabridged

4 hours 48 min

Full-cast dramatisations and original plays and stories from the award-winning author.Bernardine Evaristo won the Booker Prize 2019 with her novel, Girl, Woman, Other and the one-off Women's Prize Outstanding Contribution Award in 2025. The author of ten books, her 2013 novel Mr Loverman was adapted into a BBC 1 drama series in 2024, winning two BAFTAS. She has received over 90 awards and honours ... Read more

$19.99 USD

Full-cast dramatisations and original plays and stories from the award-winning author.Bernardine Evaristo won the Booker Prize 2019 with her novel, Girl, Woman, Other and the one-off Women's Prize Outstanding Contribution Award in 2025. The author of ten books, her 2013 novel Mr Loverman was adapted into a BBC 1 drama series in 2024, winning two BAFTAS. She has received over 90 awards and honours
... Read more

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Westside

A Novel

by W.M. Akers ...

Narrated by Bailey Carr ...

Series series A Gilda Carr Tiny Mystery
Unabridged

10 hours 50 min

“Superb . . . his research is excellent . . . his prose sharply crystalline.” -- New York Times***Book Review***“The Alienist meets The City & The City in this brilliant debut that mixes fantasy and mystery. Gilda Carr’s ‘tiny mysteries’ pack a giant punch." --David Morrell, New York Times bestselling author of Murder As a Fine Art**A you... ... Read more

$28.99 USD

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“Superb . . . his research is excellent . . . his prose sharply crystalline.” -- New York Times***Book Review***“The Alienist meets The City & The City in this brilliant debut that mixes fantasy and mystery. Gilda Carr’s ‘tiny mysteries’ pack a giant punch." --David Morrell, New York Times bestselling author of Murder As a Fine Art**A you...
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The City in the Middle of the Night

by Charlie Jane Anders ...

Narrated by Jennifer O'Donnell, Laura Knight Keating ...

Unabridged

13 hours 56 min

A LOCUS AWARD FINALIST!Charlie Jane Anders, the nationally bestselling author of All the Birds in the Sky delivers a brilliant new novel set in a hauntingly strange future with #10 LA Times bestseller The City in the Middle of the Night.WOULD YOU GIVE UP EVERYTHING TO CHANGE THE WORLD?Humanity clings to life on January—a colonized planet divided between permanently frozen darkness on one side, and ... Read more

$25.99 USD

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A LOCUS AWARD FINALIST!Charlie Jane Anders, the nationally bestselling author of All the Birds in the Sky delivers a brilliant new novel set in a hauntingly strange future with #10 LA Times bestseller The City in the Middle of the Night.WOULD YOU GIVE UP EVERYTHING TO CHANGE THE WORLD?Humanity clings to life on January—a colonized planet divided between permanently frozen darkness on one side, and
... Read more

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Radicalized

Four Tales of Our Present Moment

by Cory Doctorow ...

Narrated by Lameece Issaq, Mirron Willis, Wil Wheaton, Stefan Rudnicki ...

Series series Radicalized
Unabridged

8 hours 53 min

"Cory Doctorow's four futuristic novellas are aided by four well-chosen narrators who each capture the essence of their given story." — AudioFile MagazineFrom New York Times bestselling author Cory Doctorow, Radicalized is four urgent SF novellas of America's present and future within one audiobook.Told through one of the most on-pulse genre voices of our generation, Radicalized is a timely ... Read more

$26.99 USD

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"Cory Doctorow's four futuristic novellas are aided by four well-chosen narrators who each capture the essence of their given story." — AudioFile MagazineFrom New York Times bestselling author Cory Doctorow, Radicalized is four urgent SF novellas of America's present and future within one audiobook.Told through one of the most on-pulse genre voices of our generation, Radicalized is a timely
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