Ciaphas Cain: Choose Your Enemies: Choose Your Enemies (Volume 10)

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But through self-discipline, mental toughness, and hard work, Goggins transformed himself from a depressed, overweight young man with no future into a US Armed Forces icon and one of the world's top endurance athletes. In this five-part series, US happiness expert and positive psychologist Michelle Gielan and British journalist and author Oliver Burkeman explore ways to become truly happier, backed up by scientific evidence. It goes from having an intense and well executed final act, to abruptly racing through to the ending, and resolving things far too cleanly. The taverna is the only place that Kostas and Defne can meet in secret, hidden beneath the blackened beams from which hang garlands of garlic and chilli peppers, creeping honeysuckle, and in the centre, growing through a cavity in the roof, a fig tree. In Love Is Not Enough, Mark’s first Audible Original, you’ll follow five real people over the course of six months as they navigate f--ked up romantic situations, ranging from dating app addiction to marital affairs to absurd fantasies.

Ultimately, for those who have read the Cain franchise before, or fans of the old Flashman series, I'd say it's definitely worth reading.It's not hard to see why - Cain is Blackadder meets Flashman, with all the snark and intelligent humour involved applied to M41. Set as usual at an indeterminate date (but definitely pre-Dark Imperium) this sees Cain and the Valhallan 597th deployed to the ice world Drechia, bolstering the defences against eldar pirates.

His hobbies include the martial arts of Aikido and Iaido, miniature wargaming, role-playing games, and pottering about on the family allotment. It's one of the strongest stories of late, and a major improvement over the last two books in the series. Following the first trilogy, it seemed that every attempt to take a step forward resulted in at least one step back.When several members of the ring soon turn up dead, Billy abruptly pulls Kate out, blowing her cover. The Greatest Secret, the long-awaited major work by Rhonda Byrne, lays out the next quantum leap in a journey that will take the listener beyond the material world and into the spiritual realm, where all possibilities exist.

If I didn't love the character, I would point out that the author is getting more and more repetitive in plots. There is a more consistent effort to balance this against the major narrative, while the time-skips needed to work around story moments are far better placed.When an event occurs, how it occurs, what drives the protagonist onward, how important something is to the overarching plot; that sort of thing. Of course, by now I'm fairly certain of what to expect; Humour, action, lots of poking fun at the entire setting and quite a few foot notes by one of our favourite (slightly) psychopathic inquisitor. Do you feel weighed down by stress and pressure, held back by judgement and lack of opportunity, and critcised by everyone – including yourself? Following multiple engagements against the Eldar, the Valhallan 597th are dispatched to Ironfound amid a Chaos uprising.

With all that said, however, there was no denying that the Ciaphas Cain saga had become somewhat repetative.

While 40k isn’t exactly known for humour, the Cain books are one of the few exceptions, and this is a great example of Mitchell’s easy to read style. Commissar Cain and the 597th Valhallan's have been sent to an ice bound mining moon to help the local defences forces stave off attacks by the Eldar. A much-used word, karma is loosely understood as a system of checks and balances in our lives, of good actions and bad deeds, of good thoughts and bad intentions. Not only is Stephen Perring’s Cain an absolute delight throughout, audio serves the structure brilliantly. A world with a lot of tunnels, which is actually what Cain likes best, but which does result in his being sent off to chase down unmapped ones.