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Nineteen Eighty-Four

By: George Orwell
Narrated by: Tim Pigott-Smith
Length: 1 hour 53 minutes

Winston Smith works for the Ministry of Truth in London, chief city of Airstrip One. Big Brother stares out from every poster and the Thought Police uncover each act of betrayal. When Winston finds love with Julia, he discovers that life does not have to be dull and deadening and awakens to new possibilities. Despite the police helicopters that... Read more

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The Uncaged Sky

My 804 days in an Iranian prison

By: Kylie Moore-Gilbert
Narrated by: Kylie Moore-Gilbert
Length: 14 hours

On September 12, 2018 British-Australian academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert was arrested at Tehran Airport by Iran’s feared Islamic Revolutionary Guards. Convicted of espionage in a shadowy trial presided over by Iran’s most notorious judge, Dr Moore-Gilbert was sentenced to 10 years in prison.

Incarcerated in Tehran’s Evin and Qarchak prisons for... Read more

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The Dry

By: Jane Harper
Narrated by: Steve Shanahan
Length: 9 hours 37 minutes

Amid the worst drought to ravage Australia in a century, a farmer turns his gun on his family and then himself. As questions mount and suspicion casts a long shadow over the parched town, specialist investigator Aaron Falk is forced to confront the community that rejected him twenty years earlier. Read more

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