Staff Picks

The Cryptic Clue

A Tea Ladies Mystery

The Tea Ladies: Book #2

By: Amanda Hampson
Length: 10 hours 48 minutes

“The Tea Ladies are back - this time embroiled in a plot threatening national security but also staring down the barrel of threatened redundancy. Another highly entertaining read from Amanda Hampson! Read more

Sanctuary

By: Garry Disher
Narrated by: Cam Ralph
Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

Grace is a thief: a good one. She was taught by experts and she’s been practising since she was a kid. She specialises in small, high-value items—stamps, watches—and she knows her Jaeger-LeCoultres from her Patek Philippes. But it’s a solitary life, always watchful, always moving. It’s not the life she wants.
Lying low after a run-in with an old... Read more

The Health Habit

Shape Up, Sleep Better, Feel Amazing

By: Amantha Imber
Narrated by: Amantha Imber
Length: 7 hours 26 minutes

Are you trapped in a cycle of unhealthy habits? You are not alone - we all have unique barriers that get in the way of making permanent changes to our health.

In The Health Habit, psychologist Dr Amantha Imber steps away from the one-size-fits-all approach and brings together:

- The specific psychological barriers stopping you from achieving... Read more

Bodies of Light

By: Jennifer Down
Narrated by: Casey Withoos
Length: 12 hours 52 minutes

A masterwork of tragedy and heartbreak from the two-time Sydney Morning Herald Young Novelist of the Year.
A quiet, small-town existence. An unexpected Facebook message, jolting her back to the past. A history she’s reluctant to revisit: dark memories and unspoken trauma, warning knocks on bedroom walls, unfathomable loss.
She became a new person... Read more

Any Ordinary Day

Blindsides, Resilience and What Happens After the Worst Day of Your Life

By: Leigh Sales
Narrated by: Leigh Sales
Length: 6 hours 29 minutes

The day that turns a life upside down usually starts like any other, but what happens the day after?
Dual Walkley Award-winner Leigh Sales investigates how ordinary people endure the unthinkable.

As a journalist, Leigh Sales often encounters people experiencing the worst moments of their lives in the full glare of the media. But one particular... Read more

The Tea Ladies

The Tea Ladies: Book #1

By: Amanda Hampson
Narrated by: Zoe Carides
Length: 10 hours 41 minutes

She keeps everyone's secrets, until there's a murder...

Sydney, 1965: After a chance encounter with a stranger, mild-mannered tea lady Hazel Bates becomes an accidental sleuth, stumbling into a world of ruthless crooks and racketeers in search of a young woman she believes to be in danger.

In the meantime, Hazel's job at Empire Fashionwear is in... Read more

Runt

By: Craig Silvey
Narrated by: Genevieve Hegney
Length: 6 hours 12 minutes

A heart-warming, funny, beautifully told story for readers of all ages from the bestselling author of Jasper Jones and Honeybee.
'You don't have to carry the weight of the world in your tool belt.'
Annie Shearer likes to fix things. She lives in the country town of Upson Downs with her best friend, an adopted stray dog called Runt. The two share a... Read more

Naked Ambition

By: Robert Gott
Narrated by: Nicholas Osmond
Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

'You're a politician, a public figure. What on earth were you thinking?' Up-and-coming junior minister Gregory Buchanan has had a portrait painted of himself by the acclaimed artist Sophie White - a painting she intends to enter in this year's Archibald Prize. Until then, Gregory has hung it in pride of place on his dining-room wall. It's a... Read more

Girl in a Pink Dress

By: Kylie Needham
Narrated by: Airlie Dodds
Length: 4 hours 40 minutes

This audiobook includes an exclusive conversation between Kylie Needham and David Wenham.

Frances is an artist in her forties living a quiet life in a remote mountain town in NSW, far away from the glittering lights and famous personalities of the Sydney art world she once knew. When an invitation arrives from a former lover to attend his... Read more

The House of Now and Then

By: Jo Dixon
Narrated by: Falon Ryan
Length: 12 hours 26 minutes

You should leave the past in the past ... or should you? A vividly told, jaw-droppingly twisty and wholly engaging story about the consequences of discovering the truth. For readers of Sally Hepworth, Nicola Moriarty and Adele Parks.

Olivia is hiding from vicious media and online scrutiny in a remote Tasmanian house when an unknown man knocks on... Read more

On a Bright Hillside in Paradise

Winner of the 2022 Penguin Literary Prize

By: Annette Higgs
Narrated by: Ainslie McGlynn
Length: 9 hours 39 minutes

Told from five different points of view, each one revealing something different, On a Bright Hillside in Paradise, tells the story of a family of convict descendants in the back-blocks of Tasmania, on a farm in a place called Paradise. They lead hard-scrabble lives. The drama begins when strangers arrive, Christian Brethren evangelists who hold... Read more