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ID: 786715

Title: Temperature

Author: Katerina Gibson

Narrator: Anthea Greco

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:50:25

Language: English

Release date: 09-03-24

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Australia

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Contemporary Women, LGBTQ+

Summary:

A tweet. A storm. A secret. A revelation. In this age of isolation, what brings six very different people together?

Fi is about to get fired over a viral tweet.

Lexi Bostick is losing her grip on the environmental organisation she’s devoted decades of her life to. Sidney is avoiding everyone—including the persistent stranger who keeps coming into the café bookstore where she’s been hiding since she dropped out of her PhD. Govita is living in their studio space illegally and taking ketamine instead of working on their art. Somehow, they’ve also managed to adopt a dog. Thirty-something single dad Tomas watches too many movies alone at night—visited by memories of the housemate who once made the place feel like a home.

 

And then there’s Henry, a Vietnam veteran aging out in rural isolation, writing hateful letters to the person he blames for ruining his life …

 

Written with an extraordinary range of understanding, The Temperature is a compelling portrait of life in our fracturing society. Following the award-winning Women I Know, it confirms Katerina Gibson as one of the most ambitious, engaging and significant of our emerging writers.

‘Gibson is a masterful storyteller. These characters became kin, their humanity palpable and familiar. I am obsessed.’ Ella Baxter, author of New Animal 

‘An exquisite, complex and timely novel … With sharp awareness and a wry playfulness, The Temperature explores the questions, connections and devastating truths of the times we find ourselves in.’ Else Fitzgerald, author of Everything Feels Like the End of the World

 

‘A smart, tender and sometimes deliciously vicious study of six very different people trying to find their way through broken times.’ Kate Mildenhall, author of The Hummingbird Effect

 

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ID: 773676

Title: Warra Warra Wai: How Indigenous Australians discovered Captain Cook, and what they tell about the coming of the Ghost People

Author: Craig Cormick, Darren Rix

Narrator: Lewis Fitz-Gerald, Wayne Blair

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:21:00

Language: English

Release date: 09-03-24

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Australia

Genres: History, Non-Fiction, Social Science, Australia & Oceania

Summary:

For the first time, the First Nations story of Cook’s arrival, and what blackfellas want everyone to know about the coming of Europeans

Both 250 years late and extremely timely, this is an account of what First Nations people saw and felt when James Cook navigated their shores in 1770. 

We know the European story from diaries, journals and letters. For the first time, this is the other side. Who were the people watching the Endeavour sail by? How did they understand their world and what sense did they make of this strange vision? And what was the impact of these first encounters with Europeans? The answers lie in tales passed down from 1770 and in truth-telling of the often more brutal engagements that followed.

Darren Rix (a Gunditjmara-GunaiKurnai man, radio reporter and Archie Roach’s nephew) and his co-author Craig Cormick travelled to all the places on the east coast that were renamed by Cook, and listened to people’s stories. With their permission, these stories have been woven together with the European accounts and placed in their deeper context: the places Cook named already had names; the places he ‘discovered’ already had peoples and stories stretching back before time; and although Cook sailed on, the empire he represented impacted the people’s lives and lands immeasurably in the years after.

‘Warra Warra Wai’ was the expression called to Cook and his crew when they tried to make landfall in Botany Bay. It has long been interpreted as ‘Go away’, but is perhaps more accurately translated as ‘You are all dead spirits’. In adding the First Nations version of these first encounters to the story of Australian history, this is a book that will sit on Australian shelves alongside Cook’s Journals, Dark Emu and The Fatal Shore as one of our foundational texts.

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ID: 763062

Title: Venice Hotel

Author: Tess Woods

Narrator: Imogen Sage, Kristy Best, Lucia Mastrantone, Suzi Dougherty

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14:46:00

Language: English

Release date: 09-03-24

Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia Audio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, General

Summary:

When the lives of four very different women become entangled in a boutique Venice hotel, dark secrets unravel and not everyone who checked into the hotel will check out again.

Signora Loretta Bianchi, the world famous cook at Venice's Hotel Il Cuore, is forced to choose between once-in-a-lifetime passion and her devoted husband.

Sophie, on assignment in Venice as a food writer, finds a lot more than Signora Bianchi's secret recipes to love, but what is the charming Rocco hiding?

Law graduate Elena is sinking just like the endangered city she's returned home to, and she'll stop at nothing to be free from her marriage.

Grandmother Gayle's dream Venetian holiday turns sinister as she finds herself embroiled in a life or death escape.

Set against a backdrop of the romance and tragedy of magical Venice, The Venice Hotel explores the powerful bonds that develop between women in times of crisis, and the healing power of female connection.

'I completely fell in love with the women of the Venice Hotel' - Nicola Moriarty

'A love letter to a gorgeous city, crafted with such rich detail, I felt I knew every character to the core.' - Melina Marchetta

'The perfect combination of juicy drama and heartrending emotion' - Rachael Johns

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ID: 793732

Title: Going Under: A memoir of family secrets, addiction and escape

Author: Seana Smith

Narrator: Seana Smith

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:48:20

Language: English

Release date: 09-03-24

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Australia

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Health & Wellness, Marriage & Family, Women

Summary:

From the outside, Seana Smith lived an enviable life. An Oxford graduate, a successful career with the BBC and Sydney’s Channel 9, a bestselling author, happily married. But behind this perfect life she had a secret: Seana was a drinker, and alcohol was slowly taking away her life, destroying her health, her emotional well-being, her world. 

With engaging style and wit, Going Under reveals the true story behind Seana’s lifelong battle with drink. It lays bare a confusing childhood of Scottish sailing adventures and also brutal violence from her bullying, alcoholic father; where punches were thrown, broken bones hidden and her family lived in fear.

Learning from the best, Seana drank her way through tutorials at Oxford University (which were held in the pub), through the sexual misadventures of her twenties and through the intensity and mundanity of motherhood. 

It took the death of her parents and a tree-change to Orange in regional NSW for Seana to find the courage to break free; a new life in a new world. She had finally left the past behind.

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ID: 778287

Title: Human Design Made Simple: Unlock your strengths & discover your true purpose

Author: Emma Dunwoody

Narrator: Emma Dunwoody

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:10:00

Language: English

Release date: 09-03-24

Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia Audio

Genres: Self Development, Health & Wellness

Summary:

Human Design gives us the blueprint to our personality: our strengths and weaknesses, our energy type, who we work best with, how we communicate, strategise, and so much more. Behavioural Specialist, Master Coach and Neuro-Linguistic Programming expert Emma Dunwoody reveals the power of a new modern method, Transformational Human Design, in simple steps, teaching you how to integrate the knowledge into your everyday, moving from thinking to feeling, and transform your life.

Drawing inspiration from many different schools of wisdom, including the chakras, Tree of Life, I Ching and Western astrology, Human Design is a system based on our time and date of birth, illustrated as a unique chart that reveals our opportunities, challenges, personality, strengths, relationships and much more.

Through Human Design, you can tap into a detailed and unique toolkit to help you unlock your true power. Human Design Made Simple will show you how to:

- find out what your Internal Guidance is, and how you can harness it

- discover what your energy type is, and tap into its power

- stop striving to be someone you're not and feel comfortable in your own skin

- understand your intuition, personality, habits, relationships, and more

Personal and easy-to-understand, Human Design Made Simple will show how to apply your new understanding to day-to-day living. Through Transformational Human Design you'll find ways to recondition your habits, find your true purpose and truly live life to the full.

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ID: 717412

Title: Daydream

Author: Hannah Grace

Narrator: CJ Bloom, Emmanuel Ingram

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13:21:21

Language: English

Release date: 09-03-24

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Australia

Genres: Romance, Rom-Com, Contemporary, Sports

Summary:

The third installment in the bestselling Maple Hills series follows fan-favourite Henry and a bookish fellow student who come up with a plan to help each other in and out of the classroom.  

 

When procrastination lands him in a difficult class with his least favorite professor, Henry Turner knows he’s going to have to work extra hard to survive his junior year of college. And now with his new role as ice hockey captain – which he didn’t even want – Henry absolutely cannot fail. Enter Halle Jacobs, a fellow junior who finds herself befriended by Henry when he accidentally crashes her book club.

 

Halle may not have the romantic pursuits of her favorite fictional leads, but she’s an academic superstar, and when she hears about Henry’s problems with his class reading material, she offers to help. But being a private tutor isn’t exactly ideal given her own studies, job and the novel she’s trying to write. New experiences are the key to beating her writer’s block, though, and Henry’s promising to be the one to give them to her.

 

They just need to stick to their rulebook. Oh, and not fall in love.

Note: Daydream contains 18+ content and is not suitable for younger readers.

 

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ID: 765851

Title: Fog

Author: Brooke Hardwick

Narrator: Naomi Frederick

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:57:30

Language: English

Release date: 09-03-24

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Australia

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense

Summary:

In this spine-chilling gothic thriller, a woman on the brink travels to a remote writers’ retreat to uncover the secrets of her past and lands herself in a deadly situation that could destroy her future.

Kate arrives on the wild, remote island of Rathlin in the freezing Irish Channel for a ten-day writers’ retreat. Plagued by memories she can’t unravel and desperate to understand the breakdown of her marriage, Kate is determined to leave the retreat with answers.

As the retreat’s director uses techniques that tap into the eerie mythology of the island, Kate becomes increasingly fascinated by him and her surrounds. But when the temperature plummets and the strange therapy intensifies, her memories unspool. Triggered into a series of disturbing flashbacks, Kate realises her past hides a frightening truth, but can she trust her own mind?

Faced with dark secrets and duplicity, Kate must unlock the answers she’s so desperate to find – and survive the danger she has unwittingly walked into.

Praise for The Fog

‘An eerily atmospheric debut … this was such a compelling read, very much enhanced by the interweaving of folklore and the rapid exchange of past and the present as the protagonist grapples with her memory of disturbing events.’

Anna Downes, author of Red River Road

‘The Fog is a haunting debut that delves into the human psyche and our ability to cope when pushed to extremes ... This dark, eerie read will keep you on edge until the very last page.’ Petronella McGovern, author of The Last Trace

‘A mind-bending gut punch of a novel. I had my heart in my mouth the entire time I was reading!’ Dinuka McKenzie, author of Taken

‘In this smouldering novel, past and present collide as secrets are unlocked and dangers lurk around every corner. Brooke Hardwick is a master of tension and suspense.’ Vikki Petraitis, author of The Unbelieved

‘This gothic thriller about control and manipulation is deeply unsettling and eerie in the best possible way, with atmosphere to spare, assured writing and a remote island setting that’s a character in its own right.’ Kate Riordan, author of Summer Fever

‘Suffused with a creeping sense of dread and an eclectic cast of characters, The Fog is an accomplished debut that draws deeply on its evocative setting to pull the reader into a dark secret.’ Amanda Reynolds, author of Close to Me

‘The Fog is a beautifully written, utterly absorbing and atmospheric thriller. I tore through it.’ Katy Brent, author of The Murder After the Night Before

‘I raced through this enigmatic and unsettling debut.’ Emma Styles, author of No Country for Girls

 

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ID: 768870

Title: Capture or Kill

Author: Don Bentley, Vince Flynn

Narrator: Steven Weber

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:47:00

Language: English

Release date: 09-03-24

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Australia

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Political Thriller, Espionage

Summary:

Mitch Rapp faces an old foe from Iran in the new thriller in Vince Flynn's #1 New York Times bestselling series, now written by bestselling author Don Bentley.

In 2011, on a remote Iranian mountain, a group of high-level officials have just witnessed the successful demonstration of a new weapons system meant to upend the American-led war in Afghanistan by essentially decimating the population.

The intelligence officer recognises what this development signifies even if his contemporaries do not. A fellow participant seems to agree with the intelligence officer’s reticence, remarking that he wished there was someone they could tell about this madness. But there is someone the intelligence officer can tell. One man who might just make a difference.

In D.C., CIA Director Irene Kennedy presents the President with news that Bin Laden may have been found, but the President wants proof of Bin Laden's presence, and he only trusts one man to provide it.

In Pakistan, Mitch Rapp encounters Azad Ashani, director of the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence and Security, the master spy who once functioned as Irene Kennedy’s back channel to the Iranian government. Ashani owes Rapp, and he intends to settle his debt by providing a piece of intelligence about an American special operations team in Afghanistan, about to interdict a high value target. However, Ashani knows the new Iranian weapons plan is a trap, and to stop it, he's willing to partner with only one man: Rapp.

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ID: 813934

Title: To Slay a Curse

Author: Rae Graham

Narrator: Rae Graham

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:10:59

Language: English

Release date: 08-29-24

Publisher: Authors Republic

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Religious Fiction

Summary:

A parasitic monster. A timid young woman. A deadly inner world.

Giselle is cursed. A monster lives within her, preying upon her mind. She sees no hope for her future when thoughts disappear as they form, and every small pleasure is met with a fit of pain. Then her closest friend offers her a single, harrowing chance at freedom. Terrified that failure is inevitable, but desperate for the life stolen from her, she sets out to slay her curse armed with a magical talisman. Now, the girl who cant do anything right must defeat the beast within before her dreamsnare fills, or risk dying trapped in her own mind.

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ID: 812142

Title: Three Months to Forever

Author: Hudson Lin

Narrator: Curtis Michael Holland, David Lee Huynh

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:06:04

Language: English

Release date: 08-28-24

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Romance, LGBTQ, Contemporary

Summary:

Ben is looking for an adventure when he accepts a temporary assignment in Hong Kong, but he never anticipated how his life might change when he meets a sophisticated older man named Sai. Their initial attraction is sizzling and soon grows into more as Sai takes Ben on a tour of the citys famous landmarks and introduces him to the local cuisine. Sai stimulates Bens intellect and curiosity, and for jaded corporate lawyer Sai, Bens innocent eagerness is a breath of fresh air. It would be so easy to fall in love.

But nothing is that simple. Sais job forces him to do things that violate his morals, and his relationship with his family is a major obstacle to any lasting relationship with Ben. For Ben, he misses his family back in Toronto, and can he really leave behind his home for a man hes only known for a short time? With the clock ticking, they must decide whether to risk it all and turn three months into forever.

Three Months to Forever is an interracial/multicultural MM romance with fish out of water, grumpy/sunshine, and age gap tropes. Plus yachting, horse racing, hiking, and all the food and culture of Hong Kong.

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