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    The Slow Moon Climbs

    The Science, History, and Meaning of Menopause

    by Susan Mattern ...
    Narrated by Jennifer Woodward ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 55 min

    This audiobook narrated by Jennifer Woodward provides the first comprehensive account of menopause from prehistory to todayAre the ways we look at menopause all wrong? Historian Susan Mattern says yes, and The Slow Moon Climbs reveals just how wrong we have been. Taking readers from the rainforests of Paraguay to the streets of Tokyo, Mattern draws on historical, scientific, and cultural research ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD

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    The Story of China

    A portrait of a civilisation and its people

    by Michael Wood ...
    Narrated by Michael Wood ...

    Unabridged

    23 hours 7 min

    'A learned, wise, wonderfully written single volume history of a civilisation that I knew I should know more about' Tom Holland'Masterful and engrossing...well-paced, eminently readable and well-timed. A must for those who want – and need – to know about the China of yesterday, today and tomorrow' Peter FrankopanChina’s story is extraordinarily rich and dramatic. Now Michael Wood, one of the UK's ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD

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    The Golden Maze

    A Biography of Prague

    by Richard Fidler ...
    Narrated by Richard Fidler ...

    Unabridged

    18 hours 46 min

    Thirty years after his experience of the Velvet Revolution, Fidler returns to Prague to uncover the glorious and grotesque history of Europe’s most instagrammed and uncanny city, a city that has survived plagues, pogroms, Nazi terror and Soviet tanks. Founded in the ninth century, Prague gave the world the golem, the robot and the world’s biggest statue of Stalin. Fidler tells the story of the ... Read more

    $26.99 AUD

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    Amongst Our Weapons

    Book 9 in the #1 bestselling Rivers of London series

    by Ben Aaronovitch ...
    Narrated by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith ...
    Audiobook 9 - A Rivers of London novel

    Unabridged

    10 hours 39 min

    THE HIGHLY-ANTICIPATED BRAND NEW NOVEL IN THE #1 BESTSELLING RIVERS OF LONDON SERIESThere is a world hidden underneath this great city...The London Silver Vaults - for well over a century, the largest collection of silver for sale in the world. It has more locks than the Bank of England and more cameras than a celebrity punch-up. Not somewhere you can murder someone and vanish without a trace - ... Read more

    $44.99 AUD

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    D-Day

    June 6, 1944 -- The Climactic Battle of WWII

    by Stephen E. Ambrose ...
    Narrated by Stephen E. Ambrose ...

    Abridged

    5 hours 57 min

    Stephen E. Ambrose’s D-Day is the definitive history of World War II’s most pivotal battle, a day that changed the course of history.D-Day is the epic story of men at the most demanding moment of their lives, when the horrors, complexities, and triumphs of life are laid bare. Distinguished historian Stephen E. Ambrose portrays the faces of courage and heroism, fear and determination—what ... Read more

    $23.99 AUD

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    A Song for the Dark Times

    From the iconic #1 bestselling author of IN A HOUSE OF LIES

    by Ian Rankin ...
    Narrated by James Macpherson ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 1 min

    From the iconic Number One bestseller Ian Rankin, comes one of the must-read books of the year: A SONG FOR THE DARK TIMES'Genius ... Only great novels capture the spirit of the age. This is one of them.'THE TIMES* * * * *'He's gone...'When his daughter Samantha calls in the dead of night, John Rebus knows it's not good news. Her husband has been missing for two day... ... Read more

    $39.99 AUD $6.99 AUD

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    God

    An Anatomy - As heard on Radio 4

    by Francesca Stavrakopoulou ...
    Narrated by Francesca Stavrakopoulou ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 16 min

    Winner of The PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2022Shortlisted for The Wolfson History Prize 2022A The Times Books of the Year 2022Three thousand years ago, in the Southwest Asian lands we now call Israel and Palestine, a group of people worshipped a complex pantheon of deities, led by a father god called El. El had seventy children, who were gods in their own right. One of them was a minor storm deity, ... Read more

    $24.99 AUD

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    Pax

    War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age - THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

    by Tom Holland ...
    Narrated by Tom Holland ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 53 min

    THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Holland, who co-hosts the podcast The Rest Is History, is at his best when having fun with Rome's bloody history' The Times'A book for lovers of traditional, grand sweep narrative history' Sunday TimesThe definitive history of Rome's golden age - antiquity's ultimate superpower at the pinnacle of its greatnessThe Pax Romana has l... ... Read more

    $53.99 AUD

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    Princes of the Renaissance

    by Mary Hollingsworth ...
    Narrated by Karen Cass ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 16 min

    A beautifully illustrated history of the Renaissance told through the lives of its most influential patrons.From the late Middle Ages, the independent Italian city-states were taken over by powerful families who installed themselves as dynastic rulers. Inspired by the humanists, the princes of 15th- and 16th-century Italy immersed themselves in the culture of antiquity, commissioning palaces, ... Read more

    $37.99 AUD $5.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Upheaval

    Turning Points for Nations in Crisis

    by Jared Diamond ...
    Narrated by Henry Strozier ...

    Unabridged

    18 hours 44 min

    A brilliant new theory of how and why some nations recover from trauma and others don't, by the author of the landmark bestsellers Guns, Germs, and Steel and Collapse. In his earlier bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse, Jared Diamond transformed our understanding of what makes civilizations rise and fall. Now, in the final book in this monumental trilogy, he reveals how successful ... Read more

    $44.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    River Kings

    A New History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Roads

    by Cat Jarman ...
    Narrated by Christine Rendel ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 17 min

    An acclaimed bioarcheologist, Catrine Jarman has used cutting-edge forensic techniques to spark her investigation into the history of the Vikings who came to rest in British soil. By examining teeth that are now over one thousand years old, she can determine childhood diet-and thereby where a person was likely born. With radiocarbon dating, she can ascertain a death-date down to the range of a few ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Sapiens

    A Brief History of Humankind

    by Yuval Noah Harari ...
    Narrated by Derek Perkins ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 18 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLERWhat makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us Sapiens?Yuval Noah Harari challenges everything we know about being human.Earth is 4.5 billion years old. In just a fraction of that time, one species among countless others has conquered it: us.In this bold and provocative audiobook, Yuval Noah Harari explores who we are, how we ... Read more

    $24.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Erebus: The Story of a Ship

    by Michael Palin ...
    Narrated by Michael Palin ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 5 min

    Random House presents the audiobook edition of Erebus, written and read by Michael Palin.N**_______________**THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERIn the early years of Queen Victoria's reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval expeditions of all time.On the first, she ventured further south than any human had ever been. On the second, she va... ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Black Ops

    Danny Black Thriller 7

    by Chris Ryan ...
    Narrated by Michael Fenner ...
    Audiobook 7 - Danny Black

    Unabridged

    9 hours 28 min

    The seventh book in the bestselling Danny Black series.A series of gruesome killings take place in Dubai, Ghana and America. The victims are all connected with the SAS.In Hereford Danny Black realises they have something more specific in common - they were all involved in training a young Muslim soldier, Ibrahim Khan.Khan has been working under cover in Islamic State in a mission organised by MI6. ... Read more

    $44.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    The School That Escaped the Nazis

    by Deborah Cadbury ...
    Narrated by Julie Teal ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 29 min

    The extraordinary true story of progressive schoolteacher, Anna Essinger, the woman who defied Hitler, smuggling her school and its pupils from Nazi Germany to the safety of England.'All the violence I had experienced before felt like a bad dream. It was a paradise. I think most of the children felt it was a paradise.'In 1933, as Hitler came to power, schoolteacher Anna Essinger hatched a daring ... Read more

    $39.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    The Gifted Generation

    When Government Was Good

    by David Goldfield ...
    Narrated by Mike Chamberlain ...

    Unabridged

    23 hours 11 min

    A sweeping and path-breaking history of the post-World War II decades, during which an activist federal government guided the country toward the first real flowering of the American Dream In The Gifted Generation, historian David Goldfield examines the generation immediately after World War II and argues that the federal government was instrumental in the great economic, social, and environmental ... Read more

    $44.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Leave No Man Behind

    The Untold Story of the Rangers’ Unrelenting Search for Marcus Luttrell, the Navy SEAL Lone Survivor in Afghanistan

    by Dr. Tony Brooks, Bob Welch ...
    Narrated by Chris Abell ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 49 min

    A story of courage, perseverance, and patriotism behind the 75th Army Rangers’ rescue mission following one of the deadliest Special Operations incidents in Afghanistan—a grueling search for twelve Navy SEAL casualties and eight downed Night Stalkers—but just one lone survivorOn June 28, 2005, a four-man Navy SEAL reconnaissance team under Operation Red Wings was ambushed in northeastern ... Read more

    $24.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    I, Millennial

    One Snowflake's Screed Against Boomers, Billionaires and Everything Else

    by Tom Ballard ...
    Narrated by Tom Ballard ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 30 min

    ‘A damn hilarious read.’ Nazeem Hussain‘A true barbarian.’ **Andrew BoltOur world is in chaos lol. And no, Australian Millennials, it’s not your imagination: things are especially f**ked for us.**Millions of Baby Boomers got beach houses, free education, jobs for life and a franking credit-fed retirement. But Millennials have been handed a housing crisis, crippling student debt, the gig economy, a ... Read more

    $41.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Shake Some Action

    My life in music (and other stuff)

    by Stuart Coupe ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 1 min

    First as a music writer and then as an editor, promoter, manager, broadcaster, publicist and author, Stuart Coupe has experienced the giddy highs and crushing lows of a life lived in the creative fast lane. Shake Some Action is your backstage pass to his remarkable story, from starting his first magazine at the age of fourteen to hoovering heroic amounts of cocaine before interviewing Boy Dylan ... Read more

    $34.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Born A Crime

    Stories from a South African Childhood

    by Trevor Noah ...
    Narrated by Trevor Noah ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 44 min

    The compelling, inspiring, (often comic) coming-of-age story of Trevor Noah, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed.One of the comedy world's brightest new voices, Trevor Noah is a light-footed but sharp-minded observer of the absurdities of politics, race and identity, sharing jokes and insights drawn from the wealth of experience acquired in his ... Read more

    $26.99 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

    Pepys' Diary Vol 1

    by Samuel Pepys ...
    Narrated by Kenneth Branagh ...

    Abridged

    2 hours 53 min

    Pepys' Diary is one of the most celebrated journals of all time. Such is the wit and style of Pepys' writing that listeners to this selection from the early years of the diary will gain not only a unique view of seventeenth century London life but also a vivid picture of Pepys the man as he strives to establish himself in his career and in society.(P)2008 Hodder & Stoughton ... Read more

    $15.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Das Boot

    The enthralling true story of a U-Boat commander and crew during the Second World War

    by Lothar Gunther Buchheim ...
    Narrated by Tim Bruce ...
    series W&N Military

    Unabridged

    22 hours 47 min

    Filled with almost unbearable tension and excitement, DAS BOOT is one of the best stories ever written about war, a supreme novel of the Second World War and an acclaimed film and TV drama.It is autumn 1941 and a German U-boat commander and his crew set out on yet another hazardous patrol in the Battle of the Atlantic. Over the coming weeks they must brave the stormy waters of the Atlantic in ... Read more

    $46.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Saga Land

    by Richard Fidler, Kári Gíslason ...
    Narrated by Richard Fidler, Kári Gíslason ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 51 min

    Broadcaster Richard Fidler and author Kari Gíslason are good friends. They share a deep attachment to the sagas of Iceland – the true stories of the first Viking families who settled on that remote island in the Middle Ages. These are tales of blood feuds, of dangerous women and people who are compelled to kill the ones they love the most. The sagas are among the greatest stories ever written, but ... Read more

    $26.99 AUD