The 2 million-copy best-selling modern fable from Korea that won hearts around the world. The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly Synopsis This is the story of a hen named Sprout. No longer content to lay eggs on command only to have…
Detective Sean Duffy returns in Rain Dogs, Book 5 in Adrian McKinty’s award-winning The Troubles series. Rain Dogs Synopsis It’s just the same things over and again for Sean Duffy: riot duty, heartbreak, cases he can solve but never get to…
Got a long car, train or plane ride ahead of you this holiday season? Listening to an audiobook could make that trip a whole lot more enjoyable. Years ago, like many readers out there, I had assumed audiobooks weren’t for…
I Was Told There’d Be Cake Synopsis : Wry, hilarious, and profoundly genuine, this debut collection of literary essays is a celebration of fallibility and haplessness in all their glory. From despoiling an exhibit at the Natural History Museum to provoking the…
Gun Street Girl is Book 4 in Adrian McKinty’s award-winning Detective Sean Duffy Series and one of our dozen Top Aussie Reads of 2016. Gun Street Girl Synopsis Belfast, 1985. Amid the Troubles, Detective Sean Duffy, a Catholic cop in the…
I listened to the Northern Lights / Golden Compass audiobook. Adult or child, will adore Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials Trilogy heroine Lyra Belacqua.
Under the Net, Iris Murdoch’s first novel, features Jake Donaghue and sidekicks getting into predicaments, barbed banter and deception. Under the Net Synopsis: Iris Murdoch’s first novel is set in a part of London where struggling writers rub shoulders with successful…
Jenny T Colgan’s Resistance Is Futile is a wonderful romantic comedy come save-the-world adventure with a rebellious, geeky tone. Read on for our full review of this under-appreciated gem. Resistance Is Futile Synopsis She’s smart. She’s funny. But she’s only human…. As a…
Evelyn Waugh’s second novel, Vile Bodies is his tribute to London’s smart set. It introduces us to society as it used to be but that now is gone forever, and probably for good. Vile Bodies Synopsis: The Bright Young Things of…
In The Morning I’ll Be Gone is the third novel in Adrian McKinty’s award-winning Detective Sean Duffy Series which I highly recommend in audiobook. In The Morning I’ll Be Gone Synopsis It’s the early 1980s in Belfast. Sean Duffy, a conflicted…
In The One Plus One Jojo Moyes does romance in the real world – life is complicated and never involves just two characters, it’s about ensembles. Read on for why we highly recommend experiencing this novel in the audio format. The…
Review Summary: The world-wise, snappy dialogue in Malla Nunn’s Present Darkness, no holes barred action and uncensored brutality places it squarely in the category of ‘page-turner’. Present Darkness Synopsis: Five days before Christmas, Detective Sergeant Emmanuel Cooper sits at his desk at…
Cairo Synopsis At 18, Tom escapes ordinariness in small town Australia for Melbourne and a flat in a strange block named Cairo. There he meets the magnetic Max Cheever, and is drawn into his circle of bohemian artists and dreamers. But…
I finally got my act together and transferred my Audible.com account (and my entire audiobook library) to Audible.com.au. I really don’t know why I’d been putting it off for so long – just a couple of clicks and it was done….
Review Summary: In The Canterville Ghost, with modern prose and themes, and characters like caricatures, Oscar Wilde lampoons traditional ghost stories. The Canterville Ghost Short Synopsis: A terrifying ghost is haunting the ancient mansion of Canterville Chase, complete with creaking floorboards, clanking…
Lady Windermere’s Fan Synopsis: Oscar Wilde’s first play confronts the hypocrisy of public “morality” compared with genuine, private kindness. When it opened in 1892, Lady Windermere’s Fan was an instant success and now, more than a century later, it continues to…
