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    The Tap Dancer

    by Andrew Barrow ...
    Narrated by John Sackville ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 40 min

    ‘My favourite novel and one I wish I’d written.’ ALAN BENNETTWinner of the McKitterick Prize for best first novel by an author aged over 40, and the Hawthornden Prize for imaginative literature.Everyone craves retirement from the Civil Service, don’t they? That time for an ageing patriarch to enjoy the fruits of a well-earned pension and the respect of his family; maybe even to indulge in a love ... Read more

    $41.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Being Human

    How our biology shaped world history

    Narrated by John Sackville ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 51 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.We are a wonder of evolution.Powerful yet dextrous, instinctive yet thoughtful, we are expert communicators and innovators. Our exceptional abilities have created the civilisation we know today.But we're also deeply flawed.Our bodies break, choke and fail, whether we're kings or peasants. Diseases thwart our boldest plans. Our psychological biases have been at the root of ... Read more

    $24.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Serial Killers of Mexico

    Chilling Stories of Evil Buried Beneath the Narco Drug Wars

    Narrated by John Sackville ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 9 min

    For decades, America has been considered to be the natural home of serial killers.Infamous names like Ted Bundy or Jeffrey Dahmer are internationally known and feared, and rightly so. But what if, just south of the border, there was a far more active network of serial killers? What if the perfect storm of crime, fuelled by this nation's deadly narco wars, has turned Mexico into an ideal hunting ... Read more

    $27.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Saint Francis

    by Robert West ...
    Narrated by John Sackville ...
    series Christian Encounters Series

    Unabridged

    6 hours 38 min

    In this Christian Encounter Series biography, author Robert West explores the life of Saint Francis, a man who lived entirely devoted to God.Francis of Assisi has inspired the church for centuries. Francis took the gospel literally, following all that Jesus said and did without limit, and his devotion led to a life filled with miracles and wonders.Born to a wealthy cloth merchant in Assisi, Italy, ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Homelands

    A Personal History of Europe

    Narrated by John Sackville ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 36 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.Homelands is a stunning blend of contemporary history, reportage and memoir by our greatest writer about European affairs.Drawing on half a century of interviews and experience, Homelands tells the story of Europe in the later twentieth and early twenty-first centuries - how, having emerged from its wartime hell in 1945, it slowly recovered and rebuilt, liberated and ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Urban Jungle

    Wilding the City, from the author of Metropolis

    by Ben Wilson ...
    Narrated by John Sackville ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 29 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.Our modern-day cities might seem to represent our separation from the natural world. In fact, as Ben Wilson reveals in this captivating re-examination of urban landscapes around the world, nature has always been at the heart of the city.Wilson explores the wild side of cities, past, present and future: the middens, abandoned sites and strips of land alongside railway ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Culture

    A new world history

    Narrated by John Sackville, John Sackville ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 33 min

    'A writer of genius' - William DalrympleCan anyone really own a culture? This magnificent account argues that the story of global civilisations is one of mixing, sharing, and borrowing.It shows how art forms have crisscrossed continents over centuries to produce masterpieces. From Nefertiti's lost city and the Islamic Golden Age to twentieth century Nigerian theatre and Modernist poetry, Martin ... Read more

    $83.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Upshift: Turning Pressure into Performance and Crisis into Creativity

    Narrated by John Sackville ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 7 min

    From a leading international crisis management expert, a breakthrough book about performance under pressure that will change the way you think about stressWhen we experience too much stress, we often feel like shutting down and escaping the source: we ‘downshift’. With too little stress, we become apathetic and disengaged. But what happens in the middle zone – when we experience what psychologists ... Read more

    $45.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Holocaust

    An Unfinished History

    by Dan Stone ...
    Narrated by John Sackville ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 59 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.The defining event of twentieth-century Europe - the extermination of millions of Jews - has been commemorated, institutionalised and embedded in our collective consciousness. But in this nuanced and perceptive new history, Dan Stone, Professor of Modern History and Director of the Holocaust Research Institute, contends that the true dimension of the horror wrought by the ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Angels With Dirty Faces

    The Footballing History of Argentina

    Unabridged

    20 hours 32 min

    The definitive history of Argentinian football from the award-winning author of Inverting the PyramidAlfredo Di Stéfano, Diego Maradona, Gabriel Batistuta, Juan Román Riquelme, Lionel Messi . . . Argentina has produced some of the greatest footballers of all time. But the rich, volatile history of Argentinian football is made up of both the sublime and the ruthlessly pragmatic. Jonathan Wilson, ... Read more

    $46.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Rupert Brooke: Life, Death and Myth

    Narrated by John Sackville ...

    Unabridged

    20 hours 46 min

    A revised edition of the candid, sometimes shocking, biography of Rupert Brooke revealing the very different reality behind the golden-boy façade of an English literary iconParagon of youthful beauty, romantic symbol of a lost England, and precociously gifted poet, Rupert Chawner Brooke died in a hospital ship off the Aegean island of Skyros in April 1915, aged just 27. All England mourned his ... Read more

    $26.99 AUD

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    Invasion

    Russia’s Bloody War and Ukraine’s Fight for Survival

    by Luke Harding ...
    Narrated by John Sackville ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 33 min

    The first book of reportage from the front line of the Ukraine war. This is a powerful, moving first draft of history written by the award-winning Guardian journalist and #1 New York Times bestselling author of Collusion and Shadow State.'An excellent, moving account of an ongoing tragedy.' ANNE APPLEBAUM*'*Compelling, important and heartbreaking.' SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE'Essential... ... Read more

    $54.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial