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Social & Cultural Studies Audiobooks

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    Identity Unknown

    The gripping new Kay Scarpetta thriller for 2024

    by Patricia Cornwell ...
    Narrated by January LaVoy ...
    Series Audiobook 30 - Kay Scarpetta

    Unabridged

    10 hours 12 min

    THE THRILLING NEW KAY SCARPETTA MYSTERY FROM THE WORLDWIDE BESTSELLER'Iconic. Bold. Brilliant. Identity Unknown is hauntingly original, impossibly clever and devilishly daring. Scalpel-sharp storytelling, trademark twists and characters that feel like family, this series is one of the all-time greats' CHRIS WHITAKER, author of Sunday Times bestseller All the Colours of the DarkSummoned to an ... Read more

    $53.99 AUD

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    Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom

    by Norman G. Finkelstein ...
    Narrated by M.T.A ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 55 min

    Listeners will be able to draw their own conclusions about whether Gaza has been a victim of decades of political shortcomings or whether its innocence has been distorted by propaganda and malicious political manipulations. In this detailed analysis, Norman G. Finkelstein uncovers the hardships endured by Palestinians, reveals the insincerity of narratives conceived against them, exposes the ... Read more

    $16.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Small and the Mighty

    Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History, from the Founding to the Civil Rights Movement

    by Sharon McMahon ...
    Narrated by Sharon McMahon ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 13 min

    **A #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom America’s favorite government teacher, a “fascinating and fun” (Adam Grant) portrait of twelve ordinary Americans whose courage formed the character of our country.**In The Small and the Mighty, Sharon McMahon proves that the most remarkable Americans are often ordinary people who didn’t make it into the textbooks. Not the presidents, but the telephone ... Read more

    $37.99 AUD

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    The Anxious Generation

    How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness

    by Jonathan Haidt ...
    Narrated by Sean Pratt ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 32 min

    **Brought to you by Penguin.An urgent and insightful investigation into the collapse in youth mental health, from the influential social psychologist and international bestselling author**After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents in many countries around the world deteriorated suddenly in the early 2010s. Why have rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm ... Read more

    $27.99 AUD

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    Butler to the World

    How Britain became the servant of tycoons, tax dodgers, kleptocrats and criminals

    by Oliver Bullough ...
    Narrated by Oliver Bullough ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 6 min

    The Suez Crisis of 1956 was Britain's twentieth-century nadir, the moment when the once superpower was bullied into retreat. In the immortal words of former US Secretary of State Dean Acheson, 'Britain has lost an empire and not yet found a role.' But the funny thing was, Britain had already found a role. It even had the costume. The leaders of the world just hadn't noticed it yet.Butler to the ... Read more

    $44.99 AUD

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    Banquet: The Untold Story of Adelaide's Family Murders

    by Debi Marshall ...
    Narrated by Debi Marshall ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 32 min

    In this definitive expose, Walkley-award winning journalist Debi Marshall turns her investigative blowtorch to the shocking Adelaide Family murders and to secrets long hidden in the City of Corpses.This chilling account begins with the liberalisation of South Australia under the premiership of Don Dunstan and demands answers to decades-old questions. Who were the Family killers? Why are ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD

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    Joe Cinque's Consolation

    by Helen Garner ...
    Narrated by Helen Garner ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 19 min

    NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTUREA true story of death, grief and the law from the 2019 winner of the Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature.In October 1997 a clever young law student at ANU made a bizarre plan to murder her devoted boyfriend after a dinner party at their house. Some of the dinner guests-most of them university students-had heard rumours of the plan. Nobody warned ... Read more

    $39.99 AUD $29.99 AUD

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    Faux Feminism

    Why We Fall for White Feminism and How We Can Stop

    by Serene Khader ...
    Narrated by Sharmila Devar ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 47 min

    **For readers of Hood Feminism and Against White FeminismAn incisive examination of why the pillars of feminism have eroded—and how all women, not just the #girlbosses, can rebuild them**After over 175 years, the feminist movement, now in its fourth wave, is at risk of collapsing on its eroding foundation. In Faux Feminism, political philosopher Serene Khader advocates for another feminism—one ... Read more

    $46.99 AUD

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    The Black Swan: Second Edition

    The Impact of the Highly Improbable: With a new section: "On Robustness and Fragility"

    by Nassim Nicholas Taleb ...
    Narrated by Joe Ochman ...
    Series Audiobook 2 - Incerto

    Unabridged

    15 hours 48 min

    The Black Swan is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don’t understand. The other books in the series are Fooled by Randomness, Antifragile, Skin in the Game, and The Bed of Procrustes.A black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal ... Read more

    $41.99 AUD

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    The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World

    by David Graeber ...
    Narrated by Savitri D, Jacques Servin ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 54 min

    **Brought to you by Penguin.Drawn from more than two decades of pathbreaking writing, the iconic and bestselling David Graeber's most important essays and interviews.**‘The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently,’ wrote David Graeber. This new collection brings together the renowned anthropologist, author and activist’s ... Read more

    $27.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    The Highly Sensitive Parent: How to care for your kids when you care too much

    by Elaine N. Aron ...
    Narrated by Helen Lloyd ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 56 min

    From the world-renowned authority and internationally bestselling author of The Highly Sensitive Person, comes an indispensable guide for the significant number of parents who are unusually attuned to their children.The Highly Sensitive Parent is the only book of its kind, written specifically for parents who think deeply about every issue affecting their kids, experiencing strong emotions as a ... Read more

    $26.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Why Empires Fall

    Rome, America and the Future of the West

    by John Rapley, Peter Heather ...
    Narrated by Sid Sagar ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 55 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.Over the last three centuries, the West rose to dominate the planet. Then, suddenly, around the turn of the millennium, history reversed. Faced with economic stagnation and internal political division, the West has found itself in freefall.This is not the first time the global order has witnessed such a dramatic rise and fall. The Roman Empire followed a similar arc from ... Read more

    $27.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    The Art of Racing in the Rain

    by Garth Stein ...
    Narrated by Christopher Evan Welch ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 56 min

    Soon to be a major motion picture, this heart-warming and inspirational tale follows Enzo, a loyal family dog, tells the story of his human family, how they nearly fell apart, and what he did to bring them back together.Enzo knows he is different from other dogs: he thinks and feels in nearly human ways. He has educated himself by watching extensive television, and by listening very closely to the ... Read more

    $26.99 AUD

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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.A Sunday Times bestsellerThe 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 ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    The Dawn of Everything

    A New History of Humanity

    by David Graeber, David Wengrow ...
    Narrated by Malk Williams ...

    Unabridged

    24 hours 2 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike - either free and equal, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could be achieved only by sacrificing those original freedoms or, alternatively, by taming our baser instincts. David Graeber and David Wengrow show how such theories first emerged in the eighteenth century as a ... Read more

    $31.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    End Times

    Elites, Counter-Elites and the Path of Political Disintegration

    by Peter Turchin ...
    Narrated by Robin McAlpine ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 4 min

    **Brought to you by Penguin.A brilliant new theory of how society works from one of the most iconoclastic thinkers of our time**What leads to political turbulence and social breakdown? How do elites maintain their dominant position? And why do ruling classes sometimes suddenly lose their grip on power?For decades, complexity scientist Peter Turchin has been studying world history like no one else. ... Read more

    $27.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    The Fire Killer

    The BRAND NEW edge-of-your-seat crime thriller from Ross Greenwood

    by Ross Greenwood ...
    Narrated by David Thorpe ...
    Series Audiobook 5 - The DI Barton Series

    Unabridged

    10 hours 16 min

    **'**A masterclass in crime fiction' Jane E JamesThe BRAND NEW thriller from bestselling author Ross Greenwood!When DI Barton is asked to investigate a seemingly innocuous fire that kills, he believes it's either children fooling around or a worrying racially-motivated crime.As he delves deeper into the case, he soon realises that there is a history of similar blazes spread out over many years, ... Read more

    $11.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Where Do We Go from Here

    Chaos or Community?

    by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. ...
    Narrated by JD Jackson ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 38 min

    The last book written by King his final reflections after a decade of civil rights strugglesIn 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., isolated himself from the demands of the civil rights movement, rented a house in Jamaica with no telephone, and labored over his final manuscript. In this significantly prophetic work, which has been unavailable for more than ten years, we find King’s acute analysis of ... Read more

    $33.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    The Siege

    The Remarkable Story of the Greatest SAS Hostage Drama

    by Ben Macintyre ...
    Narrated by Ben Macintyre ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 27 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.From the author of Sunday Times #1 bestsellers COLDITZ, SAS: ROGUE HEROES and THE SPY AND THE TRAITOR . . .On April 30, 1980, six heavily armed gunmen burst into the Iranian embassy on Princes Gate, overlooking Hyde Park in London. There they took 26 hostages, including embassy staff, visitors, and three British citizens.A tense six-day siege ensued as millions gathered ... Read more

    $31.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    The Widow of Walcha

    A true story of love, lies and murder in a small country town

    by Emma Partridge ...
    Narrated by Jo Van Es ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 20 min

    The Widow of Walcha is a shocking true story about death, love and lies in the small NSW town of Walcha.Shortlisted, 2023 Danger Awards, Nonfiction categoryAll farmer Mathew Dunbar ever wanted was to find love and have a family of his own. That’s why, just months after meeting Natasha Darcy, the much-loved grazier didn’t hesitate to sign over his multi-million-dollar estate to her.When Mathew died ... Read more

    $43.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    In the Dead of Night

    by Greg Haddrick ...
    Narrated by David Tredinnick ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 24 min

    A mysterious disappearance, a brazen murderer and the police who hunted him down.In March 2020 secret lovers Russell Hill and Carol Clay disappeared in Victoria's remote Wonnangatta Valley. Greg Haddrick tells the gripping inside story of the twists and turns of the police investigation and the trial of pilot Greg Lynn.In March 2020 a couple disappears from the remote Wonnangatta Valley, leaving a ... Read more

    $27.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Mythos

    The Greek Myths Retold

    by Stephen Fry ...
    Narrated by Stephen Fry ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - Stephen Fry’s Greek Myths

    Unabridged

    15 hours 36 min

    Brought to you by Penguin‘The Greek myths are told to you here by the ever-soothing voice of Stephen Fry, who takes you from Zeus to Athena with his typical humour.’ -- The Guardian‘Read by Fry with his accustomed ebullient showmanship [he] gives the legends modern resonance by telling them with a contemporary colloquial twist' -- AUDIOBOOK of the WEEK, The TimesSTEP INTO ANOTHER WORLD - OF MAGIC, ... Read more

    $27.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Son of Hamas

    A Gripping Account of Terror, Betrayal, Political Intrigue, and Unthinkable Choices

    by Mosab Hassan Yousef ...
    Narrated by Anonymous ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 44 min

    Since he was a small boy, Mosab Hassan Yousef has had an inside view of the deadly terrorist group Hamas. The oldest son of Sheikh Hassan Yousef, a founding member of Hamas and its most popular leader, young Mosab assisted his father for years in his political activities while being groomed to assume his legacy, politics, status . . . and power. But everything changed when Mosab turned away from ... Read more

    $49.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Joan

    The true story of how I became Britain’s most notorious diamond thief

    by Joan Hannington ...
    Narrated by Kim Taylforth ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 28 min

    **Brought to you by Penguin.Diamonds are a girl's best friend**Joan Hannington was the most notorious female figure in London's criminal underworld during the 80s, earning her the nickname 'The Godmother'. With her stunning looks and glamorous wardrobe, Joan was constantly underestimated, but she used this to her advantage and became an undetected mastermind in high-stakes jewellery theft. Often ... Read more

    $27.99 AUD