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Twilight of the Gods is a riveting account of the harrowing last year of World War II in the Pacific, when the US Navy won the largest naval battle in history; MacArthur made good his pledge to return to the Philippines; waves of kamikazes attacked the Allied fleets; the Japanese fought to the last man on one island after another; B-29 bombers burned down Japanese cities; and Hiroshima and Nagasaki were vaporized. Toll's narratives of combat in the air, at sea, and on the beaches are gripping, but he also takes the listener into the halls of power in Washington and Tokyo.

A Signature Performance: Kenneth Branagh plays this like a campfire ghost story, told by a haunted, slightly insane Marlow.

Inglaterra, 1972. En plena Guerra Fría la joven estudiante Serena Frome es reclutada en Cambridge por el MI5. A partir de ese momento nada en su vida será lo que parece. Cada verdad oculta una mentira y detrás de cada lealtad se agazapa una traición. La misión que le encargan es crear una fundación para ayudar económicamente a novelistas prometedores, pero la verdadera finalidad es generar propaganda anticomunista. Y en su vida dominada por el engaño entra Tom Haley, joven escritor del que acabará enamorándose.

Serena Frome, the beautiful daughter of an Anglican bishop, has a brief affair with an older man during her final year at Cambridge, and finds herself being groomed for the intelligence services. The year is 1972. Britain, confronting economic disaster, is being torn apart by industrial unrest and terrorism and faces its fifth state of emergency.

In 2001, Ian McKellen put on the robe and pointed hat of a wizard named Gandalf and won a place in the hearts of Tolkien fans worldwide. Though his role in the film adaptation of Lord of the Rings introduced him to a new audience, McKellen had a thriving career a lifetime before his visit to Middle Earth. He made his West End acting debut in 1964 in James Saunders's A Scent of Flowers, but it was in 1980 that he took Broadway by storm when he played Antonio Salieri in Peter Shaffer's Tony Award-winning play Amadeus....

In the latest volume of his celebrated series of Time Traveler's Guides, Ian Mortimer turns to what is arguably the most-loved period in British history—the Regency, or Georgian England. A time of exuberance, thrills, frills, and unchecked bad behavior, it was perhaps the last age of true freedom before the arrival of the stifling world of Victorian morality. At the same time, it was a period of transition. Conveying the sights, sounds, and smells of the Regency period, this is history at its most exciting—the past not as something to be studied, but as lived experience.

Futurists insist that AI will soon eclipse the capacities of the most gifted human mind. What hope do we have against superintelligent machines? But we aren't really on the path to developing intelligent machines. In fact, we don't even know where that path might be. Erik Larson takes us on a tour of the landscape of AI to show how far we are from superintelligence and what it would take to get there.

‘You will have heard of my friend the once celebrated novelist Jocelyn Tarbet, but I suspect his memory is beginning to fade...You’d never heard of me, the once obscure novelist Parker Sparrow, until my name was publicly connected with his. To a knowing few, our names remain rigidly attached, like the two ends of a seesaw. His rise coincided with, though did not cause, my decline...I don’t deny there was wrongdoing. I stole a life, and I don’t intend to give it back. You may treat these few pages as a confession.’

The legendary English novelist Ian McEwan is responsible for such best-selling novels as Enduring Love, Atonement and Solar. His latest novel, Nutshell, is narrated by Rory Kinnear and is available now on Audible. Ian joins Robin Morgan in the Audible Studios to tell us more

Saturday, February 15, 2003. Henry Perowne is a contented man - a successful neurosurgeon, the devoted husband of Rosalind and proud father of two grown-up children. Unusually, he wakes before dawn, drawn to the window of his bedroom and filled with a growing unease. What troubles him as he looks out at the night sky is the state of the world - the impending war against Iraq, a gathering pessimism since 9/11, and a fear that his city and his happy family life are under threat.

As their holiday unfolds, Colin and Maria are locked in to their own intimacy. They groom themselves meticulously, as though there waits someone who cares deeply about how they appear. Then they meet a man with a disturbing story to tell and become drawn into a fantasy of violence and obsession.

Molly Lane ha muerto a los cuarenta y seis años de edad. Era una mujer muy libre, muy seductora, y en su entierro se encuentran presentes los cuatro hombres más importantes de su vida: Clive Linley, músico famoso; Vernon Halliday, periodista y director de uno de los grandes periódicos del país; George Lane, su poderoso y multimillonario marido, y Julian Garmony, un notorio político de derechas, actual ministro de Asuntos Exteriores y candidato a primer ministro.

The great adventure story tells of Odysseus, a veteran of the Trojan War, who - through a landscape peopled with monsters, sea nymphs, evil enchantresses, and vengeful gods - makes his tortuous way home to his faithful wife, Penelope. Shipwrecked numerous times, faced with apparently insurmountable obstacles, offered the temptations of ease, comfort, and even immortality, Odysseus remains steadfast and determined. Themes of courage and perseverance, fidelity and fortitude.

Tienen poco más de veinte años, y se conocieron en una manifestación contra las armas nucleares. Florence es una chica de clase media alta, su padre es un exitoso hombre de negocios y su madre una activa profeso­ra universitaria, y viven en una casa donde se comen quesos franceses y yogur. Edward, en cambio, pertenece a una familia que apenas se sos­tiene en la zona baja de la clase media; su padre es maestro, y su madre, tras un imprevisible accidente, vive desde hace años en una nebulosa.

When the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has closed, eleven-year-old Roland Baines’s life is turned upside down. 2,000 miles from his mother’s protective love, stranded at an unusual boarding school, his vulnerability attracts piano teacher Miss Miriam Cornell, leaving scars as well as a memory of love that will never fade.

Henry Perowne, 48, ist ein zufriedener Mann: Erfolgreich als Neurochirurg, glücklich verheiratet, zwei begabte Kinder. Das einzige, was ihn leicht beunruhigt, ist der Zustand der Welt. Es ist Samstag, und er freut sich auf sein Squashspiel. Doch an diesem speziellen Samstag, dem 15. Februar 2003, ist nicht nur die größte Friedensdemonstration aller Zeiten in London.

The Enneagram is an ancient personality type system with an uncanny accuracy in describing how human beings are wired, both positively and negatively. In The Road Back to You, Ian Morgan Cron and Suzanne Stabile forge a unique approach - a practical, comprehensive way of accessing Enneagram wisdom and exploring its connections with Christian spirituality for a deeper knowledge of God and of ourselves.

Im Jahr 2119: Die Welt ist überschwemmt, Europa eine Insellandschaft, Freiheit und Reichtum unserer Gegenwart – ein ferner Traum. Der Literaturwissenschaftler Thomas Metcalfe sucht ein verschollenes Gedicht von Weltrang. Der Dichter Francis Blundy hat es 2014 seiner Frau Vivien gewidmet und nur ein einziges Mal vorgetragen. In all den Spuren, die das berühmte Paar hinterlassen hat, stößt Thomas auf eine geheime Liebe, aber auch auf ein Verbrechen. Ian McEwan entwirft meisterhaft eine zukünftige Welt, in der nicht alles verloren ist.

In Inghilterra, secondo Philip Larkin, "i rapporti sessuali incominciarono nel millenovecentosessantatre", "tra la fine del bando a "Lady Chatterley" e il primo ellepi dei Beatles". La giovane coppia protagonista del nuovo romanzo di lan McEwan patisce invece gli ultimi fuochi di un clima diffuso di repressione sessuale. La prima notte di nozze, e prima esperienza sessuale per entrambi, scocca infatti alla vigilia di quell'"annus mirabilis". Tutto avviene in appena due ore, in un antiquato hotel vicino alla celebre spiaggia di ciottoli di Chesil Beach.

El arranque de la novela no dejará indiferente a ningún lector, porque es una reelaboración del famosísimo inicio de "La metamorfosis" de Kafka. Solo que aquí se invierten los términos y nos encontramos con una cucaracha que un buen día, al despertarse, descubre que se ha convertido en un enorme ser humano, concretamente en el primer ministro del Reino Unido, de nombre Jim Sams. Y resulta no ser la única cucaracha transformada en político que se mueve por las altas esferas.