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The slap
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Christos Tsiolkas
Read by Alex Dimitriades
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At a suburban barbecue, a man slaps a child who is not his own.
In this remarkable novel, Christos Tsiolkas turns his unflinching and all-seeing eye onto that which connects us all. |
Literary Fiction |
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The Buddha, Geoff and Me
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Edward Canfor-Dumas
Read by Nicholas Bell
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Ed is having a hard time - at work, in his love life and, well, generally. Then he meets an unlikely Buddhist - who drinks and smokes and talks his kind of language. |
Inspirational Fiction |
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Fragile
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Lisa Unger
Read by Nancy Linari |
Despite their mostly happy marriage, when their son Ricky's girlfriend vanishes, Maggie and Jones find themselves at odds. |
Crime |
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Ivory
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Tony Park
Read by Mark Davis |
Alex Tremain is a pirate in trouble. The two women in his life - one of them his financial adviser, the other his diesel mechanic - have left him. |
Thriller |
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Glenn McGrath
Line and Strength
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Daniel Lane and Glenn McGrath
Read by Shane McNamara |
Glenn McGrath is one of the most highly regarded fast - medium pace bowlers in cricketing history, and was a leading contributor to Australia's domination of world cricket from the mid-1990s to 2007. |
Non Fiction |
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The Lost Life
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Steven Carroll
Read by Deidre Rubenstein |
England‚ September, 1934. Two young lovers‚ Catherine and Daniel‚ witness the poet T.S. ('Tom') Eliot and his close friend Emily bury a mysterious tin in the earth. What happens when the muse steps out of the shadows? |
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How to Break Your Own Heart
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Maggie Alderson
Read by Catherine Milte |
Amelia Bradlow seems to have everything she needs to be happy - a handsome husband, a beautiful home, money, good looks and a glamour job. Everything, that is, except the thing she wants most - a baby. |
Romance |
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The Truth About These Strange Times
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Adam Foulds
Read by Colin Moody
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Saul Dawson-Smith can memorise the sequence of a shuffled deck of cards in under a minute; he can recite pi to a thousand decimal places and he remembers every conversation he's ever had. |
Contemporary Fiction |
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Kokoda
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Paul Ham
Read by Peter Byrne
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In a unique and balanced portrayal, renowned journalist Paul Ham recounts both the Australian and Japanese perspectives of the events on the hellish Papuan jungle trail where thousands fought and died during World War II. |
Non Fiction |
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Scission
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Tim Winton
Read by Samuel Johnson
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Tim Winton's first collection of stories deals with men, women and children whose lives are coming apart and whose hearts are breaking. These spare, jagged stories, in which people struggle with change and disintegration, are vintage Winton. |
Short Stories |