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    C.S. Lewis and the Catholic Church

    by Joseph Pearce ...
    Narrated by Kevin F. Spalding ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 34 min

    C. S. Lewis, the great British novelist and Christian apologist, has been credited by many - including the author - for aiding their journey to the Catholic Church. For this reason, it is often perplexing that Lewis himself never became Catholic.In C. S. Lewis and the Catholic Church, Joseph Pearce delves into Lewis's life, writings, and spiritual influences to shed light on the matter. Although C ... Read more

    $23.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Secret Life of John le Carré

    by Adam Sisman ...
    Narrated by Sean Barrett ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 29 min

    Secrecy came naturally to John le Carré, and there were some secrets that he fought fiercely to keep. Adam Sisman's definitive biography, published in 2015, provided a revealing portrait of this fascinating man; yet some aspects of his subject remained hidden.Nowhere was this more so than in his private life. Apparently content in his marriage, the novelist conducted a string of love affairs over ... Read more

    $44.99 AUD

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    American Pravda

    My Fight for Truth in the Era of Fake News

    by James O'Keefe ...
    Narrated by James O'Keefe ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 25 min

    The one real difference between the American press and the Soviet state newspaper Pravda was that the Russian people knew they were being lied to. To expose the lies our media tell us today, controversial journalist James O’Keefe created Project Veritas, an independent news organization whose reporters go where traditional journalists dare not. Their investigative work–equal parts James Bond, Mike ... Read more

    $31.99 AUD

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    Phosphorescence

    Winner of the Australian Book Industry BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2021

    by Julia Baird ...
    Narrated by Julia Baird ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 28 min

    The national bestseller, Phosphorescence is a beautiful, intimate and inspiring investigation into how we can find and nurture within ourselves that essential quality of internal happiness – the 'light within' – which will sustain us even through the darkest times.Over the last decade, we have become better at knowing what brings us contentment, well-being and joy. We know, for example, that there ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD

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    The Hate Race

    by Maxine Beneba Clarke ...
    Narrated by Zahra Newman ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 18 min

    WINNER of the NSW Premier's Literary Award Multicultural NSW Award 2017Shortlisted for the Nita B Kibble Award 2018Shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Non-Fiction 2017Shortlisted for the ABIA Biography Book of the Year 2017Shortlisted for the Indie Award for Non-Fiction 2017Shortlisted for the Stella Prize 2017'Maxine Beneba Clarke is a powerful and fearless storyteller' ... Read more

    $34.99 AUD

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    On Writing

    A Memoir of the Craft

    by Stephen King ...
    Narrated by Stephen King ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 59 min

    Not since Dickens has a writer had so many readers by the throat . . . King's imagination is vast. He knows how to engage the deepest sympathies of his readers . . . It is part biography, part collection of tips for the aspiring writer. In the final chapters, King tells, in graphic details, the story of his recent accident . . . a bizarre and absorbing story, told brillinatly by one of the great ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD

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    I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings

    The international Classic and Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller

    by Dr Maya Angelou ...
    Narrated by Dr Maya Angelou ...
    Series series Virago Modern Classics

    Unabridged

    10 hours 11 min

    Maya Angelou's six volumes of autobiography are a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writer. Loving the world, she also knows its cruelty. As a Black woman she has known discrimination and extreme poverty, but also hope, joy, achievement and celebration. In this first volume of her six books of autobiography, Maya Angelou beautifully evokes her childhood with her ... Read more

    $39.99 AUD

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    Gotta Get Theroux This

    My Life and Strange Times in Television

    by Louis Theroux ...
    Narrated by Louis Theroux ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 21 min

    **From much-loved documentary maker Louis Theroux comes a funny, heartfelt and entertaining account of his life and weird times in TV.The audio edition is read by the author and contains an exclusive additional chapter.**The Sunday Times Bestseller.'Honest and soul-searching' - Sunday Express______________In 1994 fledgling journalist Louis Theroux was given a one-off gig on Michael M... ... Read more

    $24.99 AUD

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    Into the Wild

    by Jon Krakauer ...
    Narrated by Philip Franklin ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 3 min

    In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself..."Terrifying...Eloquent...A heart-rending drama wandering of ... Read more

    $25.99 AUD

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    The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober

    Discovering a happy, healthy, wealthy alcohol-free life

    by Catherine Gray ...
    Narrated by Catherine Gray ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 14 min

    'Truthful, modern and real' - Stylist'Brave, witty and brilliantly written' - Marie Claire'Hilarious, sharp, spitfire writing' - Sacha Z. Scoblic, Senior Editor at The Atlantic and author of Unwasted: My Lush SobrietyEver sworn off alcohol for a month and found yourself drinking by the 7th? ... ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD

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    Agatha Christie

    The Sunday Times Bestseller

    by Lucy Worsley ...
    Narrated by Lucy Worsley ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 47 min

    'A smart and highly entertaining portrait of a literary powerhouse'BOOKS OF THE YEAR, THE TIMES***'Paint(s) an intriguing picture of Christie.' - Guardian'Ms Worsley herself writes engagingly... She combines an almost militant support for her subject with a considered analysis of her books and plays.' - Economist'Admirably scrupulous' - N... ... Read more

    $44.99 AUD

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    I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes With Death

    The Breathtaking Number One Bestseller

    by Maggie O'Farrell ...
    Narrated by Daisy Donovan ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 58 min

    AS SELECTED FOR THE ZOE BALL BOOKCLUB, A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE SUNDAY TIMES, THE TIMES, GUARDIAN, IRISH TIMES, OBSERVER, RED and THE TELEGRAPH.I AM, I AM, I AM is a memoir with a difference - the unputdownable story of an extraordinary woman's life in near-death experiences. Insightful, inspirational, gorgeously written, it is a book to be read at a sitting, a story you finish... ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD

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    All Creatures Great and Small

    The Classic Memoirs of a Yorkshire Country Vet

    by James Herriot ...
    Narrated by Christopher Timothy ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 41 min

    The first collection of memoirs from the author who inspired the BBC and Channel 5 series All Creatures Great and Small. This edition contains If Only They Could Talk and It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet.Fresh out of Glasgow Veterinary College, to the young James Herriot 1930s Yorkshire seems to offer an idyllic pocket of rural life in a rapidly changing world. But from his erratic new colleagues, ... Read more

    $24.99 AUD

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    Going Solo

    by Roald Dahl ...
    Narrated by Dan Stevens ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 38 min

    Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Going Solo by Roald Dahl, read by Dan Stevens.**This is the second part of Roald Dahl's remarkable life story, following on from Boy. When he grew up, Roald Dahl left England for Africa - and a series of dangerous adventures began. From tales of plane crashes to surviving snake bites, this is Roald Dahl's extraordinary life before becoming the world's ... Read more

    $15.99 AUD

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    The Pigeon Tunnel

    Stories from My Life: NOW A MAJOR APPLE TV MOTION PICTURE

    by John le Carré ...
    Narrated by John le Carré ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 47 min

    Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of The Pigeon Tunnel. Written and read by John le Carré.'Out of the secret world I once knew, I have tried to make a theatre for the larger worlds we inhabit. First comes the imagining, then the search for reality. Then back to the imagining, and to the desk where I'm sitting now.'From his years serving in British Intelligence during ... Read more

    $19.99 AUD

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    The Broken House

    Growing up Under Hitler – The Lost Masterpiece

    by Horst Krüger ...
    Narrated by John Hopkins ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 1 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.In 1965 the German journalist Horst Krüger attended the Auschwitz trial in Frankfurt, where 22 former camp guards were put on trial for the systematic murder of over 1 million men, women and children. Twenty years after the end of the war, this was the first time that the German people were confronted with the horrific details of the Holocaust executed by 'ordinary men' ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD

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    Blackout

    Remembering the things I drank to forget

    by Sarah Hepola ...
    Narrated by Sarah Hepola ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 33 min

    'It's such a savage thing to lose your memory, but the crazy thing is, it doesn't hurt one bit. A blackout doesn't sting, or stab, or leave a scar when it robs you. Close your eyes and open them again. That's what a blackout feels like.'For Sarah Hepola, alcohol was 'the gasoline of all adventure'. She spent her evenings at cocktail parties and dark bars where she proudly stayed till last call. ... Read more

    $30.99 AUD

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    Jane Austen at Home

    A Biography

    by Lucy Worsley ...
    Narrated by Lucy Worsley, Ruth Redman ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 14 min

    'This is my kind of history: carefully researched but so vivid that you are convinced Lucy Worsley was actually there at the party - or the parsonage.' Antonia Fraser'A refreshingly unique perspective on Austen and her work and a beautifully nuanced exploration of gender, creativity, and domesticity.' Amanda ForemanOn the 200th anniversary of Jane Austen's death, historian Lucy Worsley leads us ... Read more

    $46.99 AUD

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    Essential Bukowski: Poetry

    by Charles Bukowski ...
    Narrated by Eric Meyers ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 5 min

    ‘The best poet in America’ Jean Genet‘He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels’ Leonard CohenThe definitive collection from a writer whose transgressive legacy and raw, funny, acutely observant writing has left an enduring markHere is Bukowski eating walnuts and scratching his back, rolling a cigarette while listening to Brahms, showering with Linda in the mid-afternoon.Here is Bukowski ... Read more

    $19.99 AUD

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    84 Charing Cross Road

    by Helene Hanff ...
    Narrated by Juliet Stevenson, John Nettles ...
    Series Audiobook 776 - Virago Modern Classics

    Unabridged

    2 hours 11 min

    INCLUDES AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH THE READERS'Your ad in the Saturday Review of Literature says that you specialize in out-of-print books. The phrase 'antiquarian book-sellers' scares me somewhat, as I equate 'antique' with expensive. I am a poor writer with an antiquarian taste in books and all the things I want are impossible to get over here except in very expensive rare editions, or in ... Read more

    $26.99 AUD

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    A Ghost in the Throat

    by Doireann Ní Ghríofa ...
    Narrated by Siobhán McSweeney ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 52 min

    Winner of The James Tait Black Memorial PrizeWinner of the Book of the Year, the Irish Book AwardsWinner of the Foyles Non-Fiction Book of the YearNominated for the Rathbones Folio Prize, Desmond Elliot Prize and Republic of Consciousness PrizeA true original, this stunning prose debut by Doireann Ní Ghríofa weaves two stories together. In the 1700s, an Irish noblewoman, on discovering her husband ... Read more

    $27.99 AUD

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    A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition

    by Ernest Hemingway ...
    Narrated by John Bedford Lloyd ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 44 min

    Ernest Hemingway’s classic memoir of Paris in the 1920s, now available in a restored edition, includes the original manuscript along with insightful recollections and unfinished sketches.Published posthumously in 1964, A Moveable Feast remains one of Ernest Hemingway’s most enduring works. Since Hemingway’s personal papers were released in 1979, scholars have examined the changes made to the text ... Read more

    $26.99 AUD

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    Patrick Melrose Volume 1

    Never Mind, Bad News and Some Hope

    by Edward St Aubyn ...
    Narrated by Alex Jennings ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 47 min

    Read by actor Alex Jennings, Patrick Melrose Volume 1 contains the first three novels in Edward St Aubyn's semi-autobiographical series, filmed for Sky Atlantic and starring Benedict Cumberbatch as aristocratic addict, Patrick.Moving from Provence to New York to Gloucestershire, from the savageries of a childhood with a cruel father and an alcoholic mother to an adulthood fraught with addiction, ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD

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    Let Me Tell You What I Mean

    by Joan Didion ...
    Narrated by Kimberly Farr ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 5 min

    Twelve early pieces never before collected that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of Joan Didion.Mostly drawn from the earliest part of her astonishing five-decade career, the wide-ranging pieces in this collection include Didion writing about a Gamblers Anonymous meeting, a visit to San Simeon, and a reunion of WWII veterans in Las Vegas, and about topics ranging from Nancy ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD