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This cheering book of best loved short tales, extracts and poems will calm and restore an anxious mind before sleep. A good night's sleep is essential for our well-being and our health, but in our busy lives sleep is often poor and overlooked. Now is the time to stop a while and find consolation and wonder in other worlds where all is well and sleep just a minute or two away.

For the first time, get seven classic audio dramas from the Horus Heresy in one fantastic collection - including a brand-new audio drama edition of Dan Abnett's short story 'Little Horus'. If you don't know where to start with Horus Heresy audio, this curated collection is the perfect beginning - and if you just want to reexperience these exciting adventures, this is your chance!

After the war to save Ultramar from the traitor hosts of Horus ended, formerly disgraced Ultramarines Sergeant Aenoid Thiel believes that enemies still linger within the borders of the empire. Finding other men of purpose, fellow Space Marines known as the ‘Red-Marked’, Thiel wages a guerrilla war to root out these enemies and vanquish them for good. Following the threads of a previous mission, the Red-Marked arrive on the moon of Bael. There they find an underwater rigging station that has seemingly been abandoned.

A girl’s body is found in a dustbin. 'Dead Meat' is written on a note found with her. The girl was part of a group of bullies from the local school. But DI Calladine recognises the MO of Craig Donnelly, a killer he thought he’d put away forever. And coincidentally Donnelly has just been released from prison. But when Detective Calladine charges in, he finds out that Donnelly has a watertight alibi and is under the protection of the local vicar, who thinks Donnelly is a changed man. When another girl goes missing from the same group of friends, Calladine must look elsewhere....

A teenage girl’s body is found in the back of a car on the notorious Hobfield housing estate. No one had reported her missing, but she’s been dead for a week. Meanwhile, an old jar is brought into the station. It was found carefully wrapped in a blanket, with a child’s pink hairclip. The jar contains ashes and bone fragments. Seventeen years ago, Detective Tom Calladine had been part of a team investigating the disappearance of Jessica Wilkins. Her mother had taken her to Leesdon Park one summer afternoon. She went to get the child an ice cream, and when she returned her daughter was gone.

The Perigord: a beautiful August day. Kind, well-respected young nobleman, Alain de Monèys, sets off happily for the local fair at Hautefaye. But this is the summer of 1870, a time of terrible drought and even worse defeats for France in the Franco-Prussian war. One misheard comment at the fair sets in motion an horrific train of events that Alain, for all his popularity, is powerless to stop. Based on a shamefully brutal incident from French history, Jean Teulé’s riveting story shows how easily a group of individuals can turn into an irrational, bloodthirsty mob.

Annie Naden and her husband buy a remote country cottage at auction. It’s the home of their own that they always wanted, but as they begin renovations, Annie discovers a satchel in a dusty old hidden cupboard. Inside are the usual schoolbooks, now over 40 years old, and a girl’s diary. Among the record of day-to-day crushes and pop concerts is a secret whose terrible consequences are still resonating to this day.

Lieutenant Jackson Silver walked into the bustling dock workers’ bar. The heavy stale air seemed to cling to his skin. The smell of unwashed workers and their oily grease-stained overalls infiltrated every corner of the crowded, dimly lit dive. Many pairs of eyes watched him as he headed for the bar. Little did Lieutenant Jackson Silver realize what kind of a situation he was walking into when he walked into that bar, or how much trouble he was about to get into.

In Three Dialogues (set in a ‘Platonic’ garden), Hylas begins by challenging Philonous that he denied the existence of material substance. ‘What!’ says Hylas. ‘Can anything be more fantastical, more repugnant to Common Sense, or a more manifest piece of Scepticism, than to believe there is no such thing as matter?’ And Berkeley, in the guise of Philonous, replies, ‘Softly, good Hylas. What if it should prove that you, who hold there is, are, by virtue of that opinion, a greater sceptic, and maintain more paradoxes and repugnances to common sense, than I who believe no such thing.’

The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919) was one of the most important documents to come out of World War I – specifically the period of the Armistice and the subsequent settlement negotiations. And, a century on, it remains of particular relevance to our times – an uncompromising and forthright analysis of how international diplomacy can be suffused by personalities, prejudices, personal ambition and outright, uncontrolled feelings of revenge.

Go walk with the Palace Trail and dioscover the best of royal and monumental London at a pace that suits you. Walk from Westminster Abbey to Buckingham Palace. Find out about famous statesmen, past and present, at the Houses of Parliament. Hear about Big Ben, Downing Street (home of the prime minister) and Horseguards - site for Mounting the Guard.

This tour is a combination of parts of L2: Ride and Stride and L3: The City and the Tower tours. Starting and ending at St Paul's Cathedral explore the City and the South Bank; listeners should allow three hours to complete this tour. The City and South Bank Circular begins at St Paul's Cathedral and follows the route of L3 - via St Mary-le-Bow, the Temple of Mithras, Watling Street, the Bank of England, the Gherkin, Lloyd's of London - to the Tower of London.

This circular tour begins at the Town Hall and continues along Northgate Street to the Cross, where the city's town criers welcome visitors during the summer. Explore the city's historic Rows and Chester's North American links. Walk down to the River Dee. Take in part of Chester's rich heritage along a stretch of the city walls, the Roman Gardens, and the amphitheatre. See and hear of the Eastgate Clock and Chester Cathedral in all their glory.

Discover some of the personalities, performances and stories associated with London's Theatreland. Starting at the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square visit the National Portrait Gallery, pass through Leicester Square, with its sprinkling of stardust depicted in statues and handprints, and theatre land, en route to Covent Garden, London's centre of street entertainment and home to myriad emporia, via the theatre that hosts the world's longest continuous running theatrical production.

Go walk about in the historic city of York. This tour starts at St Helen's Square, besides Betty Tea Shop. See the Mansion House, Assembly Rooms and York Art Gallery - which illustrates some of the city's rich cultural heritage. Hear of ghost stories and intrigue at the King's Manor, and then more of York's history in the Museum Gardens and at the Yorkshire Museum. Cross the River Ouse via Lendel Bridge and hear about the Rowntree confectionery empire.

See the contrast between Sir Christopher Wren's St Paul's Cathedral and the modern architecture of Europe's largest financial centre. Walk from St Paul's down Cheapside past St Mary le Bow and then on to Roman Watling Street and the remains of the Temple of Mithras. See the Bank of England, the Royal Exchange and ground breaking modern offices including the Gherkin and the Lloyd's of London building.

This tour of the world's first industrial city begins outside the Town Hall; passes the Central Library, and visits the new home of the Halle Orchestra. Walk to Deansgate Locks via a section of the first Trans Penine Canal and hear about the Roman settlement and the origins of the word Manchester. Stop at the Museum of Science and Industry - site of several firsts, including the world's first railway station.

This tale of a man who, when tinkering with magic, becomes changed into an ass is one of the most entertaining and remarkable stories from classic Latin literature. It is funny, bawdy and completely approachable - but also shows life from the point of view of a beast of burden in the Roman Empire of the second century CE.

Tommy Myers had been an up-and-coming boxer with his future before him. He will discover that it's impossible to make someone suffer without paying a price. His sister was the victim of an unspeakable crime that set her and her brother on a path they could have never foreseen. She will learn that revenge is an act of passion; vengeance is an act of justice. Jack Hudson believes sadism and cruelty are the path to true power. He will be taught that limits are in proportion to your resolve.

An unlikely serial killer with a bucket list of victims.... Police partners, D.I. Calladine and D.S. Ruth Bayliss battle a murderer who is working their way through a list of victims. Each murder is meticulously planned and unique, and a tarot card is left at the scene of the crime. When two children disappear in the local area, the stakes are raised and the team are baffled by the link between the crimes. Calladine and Bayliss race against time to prevent any more carnage.