Wednesdays with Bob by Bob Hawke; Derek Rielly; Jim Daly (Read by)

$49.95 AUD

Category: Audio

At 87, beloved former PM Bob Hawke reflects on a colourful life. On Wednesdays, Robert J. Hawke - Australia's 23rd and oldest living prime minister - has welcomed Derek Rielly into his home to share fine cigars and irreverent conversation. On a sun-soaked balcony, the maverick young writer and the chari smatic old master talk life, death, love, sex, religion, politics, sport... and everything in between. On other days, to paint his subject's enigma from the outside, Rielly interviews Hawke's Liberal PM rival John Howard, Labor allies Gareth Evans and Kim Beazley, wife and lover Blanche d'Alpuget, live-in stepson Louis Pratt, and friends - diplomat Richard Woolcott, economist Ross Garnaut, advertising guru John Singleton, and longtime mate Col Cunningham. The result is an extraordinary portrait of a beloved Australian - a strange, funny, uniquely personal study of Bob Hawke ruminating on his (and our) past, present and future. ...Show more

The Land Before Avocado by Richard Glover (Read by)

$39.95 AUD

Category: Audio

There's plenty of nostalgia right now for the Australia of the past, but what was it really like?In The Land Before Avocado, Richard Glover takes a journey to an almost unrecognisable Australia. It's a vivid portrait of a quite peculiar land: a place that is scary and weird, dangerous and incomprehensib le, and now and then surprisingly appealing.It's the Australia of his childhood. The Australia of the late '60s and early '70s.Let's break the news now: they didn't have avocado.It's a place of funny clothing and food that was appalling, but amusingly so. It is also the land of staggeringly awful attitudes - often enshrined in law - towards anybody who didn't fit in.The Land Before Avocado will make you laugh and cry, feel angry and inspired. And leave you wondering how bizarre things were, not so long ago.Most of all, it will make you realise just how far we've come - and how much further we can go. ...Show more

12 Rules for Life - Audio by Jordan B. Peterson

$45.00 AUD

Category: Audio

Penguin presents the CD edition of 12 Rules for Life written and read by Jordan B. Peterson Jordan Peterson's work as a clinical psychologist has reshaped the modern understanding of personality, and now he has become one of the world's most popular public thinkers, with his lectures on topics ranging from the Bible to romantic relationships drawing tens of millions of viewers. In an era of polarizing politics, echo chambers and trigger warnings, his startling message about the value of personal responsibility and the dangers of ideology has resonated around the world. In this book, he combines ancient wisdom with decades of experience to provide twelve profound and challenging principles for how to live a meaningful life, from setting your house in order before criticising others to comparing yourself to who you were yesterday, not someone else today. Gripping, thought-provoking and deeply rewarding, 12 Rules for Life offers an antidote to the chaos in our lives: eternal truths applied to our modern problems. ...Show more

Schindler's Ark - Also Released As Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally

$49.95 AUD

Category: Audio

The acclaimed bestselling classic of Holocaust literature, winner of the Booker Prize and the inspiration for the classic film, Schindler's List. In the shadow of Auschwitz, a flamboyant German industrialist grew into a living legend to the Jews of Cracow. He was a womaniser, a heavy drinker and a bon v iveur, but to them he became a saviour. A stunning novel based on the extraordinary true story of German war profiteer and factory director Oskar Schindler, who came to save more Jews from the gas chambers than any other single person during World War II. In this milestone of Holocaust literature, Thomas Keneally, author of Daughter of Mars, uses the actual testimony of the Schindlerjuden - Schindler's Jews - to brilliantly portray the courage and cunning of a good man in the midst of unspeakable evil. ...Show more

Are We Nearly There Yet? Puffin Book of Stories for the Car

$14.99 AUD

Category: Audio

Penguin presents the audio CD edition of Are We Nearly There Yet? Puffin presents this new audio collection of popular Puffin stories, perfect for little explorers Tales of adventure filled with sound effects, these stories are perfect for listening to in the car, or on a plane, or a hot air balloon, or a magic carpet.... There is no better time to go on your next adventure ...Show more

Boy Swallows Universe (CD) by Trent Dalton; Stig Wemyss (Read by)

$39.95 AUD

Category: Audio

'The most extraordinary writer - a rare talent' Nikki Gemmell An utterly wonderful novel of love, crime, magic, fate and coming of age from one of Australia's most exciting new writers. Brisbane, 1983: A lost father, a mute brother, a mum in jail, a heroin dealer for a stepfather and a notorious crimina l for a babysitter. It's not as if Eli's life isn't complicated enough already. He's just trying to follow his heart, learning what it takes to be a good man, but life just keeps throwing obstacles in the way - not least of which is Tytus Broz, legendary drug dealer. But Eli's life is about to get a whole lot more serious. He's about to fall in love. And he has to break into prison on Christmas Day, to save his mum. A story of brotherhood, true love and the most unlikely of friendships, Boy Swallows Universe will be the most heartbreaking, joyous and exhilarating novel you will read all year. ...Show more

Damascus (Audio CD; unabridged; 12 CDs) by Christos TSIOLKAS

$39.95 AUD

Category: Audio

No Friend but the Mountains (MP3)

$49.95 AUD

Category: Audio

Where have I come from? From the land of rivers, the land of waterfalls, the land of ancient chants, the land of mountains...In 2013, Kurdish journalist Behrouz Boochani was illegally detained on Manus Island. He has been there ever since.People would run to the mountains to escape the warplanes and fou nd asylum within their chestnut forests...This book is the result. Laboriously tapped out on a mobile phone and translated from the Farsi. It is a voice of witness, an act of survival. A lyric first-hand account. A cry of resistance. A vivid portrait through five years of incarceration and exile.Do Kurds have any friends other than the mountains? ...Show more

The Complete Talking Heads: The Classic BBC Radio 4 Monologues Plus A Woman of No Importance by Alan Bennett

$55.00 AUD

Category: Audio

The complete audio collection of Alan Bennett's celebrated monologues, published together for the first time and performed by some of Britain's best actors. The Talking Heads monologues are widely regarded as one of Alan Bennett's finest dramatic achievements. First broadcast on BBC TV and BBC Radio 4 i n the 1980s and 1990s, they won a host of awards and huge popular acclaim, and remain among his most admired works today. This collection includes all twelve Talking Heads, plus the precursor of that series, A Woman of No Importance. Beautifully crafted and full of compassion and wry observation, each tale is ripe with the quirky, insightful detail that has become Bennett's trademark. The monologues are: A Woman of No Importance (Patricia Routledge); A Chip in the Sugar (Alan Bennett); A Lady of Letters (Patricia Routledge); Bed Among the Lentils (Anna Massey); Soldiering On (Stephanie Cole); Her Big Chance (Julie Walters); A Cream Cracker Under the Settee (ThoraHird); Miss Fozzard Finds Her Feet (Patricia Routledge); The Hand of God (Eileen Atkins); Playing Sandwiches (David Haig); The Outside Dog (Julie Walters); Nights in the Gardens of Spain (Penelope Wilton) and Waiting for the Telegram (Thora Hird). Intensely moving, deeply engrossing and highly entertaining, these spellbinding soliloquies are essential listening. ...Show more

The Hunted by Gabriel Bergmoser

$39.95 AUD

Category: Audio

Frank is a service station owner on a little-used highway who just wants a quiet life. His granddaughter has been sent to stay with him to fix her attitude, but they don't talk a lot.When a badly injured young woman arrives at Frank's service station with several cars in pursuit, Frank and a handful of unsuspecting customers are thrust into a life-or-death standoff.But who are this group of men and women who will go to any lengths for revenge? And what do they want? Other than no survivors ...?A ferociously fast-paced, filmic, visceral, tense and utterly electric novel, unlike anything you've read before. Set on a lonely, deserted highway, deep in the Australian badlands, The Hunted is white-knuckle suspense matched to the fast-paced adrenaline of a Jack Reacher novel and the creeping menace of Wake in Fright. This is unmissable reading. ...Show more

The James Joyce BBC Radio Collection - Ulysses, a Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man and Dubliners by James Joyce; Gordon Bowker; Andrew Scott (Read by); Frances Barber (Read by); Full Cast (Read by); Henry Goodman (Read by); Jim Norton (Read by); Niamh Cusack (Read by); Stephen Rea (Read by)

$65.00 AUD

Category: Audio

A collection of works by James Joyce, united by the voices of a star cast that includes Andrew Scott, Henry Goodman, Niamh Cusack and Stephen Rea. This collection will include: Ulysses - a full-cast dramatisation starring Henry Goodman as Leopold Bloom and Andrew Scott as Stephen Dedalus, as they wan der across Dublin in the course of one ordinary day, the 16th June 1904. Also starring Niamh Cusack as Molly Bloom and Stephen Rea as the Narrator. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - a abridged Book at Bedtime reading of James Joyce' autobiographical modernist masterpiece, read by Andrew Scott. Dubliners - James Joyce's naturalistic short stories combine to create a celebration of a city. These abridged Book at Bedtime readings of all 15 stories are narrated by Stephen Rea. Also included is an abridged reading of James Joyce - A Biography by Gordon Bowker. It is read by Jim Norton, and the voice of Joyce is Andrew Scott. ...Show more

The Magic Faraway Tree (Faraway Tree #2) by Enid Blyton

$29.95 AUD

Category: Audio | Series: Faraway Tree

In the middle of the Enchanted Wood you can hear the trees whispering "Wisha-Wisha" and amongst the thick forest is the most enchanted tree in the world - the magic Faraway Tree. Here, fairy folk live on every branch. Meet Moon-Face, Silky the Fairy and Saucepan Man, and visit the different lands at the top of the Faraway Tree - including the Land of Spells, the crazy Land of Topsy-Turvy and and Land of Do-As-You-Please where the children ride in a runaway train! Enid Blyton has created a magical journey for children with The Magic Faraway Tree. ...Show more