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    The Blair Years

    Extracts from the Alastair Campbell Diaries

    by Alastair Campbell ...
    Narrated by Alastair Campbell ...

    Abridged

    6 hours 22 min

    The Blair Years is the most compelling and revealing account of contemporary politics you will ever read. Taken from Alastair Campbell's daily diaries, it charts the rise of New Labour and the tumultuous years of Tony Blair's leadership, providing the first important record of a remarkable decade in our national life.Here are the defining events of our time, from Labour's new dawn to the war on ... Read more

    $11.99 AUD

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    Goodbye Soldier

    by Spike Milligan ...
    Narrated by Spike Milligan ...
    Series series Spike Milligan War Memoirs

    Unabridged

    8 hours 27 min

    Spike Milligan's legendary war memoirs are a hilarious and subversive first-hand account of the Second World War, as well as a fascinating portrait of the formative years of this towering comic genius, most famous as writer and star of The Goon Show. They have sold over 4.5 million copies.Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Goodbye Soldier, written and read by Spike ... Read more

    $19.99 AUD

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    Peace Work

    by Spike Milligan ...
    Narrated by Spike Milligan ...
    Series series Spike Milligan War Memoirs

    Unabridged

    7 hours 52 min

    Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Peace work, written and read by Spike Milligan.'I had not informed my parents of my return, I wanted it to be a lovely surprise; it was, for me, they were away ...'The seventh and last volume of Spike Milligan's memoirs sees our hero returning from war and Italy ... but to what? Aside from shooting large, inaccurate guns at ... Read more

    $19.99 AUD

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    Becoming

    by Michelle Obama ...
    Narrated by Michelle Obama ...

    Unabridged

    19 hours 3 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.Winner of the 2020 Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word AlbumWinner of the 2020 Audie Award for Autobiography/MemoirAn intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir; 17 million copies sold worldwideTHE NO. 1 BESTSELLERBRITISH BOOK AWARDS, NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEARTHE SUNDAY TIMES, MEMOIR OF THE YEAR</stro... ... Read more

    $27.99 AUD

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    Blackbeard

    America's Most Notorious Pirate

    by Angus Konstam ...
    Narrated by Eric G. Dove ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 7 min

    Of all the colorful cutthroats who scoured the seas in search of plunder during the Golden Age of Piracy in the early eighteenth century, none was more ferocious or notorious than Blackbeard. As unforgettable as his savage career was, much of Blackbeard's life has been shrouded in mystery—until now. Drawing on vivid descriptions of Blackbeard's attacks from his rare surviving victims, pirate ... Read more

    $41.99 AUD

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    Agent Sonya

    Lover, Mother, Soldier, Spy

    by Ben Macintyre ...
    Narrated by Ben Macintyre ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 14 min

    Brought to you by PenguinA TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'His best book yet' The Times'Macintyre's page-turner is a dazzling portrait of a flawed yet driven individual who risked everything (including her children) for the cause' Sunday TimesDISCOVER THE INCREDIBLE TRUE STORY OF THE SPY WHO ALMOST KILLED HITLER - FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE SPY AND THE T... ... Read more

    $25.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Not for Turning

    The Life of Margaret Thatcher

    by Robin Harris ...
    Narrated by Nigel Anthony ...

    Unabridged

    17 hours 49 min

    Margaret Thatcher is one of the most iconic politicians of the twentieth century. With the possible exception of Winston Churchill, no other Prime Minister has had such an impact on modern British history. Like it or not, her radical social and economic policies have made Britain the country it is today. Without Margaret Thatcher there could have been no New Labour, no Tony Blair and no David ... Read more

    $23.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Giant Killer, The

    The incredible true story a 4' 9" 97lb man who achieved the impossible by becoming a Green Beret Captain and war hero.

    by David Yuzuk ...
    Narrated by Steven Wenger ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 44 min

    At 4' 9" 97lbs Richard Flaherty is believed to be the smallest man to ever serve in the U.S. military. Needing a congressional waiver just to join the Army he achieved the impossible by becoming a Green Beret Captain and a Vietnam vet war hero earning the Silver Star, 2 Bronze Stars and 2 Purple Hearts. - 101st Airborne & 3rd Special Forces Group.Author and police officer David Yuzuk befriended ... Read more

    $24.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Child of the Forest

    Based on the Life Story of Charlene Perlmutter Schiff

    by Jack L. Grossman, James Buchanan ...
    Narrated by Liza Senaca ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 52 min

    Escaping the Horochów ghetto was just the beginning for twelve‑year‑old Musia Perlmutter. Alone, starving, freezing at times, and running and hiding for her life, Musia sought refuge in the forest for two years while Holocaust death camps loomed nearby. Child of the Forest is based on the true story and tribulations of Shulamit “Musia” Perlmutter, born in 1929 to Simcha and Fruma Perlmutter, and ... Read more

    $23.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Churchill

    Walking with Destiny

    by Andrew Roberts ...
    Narrated by Stephen Thorne ...

    Unabridged

    50 hours 28 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.Winston Churchill towers over every other figure in 20th-century British history. By the time of his death at the age of 90 in 1965, many thought him to be the greatest man in the world.There have been over a thousand previous biographies of Churchill. Andrew Roberts now draws on over 40 new sources, including the private diaries of King George VI, used in no previous ... Read more

    $31.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Zelensky

    A Biography

    by Serhii Rudenko ...
    Narrated by Mike Lenz ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 15 min

    Three years after the political novice Volodymyr Zelensky was elected to Ukraine's highest office, he found himself catapulted into the role of war-time leader. The former comedian has become the public face of his country's courageous and bloody struggle against a brutal invasion. Born to Jewish parents in central Ukraine, Zelensky campaigned for the presidency in the 2019 election on the promise ... Read more

    $33.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    The Gulag Archipelago

    by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ...
    Narrated by Jordan B Peterson, Ignat Solzhenitsyn ...

    Unabridged

    23 hours 28 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.The audiobook edition of The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, read by the author's son, Ignat Solzhenitsyn.With a new foreword written and read by Jordan B. Peterson, and an exclusive Q&A between Jordan B. Peterson and Ignat Solzhenitsyn.The officially approved abridgement of The Gulag Archipelago Volumes I, II & III.A vast canvas of camps, prisons, tra... ... Read more

    $27.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Landslide

    The Final Days of the Trump Presidency

    by Michael Wolff ...
    Narrated by Michael Wolff, Holter Graham ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 11 min

    Includes an introduction read by Michael Wolff, as well as archival recordings of speeches made by Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, and Donald Trump.'We won. Won in a landslide. This was a landslide.'President Donald J. Trump, 6 January 2021Politics has given us some shocking and confounding moments but none have come close to the careening final days of Donald Trump's presidency: the surreal stage ... Read more

    $46.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    The Happiest Man on Earth

    by Eddie Jaku ...
    Narrated by Jacek Koman ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 54 min

    WINNER OF THE ABIA BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR 2021Life can be beautiful if you make it beautiful. It is up to you.Eddie Jaku always considered himself a German first, a Jew second. He was proud of his country. But all of that changed in November 1938, when he was beaten, arrested and taken to a concentration camp.Over the next seven years, Eddie faced unimaginable horrors every day, first in Buchenwald ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Burke and Wills

    The triumph and tragedy of Australia's most famous explorers

    by Peter FitzSimons ...
    Narrated by Michael Carman ...

    Unabridged

    23 hours 43 min

    'They have left here today!' he calls to the others. When King puts his hand down above the ashes of the fire, it is to find it still hot. There is even a tiny flame flickering from the end of one log. They must have left just hours ago.MELBOURNE, 20 AUGUST 1860. In an ambitious quest to be the first Europeans to cross the harsh Australian continent, the Victorian Exploring Expedition sets off, ... Read more

    $39.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Too Much and Never Enough

    How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man

    by Mary L. Trump, Ph.D. ...
    Narrated by Mary L. Trump, Ph.D. ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 5 min

    * THE INTERNATIONAL AND SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER ***‘Even in the darkest of Dickens novels, no family comes across quite as mendacious, grasping and avaricious as the Trumps’ Financial TimesA REVELATORY PORTRAIT OF DONALD J. TRUMP AND THE TOXIC FAMILY THAT MADE HIM – WRITTEN BY HIS NIECE, MARY L. TRUMP**Mary Trump spent much of her childhood in her grandparents’ large, imposing house in ... Read more

    $39.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Make Your Bed

    Feel grounded and think positive in 10 simple steps

    by Admiral William H. McRaven ...
    Narrated by Admiral William H. McRaven ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 43 min

    Penguin presents the unabridged downloadable audiobook edition of Make Your Bed, written and read by William H. McRaven.*** THE INCREDIBLE No. 1 New York Times BESTSELLER ***Make your bed to change the world...'What starts here changes the world' was the university slogan that inspired William H. McRaven to take charge of the small things that could change his life . . . and even the world.... ... Read more

    $17.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Unruly

    A History of England's Kings and Queens

    by David Mitchell ...
    Narrated by David Mitchell ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 39 min

    **Brought to you by Penguin.Discover who we are and how we got here by pre-ordering comedian and student of history David Mitchell's UNRULY: A History of England's Kings and Queens** - a thoughtful, funny exploration of the founding fathers and mothers of England, and subsequently Britain.Think you know your kings and queens? Think again.In UNRULY, David Mitchell explores how England's monarchs, ... Read more

    $34.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    The Spy and the Traitor

    The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War

    by Ben Macintyre ...
    Narrated by Ben Macintyre ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 33 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.*The No.1 Sunday Times Bestseller**Shortlisted for the 2018 Baillie Gifford Prize**Bill Gates' Top 5 Books for 2020*'THE BEST TRUE SPY STORY I HAVE EVER READ' JOHN LE CARRÉA thrilling Cold War story about a KGB double agent, by one of Britain's greatest historians - now with a new afterwordOn a warm July evening in 1985, a mid... ... Read more

    $27.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Monash's Masterpiece

    The battle of Le Hamel and the 93 minutes that changed the world

    by Peter FitzSimons ...
    Narrated by Michael Carman ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 1 min

    The Battle of Le Hamel on 4 July 1918 was an Allied triumph, and strategically very important in the closing stages of WWI. A largely Australian force, commanded by the brilliant Sir John Monash, fought what has been described as the first modern battle - where infantry, tanks, artillery and planes operated together as a coordinated force.Monash planned every detail meticulously, with nothing left ... Read more

    $39.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Zero Negativity: The Power of Positive Thinking

    by Ant Middleton ...
    Narrated by Ant Middleton ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 12 min

    NO.1 BESTSELLER ANT MIDDLETON SHARES HIS SECRETS ABOUT HIS POSITIVE MINDSET AND TEACHES YOU TO LIVE A LIFE WITH ZERO NEGATIVITYThere are times when life feels like it has you cornered: financial difficulties, relationship issues, work problems, all of the above. Every one of us, at one time or another, will have to face up to the challenges that come our way. And there are two ways of meeting them ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Endurance

    Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage

    by Alfred Lansing ...
    Narrated by Simon Prebble ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 21 min

    This is a new reading of the thrilling account of one of the most astonishing feats of exploration and human courage ever recorded.In August of 1914, the British ship Endurance set sail for the South Atlantic. In October, 1915, still half a continent away from its intended base, the ship was trapped, then crushed in the ice. For five months, Sir Ernest Shackleton and his men, drifting on ice packs ... Read more

    $33.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

    by J. D. Vance ...
    Narrated by J. D. Vance ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 49 min

    THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER / OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLDFrom Donald Trump's 2024 Vice-Presidential Candidate‘Essential reading for this moment in history’ New York Times‘Brilliant … offers an acute insight into the reasons voters have put their trust in Trump’ ObserverJ. D. Vance grew up in the hills of Kentucky. His family and friends were the people most of the world cal... ... Read more

    $26.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    In Order To Live

    A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom

    by Yeonmi Park ...
    Narrated by Eji Kim ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 37 min

    Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of In Order to Live written by Yeonmi Park and read by Eji Kim.Yeonmi Park was not dreaming of freedom when she escaped from North Korea. She didn't even know what it meant to be free. All she knew was that she was running for her life, that if she and her family stayed behind they would die - from starvation, or disease, or even ... Read more

    $19.99 AUD