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The Best British Short Stories 2014

by Mick Scully, Joanne Rush, Joanna Walsh, Elizabeth Baines, Jonathan Gibbs, Jay Griffiths, Siân Melangell Dafydd, Ailsa Cox, Stuart Evers, Claire Dean, David Constantine, David Grubb, Richard Knight, Vicki Jarrett, Anna Metcalfe, Philip Langeskov, Christopher Priest, Louise Palfreyman, Adam Wilmington, Nicholas Royle, M. John Harrison ...

Series series Best British Short Stories
'There is no more carefully chosen yet eclectic anthology series in existence in Britain today' – Susan Haigh, The Short ReviewBest British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover – or more accurately, by its title. This new series aims to reprint the best short stories published in the previous calendar year by British writers, whether based in the UK or elsewhere. The editor's ... Read more

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'There is no more carefully chosen yet eclectic anthology series in existence in Britain today' – Susan Haigh, The Short ReviewBest British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover – or more accurately, by its title. This new series aims to reprint the best short stories published in the previous calendar year by British writers, whether based in the UK or elsewhere. The editor's
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The Way Out

by Vicki Jarrett ...

A girl on a paper round gets more than she bargained for. A couple feels the strain when the money runs out. Life plays out in the call centre, the bingo hall and at the bus stop. Vicki Jarrett's debut collection – reissued here with the bonus story 'Up Dog Down Dog' – is a deftly observed insight into the lives of people just trying to get by. Jarrett, whose first novel, Nothing is Heavy, was ... Read more

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A girl on a paper round gets more than she bargained for. A couple feels the strain when the money runs out. Life plays out in the call centre, the bingo hall and at the bus stop. Vicki Jarrett's debut collection – reissued here with the bonus story 'Up Dog Down Dog' – is a deftly observed insight into the lives of people just trying to get by. Jarrett, whose first novel, Nothing is Heavy, was
... Read more
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Always North

by Vicki Jarrett ...

Narrated by Fiona McNeill ...

Unabridged

9 hours 31 min

Shortlisted for the Kitschies award for Best Novel, Always North is a profound meditation on our consumption of the world, and the perception of time.Software engineer Isobel needs to eat like everyone, and that’s how she fell into the job that leads her to the most northerly place on our planet. As part of a weathered crew of sailors, scientists and corporate officers she sails into the ice where ... Read more

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Shortlisted for the Kitschies award for Best Novel, Always North is a profound meditation on our consumption of the world, and the perception of time.Software engineer Isobel needs to eat like everyone, and that’s how she fell into the job that leads her to the most northerly place on our planet. As part of a weathered crew of sailors, scientists and corporate officers she sails into the ice where
... Read more

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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

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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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War of the Maps

by Paul McAuley ...

Narrated by Jonathan Oliver ...

Unabridged

15 hours 43 min

"The underrated McAuley is in top form in this hard science fiction novel with heart." —Washington Post Book WorldOn a giant artificial world surrounding an artificial sun, one man—a lucidor, a keeper of the peace, a policeman—is on the hunt. His target was responsible for an atrocity, but is too valuable to the government to be truly punished. Instead he has been sent to the frontlines of the war ... Read more

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"The underrated McAuley is in top form in this hard science fiction novel with heart." —Washington Post Book WorldOn a giant artificial world surrounding an artificial sun, one man—a lucidor, a keeper of the peace, a policeman—is on the hunt. His target was responsible for an atrocity, but is too valuable to the government to be truly punished. Instead he has been sent to the frontlines of the war
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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

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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 Rosewater Redemption

Book 3 of the Wormwood Trilogy

by Tade Thompson ...

Narrated by Bayo Gbadamosi ...

Series Audiobook 3 - The Wormwood Trilogy
Unabridged

12 hours 43 min

Life in the newly independent city state of Rosewater isn't everything its citizens were expecting . . .Mayor Jacques finds that debts incurred during the insurrection are coming back to haunt him.Nigeria isn't willing to let Rosewater go without a fight . . .And among the city's alien inhabitants, a group has emerged who murder humans to provide bodies for their takeover . . .Operating across ... Read more

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Life in the newly independent city state of Rosewater isn't everything its citizens were expecting . . .Mayor Jacques finds that debts incurred during the insurrection are coming back to haunt him.Nigeria isn't willing to let Rosewater go without a fight . . .And among the city's alien inhabitants, a group has emerged who murder humans to provide bodies for their takeover . . .Operating across
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Grail

by Elizabeth Bear ...

Narrated by Alma Cuervo ...

Series series Jacob's Ladder
Unabridged

12 hours 15 min

Booklist calls the world of Hugo Award winner Elizabeth Bear's spellbinding Jacob's Ladder series "magnificently populated, well worth visiting." Here the trilogy that began with Dust and Chill draws to its stunning conclusion. The passengers of the generation spaceship Jacob's Ladder have found a new home at last. But the planet Grail is already inhabited-and its population of genetically ... Read more

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Booklist calls the world of Hugo Award winner Elizabeth Bear's spellbinding Jacob's Ladder series "magnificently populated, well worth visiting." Here the trilogy that began with Dust and Chill draws to its stunning conclusion. The passengers of the generation spaceship Jacob's Ladder have found a new home at last. But the planet Grail is already inhabited-and its population of genetically
... Read more

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Eden

by Tim Lebbon ...

Narrated by Heather Wilds ...

Unabridged

10 hours 16 min

From the bestselling author of the Netflix Original movie The Silence comes a brand-new horror eco thriller.Earth’s rising oceans contain enormous islands of refuse, the Amazon rainforest is all-but destroyed, and countless species edge towards extinction. Humanity’s last hope to save the planet lies with the Virgin Zones, thirteen vast areas of land off-limits to people and given back to nature ... Read more

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From the bestselling author of the Netflix Original movie The Silence comes a brand-new horror eco thriller.Earth’s rising oceans contain enormous islands of refuse, the Amazon rainforest is all-but destroyed, and countless species edge towards extinction. Humanity’s last hope to save the planet lies with the Virgin Zones, thirteen vast areas of land off-limits to people and given back to nature
... Read more

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Chill

by Elizabeth Bear ...

Narrated by Alma Cuervo ...

Series series Jacob's Ladder
Unabridged

11 hours

Hugo Award winner Elizabeth Bear has won high praise for her thought-provoking science fiction. The second in her powerful Jacob's Ladder series, Chill finds the generation starship Jacob's Ladder with a new captain-Perceval. As Perceval struggles with the ship's recent damage, remnants of the rebellion still linger and a threat to the crew grows. "The world of Jacob's Ladder is magnificently ... Read more

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Hugo Award winner Elizabeth Bear has won high praise for her thought-provoking science fiction. The second in her powerful Jacob's Ladder series, Chill finds the generation starship Jacob's Ladder with a new captain-Perceval. As Perceval struggles with the ship's recent damage, remnants of the rebellion still linger and a threat to the crew grows. "The world of Jacob's Ladder is magnificently
... Read more

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Chilling Effect

A Novel

by Valerie Valdes ...

Narrated by Almarie Guerra ...

Series Audiobook 1 - Chilling Effect
Unabridged

14 hours 15 min

A hilarious, offbeat debut space opera that skewers everything from pop culture to video games and features an irresistible foul-mouthed captain and her motley crew, strange life forms, exciting twists, and a galaxy full of fun and adventure.Captain Eva Innocente and the crew of La Sirena Negra cruise the galaxy delivering small cargo for even smaller profits. When her sister Mari is kidnapped by ... Read more

$32.99 USD

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A hilarious, offbeat debut space opera that skewers everything from pop culture to video games and features an irresistible foul-mouthed captain and her motley crew, strange life forms, exciting twists, and a galaxy full of fun and adventure.Captain Eva Innocente and the crew of La Sirena Negra cruise the galaxy delivering small cargo for even smaller profits. When her sister Mari is kidnapped by
... Read more

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Appleseed

A Novel

by Matt Bell ...

Narrated by Mark Bramhall ...

Unabridged

15 hours 44 min

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK · A PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER BEST OF THE YEAR“Woven together out of the strands of myth, science fiction, and ecological warning, Matt Bell’s Appleseed is as urgent as it is audacious.” —Kelly Link, Pulitzer Prize finalist and national bestselling author of Get in TroubleA “breathtaking novel of ideas unlike anything you’ve ever read” (Esquire) from Young Lions Fiction . ... Read more

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A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK · A PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER BEST OF THE YEAR“Woven together out of the strands of myth, science fiction, and ecological warning, Matt Bell’s Appleseed is as urgent as it is audacious.” —Kelly Link, Pulitzer Prize finalist and national bestselling author of Get in TroubleA “breathtaking novel of ideas unlike anything you’ve ever read” (Esquire) from Young Lions Fiction .
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