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    Odyssey

    by Stephen Fry ...
    Narrated by Stephen Fry ...
    Series Audiobook 4 - Stephen Fry’s Greek Myths

    Unabridged

    10 hours 36 min

    **Brought to you by Penguin.The next book in Stephen Fry's acclaimed internationally bestselling Greek myths series telling the story of The Odyssey.**Sometimes the hardest journey is the way back home . . .Wily Odysseus, King of Ithaca, has won Troy for the Greeks – after a decade of brutal, bloody warfare. But now this warrior remembers he is a husband and father – and his gaze turns longingly ... Read more

    $34.99 AUD

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    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

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    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

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    Black Ops

    Danny Black Thriller 7

    by Chris Ryan ...
    Narrated by Michael Fenner ...
    Series 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

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    The Eagle and the Hart

    The Tragedy of Richard II and Henry IV

    by Helen Castor ...
    Narrated by Helen Castor ...

    Unabridged

    20 hours 4 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.The author of She-Wolves chronicles the lives and reigns of Richard II and Henry IV, two cousins whose rivalry brought their nation to the brink of disintegration - and back againRichard of Bordeaux and Henry Bolingbroke were first cousins, born just three months apart. Their two lives were from the beginning entwined. When they were still children, Richard was crowned ... Read more

    $27.99 AUD

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    Sharpe’s Gold: The Destruction of Almeida, August 1810 (The Sharpe Series, Book 9)

    by Bernard Cornwell ...
    Narrated by Rupert Farley ...
    Series Audiobook 9 - The Sharpe Series

    Unabridged

    9 hours 43 min

    *SHARPE’S COMMAND, the brand new novel in the global bestselling series, is available to pre-order now*Spain, August 1810The English army faces ruin in Spain – and the Duke of Wellington is desperate for money to fund the war. Only a cache of hidden Spanish gold can save them. And only Captain Richard Sharpe has the cunning to capture it.In the treacherous terrain of the Portuguese hills, with ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD

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    We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families

    by Philip Gourevitch ...
    Narrated by Philip Gourevitch ...
    Series series Picador Collection

    Unabridged

    10 hours 22 min

    With an introduction by Rory StewartWinner of the Guardian First Book award, a first-hand account one of the defining outrages of modern history.All at once, as it seemed, something we could have only imagined was upon us - and we could still only imagine it. This is what fascinates me most in existence: the peculiar necessity of imagining what is, in fact, real.In 1994, the Rwandan government ... Read more

    $25.99 AUD

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    Nuclear War

    A Scenario

    by Annie Jacobsen ...
    Narrated by Annie Jacobsen ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 19 min

    **Brought to you by Penguin.There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in a matter of hours: nuclear war. And it could start in as little as 26 minutes and 40 seconds from now…**An edge-of-your-seat non-fiction thriller for readers of American Prometheus by Kai Bird or Midnight in Chernobyl by Adam Higginbotham.The first rule of nuclear war is ... Read more

    $27.99 AUD

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    Midnight in Chernobyl

    The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster

    by Adam Higginbotham ...
    Narrated by Jacques Roy ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 55 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.The dramatic untold story of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster, based on original reporting and new archival research.Early in the morning of April 26, 1986, Reactor Number Four of the Chernobyl Atomic Energy Station exploded, triggering history’s worst nuclear disaster. In the thirty years since then, Chernobyl has become lodged in the collective nightmares of ... Read more

    $23.99 AUD

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    On Bloody Sunday

    A New History Of The Day And Its Aftermath – By The People Who Were There

    by Julieann Campbell ...
    Narrated by Julieann Campbell, Annie Farr, Eleanor Methven, Gordon Griffin, Maggie Ollerenshaw, Melanie MacHugh, Niall Cusack, Pat Lynch, Simon Nelson ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 12 min

    *****'A momentous chronicle, timely and vital, which highlights that the burden of change rests, as always, upon the shoulders of those who suffered and yet, have nurtured the desire that lessons be learned.' - Michael Mansfield QC*, who represented a number of families during the Bloody Sunday Inquiry.*'It's a wonderful book. The technique used - multiple voices speaking directly to us - is very ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Nancy Wake

    by Peter FitzSimons ...
    Narrated by Stephanie Daniel ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 20 min

    In the early 1930s, Nancy Wake was a young woman enjoying a bohemian life in Paris. By the end of the Second World War, she was the Gestapo's most wanted person. As a naive, young journalist, Nancy Wake witnessed a horrific scene of Nazi violence in a Viennese street. From that moment, she declared that she would do everything in her power to rid Europe of the Nazis. What began as a courier job ... Read more

    $26.99 AUD

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    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

    Somme

    by Lyn Macdonald ...
    Narrated by Alison Dowling ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 30 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.'There was hardly a household in the land', writes Lyn Macdonald, 'there was no trade, occupation, profession or community, which was not represented in the thousands of innocent enthusiasts who made up the ranks of Kitchener's Army before the Battle of the Somme...'The year 1916 was one of the great turning-points in British history: as the youthful hopes of a generation ... Read more

    $31.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Money

    A Story of Humanity

    by David McWilliams ...
    Narrated by David McWilliams ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 55 min

    THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER‘A breathtaking, expansive and imaginative ride through the history and future of money from an author who truly understands it’ PROFESSOR BRIAN COX‘Exceptional’ FINANCIAL TIMES‘A cracking book that is as enjoyable as it is readable’ PETER FRANKOPAN‘Equally entertaining and insightful’ YANIS VAROUFAKIS______________________________... ... Read more

    $46.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Vital Organs

    by Suzie Edge ...
    Narrated by Suzie Edge ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 48 min

    The remarkable stories of the world's most famous body parts.Louis XIV's rear end inspired the British National Anthem.Queen Victoria's armpit led the development of antiseptics.Robert Jenkin's ear started a war.All too often, historical figures feel distant and abstract; more myth and legend than real flesh and blood. These stories of bodies and its parts remind us that history's most-loved, a... ... Read more

    $44.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Critical Path

    by R. Buckminster Fuller ...
    Narrated by Alister Austin ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 47 min

    R. Buckminster Fuller is regarded as one of the most important figures of the 20th century, renowned for his achievements as an inventor, designer, architect, philosopher, mathematician, and dogged individualist. Perhaps best remembered for the Geodesic Dome and the term "Spaceship Earth," his work and his writings have had a profound impact on modern life and thought. Critical Path is Fuller's ... Read more

    $58.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization

    A new investigation into the ancient apocalypse

    by Graham Hancock ...
    Narrated by Graham Hancock ...

    Unabridged

    17 hours 16 min

    ***THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER***'Hancock's books provide a fascinating, alternative version of prehistory. America Before, detailed and wide-ranging, turns what was myth and legend into a new story of the past.' Daily MailWas an advanced civilization lost to history in the global cataclysm that ended the last Ice Age? Graham Hancock, the internationally bestselling author, has made it his ... Read more

    $44.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Nexus

    A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

    by Yuval Noah Harari ...
    Narrated by Vidish Athavale ...

    Unabridged

    17 hours 28 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.**The story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world from the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of SapiensStories** brought us together.Books spread our ideas – and our mythologies.The internet promised infinite knowledge.The algorithm learned our secrets – and then turned us against each other.What will <strong... ... Read more

    $34.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Hot Protestants

    A History of Puritanism in England and America

    by Michael P. Winship ...
    Narrated by Paul Boehmer ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 37 min

    On fire for God-a sweeping history of puritanism in England and America. Begun in the mid-sixteenth century by Protestant nonconformists keen to reform England's church and society while saving their own souls, the puritan movement was a major catalyst in the great cultural changes that transformed the early modern world. Providing a uniquely broad transatlantic perspective, this groundbreaking ... Read more

    $41.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Bill the Bastard

    The Story of Australia's Greatest War Horse

    by Roland Perry ...
    Narrated by David Tredinnick ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 54 min

    Bill was massive. He had power, intelligence and unmatched courage. In performance and character he stood above all the other 200 000 Australian horses sent to the Middle East in the Great War. But as war horses go he had one serious problem. No one could ride him but one man ‒ Major Michael Shanahan. Some even thought Bill took a sneering pleasure in watching would-be riders hit the dust. Bill ... Read more

    $26.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Gladius

    Living, Fighting and Dying in the Roman Army

    by Guy de la Bédoyère ...
    Narrated by Piers Hampton ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 39 min

    The Roman army was the greatest fighting machine the ancient world produced. The Roman Empire depended on soldiers not just to win its wars, defend its frontiers and control the seas but also to act as the engine of the state. Roman legionaries and auxiliaries came from across the Roman world and beyond. They served as tax collectors, policemen, surveyors, civil engineers and, if they survived, in ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Troy

    Our Greatest Story Retold

    by Stephen Fry ...
    Narrated by Stephen Fry ...
    Series Audiobook 3 - Stephen Fry’s Greek Myths

    Unabridged

    11 hours 10 min

    **Brought to you by Penguin.'An inimitable retelling of the siege of Troy . . . Fry's narrative, artfully humorous and rich in detail, breathes life and contemporary relevance into these ancient tales'** -- ObserverTHE #1 BESTSELLER.AN EPIC BATTLE THAT LASTED TEN YEARS. A LEGENDARY STORY THAT HAS SURVIVED THOUSANDS.'Troy. The most marvellous kingdom in all the world. The Jewel of the Aegean. ... Read more

    $31.99 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.What makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us Sapiens?One of the world's preeminent historians and thinkers, 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 ... Read more

    $27.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Twilight of Democracy

    The Failure of Politics and the Parting of Friends

    by Anne Applebaum ...
    Narrated by Anne Applebaum ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 15 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.In the years just before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall, conservative politicians and intellectuals across Europe and America celebrated a great achievement, felt a common purpose and, very often, forged personal friendships. The euphoria quickly evaporated, the common purpose and centre ground gradually disappeared and eventually - as this book compellingly ... Read more

    $17.99 AUD