The Lucifer Effect by Philip Zimbardo

In this shocking book, an award-winning psychologist draws upon experiments and research to challenge our conceptions of morality, proving that we all have the capacity for evil.

Sue - Commissioning Editor

Want to know how to make Delia’s Traditional Christmas Pudding? After tips and tricks for the best Traditional Roast Turkey?

Ask Britain’s best-loved cookery writer herself: Delia will be answering all your questions about Christmas cooking on Thursday, 26th November, 12.00-12.45.

Register now to take part! You can either pre-submit your question now or during the chat time on Thursday.*

Browse through Delia’s Happy Christmas book.

Finger Food for Babies and Toddlers by Jennie Maizels

Beautifully illustrated and full of very simple recipe ideas that will encourage your baby or toddler to start eating (or simply playing with!) solid food.

Miranda - Senior Commissioning Editor

Walking in the World by Julia Cameron

One of the world’s leading teachers of creativity shows how to forge your own creative path. A must for any budding artist, fledgling musician or would-be writer.

Sue - Commissioning Editor

40,001 Best Baby Names by Diane Stafford

A perennial bestseller, if this doesn’t help you find the right baby name then nothing will!

Miranda - Senior Commissioning Publisher

In the spirit of all things cheerful, Random House Audio ran a competition to offer copies of Good Times! by cheeky chappie Justin Lee Collins on CD. All entrants had to do was tell us one of their Good Times. Below are the winning entries. They made us giggle, groan and gag in the case of one cat’s ear-wax exploits, but above all they reminded us that it’s the little things that mean the most.

So thanks to Justin, out favourite fuzzy Bristolian- whose brilliant book is now riding high in the iTunes chart. Good Times!

The winning entrants were:

Being 46 and asked if I was 21 in Florida to buy a drink. I felt wonderful and not a frumpy mum of 3. Thank you Florida!!!!
Andrea Tinkler

I always smile to myself when I remember how many years it was before my daughter twigged that I was fibbing when I had told her as a toddler that hamsters came from Hamsterdam.
Melanie Crossan

A night out that was unplanned, and ended up at a small bar with jukebox, fab friends a few drinks and a very improtu karaoke session!
Carrie Hobbs

My good times are going to Legoland with my daughter, getting soaked and eating birthday cake.
Joanna Henley

One of my good times is when I was only 5 yrs old, and was given a toy monkey for my Birthday. I love that monkey, I still have it today at the age of 43. His name is Henry and has been through all my good times with me.
Sherie Buck

It sounds sad, but going to a Bucks Fizz concert last Friday. They were my heroes when they won the Eurovision when I was 10, and to see them re-formed and enjoying themselves, and the atmosphere at the concert made me smile for a full 90 minutes!
Lisa Stewart

When my son was small he asked for a black marker. He was completely trustworthy when drawing so I gave him a black permanent marker. A couple of minutes later he came back and said Look, Mummy, Batman. His arms, legs and face were coloured in.
Hazel Rea

My first job as a student working in a bakery, starting at midnight. It was hard gruelling work but the camaraderie of the people I worked with was immense. I often remember the great fun we had.
Kevin Wellings

My cat eating the earwax off of my little finger. He goes wild!
Helen Pope

Last night I had got in from work, all the housework was done, tea was merrily bubbling away and all the dogs were asleep. I had the chance to just sit back, relax and read a book. Ahhhh, good times!
Helen Waite

 Jenni -  Audio Editorial Assistant

Compiling and editing Forgotten Voices of Burma was a new experience for me; I was already the author of some fourteen books and have contributed to several more, but this book, published by Ebury last month, was very different. This would not be my book, but a story told in the words of the men and women who fought in the long and difficult Burma campaign, taken from recordings in the Sound Archive of the Imperial War Museum. There was so much material in this remarkable archive that I was spoilt for choice; selecting which of the fascinating first-hand accounts to use was a major challenge in itself. The next task was then to weave the tapestry of a little-known campaign spanning nearly four years. But I had to stay out of it. It is their story, not mine; and what a story.

Listening to these accounts in the Sound Archive day after day, I sometimes found myself so engrossed by what I was hearing that my fingers stopped typing into my lap-top. There were tales of battles fought in appalling conditions at Kohima and Imphal, of terrifying missions by the Chindits, and of the long advance to Rangoon. I was astounded by the ferocity of the close fighting on the tennis court of the District Commissioner’s bungalow at Kohima; and the courage of those who took part, cut off from reinforcements for days. I was deeply affected by accounts from those who saw and heard the wounded massacred in the field hospital in the Arakan; as well as officers telling how they had to administer lethal doses of morphine to their own mortally wounded men to prevent them falling in to Japanese hands.

This coming Sunday, millions of people will be remembering those who have fought for their country by wearing a red poppy, attending a church service or simply observing two minutes’ silence at 11am. And although the poppy sprang from the bloody fields of Flanders, today it represents all those who have fought in many far-flung corners of the world, and even if we are separated from them by the passage of history we do our best to remember that they were individual men and women who were afraid but faced their own dangers with amazing fortitude and courage. I hope that Forgotten Voices of Burma is a fitting tribute to these men and women who fought in this ‘forgotten’ campaign and will help them to be remembered too.

Julian Thompson

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Iron John by Robert Bly

The enduring cult classic that looks for a new vision of men and masculinity, drawing on psychology, anthropology, mythology, folklore and legend.

Sue -  Commissioning Editor