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Title: Foreign Soil

Author: Maxine Beneba Clarke

Narrator: Maxine Beneba Clarke

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-16-16

Publisher: Hachette Australia Audio

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

In this collection of award-winning stories, Melbourne writer Maxine Beneba Clarke has given a voice to the disenfranchised, the lost, the downtrodden and the mistreated. It will challenge you; it will have you by the heartstrings. This is contemporary fiction at its finest.

In Melbourne's western suburbs, in a dilapidated block of flats overhanging the rattling Footscray train lines, a young black mother is working on a collection of stories. The book is called Foreign Soil.

Inside its covers, a desperate asylum seeker is pacing the hallways of Sydney's notorious Villawood detention centre, a seven-year-old Sudanese boy has found solace in a patchwork bike, an enraged black militant is on the warpath through the rebel squats of 1960s Brixton, a Mississippi housewife decides to make the ultimate sacrifice to save her son from small-town ignorance, a young woman leaves rural Jamaica in search of her destiny, and a Sydney schoolgirl loses her way.

The young mother keeps writing; the rejection letters keep arriving....

Winner: Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Novelist 2015. Literary Fiction of the Year, Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) 2015. Debut Fiction, Indie Book Awards 2015. Victorian Premier's Unpublished Manuscript Award 2013. Shortlisted: The Stella Prize 2015. UTS Glenda Adams Debut Fiction, NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2015. ABIA Matt Richell Award for New Writers 2015. Victorian Premier's Literary Award 2015. Longlisted for the Dobbie Literary Award 2015.

Critic Reviews:

"An assured and skilful debut." (Weekend Australian)

"Foreign Soil is a collection of outstanding literary quality and promise. Clarke is a confident and highly skilled writer." (Hannah Kent, best-selling author of Burial Rites)

"Maxine Beneba Clarke is a powerful and fearless storyteller, and this collection - written with exquisite sensitivity and yet uncompromising - will stay with you with the force of elemental truth. Clarke is the real deal, and will, if we're lucky, be an essential voice in world literature for years to come." (Dave Eggers, best-selling author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius and many more)

"One of the most compelling voices in Australian poetry this decade." (Overland)

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Title: The Girls from Corona del Mar

Author: Rufi Thorpe

Narrator: Rebecca Lowman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-25-16

Publisher: Random House AudioBooks

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Longlisted for the 2014 Dylan Thomas Prize.

Mia and Lorrie Ann are lifelong friends: hard-hearted Mia and untouchably beautiful, kind Lorrie Ann. While Mia struggles with a mother who drinks, a pregnancy at 15, and younger brothers she loves but can't quite be good to, Lorrie Ann is luminous, surrounded by her close-knit family, immune to the mistakes that mar her best friend's life.

Until a sudden loss catapults Lorrie Ann into tragedy: things fall apart and then fall apart further - and there is nothing Mia can do to help. And as good, kind, brave Lorrie Ann stops being so good, Mia begins to question just who this woman is and what that question means about them both.

A staggeringly arresting, honest novel of love, motherhood, loyalty, and the myth of the perfect friendship that moves us to ask ourselves just how well we know those we love, what we owe our children and who we are without our friends.

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Title: The Iron Necklace

Author: Giles Waterfield

Narrator: Charlotte Strevens

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 45 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-16-15

Publisher: Oakhill Publishing

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

The wedding of Thomas, an idealistic German architect, and Irene, an English artist, brings together the Curtius and Benson families. But their peace is soon shattered by the outbreak of war in Europe.

While Irene struggles to survive in a country where she is the enemy, her sister, Sophia, faces the war as a nurse on the Western Front. For their brother, Mark, diplomatic service sees him moving between London, Washington and Copenahagen, all the while struggling to confront his own identity.

Against a backdrop of war and its aftermath, relationships are tested, sacrifices are made and Irene and her siblings strive to find their place in an evolving world.

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