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Get Comfortable Being Uncomfortable

By: Nedd Brockmann
Narrated by: Nedd Brockmann
Length: 6 hours 52 minutes

Get comfortable with being uncomfortable – the story of a 23-year-old tradie who put his body ‘through hell and back 10 times’ to prove that anything is possible when you break past your own barriers.

Longlisted for the Indie Book Awards 2024

Nedd Brockmann isn’t afraid to dream big. Fresh after running fifty marathons in fifty days, the... Read more

Yeah, Nah!

A celebration of life and the words that make us who we are

By: William McInnes
Narrated by: William McInnes
Length: 6 hours 58 minutes

Have you ever bunged it on?
Behaved like a drongo?
Added mayo to a story?
Lost your Reg Grundies?

Join bestselling storyteller William McInnes as he offers his own take on our colourful and colloquial way with words. From the simpler times of childhood to today's testing (and unprecedented!) times, or when we're wasting time, enjoying sporting times... Read more

Between a Wolf and a Dog

By: Georgia Blain
Narrated by: Taylor Owynns
Length: 8 hours 53 minutes

Ester is a family therapist with an appointment book that catalogues the anxieties of the middle class: loneliness, relationships, death. She spends her days helping others find happiness, but her own family relationships are tense and frayed. Ester is yearning to fall in love again. Meanwhile, her sister is struggling through her own... Read more

Salt River Road

By: Molly Schmidt
Narrated by: Abbey Morgan, Matthew Predny & Raechyl French
Length: 7 hours 22 minutes

Introducing an exciting new voice in Australian fiction: Molly Schmidt, winner of the 2022 City of Fremantle Hungerford Award. Salt River Road is a compelling coming-of-age novel about grief and healing set in a small town in the 1970s.

In the aftermath of their mother’s death, the Tetley siblings’ lives are falling apart. Left to fend for... Read more

The Housemate

By: Sarah Bailey
Narrated by: Felicity Jurd
Length: 12 hours 41 minutes

“Great characters in a very contemporary setting where the investigation of a crime leads to the re-examination of an offence comitted many years before, with deadly results. An absolutely gripping story that you will not be able to put down. Read more

My Brilliant Sister

By: Amy Brown
Narrated by: Arianwen Parkes-Lockwood
Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

While Stella Miles Franklin took on the world, her beloved sister Linda led a short, domestic life as a wife, mother and sister. In a remarkable, genre-bending debut novel Amy Brown thrillingly reimagines those two lives – and her own – to explore and explode the contradictions embedded in brilliant careers and a woman’s place in the world.... Read more

Love & Virtue

By: Diana Reid
Narrated by: Emma Leonard
Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Whenever I say I was at university with Eve, people ask me what she was like, sceptical perhaps that she could have always been as whole and self-assured as she now appears. To which I say something like: ‘People are infinitely complex.’ But I say it in such a way — so pregnant with misanthropy — that it’s obvious I hate her.

Michaela and Eve are... Read more

Wild Place

By: Christian White
Narrated by: Sam Smith
Length: 6 hours 43 minutes

In the summer of 1989, a local teen goes missing from the idyllic suburb of Camp Hill in Australia. As rumours of Satanic rituals swirl, schoolteacher Tom Witter becomes convinced he holds the key to the disappearance. When the police won’t listen, he takes matters into his own hands with the help of the missing girl’s father and a local... Read more

Infinite Splendours

By: Sofie Laguna
Narrated by: Matthew Backer
Length: 11 hours 26 minutes

From the winner of the Miles Franklin Award for The Eye of the Sheep

Lawrence is a bright, caring, curious boy with a gift for painting. He lives at home with his mother and younger brother, and the future is laid out before him, full of promise. But when he is ten, an experience of betrayal takes it all away, and Lawrence is left to deal with... Read more

The Mother

By: Jane Caro
Narrated by: Jessica Douglas-Henry
Length: 9 hours 13 minutes

She would die for her daughter. But could she kill for her?

Just like the garden, the fuse box, the bills, bin night and blown light bulbs, this was just something else she'd now have to take care of herself.

Recently widowed, Miriam Duffy is a respectable North Shore real estate agent and devoted mother and grandmother. She was thrilled when her... Read more

Willowman

By: Inga Simpson
Narrated by: Andrew Martin & Tim Potter
Length: 12 hours 14 minutes

'Joyous storytelling at its best. I was enthralled' SARAH WINMAN, author of Still Life

'I bloody loved this - a gorgeous, heartbreaking examination of so much more than cricket' ROBBIE ARNOTT, author of Limberlost

'Not since Jasper Jones have I been so utterly spellbound by the next ball, the state of the pitch and the intricacies of scoring' KATE... Read more

My Father and Other Animals

How I Took on the Family Farm

By: Sam Vincent
Narrated by: Chris Miller
Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

A moving and hilarious fish-out-of-water memoir of a millennial leaving his inner-city life to take over the family farm.Sam Vincent is a twenty-something writer in the inner suburbs, scrabbling to make ends meet, when he gets a call from his mother: his father has stuck his hand in a woodchipper, but ‘not to worry – it wasn’t like that scene in... Read more

Keeping Up Appearances

By: Tricia Stringer
Narrated by: Rebecca Macauley
Length: 12 hours 55 minutes

As tensions simmer in a small country town, three women are going to need more than CWA sausage rolls and can-do community spirit to put things right. From a bestselling Australian author comes a delightful novel full of practical wisdom and dry humour that examines female friendship, buried secrets and why honesty is (usually) the best policy.
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Gemini Falls

By: Sean Wilson
Narrated by: Darius Williams
Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

It’s 1930, and the Great Depression is taking hold.

In Melbourne, thirteen-year-old Morris Turner, a little anxious by nature, feels more at home gazing at the stars than spending time with his detached father Jude, a detective, and older sister, Lottie. When a young woman is murdered in Jude’s home town of Gemini, he is assigned to solve the... Read more

This Devastating Fever

By: Sophie Cunningham
Narrated by: Abbe Holmes
Length: 10 hours 39 minutes

Sometimes you need to delve into the past, to make sense of the present.

Alice had not expected to spend most of the twenty-first century writing about Leonard Woolf. When she stood on Morell Bridge watching fireworks explode from the rooftops of Melbourne at the start of a new millennium, she had only two thoughts. One was: the fireworks are... Read more

Seeing Other People

By: Diana Reid
Narrated by: Emma Leonard
Length: TBA

From the author of Love & Virtue, Seeing Other People is the darkly funny story of two very different sisters, and the summer that stretches their relationship almost to breaking point.

Charlie’s skin was stinging. Not with heat or sweat, but with that intense, body-defining self-consciousness—that sense of being watched. She lowered her eyes... Read more

An Afterlife for Rosemary Lamb

By: Louise Wolhuter
Narrated by: Blazey Best, Jeannie Gee & Maddy Withington
Length: TBA

A storm is coming.? What’s lost will be found. And the sins of the past uncovered.?
Jessie Else disappeared the summer the Lambs came to Magpie Beach. Not that the two events were connected at all, in reality; only in my own head, in my own world. They marked for me the end of a certain quiet time and the start of a more complicated living.

Magpie... Read more

Unnecessary Drama

By: Nina Kenwood
Narrated by: Maddy Withington
Length: 7 hours 39 minutes

From the author of the much-loved It Sounded Better In My Head comes a deliciously entertaining rom-com, set in a run-down student share house in Melbourne.

Eighteen-year-old Brooke is the kind of friend who not only remembers everyone’s birthdays, but also organises the group present, pays for it, and politely chases others for their share.... 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

After You Were Gone

By: Vikki Wakefield
Narrated by: Emma Leonard
Length: 9 hours 21 minutes

What happens to a family when a child goes missing?

In a busy street market, Abbie lets go of six-year-old Sarah’s hand. She isn’t a bad mother, just exhausted. When she turns around, her daughter isn’t there.

Six years later, Abbie is in love and getting married. But her fragile peace is constantly threatened: not knowing what happened to Sarah... Read more