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ID: 707162

Title: Love Contract

Author: Steph Vizard

Narrator: Hannah Fredericksen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:35:04

Language: English

Release date: 01-03-24

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Romance, Rom-Com, Contemporary, New Adult

Summary:

Can she (pretend to) love her neighbour?

An award-winning modern rom-com for all fans of fake dating, enemies-to-lovers stories.

I didn't know the guy next door. And given he was now my daughter's manny and my fake boyfriend, I needed to find out.

Single mum Zoe had the parenting thing all figured out with little Hazel until a childcare drought derailed her plans to return to work. Enter Will, Zoe's nemesis and frustratingly handsome neighbour. When Will's boss mistakenly assumes Will is Hazel's father and insists he take parental leave, it seems like a simple white lie could get Zoe out of a jam and help Will to make partner at his law firm.

But life with an adorable toddler – and a growing attraction between Will and Zoe – is never as tidy as their agreement's bullet points and dry clauses suggest. As they get deeper into the lie, the lines between truth and fiction blur. But Zoe's hiding a secret and when it comes out, the consequences for all of them could be devastating.

'A witty, warm page-turner about love, friendship and the glorious chaos of new motherhood. We're officially Steph Vizard's biggest fans.' Ali Berg and Michelle Kalus, The Book Ninja

'Crisp, sweet and delicate, The Love Contract is pure indulgence. Vizard's writing sucks you in and wrings you out. An ideal cosy weekend read.' Genevieve Novak, Crushing

'A snappy fun read about juggling your love life with motherhood and how messy it can all get in the best possible way.' Saman Shad, The Matchmaker

'A delightful, heart-warming read that left me with all the feels. Steph Vizard's engaging writing and endearing characters had me jumping headfirst into the story. Adorable and realistic, this is an absolute gem of a rom-com.' Karina May, author of Duck à l'Orange for Breakfast

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ID: 698441

Title: Lawson Legacy

Author: Janet Gover

Narrator: Rebecca Macauley

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:40:07

Language: English

Release date: 01-03-24

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Romance, Fiction & Literature, Contemporary, Family Life, Clean & Wholesome

Summary:

Beloved key characters from The Lawson Sisters return in a standalone rural romance about motherhood, family traditions and having the courage to chart a new future. A new novel from award-winning romance author Janet Gover.

Kayla Lawson believes nothing is good unless it's perfect. This search for perfection has made her a successful high-end wedding planner. But all that comes crashing down when Kayla discovers she's pregnant. She retreats to the sanctuary of Willowbrook Stud to consider this imperfect future as a single mother.

Connor Knight has never known perfection. A kid from the wrong side of the tracks and a motorcycle gang member, he's no stranger to trouble with the law. But he's trying to leave that past behind. By giving a run-down pub in Scone a new lease on life, he's hoping to rebuild his own.

At Willowbrook, Kayla is reunited with her childhood best friend. Jen and her two kids have come to stay while her husband is awaiting trial for a crime he didn't commit. While struggling to decide her future, Kayla is suddenly exposed to what motherhood really looks like.

When she meets Connor there's instant chemistry between them that can't be denied. But with her plans in tatters around her, is there any way to make the pieces fit? Or are the obstacles in front of them insurmountable?

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ID: 707155

Title: Love Contract

Author: Steph Vizard

Narrator: Hannah Fredericksen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:35:04

Language: English

Release date: 01-03-24

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Romance, Rom-Com, Contemporary, New Adult

Summary:

Can she (pretend to) love her neighbour?

An award-winning modern rom-com for all fans of fake dating, enemies-to-lovers stories.

I didn't know the guy next door. And given he was now my daughter's manny and my fake boyfriend, I needed to find out.

Single mum Zoe had the parenting thing all figured out with little Hazel until a childcare drought derailed her plans to return to work. Enter Will, Zoe's nemesis and frustratingly handsome neighbour. When Will's boss mistakenly assumes Will is Hazel's father and insists he take parental leave, it seems like a simple white lie could get Zoe out of a jam and help Will to make partner at his law firm.

But life with an adorable toddler – and a growing attraction between Will and Zoe – is never as tidy as their agreement's bullet points and dry clauses suggest. As they get deeper into the lie, the lines between truth and fiction blur. But Zoe's hiding a secret and when it comes out, the consequences for all of them could be devastating.

'A witty, warm page-turner about love, friendship and the glorious chaos of new motherhood. We're officially Steph Vizard's biggest fans.' Ali Berg and Michelle Kalus, The Book Ninja

'Crisp, sweet and delicate, The Love Contract is pure indulgence. Vizard's writing sucks you in and wrings you out. An ideal cosy weekend read.' Genevieve Novak, Crushing

'A snappy fun read about juggling your love life with motherhood and how messy it can all get in the best possible way.' Saman Shad, The Matchmaker

'A delightful, heart-warming read that left me with all the feels. Steph Vizard's engaging writing and endearing characters had me jumping headfirst into the story. Adorable and realistic, this is an absolute gem of a rom-com.' Karina May, author of Duck à l'Orange for Breakfast

Contact: [email protected]

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ID: 699571

Title: Escapades of Tribulation Johnson

Author: Karen Brooks

Narrator: Felicity Jurd

Format: Unabridged

Length: 19:31:14

Language: English

Release date: 01-03-24

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction

Summary:

From the author of The Good Wife of Bath comes this brilliant recreation of the vibrant, optimistic but politically treacherous world of London's Restoration theatre, where we are introduced to the remarkable playwright Aphra Behn, now a feminist icon but then an anomaly, who gravitated to the stage - a place where artifice and disguise are second nature and accommodates those who do not fit in.

'Karen Brooks demonstrates her considerable talent for capturing the historical moment in this richly told, immersive read that will acquaint readers with a woman whose name we should all know. ' Pip Williams, author of The Bookbinder of Jericho

It's 1679 and into the tumult, politics and colour of Restoration London and its lively theatre scene comes the fierce and opinionated Tribulation Johnson. Cast out from her family as ungodly and unworthy, Tribulation is determined to forge her own remarkable path.

Arriving in London, Tribulation is astonished to discover that the widowed cousin she's been sent to live with is none other than the most infamous woman in London: the former spy and traitor's mistress, the playwright and polemical poetess, Aphra Behn. Tribulation cannot believe her good fortune as she is thrust into city life and the heady, mercurial milieu of the theatre. Under Aphra's guidance, Tribulation is encouraged to write, think and speak for herself. But women aren't supposed to have a voice, or ideas, let alone wield a pen and write for a living, and there are harsh consequences for those who don't obey society's rules.

Together, Aphra and Tribulation must not only face vilification and mockery but terrible danger as plots to overturn the monarchy gather pace. When someone from Aphra's complicated past reappears, the women's loyalties - to King, country, and ultimately each other - are bitterly tested. Can their relationship survive the burning fires of religious hatred, suspicion and deceit?

When everyone plays a part, and all the world's a stage, who you trust?

Praise for Karen Brooks

'So damn readable and fun ... This is the story of a woman fighting for her rights; it breaches the walls of history.' The Australian

''All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn'. Karen Brooks has done better. She has revived Aphra and her words.' The Newtown Review of Books

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ID: 722500

Title: She Started It

Author: Sian Gilbert

Narrator: Anne-Marie Piazza, Billie Fulford-Brown, Ella Lynch, Ione Butler, Sarah Cullum, Sarah Ovens

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:13:12

Language: English

Release date: 12-14-23

Publisher: PGRH UK

Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense

Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin.

Lord of the Flies meets And Then There Were None...but with Instagram and too much Prosecco.

THIS IS THE HEN DO TO END ALL HEN DOS. AND YOU'RE INVITED...

Poppy Greer is getting married and four of her old schoolmates are to be her trusted bridesmaids. They may have drifted but true friendships last a lifetime, don't they? Plus, who would pass on a free first-class ticket to white sands and bottomless cocktails on a private Caribbean island?

But the women have underestimated their host, and each other. And as their darkest secrets are revealed, the trip of their dreams becomes the hen do from hell.

Will anyone make it off the island alive?

©2023 Sian Gilbert (P)2023 Penguin Audio

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ID: 692535

Title: Sunshine Through the Rain

Author: Penelope Janu

Narrator: Cecelia Ramsdale

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:44:42

Language: English

Release date: 11-29-23

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Historical Romance, Rom-Com, Contemporary

Summary:

For readers of Karly Lane, Fleur McDonald, Maya Linnell and Rachael Johns - a heartfelt and fresh rural romance about trust, hope and finding your place in life from an award winning and much loved author.

Country vet Primrose Cartwright knows more about heartache than most but in the close-knit community of Ballimore, she's found a place to call home. Prim has her work and the love of her sisters, and she doesn't need anything else - certainly not Blake Sinclair.

The new vet in town, Scotsman Blake has a love-them-and-leave-them reputation. He is curiously protective of Prim, but his privileged upbringing and jet-set life are nothing like her own. Prim has tried - and failed - at the dating game. Even if there's a burning attraction between them, the last man she could ever trust is Blake.

Blake finds Prim fiercely independent, vulnerable, and unlike any other woman he has ever known. But Prim won't tell him her secrets unless he tells her his own, and Blake's pain is buried deep.

Will Prim's determination to unravel the mystery that threatens her career bring Prim and Blake together or tear them apart? As the storm clouds gather, can Prim and Blake confront their painful pasts and create a future together? Will they find the sunshine through the rain?

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ID: 704958

Title: Country of Eternal Light

Author: Paul Dalgarno

Narrator: Fiona Macleod

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:17:06

Language: English

Release date: 11-29-23

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Family Life

Summary:

An astonishingly inventive, playful, witty, poignant and deeply moving novel from one of Australia's most exciting writers.

Shortlisted for THE AGE BOOK OF THE YEAR and THE READINGS NEW AUSTRALIAN FICTION PRIZE in 2023.

Margaret Bryce, deceased mother of twins, has been having a hard time since dying in 2014. These days she spends time with her daughters - Eva in Madrid, and Rachel and her family in Melbourne - and her estranged husband, Henry, in Aberdeen. Mostly she enjoys the experience of revisiting the past, but she's tiring of the seemingly random events to which she repeatedly bears witness. There must be something more to life, she thinks. And death.

Spanning more than seventy-five years, from 1945 to 2021, A Country of Eternal Light follows Margaret as she flits from wartime Germany to Thatcher's Britain to modern-day Scotland, Australia and Spain, ruminating on everything from the Piper Alpha oil rig disaster and Australia's Black Summer bushfires to Mary Queen of Scots' beheading, the death of Princess Diana and in-vitro fertilisation. But why is facing up to what's happened in one's past as hard as, if not harder than, blocking it out completely? A poignant, utterly original and bitingly funny novel about complicated grief and how we remain wanted by our loved ones, dead or alive.

PRAISE FOR A COUNTRY OF ETERNAL LIGHT

'Inventive and moving ... superb' The Australian

'A startlingly ambitious novel ... astonishingly accomplished, bittersweet, poignant and funny. Paul Dalgarno has gifted the world something quite rare. A novel that is not only an immersive, engaging, and entertaining read, but one that makes us think. The year is young indeed, but I am quietly confident this wonderful novel might well be my favourite read for 2023.' Readings

'Playful ... shimmering ... a delight ... [Dalgarno] is an author whose sense of playfulness establishes the terms and conditions of an eminently readable narrator: charismatic yet patient, moulded by an elastic sense of the plausible, and yet anchored by exactly the right feeling for the truths that matter most when confronted with the long view of a life in full.' Sydney Morning Herald

'Often playful and always deep, an underlying sadness penetrates these pages. Then again, so does joy, with passages capable of eliciting laughter and tears in quick succession ... these reruns of life combine humour and heart with beautiful prose, in glorious detail ... A Country of Eternal Light overflows with beauty and pain, twin concepts with emotional tendrils that are irrevocably intertwined. A subtle sense of foreboding permeates this stunning narrative about the ephemeral nature of human life, culminating in a conclusion capable of cracking a reader in two.' Artshub

'Prepare to have your heart broken and mended and broken again ... Paul Dalgarno writes with mischievous delight and compassionate intelligence. I gasped in sheer wonder on finishing this illuminating meditation on the demands of grief, time and love that fragment and bind a family; Mary Shelley would clap her hands in delight at such an audacious creation' - Josephine Taylor, author of Eye of a Rook

'Luminous, transportive, A Country of Eternal Light takes us on a metaphysical literary journey that interrogates the nature of death while exploring the outer limits of grief.

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ID: 707158

Title: Secret Sparrow

Author: Jackie French

Narrator: Edwina Wren

Format: Unabridged

Length: 05:48:00

Language: English

Release date: 11-29-23

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Kids, Action & Adventure, Historical

Summary:

This is the story of women who fought during WWI, but not as nurses or ambulance drivers.

In 1917 sixteen-year-old Jean McLain is working as a post-office assistant in England. But when she wins a national Morse code competition, the British army makes a request Jean cannot refuse – to take a secret position as a signaller in France.

If Jean can keep the signals flowing between headquarters and the soldiers at the Front, Britain might possibly win the war.

But the British army are determined to hide its desperation – and will go on to burn every document that showed how women and girls were working behind the scenes, in the trenches and even in battles during World War I.

Decades later, an old woman tells the story of 'the telegraph girl': the friends she lost, the man who loved her, and the happiness she so surprisingly found again.

Based on true events, this story of adventure, courage and unshakable loyalty restores women and girls to their place in history that the authorities tried to erase.

AWARDS

Longlisted - 2024 Book Links Award for Children's Historical Fiction

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ID: 707157

Title: Emergency Exit Only

Author: Michelle Upton

Narrator: Elizabeth Brennan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:35:16

Language: English

Release date: 11-29-23

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Romance, Fiction & Literature, Contemporary, Family Life

Summary:

No evacuation plan, no safety net ... Sometimes you just have to save yourself.

A hilarious, big-hearted story about second chances from the author of Terms of Inheritance

'Whimsical and heartfelt ... A great beach read with an unforgettable heroine' Sophie Green

'This fantastic up and coming writer makes you feel like anything is possible in this hilarious tale about second chances' Review, Weekend Australian

'Hilarious, ingenious and inspiring' Better Reading

Amelia Harris has played it safe all her life - but when a minor accident lands her in hospital, she dramatically quits the tedious office job she's been working at for a decade.

When her mother, Toni, asks her what she wants to do, Amelia is at a loss. Out of sheer desperation, she tries her hand at the dream jobs she's always fantasised about. Soon Amelia's shadowing a thrilling cast of characters and professions - as a journalist, a florist, a wedding planner, a zookeeper, and more. Life couldn't be more exciting, especially when she meets the man of her dreams.

But when Toni drops a truth bomb about their family, Amelia's whole world tilts on its axis. Meanwhile, each new job starts taking on a life of its own. Has she created a monster?

As she's about to find out, where there's smoke, there's fire, and sometimes you just have to save yourself.

PRAISE FOR EMERGENCY EXIT ONLY

'Hilarious, ingenious and inspiring ... the perfect balance of feel-good and thought-provoking' Better Reading

'Emily Henry in the Queensland sunshine ... The perfect summer read' Hannah May Reads

'Amelia Harris is the heroine you didn't know you needed but you'll be very glad you met. Whimsical and heartfelt, Emergency Exit Only leads you directly to a great beach read with an unforgettable heroine' Sophie Green, author of Weekends with the Sunshine Gardening Society

'I adored Amelia's journey of self-discovery ... A fun read with a truckload of heart about following your dreams - and discovering exactly what those dreams are' Kelli Hawkins, author of Apartment 303

'A heartfelt tribute to family ties, the relationships that bind us and appreciating what we already have ... Inspiring' Books + Publishing

'A sweet summer read with charming, nostalgic rom com vibes and a touching heart' Vanessa McCausland, author of Dreaming in French

'A relatable romp that proves that it's never too late to find your way' Clare Fletcher, author Love Match

'Upbeat and full of heart, Emergency Exit Only is guaranteed to make you smile. A tender, funny tale about the pursuit of a happier life. Michelle's storytelling is delightful' Jessica Seaborn, author of Perfect-ish

'Divine ... Upbeat, funny and with characters who will make you laugh and cry' Meredith Jaffe, author of The Tricky Art of Forgiveness

'Funny, poignant and thought-provoking, Emergency Exit Only is a delightful read from start to finish.' Penelope Janu, author of Shelter from the Storm

'Funny, relatable and warm-hearted, this story is a joy' Cass Moriarty, author of Parting Words

'A sparkling, feel-good story about second chances and opening yourself up to possibilities. I absolutely loved it' Claudine Tinellis, Talking Aussie Books

'Fun, fast and completely full of heart.

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ID: 707152

Title: Good Influence

Author: Zac Perna

Narrator: Zac Perna

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:58:13

Language: English

Release date: 11-29-23

Publisher: HarperAudio

Genres: Self Development, Health & Wellness, Diet & Nutrition

Summary:

Find the motivation to live your best life and get into your best shape with social media influencer Zac Perna

Consider this your personal (and hilarious) road map to becoming a lean and happy good influence in your own life. Let's begin.

People worldwide know fitness guru Zac Perna for his informative, motivating, curious and very funny social media content. In this book Zac goes deeper, wider and more intimate than ever before. With lots of information about diet, nutrition, exercise and fitness, Zac also reflects on pivotal lessons he's learned about confidence, resilience and what it takes to create something tangible out of your dreams.

Zac has done the hard work so you don't have to struggle through the same journey. Drawing on his experience establishing a mega social media brand, a hugely successful fitness-coaching business and the Slouch Potato pyjama brand, and on his extensive health knowledge, Zac offers life lessons through intimately personal and at times unbelievable anecdotes that will make you laugh, reflect on your own life, then laugh some more.

If you want a new start, need a bit of encouragement or just want to be inspired, Good Influence is here to help you create healthy habits and become the very best version of yourself.

Contact: [email protected]