Collection: Audio CD

'No one can promise you that a life lived for others will bring you a deep sense of satisfaction, but it's certain that nothing else will.' Hugh Mackay has spent his entire working life asking Australians about their values, motivations, ambitions, hopes and fears. Now, in The Good Life, he addre...

Val was working as a land girl when the Americans arrived at the nearby airfield in 1944. Mike, a young American airman, came into her life soon after, and so too did Peter Woodhouse, a dog badly treated on a neighbouring farm and taken in by her aunt. Little persuasion was needed for Mike to tak...

Fern Castle works at her local library. She has dinner with her twin sister, Rose, three nights a week. And she avoids crowds, bright lights and loud noises as much as possible. Fern has a carefully structured life and disrupting her routine can be … dangerous. When Rose discovers that she canno...

April, 1940. Violet Millington is ready to rediscover the joy of living. As she waltzes into the palais to begin her new life of boosting morale in war swept London, she must leave her family's sorrow behind her. But soon Violet discovers she's not the only one with something they're running from...

Some lines should never be crossed. Police corruption, an investigation that ends in tragedy and the mystery of a little girl's silence, three unconnected events that will prove to be linked by one small town. While Detective Cormac Reilly faces enemies at work and trouble in his personal life, G...

When Olga’s friend Lara becomes a grandmother, Olga helps out whenever she can. After all, it’s a heavy burden on Lara, caring for her bereaved daughter and her baby grandson. And the new mother is not exactly considerate – she’s taken to her bed and all but rejected her little boy. But simmering...

A thrilling journey through the South Australian bush and along the mighty Murray River in the company of a determined heroine who would see justice done. Maggie O'Rourke has always had a hard head. No man was going to tie her down to a life of babies and domestic slavery, even if that man was a...

Goodwood is a small town where everyone knows everything about everyone. It's a place where it's impossible to keep a secret...In 1992, when Jean Brown is seventeen, a terrible thing happens. Two terrible things. Rosie White, the coolest girl in town, vanishes overnight. One week later, Goodwood'...

Love at first sight, on an ice floe, on a dream cruise. The sound of wedding bells soon after. Impossibly romantic, or so it seems... For mother-of-the-bride Grace, it is anything but. Years of caring for her beautiful and unpredictable daughter Leonie have left her wise and worn. As she watches ...

Jude is a 30-something sort-of musician made accidentally rich by a fortuitous business deal. Suddenly able to fund his obsession with wine and restaurants, he naturally embarks on a victory lap of Paris. While there, he is entrusted to open the Melbourne outpost of a beloved bistro and curate it...