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ID: 808806

Title: Everywhere We Look

Author: Martine Kropkowski

Narrator: Sonya Kerr

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:38:39

Language: English

Release date: 10-01-24

Publisher: Wavesound Audiobooks

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense

Summary:

Three friends travel to Marcoy, a regional town for a weekend away from family life. One year ago, a tragic incident splintered the group, and the women have seen little of each other since.

Melissa has slept much of the past twelve months away, and she hopes this weekend will help her re-emerge from the depression she's been living with. Bridie worries that she is not a good enough mother. She worries about most things, really, but she's dealing with things just fine. At least that's what she tells herself. In fact, she only agreed to this weekend away out of a sense of duty.

What Cassandra really needs is a break, so she's come away to forget it all, to enjoy a cab-sav and an open fire and the company of her long lost friends.

This weekend is about reconnecting, about enjoying their friendship the way they used to, while notat any costhaving to address the reason for the distance between them. But when they witness a young girl being coerced into a car by a father she fears, they are forced to reckon with the chasm of grief and trauma that's kept them apart.

Everywhere We Look explores domestic abuse, the dynamics of female friendship, and the danger that can hide in plain sight.

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ID: 790607

Title: Silent Voices

Author: Ann Cleeves

Narrator: Janine Birkett

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:24:31

Language: English

Release date: 10-01-24

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Detective Stories, Police Stories

Summary:

Silent Voices is the fourth book in Ann Cleeves’s Vera Stanhope series – which is now a major ITV detective drama starring Brenda Blethyn as Vera.

No murder is ever simple . . .

When DI Vera Stanhope finds the body of a woman in the sauna room of her local gym, at first, she thinks it is a death from natural causes. But then Vera spots ligature marks around the victim’s throat and has another murder case on her hands.

The victim is Jenny Lister, who was an experienced social worker, but her neighbours are quick to inform Vera about Jenny’s involvement in a notorious case. A young child tragically died and a member of Jenny’s team was subsequently fired and vilified by the media.

As Vera tries to pry information from the secretive community another body is found, and Vera finds herself in a race against time to stop the killer.

Enjoy more of Vera Stanhope's investigations with The Crow Trap, Telling Tales, and Hidden Depths.

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ID: 807106

Title: Prize Catch

Author: Alan Carter

Narrator: Jessica Douglas-Henry

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:02:33

Language: English

Release date: 10-01-24

Publisher: Wavesound Audiobooks

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense

Summary:

A quest for the truth becomes a race for survival in this pacy new crime novel from award-winning author Alan Carter.

When Roz Chen's wife, Niamh, is killed in a hit-and-run on a lonely Tasmanian road, the grieving widow begins to wonder if Niamh's death was an accident after all. Meanwhile, SAS veteran Sam Willard is hoping for a fresh start with a job at a salmon farm. But as allegations of old war crimes surface and Sam is 'promoted' as a special operative against anti-salmon farm activists, he and Roz form an unlikely alliance.

Forced to retreat into the unforgiving Tasmanian wilderness, Roz and Sam find themselves scrambling for the truth with murderous thugs on their trail.

Carter is a master of his craft' Herald Sun

An extremely intelligent thriller' The AU Review

An absolute stand-out' Australian Crime Fiction

Accomplished and entertaining' Sydney Morning Herald

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ID: 808804

Title: When It Rains

Author: Dave Warner

Narrator: Ric Herbert

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:27:21

Language: English

Release date: 10-01-24

Publisher: Wavesound Audiobooks

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense

Summary:

For Broome detective Dan Clement, it seems that crime is as plentiful as wet season rain.

When his sergeant is beaten up, and a woman is brutally assaulted, it seems like the same two suspects are behind both incidents. But when a woman's hand is discovered in crocodile-infested waters, things take a macabre turn. The stakes rise sky-high as Dan races against time to solve this complex and puzzling case.

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ID: 807105

Title: Uses for Obsession: A Chef's Memoir

Author: Ben Shewry

Narrator: Ben Shewry

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:11:38

Language: English

Release date: 10-01-24

Publisher: Wavesound Audiobooks

Genres: Biography & Memoir

Summary:

An intimate, searing and hopeful memoir meets manifesto that reframes the way we think about restaurants, cooking, hospitality, leadership and humanity from one of the most respected chefs in the world.

Chef and restaurateur Ben Shewry knows obsession well. Whether it's crispy-edged lasagne, saltwater crocodile ribs or the perfect potato, obsession is what motivates him and what makes him tick. It's also what has propelled his Melbourne restaurant Attica into the league of the most innovative, acclaimed dining experiences in the world, and one of the most vital in Australian history.

In this absorbing and wide-ranging memoir meets manifesto, Shewry applies his sometimes searing, sometimes comic eye to creative freedom in the kitchen, food journalism, sexism in hospitality, the fraud of the farm-to-table sustainability ethos, the cult of the chef, cooking as muse and the legendary Family Bolognese.

Raised on a farm in a close-knit rural New Zealand family, he shares how a childhood surrounded by nature and a reverence for First People's cultures has influenced his work, the values he lives by, and the meticulous, inventive multi-course menu that is synonymous with Attica. Uses for Obsession also tells the intimate, desperate story of how Attica survived 262 days with an empty dining room. How, during a time of epic hospitality transformation, it morphed into a takeaway food business, a merch shop and a summer camp. He was told it couldn't be done and that doubt both tortured and drove him.

At its heart, this is a positive story, an antidote to the macho chef culture that thrives on old ideas about leadership and success. Shewry prosecutes the compelling case for a new way forward. A bold blueprint for the restaurant - and workplace - of the future. One built on kindness, community, truth and a commitment to never giving up.

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ID: 807104

Title: Secrets of Whitewater Creek

Author: Sarah Barrie

Narrator: Nicolette Chin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:52:28

Language: English

Release date: 10-01-24

Publisher: Wavesound Audiobooks

Genres: Romance, General

Summary:

Jordan must save her farm from debt and sabotage can she place her trust in a man from out of town?

Born and bred on the land, Jordan Windcroft is brave and independent. She's had to be. Her life revolves around running her property almost single-handedly on next to no money, and waiting out her four years of probation a rap that she took for one of her closest friends for a crime she didn't commit.

Thankfully there's an end to her problems in sight. Jordan's probation period is almost up, and if she can just make the cattle sale, there's a chance she can pull herself out of more than ten years of serious debt and keep her precious farm. The last thing she needs is for Reid Easton to start monitoring her.

Detective Senior Sergeant Reid Easton drives into Whitewater Creek on a mission to wrap up a three-year drug investigation; his only lead, Jordan Windcroft. The attraction between the two is immediate, but Reid is undercover and Jordan has a secret she can't risk him discovering. Will either jeopardise their cause, for something as transitory as love or will they keep their secrets to themselves?

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ID: 792027

Title: Tough Justice: Countdown (Part 2 of 8)

Author: Carla Cassidy

Narrator: Annalee Scott

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3:23:00

Language: English

Release date: 10-01-24

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Romance, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Police Stories

Summary:

Tough Justice has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher.

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ID: 798492

Title: Rapture

Author: Emily Maguire

Narrator: Rose Akroyd

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:04:47

Language: English

Release date: 10-01-24

Publisher: Wavesound Audiobooks

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction

Summary:

An imaginative and audacious historical novel from the best-selling author of Love Objects and An Isolated Incident.

'Her self is an illusion yet it is one beloved by most everyone who has heard her speak . . . She is thirty-three years old and there is no one else in the world who knows who she used to be.'

The motherless child of an English priest living in ninth-century Mainz, Agnes is a wild and brilliant girl with a deep, visceral love of God. At eighteen, to avoid a future as a wife or nun, Agnes enlists the help of a lovesick Benedictine monk to disguise herself as a man and devote her life to the study she is denied as a woman.

So begins the life of John the Englishman: a matchless scholar and scribe of the revered Fulda monastery, then a charismatic heretic in an Athens commune and, by her middle years, a celebrated teacher in Rome. There, Agnes (as John) dazzles the Church hierarchy with her knowledge and wisdom and finds herself at the heart of political intrigue in a city where gossip is a powerfuland deadlycurrency.

And when the only person who knows her identity arrives in Rome, she will risk everything to once again feel what it is to be knownand loved.

Rapture is an astonishing, transformative and audacious novel that confirms Emily Maguire as one of our finest writers.

'Rapture is astonishing a scorching vision of a book. Drawing on history, legend, speculation and gossip, Maguire's medieval girl-Pope story is made of many things: flesh and earth and blood; ambition and abnegation; rage and transcendence, all pouring into this pagan, biblical, strange and mighty work from an imagination in soaring flight.' - Charlotte Wood, author of Stone Yard Devotional

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ID: 773252

Title: Iron Mike: My Life Behind the Bench

Author: Mike Keenan, Scott Morrison

Narrator: Wayne Ward

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:03:14

Language: English

Release date: 10-01-24

Publisher: Random House Canada

Genres: Sports & Recreation, Biography & Memoir, Other

Summary:

The must-read memoir of one of the NHL's most controversial and successful coaches—winner of the 1994 Stanley Cup with the New York Rangers.

In the fraternity of NHL coaches, some stand out for their winning records, some for their big personalities and some for their unprecedented methods. Mike Keenan stands out on all these counts, and more.

    Breaking into the NHL as head coach of the Philadelphia Flyers in 1984, Keenan got instant results, leading them to the Stanley Cup final in his first year. In 1987, he coached Team Canada to victory in the Canada Cup using his intuitive bench management, putting superstars Wayne Gretzky and Mario Lemieux together on a line at key times to great, winning results.

    Keenan’s teams succeeded at every level. With championships in university athletics, the OHL and AHL, it seemed only a matter of time before his resumé would include the ultimate prize. One of the NHL’s most valuable franchises, the New York Rangers, hadn’t won a Cup in fifty-four years—the league’s longest championship drought at the time. But with five-time Stanley Cup champion Mark Messier as captain of the star-studded Rangers lineup, there was only one thing missing for a championship run on Broadway: a coach who could focus all the talent and desire on victory. After a season of much controversy, in 1994 the Stanley Cup finally returned to Madison Square Garden, considered by many to be one of the greatest Cup wins by a US-based NHL team.

    In the hands of veteran sports journalist and bestselling author Scott Morrison, Iron Mike takes readers behind the scenes of one of the most explosive runs to the Cup in NHL history, one that Keenan shares at long last. There is only one Iron Mike in hockey, and love him or hate him, his memoir is an essential read for any fan of the game.

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ID: 798484

Title: Valley

Author: Chris Hammer

Narrator: Dorje Swallow

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:39:52

Language: English

Release date: 10-01-24

Publisher: Wavesound Audiobooks

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense

Summary:

The latest stunning thriller from the bestselling author of Scrublands and The Seven.

Nell Buchanan and Ivan Lucic are back as Nell is thrown into her most emotionally fraught investigation yet.

A controversial entrepreneur is murdered in a remote mountain valley, but this is no ordinary case. Ivan and Nell are soon contending with cowboy lawyers, conmen, bullion thieves and grave robbers.

But it's when Nell discovers the victim is a close blood relative, that the past begins to take on a looming significance.

What did take place in The Valley all those years ago? What was Nell's mother doing there, and what was her connection to troubled young police officer Simmons Burnside? And why do the police hierarchy insist Ivan and Nell stay with the case despite an obvious conflict of interest?

The Valley features a page-turning plot, intriguing characters, and an evocative sense of placewhere nothing is ever quite what it seems. Chris Hammer, the acclaimed and bestselling author of the international bestsellers Scrublands, Treasure & Dirt, The Tilt and The Seven, presents another immersive and emotionally-rewarding thriller.

'Hammer has confirmed and underlined his reputation as numbering among the very best novelists in detective fiction.' Sydney Morning Herald

'Chris Hammer at the height of his powers absolutely not to be missed!' Hayley Scrivenor, author of Dirt Town on The Tilt

'A darkly simmering mystery, gorgeously told Utterly brilliant.' Dervla McTiernan, author of The Ruin and What Happened to Nina?

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