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    Magnificent Rebels

    The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self

    by Andrea Wulf ...
    Narrated by Julie Teal ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 1 min

    From the Costa Prize-winning author of The Invention of Nature, Magnificent Rebels is a riveting, eye-opening biography of the first Romantics: a revolutionary group of friends based in the small German town of Jena whose modern ideas transformed society and the way we lead our lives today.In the 1790s an extraordinary group of friends changed the world. Disappointed by the French Revolution's ... Read more

    $46.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    C. S. Lewis - A Life

    Eccentric Genius, Reluctant Prophet

    by Alister McGrath ...
    Narrated by Robin Sachs ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 57 min

    In honor of the 50th anniversary of C. S. Lewis' death, celebrated Oxford don Dr. Alister McGrath presents us with a compelling and definitive portrait of the life of C. S. Lewis, the author of the well-known Narnia series. For more than half a century, C. S. Lewis’ Narnia series has captured the imaginations of millions. In C. S. Lewis — A Life, Dr. Alister McGrath recounts the unlikely path of ... Read more

    $60.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Inside Job: Treating Murderers and Sex Offenders. The Life of a Prison Psychologist.

    by Dr Rebecca Myers ...
    Narrated by Emma Wilkes ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 46 min

    And here I am. Totally alone in a cell with a convicted sex offender who is free to do what he wants. There is no officer. No handcuffs. No radio. Only the man across the desk and me. He looks more petrified than I do.HMP Graymoor. One of the UK’s most notorious prisons. Home to nearly 800 murderers, rapists and child molesters.Reporting for her first shift inside is Rebecca: twenty-two, newly ... Read more

    $41.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth

    by Chris Hadfield ...
    Narrated by Chris Hadfield ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 45 min

    Colonel Chris Hadfield has spent decades training as an astronaut and has logged nearly 4,000 hours in space. During this time he has broken into a Space Station with a Swiss army knife, disposed of a live snake while piloting a plane, and been temporarily blinded while clinging to the exterior of an orbiting spacecraft. The secret to Col. Hadfield's success – and survival – is an unconventional ... Read more

    $19.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Listen: How to Find the Words for Tender Conversations

    by Kathryn Mannix ...
    Narrated by Kathryn Mannix ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 40 min

    ‘Powerful, humane and wise’ JULIA SAMUEL ‘Everyone should read it’ NIGELLA LAWSON ‘Beautiful … This is a book for everyone. You feel held by it’ PHILIPPA PERRY Most of us have a conversation we’re avoiding.From the bestselling author of With the End in Mind, this is a book about the conversations that matter and how to have them better – more honestly, more confidently and without regret.A child ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    This is Going to Hurt

    Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor

    by Adam Kay ...
    Narrated by Adam Kay ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 47 min

    The multi-million copy bestsellerBook of the Year at The National Book Awards‘Painfully funny. The pain and the funniness somehow add up to something entirely good, entirely noble and entirely loveable.' - Stephen FryWelcome to the life of a junior doctor: 97-hour weeks, life and death decisions, a constant tsunami of bodily fluids, and the hospital parking meter earns more than you.Scribbled in ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Elon Musk

    How the Billionaire CEO of SpaceX and Tesla is Shaping our Future

    by Ashlee Vance ...
    Narrated by Fred Sanders ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 23 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.A remarkable man in possession of limitless curiosity and intellect, Elon Musk makes a fascinating subject.Tech reporter Ashlee Vance has shadowed him for a year to bring us an engaging and deeply personal account of the man who wants to send us into outer space.South African-born Elon Musk is the renowned entrepreneur and innovator behind PayPal, SpaceX, Tesla, and ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Emotional Female

    by Yumiko Kadota ...
    Narrated by Yumiko Kadota ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 53 min

    Yumiko Kadota was a young, gifted medical student - the top of her class - on her way to becoming an outstanding plastic and reconstructive surgeon. Fourteen years she'd studied and worked hard. She put in 70-hour weeks at the public hospital as a plastic surgery registrar, accepted everything her superiors threw at her because that's what you do to get on, right? Her life revolved around her work ... Read more

    $34.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Exactly: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World

    by Simon Winchester ...
    Narrated by Simon Winchester ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 45 min

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2018Bestselling author Simon Winchester writes a magnificent history of the pioneering engineers who developed precision machinery to allow us to see as far as the moon and as close as the Higgs boson.Precision is the key to everything. It is an integral, unchallenged and essential component of our modern social, mercantile, scientific, ... Read more

    $34.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Unnatural Causes

    'An absolutely brilliant book. I really recommend it, I don't often say that' Jeremy Vine, BBC Radio 2

    by Dr Richard Shepherd ...
    Narrated by Dr Richard Shepherd ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 46 min

    Meet the forensic pathologist, Dr Richard Shepherd, in the true crime book of the year - brought to you by Penguin.'The dead do not hide the truth and they never lie. Through me the dead can speak . . .'He solves the mysteries of unexplained or sudden death.He has performed over 23,000 autopsies, including investigating some of the most high-profile cases of recent times; the Hungerford Massacre, ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    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 or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Twas The Nightshift Before Christmas

    From the Creator of This is Going to Hurt

    by Adam Kay ...
    Narrated by Adam Kay ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 20 min

    The number one Sunday Times bestseller.Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas is a short gift book of festive diaries from the author of multi-million-copy bestseller This is Going to Hurt.Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat . . . but 1.4 million NHS staff are heading off to work. In this perfect present for anyone who has ever set foot in a hospital, Adam Kay delves back into his diaries ... Read more

    $12.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Underland

    A Deep Time Journey

    by Robert Macfarlane ...
    Narrated by Roy McMillan ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 2 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.Shortlisted for the Best Nonfiction Audiobook at the New York Festival Radio Awards 2020.A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2019WINNER OF THE STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2020'You'd be crazy not to read this book' The Sunday TimesA Guardian Best Book of the 21st C... ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    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 or free with audiobook trial

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    An Unquiet Mind

    A Memoir of Moods and Madness

    by Kay Redfield Jamison ...
    Narrated by Kay Redfield Jamison ...

    Abridged

    2 hours 46 min

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A deeply powerful memoir about bipolar illness that has both transformed and saved lives—with a new preface by the author.Dr. Jamison is one of the foremost authorities on manic-depressive (bipolar) illness; she has also experienced it firsthand. For even while she was pursuing her career in academic medicine, Jamison found herself succumbing to the same exhilarating highs ... Read more

    $11.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Secret Barrister

    Stories of the Law and How It's Broken

    by The Secret Barrister ...
    Narrated by Jack Hawkins ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 51 min

    **An anonymous barrister's darkly comic and moving first-hand account of life in the legal system, and how it's failing us all.The Sunday Times number one bestseller.Winner of the Books are My Bag Non-Fiction Award.Shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year.Shortlisted for Specsavers Non-Fiction Book of the Year.‘Eye-opening, funny and horrifying’ – Observer**You may not wish to think about it, ... Read more

    $26.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Undoctored

    The brand new No 1 Sunday Times bestseller from the author of 'This Is Going To Hurt’

    by Adam Kay ...
    Narrated by Adam Kay, Reverend Richard Coles ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 41 min

    This is Going to Hurt was the publishing phenomenon of the century, read by many millions, loved by at least fifty of them, and adapted into a major TV series. But it was only part of the story.By turns hilarious, heartbreaking and humbling, Undoctored is about what happens when a doctor hangs up his scrubs, but medicine refuses to let go of him.It's about an extraordinary medical school education ... Read more

    $39.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    My Own Words

    by Ruth Bader Ginsburg ...
    Narrated by Linda Lavin ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 16 min

    The first book from Ruth Bader Ginsburg since becoming a Supreme Court Justice in 1993—a witty, engaging, serious, and playful collection of writings and speeches from the woman who has had a powerful and enduring influence on law, women’s rights, and popular culture.My Own Words offers Justice Ginsburg on wide-ranging topics, including gender equality, the workways of the Supreme Court, being ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    All Things Bright and Beautiful

    The Classic Memoirs of a Yorkshire Country Vet

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

    Unabridged

    13 hours 23 min

    The second collection of memoirs from the author who inspired the BBC and Channel 5 series All Creatures Great and Small.Now settled into the sleepy Yorkshire village of Darrowby, and married to Helen the farmer’s daughter, James Herriot thinks he’s finally got himself sorted. But life as a vet in the 1930s was never going to be easy. Quite aside from his unpredictable colleagues, brothers ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Carrying the Fire

    An Astronaut's Journeys

    by Michael Collins ...
    Narrated by David Colacci ...

    Unabridged

    20 hours 17 min

    'No other person who has flown in space has captured the experience so vividly' - New York Times Book ReviewIn July 1969, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins piloted the Apollo 11 spacecraft to the moon. Fifty years later, it is still one of the greatest achievements in human history.In this remarkable memoir, Michael Collins conveys, in a very personal way, the drama, beauty, and ... Read more

    $19.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Hunt, Gather, Parent: What Ancient Cultures Can Teach Us about Raising Children

    by Michaeleen Doucleff ...
    Narrated by Michaeleen Doucleff ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 10 min

    In this ground-breaking book, Dr. Michaeleen Doucleff looks back to our ancestors for solutions to our failing modern-day parenting theories.When Dr Michaeleen Doucleff became a mother, she examined the studies behind modern parenting guidance and found that the evidence was frustratingly limited, and the conclusions often ineffective. She began to wonder if an opposite approach was needed – one ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Everything Happens for a Reason

    And Other Lies I've Loved

    by Kate Bowler ...
    Narrated by Kate Bowler ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 32 min

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A meditation on sense-making when there’s no sense to be made, on letting go when we can’t hold on, and on being unafraid even when we’re terrified.”—Lucy Kalanithi**“Belongs on the shelf alongside other terrific books about this difficult subject, like Paul Kalanithi’s When Breath Becomes Air and Atul Gawande’s Being Mortal.”—Bill GatesNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    When the Dogs Don't Bark

    A Forensic Scientist's Search for the Truth

    by Professor Angela Gallop ...
    Narrated by Sandra Duncan ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 50 min

    Kathy Reichs meets Fragile Lives in this fascinating and compelling memoir from the UK's most eminent forensic scientist and some of the most fascinating criminal investigations she has worked on.'Finding the right answers is what forensic science is all about. What often matters even more, however, is asking the right questions.'Never before has criminal justice rested so heavily on scientific ... Read more

    $44.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Rather His Own Man

    by Geoffrey Robertson ...
    Narrated by Geoffrey Robertson ...

    Unabridged

    18 hours 49 min

    In this witty, engrossing and sometimes poignant memoir, a sequel to his best-selling The Justice Game, Australia's inimitable Geoffrey Robertson charts his progress from pimply state schoolboy to top Old Bailey barrister and thence onwards and upwards to a leading role in the struggle for human rights throughout the world.He wryly observes the absurdities of growing up as one of 'Ming's kids'; ... Read more

    $34.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial