The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/wehdg The Twins of Emu Plains By Mary Grant Bruce Narrated by Lyndal Curran Doolan Twins Jean and Jo Weston are fifteen-year-old country girls who are just finishing their first year at boarding school in Melbourne. They receive bad news from their father: due to drought the farm at Emu Plains is struggling, and next year they will need to stay home and help around the property. They will also be required to tutor the...
Jun 24, 2025•5 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/26n9d One Poet, One Poem Narrated by Evan and Marie Blackmore This collection includes favorite English-language poems by 178 favorite authors, beginning with Sir Philip Sidney and the Countess of Pembroke in Elizabethan times, and ending with T. S. Eliot and Marianne Moore in the twentieth century. Cavaliers and Puritans, a famous king and a pilloried criminal, soulful lovers and sharp-witted satirists, Shakespeare a...
Jun 24, 2025•3 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/p7yu0m The Last of the Bushrangers An Account of the Capture of the Kelly Gang By Francis Augustus Hare Narrated by Gregory Dwyer The book is written in the first person, giving a detailed, autobiographical account of Hare’s experiences as a superintendent in the Victorian Mounted Police, particularly during the pursuit and final capture of the Kelly Gang. Hare’s account offers insights into the social and criminal la...
Jun 24, 2025•5 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/trkcww The Eureka Stockade By Raffaello Carboni Narrated by Gregory Dwyer A firsthand account of the 1854 Eureka Rebellion in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. Carboni, an Italian revolutionary and participant in the uprising, wrote the book to document the miners’ struggle against the colonial authorities. The story captures the miners’ frustrations over oppressive mining licenses, police corruption, and lack of represe...
Jun 13, 2025•4 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/2nmll A Manual of Buddhism By Dudley Wright Narrated by Oberon Michaels Buddhism has a vast array of scriptures but a relatively small body of essential doctrines. In this short treatise, the author presents a systematic introduction to Buddhist teaching, commencing with a discussion of the Noble Eightfold Path. Other topics include the Buddhist views of God and enlightenment, and the practice of Buddhism in the world...
Jun 05, 2025•4 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/lcn3y8 The Real Jefferson Davis By Landon Knight Narrated by Ron Altman Jefferson Davis (1808 - 1889) was an American politician who became president of the Confederate States during the Civil War. He took his seat in Congress as the representative for Mississippi in 1847. As a Democrat, Davis was an enthusiastic supporter of the expansion of slavery. In 1861 he resigned from the Senate when the state of Mississippi s...
Jun 03, 2025•3 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Kobo.com: https://n9.cl/3r9bmr The Complete Love Sonnets of Michael Drayton by Michael Drayton Narrated by Evan Blackmore As he himself said, Drayton’s sonnets are the most “sportive” of the great Elizabethan love poems, “ever in motion,” by turns “wild, madding, jocund, and irregular,” yet maintaining a universality and sturdy good sense that have spoken to the hearts of hearers and readers for four centuries. This recording includes in full n...
May 22, 2025•1 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com. https://n9.cl/blkbp On Our Selection By Steele Rudd Narrated by Gregory Dwyer On Our Selection is a collection of humorous short stories by Australian author Steele Rudd. It follows the trials and tribulations of the Rudd family, pioneers carving out a living in the Australian bush. The book humorously depicts the struggles of farming life, the resilience of the settlers, and the quirks of rural Australian society.
May 21, 2025•5 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/ihyo2 Cynthia Wakeham's Money By Anna Katharine Green Narrated by Bonnie Trost This classic crime novel features the detective Ebenezer Grice, one of Anna Katherine Green's recurring characters.A young lawyer is summoned to draw up the will of an elderly and infirm woman. She directs that all her property be bequeathed to her sister. At the end of the consultation, the woman dies. When the heir goes missing, it is sus...
May 17, 2025•5 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/38xmp Memory: How to Develop, Train and Use It By William Walker Atkinson Narrated by Denis Daly Although the many works of New Thought author William Walker Atkinson (1862-1932) have generally been classified as self-help texts, their true focus tends to be self-development. This book on memory is not a catalogue of mnemonic techniques but rather a survey of its whole structure and operation. In the first chapter, At...
May 15, 2025•5 min
The complete audiobook is available at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/93z5vd Dr Thorndyke Intervenes By R. Austin Freeman Narrated by Graham Scott The great medical jurist Dr John Thorndyke must unravel three intricate cases, as a wealthy American attempts to prove a preposterous claim to an English earldom, based only upon a startlingly tall old family tale; a hundredweight of platinum, worth a fortune, is stolen; and, most bizarrely of all, a severed human head is discovered in a box in the left l...
May 08, 2025•5 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/cvvrl Sea Spray and Smoke Drift By A.L. Gordon Narrated by Gregory Dwyer Sea Spray and Smoke Drift is a collection of poetry. The book showcases Gordon’s deep connection to nature, the sea, and the rugged Australian landscape. His verses explore themes of courage, adventure, and personal struggle, often reflecting his own turbulent life. The poems, characterized by their vivid imagery and rhythmic flow, capturing the ...
May 06, 2025•4 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/64qr4 While the Billy Boils By Henry Lawson Narrated by Gregory Dwyer While the Billy Boils (1896) is a collection of short stories by Australian writer Henry Lawson, portraying life in the Australian outback during the late 19th century. The stories, written with a real touch of dry humor, focus on the struggles of bush workers, swagmen, shearers, and settlers. Lawson captures the themes of rural life, of isolation, ...
Apr 29, 2025•4 min
The complete audiobook can be purchased at Audible .com: https://n9.cl/a2vut The Girls By Edna Ferber Narrated by Martha H. Weller The Girls is the story of three spinsters living in Chicago—an aunt, her niece, and her niece’s niece. The aunt has memories of the Civil War, and all three women have adjusted to the outbreak of the First World War. Generational changes, particularly in regard to romantic attachments, are a central feature of the book, which is also a fascinating portrait of the Chi...
Apr 29, 2025•5 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/ijxnp Sea Garden By H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) Read by Nancy Beard Hilda Doolittle was an American poet and novelist who was one of the founders of the Imagist movement, which includes such poetic luminaries as Ezra Pound and Richard Aldington, with both of whom Doolittle had romantic relationships. Sea Garden, a collection of 27 short poems, was published in 1916. The verse is characterized by an economy of expression an...
Apr 26, 2025•4 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/yjpgf The Escaped Cock By D. H. Lawrence Narrated by Patrick Barker The Escaped Cock is Lawrence’s take on resurrection, the life-force, and sexuality. The man who has been crucified wakes up in the garden wounded and weakened. Disillusioned with his old companions and inspired by the zest for life of the escaped cock of the title, he decides to live anew. Journeying to the sea, he stumbles on a temple of Isis, where ...
Apr 22, 2025•5 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/fue3r The Land By Vita Sackville-West Narrated by Patrick Barker Vita Sackville-West’s book length poem celebrates the landscapes and produce of the Weald of Kent. Divided into four parts—Winter, Spring, Summer, Autumn—it paints a vivid picture of the Kentish countryside across the year and the farming practices of the Kentish folk eking out a living on its unpredictable clayey soils. Published in 1926, the poem was a...
Apr 22, 2025•4 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/p0g1y The Jane Austen Omnibus Narrated by Catherine Bilson, Terah Tucker, Sarah Jane Rose, Graham Scott, Denis Daly and Linda Barrans. Jane Austen commenced writing in her adolescence and continued right up to her untimely death in 1817. Her novels are reflections of the socially constricted world in which she lived, and the plots are built around the search of one or more young women for a suitable spouse. Austen’s w...
Apr 16, 2025•5 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/oind6 The Pageants By William Shakespeare Comprising multicast performances of Henry V and Henry VIII Shakespeare’s history plays fall into two categories: political dramas and propagandistic pageants. The second category is comprised of the two plays in this presentation, Henry V and Henry VIII. These two plays have many elements in common. An underlying theme is the necessity and glory of government by sovereign roy...
Apr 16, 2025•5 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/ohdqkm The Dunciad In Four Books Edited by George Gilfillan By Alexander Pope Read by Denis Daly Alexander Pope was fiercely critical of writers whom he considered to have little talent and whom he liked to nominate as dunces. His most encyclopedic examination of these apostles of dullness is the Dunciad, a long satirical saga first published in a three book version in 1728. A variorium edition followed shortly afterw...
Apr 16, 2025•5 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/qjs3vd Jonah By Louis Stone Narrated by Gregory Dwyer A wonderful character-filled novel of Larrikin life in the poorer areas of early Sydney.Johah describes the social atmosphere of many of the working class, and in particular traces the change in the main character of Jonah, a hunchback, from his beginnings in life as a “streetarab” to rising successfully in the world of business with his own street smarts. The narr...
Apr 08, 2025•5 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/0dwpd Mornings in Mexico By D. H. Lawrence Narrated by Patrick Barker D. H. Lawrence’s homage to his travels in Mexico and the American southwest. The first four essays are products of a short visit to Oaxaca in Mexico. The following three, which include Lawrence’s classic account of the Hopi snake dance, are set in New Mexico. In the last essay, Lawrence remembers Saint Catherine’s Day at the ranch in Taos from the v...
Apr 03, 2025•5 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/k626f Few of Emily Dickinson’s poems were published in her lifetime. Her posthumous fame is largely due to the efforts of her editors and supporters Thomas W. Higginson and Mabel Loomis Todd. In the foreword to this second collection, published in 1891, Mabel Loomis Todd wrote: “The eagerness with which the first volume of Emily Dickinson’s poems has been read shows very clearly that all our alleged modern artificiali...
Apr 02, 2025•1 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/2ecoy For the Term of His Natural Life His Natural Life By Marcus Clarke Narrated by Gregory Dwyer For the Term of His Natural Life can be described as a “ripping yarn.” While it relies on slightly unrealistic coincidences, the story follows the (mis)fortunes of Rufus Dawes, a young man transported for a murder he did not commit. The story also explores the harsh environment and the often inhumane treatment meted out ...
Mar 19, 2025•5 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://www.audible.com/pd/B0F1GS32HW The Velveteen Rabbit By Margery Williams Bianco Read by Bria Sterling This classic children's story was first published in Harper's Bazaar in 1921.The story is an ingenious retelling of a popular myth in which an inanimate image of a creature becomes alive through the ardent desire of its owner. In this case, it is a toy rabbit that is brought to life by a fairy after supplying loving support t...
Mar 15, 2025•3 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com https://n9.cl/sltdb7 The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth By H. G. Wells Narrated by Martha H. Weller H. G. Wells first published The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth in 1904. He called it “a fantasia on the change of scale in human affairs… I had hit upon [the idea] while working out the possibilities of the near future in a book of speculations called Anticipations (1901).” This novel is about a group of scientis...
Mar 12, 2025•5 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/1yc5t The Magic Mountain By Thomas Mann Translated by Helen Lowe-Porter A new immersive edition for Audible Read by Steve Gough Sound design by Stephen Earley Original Music by Laurene Hope and Stephen Williamson Thomas Mann’s vivid, dramatic, and thought-provoking The Magic Mountain is firmly established as one of the classic epic novels of the twentieth century. Part surreal comedy, part grim tragedy, Mann’s story d...
Mar 08, 2025•4 min
The complete audibook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/kfkee The Mystery of Cabin Island The Hardy Boys Series By Franklin W. D Dixon Narrated by Gary D. MacFadden Frank and Joe are two teenage brothers who hope to follow in the footsteps of their father, a famous private detective. The Hardy Boys are joined by two friends, Chet and Biff, for a winter campout in a cabin on a remote island in Barmet Bay. But there seem to be others interested in the cabin, and a secret that...
Feb 26, 2025•4 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/jxdl6 Robbery Under Arms A Story of Life and Adventure in the Bush and in the Goldfields of Australia By Rolf Boldrewood Narrated by Gregory Dwyer Robbery Under Arms, together with Marcus Clarke’s For the Term of His Natural Life, is considered to be one of the seminal Australian novels of the nineteenth century. It is a barnstorming yarn, delivered in the first person by one Dick Marston, a vigorous and basically hon...
Feb 25, 2025•5 min
The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/pt8lv The Continental Op Casebook, Vol. 1 Book 1 in the Continental Op Stories Series By Dashiell Hammett Narrated by Gary D. MacFadden This collection contains nine early stories featuring the Continental Op, an un-named middle-aged detective working for the San Francisco branch of the fictional Continental Detective Agency. The stories are narrated in the first person. The “hardboiled detective” voice was later used...
Feb 25, 2025•5 min
