What we're reading

Thunderhead

By: Miranda Darling
Narrated by: Abbe Holmes
Length: 3 hours 33 minutes

“Thunderhead reveals a single day (or possibly a repeat of all the days) of writer Winona Dalloway. From the moment she wakes up to throwing a dinner party, you won't put this down until you've figured out the truth of what's happening to her. Darling's writing is observant and reflective of the mental state of someone solely trying to survive. Read more

The Detective Up Late

The Sean Duffy Series: Book #7

By: Adrian McKinty
Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
Length: 9 hours 15 minutes

“It was such an unexpected treat to get a new Sean Duffy after all these years. In The Detective Up Late, Sean is on his last case before moving with his wife and kid to Scotland. And, how things have changed. His neighbors will miss him (instead of trying to do him in) and he's settled down. And while looking for the missing girl, he's mentoring... Read more

The Empty Honour Board

By: Martin Flanagan
Narrated by: Martin Flanagan
Length: 5 hours 53 minutes

In 1966, at the age of 10, Martin Flanagan was sent to a Catholic boarding school in north-west Tasmania. Of the 12 priests on the staff, three have since gone to prison for sexual crimes committed against boys in their care. In 2018 and 2019, a series of disclosures about the school appeared on the ABC Tasmania website. Then came the Pell case.... Read more

Lay Your Body Down

By: Amy Suiter Clarke
Narrated by: Carlotta Brentan, Hallie Ricardo & Helen Laser
Length: 11 hours 36 minutes

A gripping new novel of psychological suspense by the author of Girl, 11

Pastor Rick tells us women are created to serve, to be pure, to submit, to be a delight to their husbands. Who are we to deny the very nature our Creator has built within us?

When Del Walker fled her small hometown and its cult-like church six years ago, she vowed never to go... Read more

Thirst For Salt

By: Madelaine Lucas
Narrated by: Madelaine Lucas
Length: 8 hours 1 minute

It’s hard to remember now that I was once that girl, lying in the sand in my red swimsuit and swimming late into the day. Sharkbait, he called me.

It’s in the water where she first sees him: a local man almost twenty years her senior. Adrift in the summer after finishing college, a young woman is on holiday with her mother in an isolated... Read more

Fourth Wing

Empyrean: Book #1

By: Rebecca Yarros
Narrated by: Rebecca Soler & Teddy Hamilton
Length: 21 hours 22 minutes

“It's been a while since I have been so engrossed in a series that I was desperately waiting for the next release day. Fourth Wing has become that series for me. If Harry Potter, Game of Thrones, and The Hunger Games all had a baby, this would be it. Fast-paced, fun, sexy as hell, hilarious dragons that you will fall in love with, and a fight to... Read more

Scorched Grace

A Sister Holiday Mystery

By: Margot Douaihy
Narrated by: Mara Wilson
Length: 9 hours 54 minutes

“There are not enough superlatives in the English world to convey how much I loved this book. It's fresh, it's funny, it's a little prickly, and all-around a wild ride. So many mysteries center around the murder of an innocent woman so it was refreshing to have our mystery be (mostly) about arson! Sister Holiday is a character I've never... Read more

I Capture the Castle

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation

By: Dodie Smith
Narrated by: Holliday Grainger & Toby Jones
Length: 1 hour 53 minutes

Toby Jones and Holliday Grainger star in a new BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Dodie Smith's enduringly popular coming-of-age novel In the 1930s, seventeen-year-old Cassandra Mortmain lives in a crumbling ruin of a castle in the Suffolk countryside. Her father, an author wrestling with writer's block, spends his time reading detective... Read more

Bored Gay Werewolf

By: Tony Santorella
Narrated by: Anthony Nyro
Length: 6 hours 33 minutes

“In this poignant slice-of-life novel, we follow Brian, a struggling twenty-something grappling with the complexities of life as a werewolf. His sense of direction wanes post-transformation, leading him into a haze of alcohol-fueled uncertainty. The narrative takes a turn when he encounters a charismatic werewolf promising a solution to his... Read more

Funny Ethnics

By: Shirley Le
Narrated by: Aileen Huynh
Length: 7 hours 5 minutes

I looked at the streets of Yagoona through eyes stinging with melted Maybelline liquid liner. Yagoona looked back at me, the wannabe hipster who dreamed of moving to a share house in the inner west, and cackled.
Funny Ethnics catapults readers into the sprawling city-within-a-city that is Western Sydney and the world of Sylvia Nguyen: only child... Read more

Limberlost

By: Robbie Arnott
Narrated by: Zoe Carides
Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

The third novel by the award-winning author of Flames and The Rain Heron, Limberlost is an extraordinary chronicle of life and land: of carnage and kindness, blood ties and love.

Ned West dreams of sailing across the river on a boat of his very own. To Ned, a boat means freedom – the fresh open water, squid-rich reefs, fires on private beaches –... Read more

The Trees

A Novel

By: Percival Everett
Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
Length: 7 hours 42 minutes

“Has anyone banned this book yet? Because hoo-boy is it the ultimate in bannable books -nin all of the best possible ways. It's a satire so over the top (again, in all of the best possible ways) that you could almost call it a romp. A romp...about the legacy of lynching in America? Apparently so. The Trees is laugh-out-loud funny, and also deadly... Read more