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This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The copper telephone lines are gone, but the past refuses to hang up. In the centre of the long hallway of an old Queensland farmhouse, a black Bakelite telephone sits on a purpose-built timber table, a silent witness to seventy years of family history...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. FICTION. FOR NOW? What if Australia were taken over without a single shot being fired? No invading armies. No tanks in the streets. No foreign flag flying over Parliament House. Just a nation quietly surrendering its independence, one perfectly...

The shearers now have all moved on their echoes haunt the shed. The cook has gone, the fire is cold. a pointless story. said The horses drift on empty tracks the dogs no longer call. The hut lies bare, the fields gone quiet a pointless story all. Yet somewhere in the mountain winds the whispers still remain. Of men who worked, of lives half told a pointless story’s name

A dying man's final request. A twenty-pound debt. A journey across Australia that refuses to go in a straight line. When James Thompson's father dies, he leaves behind one last instruction: "Find Dropper Grogan and give him this twenty pounds." It sounds simple enough.

A children’s adaptation of the incredibly important Why We Kneel, How We Rise, written and narrated by sporting legend Michael Holding – winner of the William Hill Sports BOOK OF THE YEAR prize 2021. This essential adaptation takes kids through the history of racism, and gives them tools to...

“Aye, I worked on Snowy once…” That’s how it starts. What follows is the story of a Yorkshire lad who leaves Barnsley behind and finds himself drilling into mountains, arguing with concrete, and building more than he ever meant to. From the roaring tunnels of the Snowy Mountains Scheme to the red dirt blocks of early Canberra, this is a tale told plain — about hard graft, big risks, dry humour, and the moment a man realises he’s no longer visiting. He belongs. A Yorkshire lad tells it how he says it.

WINNER OF THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR PRIZE 2021 WINNER OF THE SUNDAY TIMES SPORTS BOOK AWARDS BOOK OF THE YEAR THE TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR THE HIGHLY ACCLAIMED SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'The best book about racism I’ve ever read' Piers Morgan Through the...