Collection: Audio CD

'When the political debates of our age are past, there will always be our country. Our challenge – all of us – is to live here and call it home; our nation, this thing of the soul.' In this book, Australia Day, his long-awaited follow-up to the acclaimed memoir Talking to My Country, Stan Grant t...

On 11 August 1914, just days after war had been declared, Australian Captain J.T. Richardson boarded a German merchant vessel fleeing Melbourne's Port Phillip and audaciously seized a top-secret naval codebook. The fledgling Royal Australian Navy had an opportunity to immediately change the cours...

The ultimate collection of unbelievable true Australian stories: the unknown, the forgotten, and the surprising, the truly weird and the completely inexplicable. Did you know that in 1932 the Australian army was called out to wage war on an invading army of 20,000 emus? Or that the first royal pe...

It's Christmas time in 1905 New York City, and for once, Molly Murphy Sullivan is looking forward to the approaching holidays. She has a family of her own now. She and Daniel have a baby son and 12-year-old Bridie is living with them as their ward. As Molly and the children listen to carolers in ...

The brilliant duo, Detective Chief Inspector David Brock and Detective Sergeant Kathy Kolla, return to solve the brutal slaying of one of Britains̉ leading philosophers. Professor Springer was well-known for his stand against fundamentalism, but were his options reason enough to murder? Brock and...

When 15-year-old Marilyn Howe turns up alone and frightened on Inspector Ramsay's doorstep he has little choice but to invite her in. Marilyn and her mother, Kathleen, are a familiar sight around Heppleburn. But Kathleen has unaccountably failed to return home that evening. Ramsay takes the young...

Among the 28,000 inhabitants of Broken Hill there stalks a killer. Already two elderly bachelors have died horribly from cyanide poisoning. Now, two months later, Detective Inspector Napolean Bonaparte faces a cold trail, no motive, no clues. So Bony waits for what he believes to be inevitable, a...

Discover the resilient and inspiring people who live outside big Australian cities -- and indeed off the beaten track altogether. Defined by their strength and humility, these are characters whose grit and good humour will uplift and inspire. Based on the successful series hosted by Heather Ewart...

The year is 1969 and Jack Sheffield is a young teacher in need of a job. In a room full of 29 other newly qualified teachers, he's overjoyed when he's appointed to Heather View Primary. Jack is excited to start his first year there and to begin shaping young minds in a beautiful new location on t...

"At the height of her musical career, Indigo should be nothing but happy. But Indi is disillusioned with show business, finding herself depressed and lonely. When she reaches breaking point, a simple life back in the country begins to beckon her. But the demons left lingering in the shadows from ...