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Audible exclusive. We welcome Cressida Cowell to the studios to talk about the 12th installment of her hit series How to Train Your Dragon. Discussing how the series is rooted on a small Scottish island that she used to visit when she was young. We are treated to a look behind the scenes of the imagination, magic and creativity which goes into crafting each book.

From ensorcelled princesses to a frog that speaks, an enchanting collection of fairy tales from the Newbery Medal-winning author.

The Xortaags are back, and they’ve conquered the Akakie homeworld. If they have enough time to reverse-engineer all the advanced technology they can find on Kanoor, they’ll be undefeatable, and they won’t stop until they’ll have colonized the rest of the galaxy, starting with Earth. To make matters worse, an even more sinister threat is looming in the darkness. Unknown to our heroes, a time-travellng alien fleet is on its way to our neck of the galactic woods.

Betrothed in a sensible match, even if the man isn’t the love she’s always imagined, Sarah McNeal relies on the advice her late grandmother gave as well as her own common sense. Dreams of a mysterious European count who rides in and sweeps her off her feet are the stuff of girlhood. And she’s a woman now. But when her fiancé’s older brother, Jeremiah, returns to Boulder Creek, he unknowingly awakens that discarded dream.

En este manual, ameno y lleno de sabiduría, Robin Sharma ofrece sencillas soluciones a los problemas más complejos de la vida, desde un poco conocido método para combatir el estrés y la preocupación hasta un modo eficacísimo de disfrutar de la vida, al tiempo que se crea un legado perdurable. «Honra tu pasado», «Empieza bien el día», «Ve tus problemas como bendiciones» y «Descubre tu vocación» son otros ejemplos de cómo Sharma aborda la necesidad del cambio.

Ultramarathons. Bike sprints. Squats and deadlifts. Naps. Kitchen dance parties! All of it is in preparation for meeting Pequeno, the “Little One” growing in this strong mama’s belly. From first heartbeats and fluttery kicks to grinning grandparents and that first loud cry - pregnancy might just be the biggest workout yet! But there's nothing this mom and new baby can't tackle together as a team.

Robin Attfield introduces environmental ethics, exploring the values involved in issues, such as pollution, habitat loss, and climate change. Considering the different groups involved in environmental ethics and the attitudes of the world's religions to environmental stewardship, he calls for action from us all to manage our environment ethically.

Number theory is the branch of mathematics that is primarily concerned with the counting numbers. Of particular importance are the prime numbers, the "building blocks" of our number system. The subject is an old one, dating back over two millennia to the ancient Greeks, and for many years has been studied for its intrinsic beauty and elegance, not least because several of its challenges are so easy to state that everyone can understand them, and yet no one has ever been able to resolve them. But number theory has also recently become of great practical importance.

Petra and Henry’s marriage has gone flat. However, after a chance meeting with a new lover, Alain, Petra discovers a fresh side to her sexuality. With his encouragement she explores her feelings of dominance and begins to subject husband Henry to a regime of discipline and control.

Hi everyone, I'm Robin! I'm a creative professional with a unique challenge: I'm trying to cure my own Aphantasia. I was self-diagnosed with aphantasia at the age of 38. It was a really mind-blowing experience for me. I never realized that I was missing something that other people had. To help me in my journey, I'm conducting various experiments and meditations on myself. Follow along as I hopefully make exciting new discoveries on aphantasia, and see how it might open up new possibilities in our understanding of the human mind.

The Xortaag fleet outnumbers the humans’ five to one, and using their mind-control machine, they can use all the Earth’s military forces against their own kind. The Xortaag colony ships are only a few weeks away, and when they arrive, they'll wipe out the human race to have space and resources for their people. And as if all this wasn’t bad enough, General Planetary Genocide Maada has just laid a trap for the Earth fleet and decimated a large chunk of their forces. To make things worse, an even more sinister threat (yeah, more sinister than the Xortaags) is emerging 1500 years in the future.

Joining us in the Audible Studios is Welsh actor Alexander Vlahos. In this interview, Alexander tells us what he likes about narrating and what it’s like to be an actor. Vlahos narrates H. G. Wells’ The First Men in the Moon, a scientific romance novel first published in 1901. Following protagonists Mr Bedford and Dr Cavor, listeners indulge in their journey to the moon, where they come across the sophisticated insectlike creatures ‘Selenites’. 

I’m a soldier, the leader of a rebellion. All that matters is my crew and our mission to take down an empire. Until this big, brooding, gold alien commander destroyed my ship. Now he and I are stuck on a planet where everything, even the air, is an aphrodisiac. I should want to kill him. But instead, all I want is him.

Book View Cafe celebrates its fifth anniversary with an anthology of our favorite stories. From the fantasy and science fiction of our roots to steampunk, romance, historical and mainstream; from humor to life's hardest challenges, across the spectrum from light to dark.

Are you feeling overwhelmed because of all your thoughts? Do you find yourself ending up in procrastination and not being able to finish your tasks? Such issues are the result of a vicious cycle that is known as “undisciplined living”. All of us can be disciplined regarding our habits, lifestyle choices, and thoughts. You have got the power to be disciplined about your life priorities, true values, and deeper longings. Most of the time, you end up being undisciplined is because you stay preoccupied with all your past mistakes and tensions for the future. 

Miss Hannah runs The Circle, a group of college girls who are trained to service the older lesbians in the town who can afford to pay for their services. Many of the girls specialize in BDSM, submitting to spanking, bondage, and humiliation at the pleasure of their clients.

Anthony Horowitz is an international best-selling author, journalist and playwright. As one of Britain's greatest living storytellers, we invited Anthony to our studios for the second time. He chatted about his career, personal life and latest release, The Word Is Murder. With a modern twist on the classic crime novel, fans will not be disappointed with this captivating thriller.

Justin Cronin is best known for The Passage Trilogy, which has been championed by Stephen King as ‘one of the great Achievements in American fantasy fiction’. This bestselling trilogy has come to its highly anticipated conclusion with the final installation entitled The City of Mirrors. Justin visits the Audible Studios to tell us more!

Thompson has previously worked on screen adaptations of Austen’s novels, including writing the screenplay of Sense and Sensibility, for which she won an Academy Award for the Best Adapted Screenplay. The film is still considered one of the all-time best screen adaptations of a Jane Austen novel and inspired the resurgence of Austen adaptations. Isabella Inchbald is a newcomer in comparison but very well versed in voice work, winning the prestigious BBC Carleton Hobbs Award 2017, and is perfect for our heroine, Emma Woodhouse. 

Maajid Nawaz joins Robin Morgan in the Audible Studios for an exclusive interview. Maajid Nawaz is the author of Radical, an Amazon number one best-selling memoir which details his journey into and out of Islamic extremism. Maajid was imprisoned in Egypt for his involvement with the Islamist activist group Hizb ut-Tahrir; the four years he spent inside changed his views immeasurably.