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Biting Point

by Sid Sagar ...

Look, you won't know me. But you will. I want you to know me, you see. I want you to know me in the way I know these roads around us, the roundabouts in surround sound, the bridges, the cut-throughs, the one-way systems, the water.Supermarket driver John and property manager Anita spend their working days in Hull's endless traffic, trying to keep ahead of targets and ticking clocks. Driven to ... Read more

$20.28 NZD

Look, you won't know me. But you will. I want you to know me, you see. I want you to know me in the way I know these roads around us, the roundabouts in surround sound, the bridges, the cut-throughs, the one-way systems, the water.Supermarket driver John and property manager Anita spend their working days in Hull's endless traffic, trying to keep ahead of targets and ticking clocks. Driven to
... Read more
The Mono Box presents Playstart

Short plays from new voices

by Graeme Brookes, Charles Entsie, Roberta Livingston, Sid Sagar, Aisling Towl ...

Series series Oberon Modern Playwrights
Five new short plays developed and supported by The Mono Box.THE INTERVIEWby Graeme BrookesA panel of three interviewers are meeting with one of many applicants to see if they're 'working class enough' to obtain support from their elite organisation. In trying to offer their support, the expert panel slowly lose control with their own reality. What starts with honest intentions turns into a ... Read more

$21.62 NZD

Five new short plays developed and supported by The Mono Box.THE INTERVIEWby Graeme BrookesA panel of three interviewers are meeting with one of many applicants to see if they're 'working class enough' to obtain support from their elite organisation. In trying to offer their support, the expert panel slowly lose control with their own reality. What starts with honest intentions turns into a
... Read more
Audiobook

The Everlasting

by Alix E. Harrow ...

Narrated by Moira Quirk, Sid Sagar ...

Unabridged

13 hours 41 min

From Alix E. Harrow, the Sunday Times bestselling author of Starling House**, comes a moving and genre-defying quest.A legend. A lie. A love story.**A lady-knight whose legend built a nation meets a retiring historian in awe of her fame. He's sent back through time to make sure she plays her part . . . even if it breaks his heart.Sir Una Everlasting was Dominion’s greatest hero: th... ... Read more

$42.29 NZD

From Alix E. Harrow, the Sunday Times bestselling author of Starling House**, comes a moving and genre-defying quest.A legend. A lie. A love story.**A lady-knight whose legend built a nation meets a retiring historian in awe of her fame. He's sent back through time to make sure she plays her part . . . even if it breaks his heart.Sir Una Everlasting was Dominion’s greatest hero: th...
... Read more
Audiobook

Red City

by Marie Lu ...

Narrated by Natalie Naudus, Sid Sagar, André Santana, Eunice Wong ...

Unabridged

15 hours 22 min

The Godfather meets The Magicians in the sweeping adult debut from No. 1 New York Times bestselling author Marie Lu. Perfect for fans of V. E. Schwab, Red City is a dark and deadly contemporary fantasy of magical warfare, star-crossed ambition and the pursuit of perfection at any cost, set in a glittering alternate Los Angeles.Alchemy is the hidden art of transformation, an exclusive power wielded ... Read more

$32.40 NZD

The Godfather meets The Magicians in the sweeping adult debut from No. 1 New York Times bestselling author Marie Lu. Perfect for fans of V. E. Schwab, Red City is a dark and deadly contemporary fantasy of magical warfare, star-crossed ambition and the pursuit of perfection at any cost, set in a glittering alternate Los Angeles.Alchemy is the hidden art of transformation, an exclusive power wielded
... Read more
Audiobook

He's To Die For

by Erin Dunn ...

Narrated by Sid Sagar ...

Unabridged

9 hours 54 min

At 29, Detective Rav Trivedi is the youngest member of the NYPD's homicide squad, and his future looks bright. He may be a bit of an outsider in the department - with his Ivy League education, British charm and penchant for designer suits - but his meteoric rise and record-breaking solve rate prove he belongs.When his CO assigns him lead on the high-profile murder of a record executive, Rav is ... Read more

$32.40 NZD

At 29, Detective Rav Trivedi is the youngest member of the NYPD's homicide squad, and his future looks bright. He may be a bit of an outsider in the department - with his Ivy League education, British charm and penchant for designer suits - but his meteoric rise and record-breaking solve rate prove he belongs.When his CO assigns him lead on the high-profile murder of a record executive, Rav is
... Read more
Audiobook

The Killer in the Snow: The new and most chilling British detective crime fiction book you’ll read this year (DI James Walker series, Book 2)

by Alex Pine ...

Narrated by Sid Sagar ...

Series Audiobook 2 - DI James Walker series
Unabridged

8 hours 56 min

The first fall of snow can be fatal…A year has passed since DI James Walker cracked his biggest case yet, and he’s hoping for peace and quiet this festive season.But across the fells, a local farmer returns home on Christmas Eve to find footsteps in the fresh snow that lead down to his unused basement – and no footsteps leading away. Days later, his body is found, alongside those of his wife and ... Read more

$35.09 NZD

The first fall of snow can be fatal…A year has passed since DI James Walker cracked his biggest case yet, and he’s hoping for peace and quiet this festive season.But across the fells, a local farmer returns home on Christmas Eve to find footsteps in the fresh snow that lead down to his unused basement – and no footsteps leading away. Days later, his body is found, alongside those of his wife and
... Read more
Audiobook

Why Empires Fall

Rome, America and the Future of the West

by John Rapley, Peter Heather ...

Narrated by Sid Sagar ...

Unabridged

6 hours 55 min

Brought to you by Penguin.Over the last three centuries, the West rose to dominate the planet. Then, suddenly, around the turn of the millennium, history reversed. Faced with economic stagnation and internal political division, the West has found itself in freefall.This is not the first time the global order has witnessed such a dramatic rise and fall. The Roman Empire followed a similar arc from ... Read more

$27.67 NZD

Brought to you by Penguin.Over the last three centuries, the West rose to dominate the planet. Then, suddenly, around the turn of the millennium, history reversed. Faced with economic stagnation and internal political division, the West has found itself in freefall.This is not the first time the global order has witnessed such a dramatic rise and fall. The Roman Empire followed a similar arc from
... Read more
Audiobook

Rama the Steadfast

An Early Form of the Ramayana

by Valmiki ...

Narrated by Sid Sagar ...

Unabridged

17 hours 21 min

Brought to you by Penguin.This Penguin Classic is performed by Sid Sagar. This definitive recording includes an introduction by John Brockington and Mary Brockington.Warrior-prince Rama is about to be crowned Young King, when he hears the devastating news that his father, King of Ayodhya, has been tricked into banishing him to the forest.His devoted wife Sita insists on accompanying him in exile, ... Read more

$31.63 NZD

Also available as: eBook

Brought to you by Penguin.This Penguin Classic is performed by Sid Sagar. This definitive recording includes an introduction by John Brockington and Mary Brockington.Warrior-prince Rama is about to be crowned Young King, when he hears the devastating news that his father, King of Ayodhya, has been tricked into banishing him to the forest.His devoted wife Sita insists on accompanying him in exile,
... Read more

Also available as: eBook
Audiobook

Future Friend

by David Baddiel ...

Narrated by David Baddiel, Morwenna Banks, Sartaj Garewal, Aysah Kala, Nneka Okoye, Paul Panting, Penelope Rawlins, Sid Sagar ...

Unabridged

3 hours 55 min

From million-copy bestselling author David Baddiel comes a laugh-out-loud and inspiring new adventure for all readers of 8 and up that is ahead of its time – 1,001 years ahead, to be precise…The year is 3020.Pip@256X#YY.3_7 is lonely and bored: she goes to virtual school on her G-Glasses, she only has a talking cat and parrot to hang out with, and she can’t even leave her LivingSpace due to the ... Read more

$22.49 NZD

Also available as: eBook

From million-copy bestselling author David Baddiel comes a laugh-out-loud and inspiring new adventure for all readers of 8 and up that is ahead of its time – 1,001 years ahead, to be precise…The year is 3020.Pip@256X#YY.3_7 is lonely and bored: she goes to virtual school on her G-Glasses, she only has a talking cat and parrot to hang out with, and she can’t even leave her LivingSpace due to the
... Read more

Also available as: eBook
Audiobook

Journeys of Empire

British voyages that changed the world forever – and the rebels who resisted

by Sathnam Sanghera ...

Narrated by Sid Sagar ...

Unabridged

4 hours 10 min

**Brought to you by Puffin.This is the story of the British empire for readers aged 9+, told through the monumental journeys that shaped it - by award-winning, bestselling author of Empireland, Empireworld and Stolen History Sathnam Sanghera.**The British empire is the biggest thing we ever did as a country. Bigger than winning both World Wars, bigger than winning any number of World Cups in any ... Read more

$18.31 NZD

**Brought to you by Puffin.This is the story of the British empire for readers aged 9+, told through the monumental journeys that shaped it - by award-winning, bestselling author of Empireland, Empireworld and Stolen History Sathnam Sanghera.**The British empire is the biggest thing we ever did as a country. Bigger than winning both World Wars, bigger than winning any number of World Cups in any
... Read more
Audiobook

The Perfection Trap

The Power Of Good Enough In A World That Always Wants More

by Thomas Curran ...

Narrated by Sid Sagar ...

Unabridged

7 hours 54 min

Brought to you by Penguin.Today, burnout and depression are at record levels, driven by a combination of intense workplace competition, the comparative world of social media, the quest for elite credentials, and helicopter parenting. Society continually broadcasts the need to want more, and that we have to be perfect to get it. Why is this a trap, and how can we escape it?Gathering a wide range of ... Read more

$25.52 NZD

Brought to you by Penguin.Today, burnout and depression are at record levels, driven by a combination of intense workplace competition, the comparative world of social media, the quest for elite credentials, and helicopter parenting. Society continually broadcasts the need to want more, and that we have to be perfect to get it. Why is this a trap, and how can we escape it?Gathering a wide range of
... Read more
Audiobook

The Bay

the waves won't wash away what they did

by Allie Reynolds ...

Narrated by George Greenland, George Weightman, Helen Keeley, Joe Eyre, Nicolette Chin, Samara MacLaren, Sid Sagar ...

Unabridged

11 hours 10 min

The Beach meets Point Break in the exhilarating new thriller, with a heart-stopping twist, by the bestselling author of ShiverThere's a darkness inside all of us and The Bay has a way of bringing it out. Everyone here has their secrets, but we don't go looking for them. Because sometimes it's better not to know.Kenna arrives in Sydney to surprise her best friend. But Mikki and her fiancé Jack are ... Read more

$31.49 NZD

The Beach meets Point Break in the exhilarating new thriller, with a heart-stopping twist, by the bestselling author of ShiverThere's a darkness inside all of us and The Bay has a way of bringing it out. Everyone here has their secrets, but we don't go looking for them. Because sometimes it's better not to know.Kenna arrives in Sydney to surprise her best friend. But Mikki and her fiancé Jack are
... Read more