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Literary Audiobooks

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    Yellowface

    by Rebecca F Kuang ...
    Narrated by Helen Laser ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 38 min

    The No. 1 Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller from literary sensation R.F. Kuang*A Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick**Shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year*‘Propulsive’ SUNDAY TIMES‘Razor-sharp’ TIME‘A riot’ PANDORA SYKES‘Hard to put down, harder to forget’ STEPHEN KINGAthena Liu is a literary darling and June Hayward is literally nobody.</strong... ... Read more

    $45.99 AUD

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    Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray

    River of Dreams

    by Anita Heiss ...
    Narrated by Tamala Shelton ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 5 min

    **‘There are books you encounter as an adult that you wish you could press into the hands of your younger self. Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray is one of those books – a novel that turns Australia’s long-mythologised settler history into a raw and resilient heartsong.' – Guardian***WINNER 2022 NSW PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARD INDIGENOUS WRITER'S PRIZE******2022 ABIA SHORTLIST******2021 ARA HISTORICAL ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD

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    My Husband

    ‘A gripping read’ Sunday Times

    by Maud Ventura ...
    Narrated by Kiiri Sandy ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 32 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.From the outside, she has an enviable life: a successful career, stunning looks, a beautiful house in the suburbs, two healthy children, and most importantly, an ideal husband. After fifteen years together, she is still besotted with him. But she's never quite sure that her passion is reciprocated.Determined to keep their relationship perfect, she meticulously prepares ... Read more

    $24.99 AUD

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    The Bookbinder of Jericho

    by Pip Williams ...
    Narrated by Annabelle Tudor ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 38 min

    In 1914, when the war draws the young men of Britain away to fight, it is the women who must keep the nation running. Two of those women are Peggy and Maude, twin sisters who work in the bindery at Oxford University Press in Jericho. Peggy is intelligent, ambitious and dreams of going to Oxford University, but for most of her life she has been told her job is to bind the books, not read them. ... Read more

    $26.99 AUD

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    The Paris Apartment

    by Lucy Foley ...
    Narrated by Clare Corbett, Daphne Kouma, Sope Dirisu, Sofia Zervudachi, Charlie Anson, Julia Winwood ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 25 min

    *The brand new thriller from Lucy Foley – THE MIDNIGHT FEAST – is available to pre-order now**The No.1 New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller*Discover the electric murder mystery thriller from the No.1, million-copy bestseller, Lucy Foley‘Dazzling’ The Times‘Compelling, up-all-night reading’ Erin Kelly‘Atmosphere you can cut with a knife’<strong... ... Read more

    $45.99 AUD

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    The Buried Giant

    by Kazuo Ishiguro ...
    Narrated by David Horovitch ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 48 min

    The extraordinary novel from the Nobel Prize-winning author of Never Let Me Go and The Remains of the DayThe Romans have long since departed, and Britain is steadily declining into ruin. But at least the wars that once ravaged the country have ceased.The Buried Giant begins as a couple, Axl and Beatrice, set off across a troubled land of mist and rain in the hope of finding a son they have not ... Read more

    $46.99 AUD $39.99 AUD

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    Swann's Way

    by Marcel Proust ...
    Narrated by Simon Vance ...

    Unabridged

    17 hours 26 min

    Swann's Way is the first novel of Marcel Proust's seven-volume magnum opus In Search of Lost Time. Following the narrator's opening ruminations about the nature of sleep is one of twentieth-century literature's most famous scenes: the eating of the madeleine soaked in a "decoction of lime-flowers," the associative act from which the remainder of the narrative unfurls. After elaborate reminiscences ... Read more

    $34.99 AUD

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    The Anniversary

    by Stephanie Bishop ...
    Narrated by Fiona Hampton ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 15 min

    There were things that I wanted to say. Things I knew I couldn't say but needed to tell someone. And then the things I knew I should say. What they wanted to hear. There is never only one version.Novelist JB Blackwood is on a cruise with her husband, Patrick, to celebrate their wedding anniversary. Her one-time professor, Patrick is much older than JB. A maverick when they met, he seemed somehow ... Read more

    $34.99 AUD

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    The Storytellers

    Straight Talk from the World’s Most Acclaimed Suspense and Thriller Authors

    by Mark Rubinstein ...
    Narrated by various narrators, Robertson Dean, Simon Vance, Kirsten Potter, Robert Fass, Keith Szarabajka, Richard Poe, Marc Vietor, Karen White0, George Newbern1, Carrington MacDuffie2, John Lescault3, Malcolm Hillgartner4, Susan Ericksen5, Chris Abell6, Patrick Lawlor7, Eileen Stevens8, Derek Perkins9, Tim Campbell0, Hillary Huber1, Ralph Lister2, Marguerite Gavin3, John Rubinstein4, Ann Richardson5, Scott Brick6, John Lee7, Mirron Willis8, Nancy Wu9, Pam Ward0, Joe Hempel1, Kathleen Early2, Paul Heitsch3, Andrew Eiden4, Suzanne Toren5, John McLain6, Mark Bramhall7, Andi Arndt8, Stefan Rudnicki9, Bernadette Dunne0, Michael Kramer1, Suzie Althens2, David de Vries3, Natalie Ross4, Lloyd James5 ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 43 min

    Have you ever read a suspense novel so good you had to stop and think to yourself, “How did the author come up with this idea? Their characters? Is some of this story real?” For over five years, Mark Rubinstein, physician, psychiatrist, and mystery and thriller writer, had the chance to ask the most well-known authors in the field just these kinds of questions in interviews for the Huffington Post ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD

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    The Heart Is A Star

    The beautiful and heartbreaking bestselling debut novel about family and identity for readers of Holly Ringland, Bonnie Garmus and Ann Napolitano

    by Megan Rogers ...
    Narrated by Madeleine Levins ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 45 min

    Absorbing, lyrical, vivid and compulsively readable - The Heart is a Star is beautiful storytelling from a talented new writer. A novel for fans of Holly Ringland, Jacqueline Maley, Hannah Richell.Layla Byrnes is exhausted. She's juggling a demanding job as an anaesthetist, a disintegrating marriage, her young kids, and a needy lover. And most particularly she's managing her histrionically ... Read more

    $42.99 AUD

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    The Mystery Guest (A Molly the Maid mystery, Book 2)

    by Nita Prose ...
    Narrated by Lauren Ambrose ...
    Series Audiobook 2 - A Molly the Maid mystery

    Unabridged

    8 hours 23 min

    *The sparkling new novel from the award-winning, million-copy bestselling author of The Maid*‘Witty, joyful and utterly unique’ A J FINN‘Captivates from page one’ JANICE HALLETT‘A flawless and brilliant read’ LIZ NUGENT_________________________________________________________________A new mess.A new mystery.<... ... Read more

    $15.99 AUD

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    Voss

    by Patrick White ...
    Narrated by Humphrey Bower ...

    Unabridged

    19 hours

    Set in 19th-century Australia, Voss is the story of the secret passion between an explorer and a naïve young woman. Although they have met only a few times, Voss and Laura are joined by overwhelming, obsessive feelings for each other. Voss sets out to cross the continent. As hardships, mutiny and betrayal whittle away his power to endure and to lead, his attachment to Laura gradually increases. ... Read more

    $26.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Pineapple Street

    THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

    by Jenny Jackson ...
    Narrated by Marin Ireland ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 32 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.This unputdownable debut follows three women in an old Brooklyn Heights clan: one who was born with money, one who married into it, and one who wants to give it all away.Darley, the eldest daughter in the well-connected, carefully-guarded Stockton family, has never had to worry about money. Darley followed her heart, trading her job and her inheritance for motherhood, ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD

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    Lost Property

    An uplifting, joyful book about hope, kindness and finding where you belong

    by Helen Paris ...
    Narrated by Joanna Scanlan ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 36 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.A story of hope, forgiveness and kindness, Lost Property reminds us to keep our loved ones (along with our bags and umbrellas) close...----------------One lost purse. One lost woman.A chance encounter that changes everything.Dot Watson has lost her way. Wracked with guilt and struggling with grief, she has tucked her... ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Mansfield Park

    by Jane Austen ...
    Narrated by Johanna Ward ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 47 min

    Fanny Price, a poor relation of the rich Bertrams, is reluctantly adopted into the family to be brought up at Mansfield Park, where she is treated condescendingly. Only her cousin Edmund, a young clergyman, appreciates her fine qualities. Fanny soon falls in love with him, but Edmund is, unfortunately, drawn to the shallow and worldly Mary Crawford. Fanny’s quiet humility, steadfast loyalty, and ... Read more

    $41.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Prima Facie

    by Suzie Miller ...
    Narrated by Geraldine Hakewill ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 55 min

    Tessa is a thoroughbred. A young, brilliant barrister from a working-class background now at the top of her game: defending, cross-examining and lighting up the shadows of doubt in any case. The law is a game and she is its most talented player.One sickening night, though, Tessa finds herself in a position countless women - one in three - have been in before her. And she's faced with a gut ... Read more

    $39.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Small Mercies

    ‘can't-put-it-down entertainment' Stephen King

    by Dennis Lehane ...
    Narrated by Regina Reagan ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 6 min

    'You'll be lucky if you read a more engaging novel this year' The Times Thriller of the Month April 2023'Small Mercies is thought-provoking, engaging, enraging, and can't-put-it-down entertainment' Stephen King'A jaw-dropping thriller... a resonant, unflinching story written by a novelist who is simply one of the best around' Gillian FlynnNew York Times bestselling author Dennis Le... ... Read more

    $44.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Carpentaria

    by Alexis Wright ...
    Narrated by Isaac Drandich ...

    Unabridged

    19 hours 13 min

    Carpentaria is Alexis Wright's second novel, an epic set in the Gulf country of north-western Queensland. The novel's portrait of life in the precariously settled coastal town of Desperance centres on the powerful Phantom family, leader of the Westend Pricklebush people, and its battles with old Joseph Midnight's renegade Eastend mob on the one hand, and the white officials of Uptown and the ... Read more

    $26.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Talk Before Sleep

    A Novel

    by Elizabeth Berg ...
    Narrated by Elizabeth Berg ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 22 min

    "Unforgettable . . . Truth rings forth clearly from every page. . . . One minute you're laughing, the next you're crying. . . . You'll want to give a copy to every good woman friend you have." - The Charlotte ObserverWhat do you say when you know you don't have forever? Ruth has been Ann's closest friend for years - her confidante, her solace, her comic relief, her tutor in life's mysterious ways. ... Read more

    $52.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    A orillas del mar. Premio Nobel de Literatura 2021

    by Abdulrazak Gurnah ...
    Narrated by Rafael King, Javier Viñas ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 37 min

    Una conmovedora historia sobre el exilio, el amor y la traición, del Premio Nobel de Literatura 2021.Huyendo de la mítica isla de Zanzíbar, tierra de mercaderes de perfumes y especias acunada por los monzones, Saleh Omar, un comerciante de 65 años, llega al aeropuerto de Gatwick con una caja de caoba llena de incienso y un pasaporte falso. Para comunicarse con él, los servicios sociales recurren a ... Read more

    $32.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Mercy

    by Jussi Adler-Olsen ...
    Narrated by Steven Pacey ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - Department Q

    Unabridged

    13 hours 36 min

    The unabridged, digital audiobook edition of Jussi Adler-Olsen's Mercy, Scandinavia's new bestselling crime phenomenon. Read by the actor Steven Pacey.At first the prisoner scratches at the walls until her fingers bleed. But there is no escaping the room. With no way of measuring time, her days, weeks, months go unrecorded. She vows not to go mad. She will not give her captors the satisfaction. ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Weyward

    by Emilia Hart, Nell Barlow ...
    Narrated by Aysha Kala, Helen Keeley ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 50 min

    UNLEASH 2023’S BIGGEST DEBUT*A BBC 2 BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICK*Cosmopolitan's Best Books for 2023*‘A generational tale of female resilience’ GUARDIAN*‘A much-heralded epic’ OBSERVER_________________________________________________________________________________‘Alive, vivid and gripping’ ABIGAIL DEAN<st... ... Read more

    $45.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    The Trinity Six

    by Charles Cumming ...
    Narrated by Jot Davies ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 20 min

    Europe is still littered with the darkest secrets of the Cold War. And the most deadly revelation of them all is about to be made…Hard-up Russia expert Dr Sam Gaddis finally has a lead for a book that could set his career back on track. He has staggering new information about an unknown sixth member of the infamous Cambridge spy ring – a man who has evaded detection for his entire life.But when ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD

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    The Handmaid's Tale

    The iconic Sunday Times bestseller that inspired the hit TV series

    by Margaret Atwood ...
    Narrated by Elisabeth Moss, Bradley Whitford, Amy Landecker, Ann Dowd ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 22 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.Shortlisted for Audiobook of the Year at the British Book Awards 2020.Winner of Best Audiobook (Fiction) at the New York Festival Radio Awards 2020.Read by Elisabeth Moss, star of the hit Channel 4 TV series.Go back to where it all began with the dystopian novel behind the award-winning TV series."I believe in the resistance as I believe there can be no light without ... Read more

    $24.99 AUD