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Audiobooks to keep you company
Whether you’re an audiobook aficionado or keen to try them out for the first time, here are our recommendations for the back-to-work commute (or just hanging in the house).
Salt
A collection of stories and essays by the award-winning author of Dark Emu, Salt traverses Bruce Pascoe’s long career and explores his enduring fascination with Australia’s landscape, culture and history. Narrated by the author.
Bolinda | Audible | Apple Books | Borrowbox
See What You Made Me Do
Combining forensic research with riveting storytelling, See What You Made Me Do radically rethinks how to confront the national crisis of fear and abuse in our homes. Dive into the 2020 Stella Prize winner, narrated by Jess Hill herself.
Act of Grace
Crossing the frontiers of war, protest and reconciliation, Act of Grace intertwines characters in a brilliant narrative of guilt and reckoning, trauma and survival. Enter the world of this Miles Franklin–longlisted novel.
Audible | Wavesound | Scribd | Apple Books
Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia
What is it like to grow up Aboriginal in Australia? This anthology, compiled by award-winning author Anita Heiss, showcases many diverse voices and experiences in order to answer that question. Listen to these stories of family, country and belonging.
Audible | Wavesound | Apple Books | Overdrive
The Godmother
With a gallery of traffickers, dealers, police officers and politicians, and an unforgettable woman at its centre, Hannelore Cayre’s bestselling noir novel casts a piercing and darkly humorous gaze on the criminal underworld of contemporary France.
Bolinda | Audible | Google Play | Apple Books | BorrowBox
About the authors
Bruce Pascoe is an award-winning writer and a Yuin, Bunurong and Tasmanian man. He is a board member of First Languages Australia and Professor of Indigenous Knowledge at the University of Technology Sydney. In 2018 he was named Dreamtime Person of the Year for his contribution to Indigenous culture.
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Jess Hill is an investigative journalist and the author of See What You Made Me Do and the Quarterly Essay The Reckoning. She has been a producer for ABC Radio and journalist for Background Briefing, and Middle East correspondent for The Global Mail. Her reporting on domestic abuse has won two Walkley awards, an Amnesty International award and three Our Watch awards. See What You Made Me Do won the 2020 Stella Prize …
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Anna Krien is the author of the award-winning Night Games and Into the Woods, as well as two Quarterly Essays, Us and Them and The Long Goodbye. Anna’s writing has been published in The Monthly, The Age, Best Australian Essays, Best Australian Stories and The Big Issue. In 2014 she won the UK William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award, and 2018 she received a Sidney Myer Fellowship. Act of Grace, her debut novel, is out now.
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Dr Anita Heiss AM is the author of non-fiction, historical fiction, commercial women's fiction, poetry, social commentary and travel articles. She is a Lifetime Ambassador of the Indigenous Literacy Foundation and a proud member of the Wiradjuri nation of central NSW. Anita was a finalist in the 2012 Human Rights Awards and the 2013 Australian of the Year Awards. In 2022 she was awarded an Order of Australia Medal. She lives in Brisbane.
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Hannelore Cayre is a French writer, director and criminal lawyer. The Godmother won the European Crime Fiction Prize and the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière, and has been shortlisted for a Crime Writers’ Association Dagger award. The Godmother was also featured on The New York Times’ ‘100 Notable Books of 2019’ list and has been made into a major film starring Isabelle Huppert. The Inheritors is her latest book.
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