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Alex Gough Caesar's Soldier
The Mark Antony Roman Adventure; Mark Antony Book I
Who was the man that would become Caesar's lieutenant, Brutus' rival, Cleopatra's lover, and Octavian's enemy? When his stepfather is executed for his involvement in the Catilinarian conspiracy, Mark Antony and his family are disgraced. His adolescence is marked by scandal and mischief, his love affairs are fleeting, and yet, his ambition is vast. Antony's path to prosperity leads him to an education in Athens, a campaign for a seat in the Senate, and a position of military command. Undeterred by...
Engels | 13 uur 16 minuten (581 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2024
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Sophus Helle Forgetting to Forget
We all have something we would like to forget, or something we would like others to forget about us. But it can be surprisingly difficult to forget. You can try to make yourself hold on to a memory, but letting go of it can be much trickier. Forgetfulness comes, wanted or otherwise, but always at its own pace. This episode charts various people who have tried, and failed, to bring about forgetfulness, from the German philosopher Immanuel Kant to the American actress Barbra Streisand. Hosted and...
Engels | 15 minuten (11 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2024
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Joakim Eriksson Staying Smart Under Pressure - Introduction
Through guided meditation practices, this podcast series provides you with tools to balance your nervous system, to think creatively, recover and boost your empathy as a leader. This part of the series is designed to help you staying smart under pressure. In this episode, Joakim Eriksson introduces the principles of maintaining a balanced mind. Leadership Meditations - Sustainable High Performance In Mindful Leadership Meditations, the experienced leadership consultant, Joakim Eriksson, delves...
Engels | 5 minuten (4,2 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2024
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Joakim Eriksson Sustainable High Performance - Introduction
Through guided meditation practices, this podcast series provides you with tools to balance your nervous system, to think creatively, recover and boost your empathy as a leader. In this part of the podcast series, Eriksson focuses on sustainable high performance. This episode offers an introduction to how our brain and nervous system responds to stressor and the effects of cognitive functioning. Leadership Meditations - Sustainable High Performance In Mindful Leadership Meditations, the experienced...
Engels | 8 minuten (5,9 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2024
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Joakim Eriksson Connecting to the Bigger Picture
Through guided meditation practices, this podcast series provides you with tools to balance your nervous system, to think creatively, recover and boost your empathy as a leader. This part of the series delves in to building resilience. This episode focuses on connecting to the bigger picture, and how we’re interdependent on our co-workers. Leadership Meditations - Sustainable High Performance In Mindful Leadership Meditations, the experienced leadership consultant, Joakim Eriksson, delves into the...
Engels | 4 minuten (3,2 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2024
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Joakim Eriksson Exploring three Dimensions of Motivation and Happiness
Through guided meditation practices, this podcast series provides you with tools to balance your nervous system, to think creatively, recover and boost your empathy as a leader. This part of the series delves in to building resilience. This episode explores how we’re able to reflect on the three different aspects of motivation and life satisfaction through positive psychology. Leadership Meditations - Sustainable High Performance In Mindful Leadership Meditations, the experienced leadership consultant,...
Engels | 9 minuten (6,8 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2024
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Joakim Eriksson Micro Recoveries
Through guided meditation practices, this podcast series provides you with tools to balance your nervous system, to think creatively, recover and boost your empathy as a leader In this part of the podcast series, Eriksson focuses on sustainable high performance. In this guide, Joakim Eriksson guides you to how to find and use pauses during the day to reset and build resilience. Leadership Meditations - Sustainable High Performance In Mindful Leadership Meditations, the experienced leadership consultant,...
Engels | 8 minuten (5,8 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2024
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Joakim Eriksson Navigating in Complexity - Introduction
Through guided meditation practices, this podcast series provides you with tools to balance your nervous system, to think creatively, recover and boost your empathy as a leader. This part of the series provides a guide to navigating uncertainty. In this episode, Joakim Eriksson introduces you to how our brain responds to uncertainty and principles for staying open and creative when facing complex challenges. Leadership Meditations - Sustainable High Performance In Mindful Leadership Meditations,...
Engels | 3 minuten (2,5 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2024
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Barbara Josselsohn Secrets of the Italian Island
WWII secrets, forbidden love, and one terrible mistake... When Mia discovers an old letter, she sets out on a mission to uncover the truth about her grandmother's past. With the help of brooding local guide Leo, they sneak into the closed-off Isola di Parissi, where Mia falls in love with both the country and her guide. But as they uncover hidden and handwritten notes, Mia learns of a heartbreaking mistake her grandmother made during WWII that tore apart the island community. Will Mia be forced...
Engels | 11 uur 6 minuten (489 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2024
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Tove Jansson Fair Play
Winner of the 2009 Bernard Shaw Prize for Translation. ´Fair Play´ is a poignant portrayal of the intricacies of love and work through the lens of two women, both accomplished artists, whose intimate relationship defied societal norms. Set against the backdrop of Helsinki and summers on their remote island paradise, Jansson weaves together the nuanced details of the women's creative lives, offering a rich tapestry of their daily routines, artistic process, and innermost thoughts. Through the lens...
Engels | 2 uur 23 minuten (106 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2024
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Tove Jansson Sculptor's Daughter
Dive into Tove Jansson's spellbinding memoir and be transported to early 20th-century Helsinki where you'll experience the magic and fears of a childhood infused with the freedom and natural beauty of Finland. Hailed by Ali Smith for its evocative prose, Jansson's memoir unveils the enchantments of a world where winter ice is a playground of mysteries, balalaika parties radiate warmth, and Christmas takes on epic proportions when viewed from a child's eyes. A universal tale that speaks to the child...
Engels | 3 uur 57 minuten (173 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2024
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A.C. Baantjer DeKok and Murder by Melody
Inspector DeKok finds himself in the midst of outwardly disparate motives and personalities surrounding the deaths of two reformed junkies and their landlady, a former prostitute. However, there is one connection in the madness, because music threads its way among and around the list of suspects and victims. DeKok discovers that the trail leading to this melodious murderer is as long as a symphonic masterpiece. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | 5 uur 45 minuten (331 MB) | De Fontein Romans & Spanning, Utrecht | 2024
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Charlotte Labee Brain under Strain
Your 10-Week Guide to a More Balanced Mind
Overstimulated and stressed, that’s how we often feel in today’s society. And to no surprise: the speed at which the world has changed over the past 30 years is much higher than your brain can keep up with. From early in the morning to late at night, your brain has to deal with a large number of stimuli: through your work, your phone, and social media. In this book, Brain Balance Expert Charlotte Labee provides you with practical tools to balance your mind, and your life. Charlotte offers valuable...
Engels | 9 uur 21 minuten (808 MB) | Kosmos Uitgevers, Utrecht | 2024
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Alexandre Dumas The Three Musketeers
Deep dive into Alexandre Dumas' swashbuckling historical adventure tale of honour and chivalry, set during the backdrop of the French monarchy’s slow demise, ´The Three Musketeers´. Kickstarting the epic trilogy, ´The Three Musketeers´ follows D’Artagnan's desperate attempt to leave home and join the elite Musketeers of the Guard in Paris. When he befriends three other formidable musketeers his age, the group soon take it upon themselves to save the state and control the courts! But when rogue...
Engels | 26 uur 17 minuten (1158 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2024
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Steve Kedie Running and Jumping
Two rivals. One winner. Fresh off his fourth-place finish in his first Olympic final, British long jumper Adam Lowe finds himself standing face-to-face with the man who beat him to a medal. Little does he know, this chance encounter will spark a rivalry that, for Lowe, will become all-consuming. Through epic victories and crushing defeats, Lowe pushes himself to the brink, testing his mental, physical, professional, and personal limits. But when this fierce competition spirals out of control,...
Engels | 10 uur 13 minuten (454 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Sara Marchant Becoming Delilah
Escaping her troubled past and moving into a seaside cottage on a windswept island off Cape Cod with her Abuela, all Delilah wants now is a place of her own - and she’s paid a high price for it... But her wild, colourful garden and scandalous affair with married man Alan have her neighbours talking. And when she crosses paths with the reclusive Anton - who has a secret of his own - sparks fly. Will the past catch up with them? A delicate yet haunting novel about love, trauma, and identity, "Becoming...
Engels | 6 uur 43 minuten (295 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Lina Wolff Bret Easton Ellis and the Other Dogs
At a run-down brothel in Caudal, Spain, the prostitutes are collecting stray dogs. Each is named after a famous male writer: Dante, Chaucer, and Bret Easton Ellis. When a john is cruel, the dogs are fed rotten meat. To the east, in Barcelona, an unflappable teenage girl is endeavouring to trace the peculiarities of her life back to one woman: Alba Camb, writer of violent short stories, who left Caudal as a girl and never went back. Mordantly funny, dryly sensual, written with a staggering lightness...
Engels | 9 uur 55 minuten (434 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Lina Wolff The Polyglot Lovers
'A singular novel, sometimes brutal, certainly merciless.' - Le Figaro (France) Ferocious and irreverent, this multiple prize-winning novel burns down the pretensions of a pompous literary establishment and takes no prisoners. Ellinor is thirty-six. She wears soft black sweatpants and a Michelin Man jacket. She fights. Smart and unsentimental, she tries her hand at online dating, only to be stranded in a snowstorm with a literary critic. Cut to Max Lamas, an author who dreams of a polyglot lover,...
Engels | 7 uur 54 minuten (356 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Alison Ragsdale The Child Between Us
When I first met you, darling Marina, you were just five years old. You took my breath away, with your long, dark waves and pink cheeks. You needed me, and I instantly knew I’d do anything to protect you. When six years ago, my heart was shattered, I was left utterly broken – but I didn’t know just how lost I was until you filled that hole in my heart. You quickly became the centre of my world, your sweet laugh my favourite sound. But then things started to change... I put my pain down to work stress,...
Engels | 9 uur 36 minuten (427 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Sophie Flynn If They Knew
"Grips from the first page. An emotive thriller which I couldn't put down." - Carys Jones, author of ´We Are All Liars´. Hannah and Charlie have finally achieved their dream family with their two-year-old daughter, Isabelle, after years of heartbreak. However, their happiness is threatened when a global popstar is found murdered in their sleepy Gloucestershire village, and Hannah's past comes back to haunt her. She is forced to make a dangerous choice - risk everything, even her own life, to protect...
Engels | 10 uur 29 minuten (470 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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