Collection: Audio CD

aPeter Palafox, son of a poor Irish parson, has never even seen a ship before signing on as a midshipman on the Centurion to seek his fortune. Together with his lifelong friend Sean O'Mara, he embarks on a journey in which they encounter disease, disaster, shipwreck and success, growing through m...

It's 1894. Jordan Wallace and Sadie Wagoner appear to have little in common. Jordan, a middle-aged black teacher, lives in segregated Chicago. Two thousand miles away, Sadie, the white wife of an ambitious German businessman, lives in more tolerant Oakland, California. But years ago, their famili...

Crimson Lake is where bad people come to disappear, and where eight-year-old boys vanish into thin air. On the fifth floor of the White Caps Hotel, four young friends are left alone while their parents dine downstairs. But when Sara Farrow checks on the children at midnight, her son is missing. T...

UN surgeon Rachel Forester is posted at a remote medical clinic deep in the jungle of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. With violence escalating in the region, Dr Forester risks her life by remaining to tend an injured child while the rest of her team evacuates. On the cusp of her final despe...

It all starts with a promise from a stranger: 'We’ll take care of everything.' Holly Kendrick’s husband is dead. Holly saw it all. In one violent moment, a hit-and-run accident turns Holly’s life upside down. Then a fixer for the high-powered guilty party approaches Holly with an offer she is in ...

Three tales of the Old West. When Speedy overhears a conversation between the outlaw Lynch brothers, planning a kidnapping and murder, he's determined to stop the crime before it occurs. The would-be killer is well-mounted, while Speedy has only a mule - but he may be able to succeed by outwittin...

'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...