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    The Incredible Life of Hubert Wilkins

    Australia's greatest explorer

    by Peter FitzSimons ...
    Narrated by Robert Meldrum ...

    Unabridged

    21 hours 34 min

    The extraordinary, must-read story of the brave, bold Hubert Wilkins - Australia's most adventurous explorer, naturalist, photographer, war hero, aviator, spy and daredevil - brought to life by Australia's greatest storyteller.Sir Hubert Wilkins is one of the most remarkable Australians who ever lived.The s... ... Read more

    $49.99 AUD

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    American Prometheus

    The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

    by Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin ...
    Narrated by Jeff Cummings ...

    Unabridged

    26 hours 30 min

    The inspiration for the major motion picture Oppenheimer, this is the definitive biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, a brilliant physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb for his country in a time of war and who later found himself confronting the moral consequences of scientific progress.American Prometheus is the first full-scale biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, “father of the ... Read more

    $51.99 AUD

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    Flawed Hero

    by Chris Masters ...
    Narrated by David Tredinnick ...

    Unabridged

    18 hours 53 min

    The shocking story of the case against Australia's most highly decorated soldier, Ben Roberts-Smith VC MG, and the defamation trial of the century.With a Victoria Cross and Medal for Gallantry, Ben Roberts-Smith was the most highly decorated Australian soldier, the best of the best. When he returned to civilian life, he became a poster boy for a nation hungry for warrior heroes. He embodied the ... Read more

    $40.99 AUD

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    Brothers in Arms

    Real War. True Friends. Unlikely Heroes.

    by Geraint Jones ...
    Narrated by Geraint Jones ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 21 min

    Darkly funny, shockingly honest, Brothers in Arms is an unforgettable account of a soldier's tour of Afghanistan, the brutal reality of war – every scary, exciting moment – and the bonds of friendship that can never be destroyed.‘If you could choose which two limbs got blown off, what would you go for?’ Danny said. ‘Your arms or your legs?’In July 2009, Geraint (Gez) Jones was sitting in Camp ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD

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    Castaway

    The extraordinary survival story of Narcisse Pelletier, a young French cabin boy shipwrecked on Cape York in 1858

    by Robert Macklin ...
    Narrated by Michael Carman ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 13 min

    In 1858, 14-year-old Narcisse Pelletier sailed from Marseilles in the French trader Saint-Paul. With a cargo of Bordeaux wine, they stopped in Bombay, then Hong Kong, and from there they set sail with more than 300 Chinese prospectors bound for the goldfields of Ballarat and Bendigo. Around the eastern tip of New Guinea, however, the ship became engulfed in fog, struck reefs and ran aground ... Read more

    $34.99 AUD

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    The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel

    by Kati Marton ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 13 min

    ‘An intimate, insightful portrait of an extraordinarily private leader’ WALTER ISAACSON From the bestselling author of Enemies of the PeopleAn intimate and deeply researched account of the extraordinary rise and political brilliance of the most powerful – and elusive – woman in the world.Angela Merkel has always been an outsider. A pastor’s daughter raised in Soviet-controlled East Germany, she ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD

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    Politics On the Edge

    The instant #1 Sunday Times bestseller from the host of hit podcast The Rest Is Politics

    by Rory Stewart ...
    Narrated by Rory Stewart ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 20 min

    **Brought to you by Penguin.From the former Conservative Cabinet minister and co-presenter of 2022's breakout hit podcast The Rest is Politics, a searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament**Over the course of a decade from 2010, Rory Stewart went from being a political outsider to standing for prime minister - before being sacked from a Conservative Party that he had come ... Read more

    $28.99 AUD

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    About Face

    The Odyssey of an American Warrior

    by Julie Sherman, Colonel David H. Hackworth (US Army, Ret.) ...
    Narrated by John Pruden ...

    Unabridged

    40 hours 39 min

    Called “everything a twentieth-century war memoir could possibly be” by the New York Times, this national bestseller by Colonel David H. Hackworth presents a vivid and powerful portrait of a life of patriotism.From age fifteen to forty, David Hackworth devoted himself to the US Army and fast became a living legend. In 1971, however, he appeared on television to decry the doomed war effort in ... Read more

    $43.99 AUD

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    The Kennedy Curse

    The shocking true story of America’s most famous family

    by James Patterson ...
    Narrated by David Pittu ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 24 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.JAMES PATTERSON'S NON-FICTION MASTERPIECE________________________________Kennedys were always taught to win at all costs. And they did - but the costs were unimaginable . . .Across decades and generations, the Kennedys have been a family of charismatic adventurers, raised to take risks and excel. Their name is synonymous with American royalty. Their commitment to pub... ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD

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    Pucker Factor 10

    Memoir of a US Army Helicopter Pilot in Vietnam

    by James Joyce ...
    Narrated by Traber Burns ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 29 min

    “In 1963…there was no way I could have known, sitting in a classroom on that beautiful campus in Ohio, that by raising my hand I would be going to war in Vietnam and that I would see things, hear things, and do things that most people cannot imagine.”—James Joyce.The author was drawn into the United States Army through ROTC, and went through training to fly helicopters in combat over Vietnam. His ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

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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

    $22.99 AUD

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    The Digger of Kokoda

    The official biography of Reg Chard

    by Daniel Lane ...
    Narrated by James Saunders ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 57 min

    Featuring a special message read by Reg ChardThe battle that saved Australia. The track that saved one man's life.Reg Chard endured hell as an 18-year-old Australian soldier who fought in 1942 on the infamous Kokoda Trail in World War II.Ironically, Kokoda rescued Reg decades later when he decided to take his own life. After losing Betty, his wife of 66 years, the grief-stricken great-grandfather ... Read more

    $34.99 AUD

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    Sniper One

    ‘The Best I’ve Ever Read’ – Andy McNab

    by Dan Mills ...
    Narrated by Josh Dylan ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 25 min

    Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Sniper One by Dan Mills, read by Josh Dylan.If you loved American Sniper you will love this book. Sunday Times No. 1 bestseller Sniper One takes you right into the heart of the Iraq war.'One of the best first-hand accounts of combat that I've ever read' Andy McNabWe all saw it at once. Half a dozen voices screamed 'Gren... ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 1

    The Complete and Authoritative Edition

    by Mark Twain ...
    Narrated by Grover Gardner ...

    Unabridged

    24 hours 46 min

    “I’ve struck it!” Mark Twain wrote in a 1904 letter to a friend. “And I will give it away—to you. You will never know how much enjoyment you have lost until you get to dictating your autobiography.”Thus, after dozens of false starts and hundreds of pages, Twain embarked on his “Final (and Right) Plan” for telling the story of his life. His innovative notion—to “talk only about the thing which ... Read more

    $43.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Panzer Ace

    The Memoirs of an Iron Cross Panzer Commander from Barbarossa to Normandy

    by Richard Freiherr von Rosen ...
    Narrated by Nigel Patterson ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 35 min

    Richard Freiherr von Rosen was a highly decorated Wehrmacht soldier and outstanding panzer commander. After serving as a gunlayer on a Pz.Mk.III during Barbarossa, he led a Company of Tigers at Kursk. Later he led a company of King Tiger panzers at Normandy and in late 1944 commanded a battle group (12 King Tigers and a flak Company) against the Russians in Hungary in the rank of junior, later ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    The Gulag Archipelago

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

    Unabridged

    23 hours 29 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

    $24.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Becoming

    The Sunday Times Number One Bestseller

    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

    $24.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Death in the Jungle

    Diary of a Navy Seal

    by Alan Maki, Gary R. Smith ...
    Narrated by Eric Conger ...

    Abridged

    1 hour 59 min

    Read by Eric Conger2 Cassettes/ 2 hrs.With 257 combat missions in Vietnam under his belt, Gary Smith is a living witness to the realities of Naval Special Warfare. He worked with some of the toughest and most highly motivated men in the world, executing missions in the murderous terrain of the Rung Sat Special Zone and Dung Island. The key to their success: go where no ordinary soldier would go ... Read more

    $7.99 AUD

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    Battle Scars

    The extraordinary Sunday Times Bestseller

    by Jason Fox ...
    Narrated by Jason Fox ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 1 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.THE EXTRAORDINARY NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER.Battle Scars tells the story of Jason Fox's career as an elite operator, from the gunfights, hostage rescues, daring escapes and heroic endeavours that defined his service, to a very different kind of battle that awaited him at home.After more than two decades of active duty, Foxy was diagnosed with complex PTSD, forcing him to ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    The Longest Kill

    The Story of Maverick 41, One of the World's Greatest Snipers

    by Craig Harrison ...
    Narrated by Joe Jameson ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 32 min

    Through conflicts in the Balkans, Iraq and Afghanistan, this is the vivid memoir of British sniper Craig Harrison.It takes a tough mindset to be a successful sniper, to be able to dig in for days on your own as you wait for your target, to stay calm on a battlefield when you yourself have become the target the enemy most want to take out. Craig Harrison has what it takes and in November 2009 in ... Read more

    $21.99 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

    $24.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    A Promised Land

    by Barack Obama ...
    Narrated by Barack Obama ...

    Unabridged

    29 hours 10 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES AND AUDIBLE BESTSELLERA riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making-from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy.In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free ... Read more

    $43.99 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

    Man’s Search for Meaning

    An Introduction to Logotherapy

    by Viktor E. Frankl ...
    Narrated by Simon Vance ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 45 min

    Man’s Search for Meaning is the chilling yet inspirational story of Viktor Frankl’s struggle to hold on to hope during the unspeakable horrors of his years as a prisoner in Nazi concentration camps. Between 1942 and 1945 Frankl labored in four different camps, including Auschwitz, while his parents, brother, and pregnant wife perished. Based on his own experience and the experiences of those he ... Read more

    $20.99 AUD