Steve Roud was Local Studies Librarian for the London Borough of Croydon and served as Honorary Librarian of the Folklore Society for over fifteen years. He has been researching British folklore for over thirty years and is the joint author of the Oxford Dictionary of English Folklore, plus other books on traditional drama and folk song, and the Penguin Guide to the Superstitions of Britain and Ireland, which won the Katharine Briggs Folklore Award in 2004. His publications include London Lore (2008) and The Lore of the Playground (2010). He also compiles the Folk Song Index and the Broadside Index, two internationally acclaimed computer databases of traditional folk and popular song. He lives in Sussex.

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Jadie Jang

San Francisco has a Monkey King - and she's kinda freaked out. 
 
Barista, activist, and were-monkey Maya McQueen was well on her way to figuring herself out. Well, part of the way. 25% of the way. If you squint. 
 
But now the Bay Area is being shaken up. Occupy Wall Street has come home to roost; and on the supernatural side there's disappearances, shapeshifter murders, and the city's spirit trying to find its guardian. 
 
Maya doesn't have a lot of time before chaos turns up at her door, and she needs to solve all of her problems. Well, most of them. The urgent ones, anyhow. 
 
But who says the solutions have to be neat? Because Monkey is always out for mischief.

Monkey Around

Derek Kunsken

The Union-Congregate war rages onward and the Union's premier fighter pilots, the Homo Eridanus, start encountering deadly resistance from strange pilots on the Congregate side. Among wreckage, they find that new Congregate pilots aren't human, but Homo quantus, with strange wiring and AI connections. 
 
At the same time, the Puppets come to the Union with offers of an alliance for a dangerous price: the rescue of the geneticist Antonio Del Casal who is a captive at Venus, with over a hundred Homo quantus. 
The only one who might be able to break through the Congregate defences at Venus is a con man who has given up his profession.

The Quantum War

Al Ewing

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"What's it like, not being real?" 
 
In LA, where today's star is tomorrow's busboy, discarded "Fictionals"-characters spun into flesh-and-blood by technology-are everywhere. Screenwriter Niles Golan's therapist is a Fictional. So is his best friend. So (maybe) is the woman in the bar he can't stop staring at. It's getting so you can't tell who's real and who's not. 
 
Niles isn't completely sure how real he is...

The Fictional Man

Sam J. Miller

"Kid" Wolffe is an up-and-coming boxer in 1920s New York. An honest fighter's got little chance at success on the mob-controlled circuit-until ambitious lieutenant "Hinky" Friedman starts making moves to take over her boss's business, and sees a use for the kid. 
Teitelstam is a struggling tattoo artist, whose natural talent for ink magic won't amount to much without formal training. So he's got no idea why Hinky would offer him ten times what he's worth to come work for her. 
But Hinky has a vision for a better world, and her high-stakes plan to make it reality requires both Wolffe's fists and Teitelstam's magic. What neither Wolffe nor Teitelstam expects is to fall in love; and in this world, love might be more dangerous than deadly magic or an underworld turf war...

Kid Wolf and Kraken Boy

Ivo Graham

Sofie Hagen

Lou Sanders

Dane Baptiste

Jessie Cave

Bebe Cave

Jordan Brookes

Sheeps

Fern Brady

Amrou Al-Kadhi

Crystal Rasmussen

Giants

Jen Brister

Mo Omar

Chloe Petts

Leo Reich

Yuriko Kotani

Shelf

Anna O'Grady

Helen Cripps

Michelle De Swarte

Jake Farrell

Kemah Bob

John Kearns

Christopher Bliss

'Penguin's fine pandemic audio festival delivers hours of laughs from comedy's most creative talents.' - The Observer 
 
'An absolutely cracking lineup' - The Guardian 
 
'A marvellous wheeze, almost like attending a private stand-up gig' - The I 
 
Brought to you by Penguin. 
 
The show has been called off. The show must go on.... 
 
Penguin is proud to bring you its very own audio comedy festival, featuring acts who would have performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2020, developed in association with the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society. 
 
Containing nearly eight hours of hilarious original material from some of the finest comedians on the circuit, listeners can laugh along as Jordan Brookes (Winner of Edinburgh Comedy Awards 2019) takes you on a disastrous guided meditation session, Sofie Hagen (Comedy Central, Live from the BBC) lifts the lid on her Westlife fan fiction days, and just as Shakespeare did during the plague, Ivo Graham (Have I Got News for You, Mock the Week) tucks into his version of King Lear during the lockdown. 
 
Featuring household names, through to debut acts, as well as being compered by Scotland's very own Fern Brady (8 Out of 10 Cats, The News Quiz), Edinburgh Unlocked is the unmissable comedy festival that you can attend without leaving your living room. 
 
Full Cast: Ivo Graham, Sofie Hagen, Fern Brady, Dane Baptiste, Jessie &amp; Bebe Cave, Jordan Brookes, Lou Sanders, John Kearns, Jen Brister, Christopher Bliss, Michelle de Swarte, Sheeps, Glamrou, Giants (Fjord), Crystal Rasmussen, Jen Brister, Chloe Petts, Anna &amp; Helen, Kemah Bob, Leo Reich, Jake Farrell, Yuriko Kotani, SHELF, Mo Omar. 
 
Please note this contains adult themes and content. 
 
©2020 Penguin Audio (P)2020 Penguin Audio

Edinburgh Unlocked

Over 20 Comedy Acts From the Fringe that Never Was

Premee Mohamed

It's been a year and a half since the Anomaly, when They tried to force Their way into the world from the shapeless void.  Nick Prasad is piecing his life together, and has joined the secretive Ssarati Society to help monitor threats to humanity - including his former friend Johnny.  Right on cue, the unveiling of Johnny's latest experiment sees a fresh incursion of Them, leaving her protesting her innocence even as the two of them are thrown together to fight the darkness once more...

A Broken Darkness

Gareth L Powell

"It is an evil born of war. It is the end of all things." 
 
Four hundred years ago, Ed and Alice Rico threw themselves through a mysterious portal on the London Underground, hunting for Ed's lost brother-Alice's husband-Verne. 
 
Now, starship captain Katherine Abdulov embarks on a desperate race against ruthless rival captain-and her former lover-Victor Luciano, to try and earn back her family's trust. 
 
Tomorrow, all their lives will be thrown together by disaster, as an ancient evil stirs among the stars, threatening the survival of all life...

The Recollection

Chuck Wendig

A decadent rock star. A deeply religious radio host. A disgraced scientist. And a teenage girl who may be the world's last hope. From the mind of Chuck Wendig comes an astonishing tapestry of humanity that Harlan Coben calls "a suspenseful, twisty, satisfying, surprising, thought-provoking epic." 
 
Shana wakes up one morning to discover her little sister in the grip of a strange malady. She appears to be sleepwalking. She cannot talk and cannot be woken up. And she is heading with inexorable determination to a destination that only she knows. But Shana and her sister are not alone. Soon they are joined by a flock of sleepwalkers from across America, on the same mysterious journey. And, like Shana, there are other "shepherds" who follow the flock to protect their friends and family on the long dark road ahead. 
 
For on their journey, they will discover an America convulsed with terror and violence, where this apocalyptic epidemic proves less dangerous than the fear of it. As the rest of society collapses all around them-and an ultraviolent militia threatens to exterminate them-the fate of the sleepwalkers depends on unraveling the mystery behind the epidemic. The terrifying secret will either tear the nation apart-or bring the survivors together to remake a shattered world.

Wanderers

J. M. Barrie

When Peter Pan flies through the Darling Children's nursery window one night, he is nearly captured and makes a hasty escape, leaving behind his shadow. Returning with the fairy Tinker Bell to reclaim it, he wakes up Wendy, John and Michael, and whisks them away to the magical shores of Neverland. 
 
There they meet the Lost Boys, befriend Tiger Lily and her Braves, swim with the mermaids in the lagoon and have a host of wonderful adventures. But danger awaits too, for the terrible Captain Hook and his pirate gang are determined to make them walk the plank... 
 
Abridged by Martin Jarvis, JM Barrie's timeless masterpiece is introduced by Michael Morpurgo and read by ten star actors: Kit Harrington, Martin Jarvis, Alex Jennings, Alex Kingston, Joanna Lumley, Helen McCrory, Jennifer Saunders, Juliet Stevenson, David Walliams and Zoe Wanamaker. 
 
All publisher's profits from the sale of this recording will be shared equally between The Peter Pan Moat Brae Trust (Registered Scottish Charity Number SC041382 and Company Number SC363695) and Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity (Registered Charity Number 1160024 and Company number 09338724).

Peter Pan

Brought to life by magical storytellers

John Wagner

Garth Ennis

Alan Grant

In Mega-City One, the Judges are the law - acting as judge, jury, and executioner. But how do the citizens really feel about a system where they are powerless? 
America Jara and Bennett Beeny grow up as best friends, living a fairly trouble-free life in a dangerous city... bar the odd, negative encounter with a Judge. Time draws them apart, and when they are brought back together, Beeny is a successful singer and America has become involved with a terrorist organisation known as Total War, which has the Justice Department in its sights! 
This dark and complex tale is considered to be one of the best stories to ever come out of the Judge Dredd universe. 
Featuring Joseph Fiennes as Dredd, and an ensemble cast including Paterson Joseph, and Matthew Jacobs Morgan, fans of Judge Dredd and newcomers to Mega City One alike will be transported to brutal dystopian world Dredd for an immersive listening experience like no other. 
 
c) p) 2021 Penguin Audio and Rebellion Publishing

Judge Dredd: America

The Classic 2000 AD Graphic Novel, in Full-Cast Audio for the First Time

Kwaku Osei-Afrifa

Brought to you by Penguin. 
 
Elerie Astrada is hanging in almost-space, awaiting launch. 
 
Ultsurf is a popular, high-stakes relay race contested at the edge of a planet's atmosphere. It's fast, hard and dangerous: it isn't a bloodsport, but blood is often spilled. It is also highly illegal. And Ele is at the top of her game, just a few wins away from the major leagues. 
 
But making the fastest Split isn't Ele's biggest challenge. When her childhood friend India blackmails her with knowledge of her Ultsurfing career, Ele's thrown into the politics of money and power, and way over her head. As a pawn in India's scheme, Ele digs up everything she can on her Ultsurf rivals, the Royals-through drugs, espionage and violence-to ensure her team's victory. It's brought her to this moment. Everything is in place, every deal done. Then the starter whistle blows...

The Surf

Alex de Campi

Evie Cross had big dreams of becoming an investigative journalist but at 25 and struggling to make it in New York City, she's finally starting to admit that her dream is her side hustle and her day job is actually... her job. That is, until she signs on as a temp for a small consultancy whose principal, Misha Meserov, specializes in breaking up relationships. Misha is tall, infuriatingly handsome, and effortlessly charismatic-he can make almost anyone, man or woman, fall into bed with him. And he often does. 
 
But the more Evie is exposed to Misha's scandalous world, the more she becomes convinced that he's hiding something... when a wealthy San Francisco tech CEO with a dissolving marriage starts delving into the occult and turns up dead, Evie has to decide between her journalistic desire for the truth and her growing desire for Misha.

Heartbreak Incorporated

HOPE HAS A PRICE 
 
Nick Prasad has always enjoyed a quiet life in the shadow of his best friend, child prodigy and technological genius Joanna 'Johnny' Chambers. But all that is about to end. 
 
When Johnny invents a clean reactor that could eliminate fossil fuels and change the world, she awakens primal, evil Ancient Ones set on subjugating humanity. 
 
From the oldest library in the world to the ruins of Nineveh, hunted at every turn, they will need to trust each other completely to survive...

Beneath The Rising

Michael Carroll

A shopping mall where droids sell organs harvested from street trash... 
A murderous imaginary friend... 
A psychotic composer drafting music from pain... 
All in a day's work for the Lawman of the Future. 
 
Edited by and with an introduction by Dredd veteran Michael Carroll, Judge Fear's Big Day Out and Other Stories gathers the very best short stories from more than a decade of the Judge Dredd Megazine, including stories by legends Alan Grant, Gordon Rennie and Simon Spurrier, among countless others...

Judge Fear's Big Day Out and Other Stories

Alan Moore

Ian Gibson

A galaxy-spanning story and comics' first bona fide feminist space opera, The Ballad of Halo Jones is the first true epic to grace the bibliography of arguably the greatest comic book writer the world has ever known. 
Bored and frustrated with her life in 50th-century leisure-ghetto housing estate 'The Hoop', 18-year-old everywoman Halo Jones yearns for the infinite sights and sounds of the universe. Pledging to escape on a fantastic voyage, she sets in motion events unimaginable; a spell on a luxury space-liner, a brush with an interstellar war - Halo Jones faces hardship and adventure in the name of freedom in the limitless cosmos. 
Featuring Sheila Atim as Halo Jones, alongside Ellie Kendrick, Kemah Bob, Michael Fenton Stevens and Yaz Zadeh, with an exciting accomplished cast, existing fans of Halo and newcomers alike will be transported to The Hoop and beyond in an immersive listening experience like no other. 
c) p) 2021 Penguin Audio and Rebellion Publishing

The Ballad of Halo Jones: Complete Edition

Mário Coelho

Brought to you by Penguin. 
 
The internet is a lonesome god. 
 
Liverloin is a fractured man, a collection of personas-artificial constructs of wants, fears and needs-created by underground science-artists to help him hide in a hyper-connected world. But he can't hide from Big Momma. 
She is the living internet, a benevolent AI who knows everything and everyone... and somehow is in love with Liverloin. 
 
Agent Stevly works for DAIS, an AI on the other side of the internet: the darkness to Big Momma's light. DAIS's agents manipulate news, information and media and pull the strings behind world events, but DAIS cannot control Big Momma or understand why she loves Liverloin. Agent Stevly, bound body and soul to DAIS, will stop at nothing to find the answer. 
 
© Mário Coelho 2022 (P) Penguin Audio and Rebellion Publishing 2022

Unto the Godless What Little Remains

Jane Routley

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Murder. Magic. Mayhem. But keep it in the family. 
 
Shine's life is usually dull: an orphan without magic in a family of powerful mages, she's left to run the family estate with only an eccentric aunt and telepathic cat for company. 
 
But when the family descend on the house for the annual Fertility Festival, a week of drink, drugs and debauchery, Shine is plunged into intrigue: stolen letters, a fugitive spy, and family drama, mixed with murder, sex and secrets. 
 
As the festival draws to a close, Shine is forced to decide both her loyalties and future...

Shadow in the Empire of Light

Adrian Tchaikovsky

FIREWALKERS ARE BRAVE. FIREWALKERS ARE RESOURCEFUL. FIREWALKERS ARE EXPENDABLE. 
 
The Earth is burning. Nothing can survive at the Anchor; not without water and power. But the ultra-rich, waiting for their ride off the dying Earth? They can buy water. And thanks to their investment, the sun can provide power. 
 
But someone has to repair the solar panels when they fail, down in the deserts below. 
 
Kids like Mao, and Lupé, and Hotep; kids with brains and guts but no hope.The Firewalkers.

Firewalkers

John Appel

Murder forces the unlikeliest of allies. 
 
On the eve of the planet Ileri's historic vote to join the Commonwealth, the assassination of a government minister threatens to shatter everything. Private investigator Noo Okereke and spy Meiko Ogawa join forces with police chief Toiwa to investigate - and discover clues that point disturbingly toward a threat humanity thought they had escaped. 
A threat that could destroy Ileri and spark an interplanetary war... unless the disparate team can work together to solve the mystery.

Assassin's Orbit

Ali Smith

There's Amy and there's Ash. There's ice and there's fire. There's England and there's Scotland. 
 
Ali Smith evokes the twin spirits of time and place in an extraordinarily powerful first novel, which teases out the connections between people, the attractions, the ghostly repercussions. 
 
By turns funny, haunting and disconcertingly moving, LIKE soars across hidden borders between cultures, countries, families, friends and lovers. Subtle and complex, it confounds expectations about fiction and truths.

Like

Edward Ashton

Dying isn't any fun...but at least it's a living. 
 
Mickey7 is an Expendable: a disposable employee on a human 
expedition sent to colonize the ice world Niflheim. Whenever there's a mission 
that's too dangerous-even suicidal- the crew turns to Mickey. After one 
iteration dies, a new body is regenerated with most of his memories intact. 
Mickey signed on to escape from both bad debts and boredom on Midgard. 
 
After six deaths, Mickey7 understands the terms of his 
deal...and why it was the only colonial position unfilled when he took it. 
 
When he goes missing and is presumed dead at the hands of 
deadly indigenous creatures, Mickey8 reports for duty, and their troubles 
really begin.

Mickey7

Ogres are bigger than you. Ogres are stronger than you. Ogres rule the world. 
 
It's always idyllic in the village until the landlord comes to call. Because the landlord is an Ogre. And Ogres rule the world, with their size and strength and appetites. It's always been that way. It's the natural order of the world. And they only eat people sometimes. 
 
But when the headman's son, Torquell, dares lift his hand against the landlord's son, he sets himself on a path to learn the terrible truth about the Ogres, and about the dark sciences that ensured their rule.

Ogres

Rebecca Roanhorse

In the mythological Western mining town of Goetia, half-demon/half-Virtue Celeste's life is upended when her younger half-sister is arrrested for the murder of a Virtue.  Determined to save her sister and prove her innocence, Celeste turns to her former lover, Abraxas, a former general in the armies of Hell, for help. Soon Celeste is making her own deals with devils and angels alike to prove her sister's innocence. But in a world divided between Fallen and Virtuous, who can be trusted is never clear, and the journey to discover the truth threatens to become more than Celeste bargained for.

Tread of Angels

Randee Dawn

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She's just a small town girl, with big mythic dreams. Starr Weatherby came to New York to become... well, a star. But after ten years and no luck, she's offered a big role - on a show no one has ever heard of. And there's a reason for that. It's a 'reality' show beyond the Veil, human drama, performed for the entertainment of the Fae. 
 
But as Starr shifts from astounded newcomer to rising fan favourite, she learns about the show's dark underbelly - and mysterious disappearance of her predecessor. She'll do whatever it takes to keep her dream job - though she might just bring down the show in the process. 
 
© Randee Dawn 2022 (P) Penguin Audio and Rebellion Publishing 2022

Tune in Tomorrow

Wayne Santos

Maria is, in no particular order: a concept artist at one of Canada's biggest videogame studios, the goddess of Mount Makiling in the Philippines, and in love. And right now, being in love is her biggest problem. 
 
Because when Maria falls in love, tragedy and death follow-and always have. For hundreds of years. If she wants to break the cycle, it's going to take everything a goddess, her newly-befriended, anime-obsessed demon-horse, and Canadian national treasure Margaret Atwood have to make it happen.

The Difficult Loves of Maria Makiling

Eeleen Lee

Go deeper, they said. Look closer. 
 
Pleo Tanza is a survivor. Her father was broken by tragedy, her twin sister is dead-chewed up and spat out by the corruption and injustice of Chatoyance-but she's going to make it, whatever it takes. She's going to get off this rock. 
 
But escape is for the rich or lucky. Pleo's framed for the murder of a rival student-the daughter of one of the colony's wealthy, squabbling clans-and goes on the run, setting off a chain events that could destroy the fragile balance of the old colony forever...

Liquid Crystal Nightingale

John Ware

Mega City One it's a powderkeg waiting to blow on its best day. There isn't a moment when tentions aren't running high and the City isn't ready to crack. But there's something new going on something, something bad it's a block war. It's Block Mania and no one is immune, not even the Judges. But this is all prelude to invasion. The East-Meg One Sov's have infected Mega City One with Block-Mania to throw the city into massive, bloody turf wars. There are troops on the ground, bombs are dropping and the Mega City One is on fire. And the Judges are drawing the line and Mega City One is about to burn. Apocalypse War tells the on the ground stories of the Judges in Mega City One during the events of epic Block Mania and Apocalyse War story arch.

Apocalypse War Dossier

Ren Hutchings

Stranded in the Dark 
 
In the final throes of the generations-long war with the alien Felen, smuggler Jereth Keeven's junk freighter breaks down in a strange rift in deep space, with little chance of rescue - until they encounter a science vessel that claims to be from 152 years in the future. Engineer Uma Ozakka has always been fascinated with the past, especially the desperate peace mission that ended the war with the Felen and ushered in a new age of collaboration - a mission Keeven's first mate Leesongronski is supposed to be leading right now. If Ozakka is right, more than the fates of two ships hangs in the balance...

Under Fortunate Stars

Mark Hodder

Brought to you by Penguin. 
 
MURDERERS, CONMEN AND THIEVES 
 
A new breed of villain has risen, possessed of extraordinary intellect and violence. Only the brilliant mind and courage of Sexton Blake, scourge of the criminal world, can stop them, in these three classic stories, collected together in one volume for the first time. 
From the streets of London to the catacombs of Paris, join Blake as he pits his wits against banks robbers, impostors and kidnappers, duels with swords, and pursues his foes by any means necessary. 
 
Additional Information: 
 
THE CASE OF THE MAN IN MOTLEY by Anthony Skene (George N. Philips) (1919). 
Sexton Blake literally crosses swords with the most stylish of his enemies; engages in a car chase; discovers a murdered clown; fights on the brink of an incinerator; and recovers a stolen diamond. 
 
PRINCE PRETENCE by Lewis Jackson (Jack Lewis) (1921) 
A labour leader is abducted and impersonated by Leon Kestrel; the French lottery is won; Sexton Blake's efforts are sabotaged and he is arrested; an imposter is exposed; a master crook is caught; a grotesque dwarf is visited; Tinker is kidnapped for ransom and threatened with being walled up in the Paris catacombs; Blake comes to the rescue; and the villains, though defeated, escape. 
 
THE WONDER MAN'S CHALLENGE by Edwy Searles Brooks (1921) 
Waldo the Wonder-Man robs a bank, climbs a sheer wall, walks a tightrope, steals a biplane and a necklace, and challenges Sexton Blake to catch him. Blake puts Pedro on the trail, spots a deception, and has a confrontation in a pub. Tinker picks a pocket. Waldo climbs up a chimney, swings onto a train, and flees defeated.

Sexton Blake Versus the Master Crooks

Eva is a survivor. She's not sure what she survived, exactly, only that They invaded without warning, killed nearly all of humanity, and relentlessly attack everyone who's left. All she can do to stay sane, in the blockaded city that's no longer home, is keep a journal about her struggle. 
 
Fifty years later, Eva's words are found by Emerson, a young anthropologist sent to the ruins to study what happened. The discovery could shed light on the Invasion, turning the unyielding mystery of the short war into a story of hope and defiance.

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