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A Bigger Picture
- By: Malcolm Turnbull
- Narrated by: Malcolm Turnbull
- Length: 25 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Candid and compelling, A Bigger Picture is the definitive narrative of Malcolm Turnbull’s prime ministership. He describes how he legalised same-sex marriage, established Snowy Hydro 2.0, stood up to Donald Trump and many achievements – remarkable in their pace and significance, and that they were delivered in the teeth of so much opposition. But it’s far more than just politics. Turnbull’s life has been filled with colourful characters and controversies, success and failure.
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Why is Malcolm NOT the PM of Australia?
- By Amazon Customer on 04-05-2020
- A Bigger Picture
- By: Malcolm Turnbull
- Narrated by: Malcolm Turnbull
5 stars for performance and story, one off for ego
Reviewed: 28-05-2020
Malcolm Turnbull's voice is a total natural for audiobooks, perhaps if he wants yet another career to excel in...
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Quarterly Essay 73: Australia Fair
- Listening to the Nation
- By: Rebecca Huntley
- Narrated by: Rebecca Huntley
- Length: 2 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Too often we focus on the angry, reactionary minority. But, Huntley shows, there is also a large progressive centre. For some time, a clear majority have been saying they want action - on climate and energy, on housing and inequality, on corporate donations and the corruption of democracy.
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Full of insights!
- By Ariadne Lack on 10-04-2019
- Quarterly Essay 73: Australia Fair
- Listening to the Nation
- By: Rebecca Huntley
- Narrated by: Rebecca Huntley
Excellent comedy
Reviewed: 08-10-2019
It's not Rebecca Huntley's fault things turned out so incredibly different from the way she called them. Still, the way events have played out could not have done more to repudiate the main thrust of her argument. Pity is cruel, and laughter is guilty, but I am afraid this essay found me indulging in both.
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How (Not) to Be Secular: Reading Charles Taylor
- By: James K. A. Smith
- Narrated by: Trevor Thompson
- Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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How (Not) to Be Secular is what Jamie Smith calls "your hitchhiker's guide to the present" - it is both a reading guide to Charles Taylor's monumental work, A Secular Age, and philosophical guidance on how we might learn to live in our times. Taylor's landmark book, A Secular Age (2007), provides a monumental, incisive analysis of what it means to live in the post-Christian present - a pluralist world of competing beliefs and growing unbelief. Jamie Smith's book is a compact field guide to Taylor's insightful study of the secular.
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Rich analysis
- By Daniel on 11-03-2019
Rich analysis
Reviewed: 11-03-2019
For what is essentially the spark notes version of another book, it's worth the time.
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Any Ordinary Day
- Blindsides, Resilience and What Happens After the Worst Day of Your Life
- By: Leigh Sales
- Narrated by: Leigh Sales
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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As a journalist, Leigh Sales often encounters people experiencing the worst moments of their lives in the full glare of the media. But one particular string of bad news stories - and a terrifying brush with her own mortality - sent her looking for answers about how vulnerable each of us is to a life-changing event. What are our chances of actually experiencing one? What do we fear most and why? And when the worst does happen, what comes next? In this wise and layered audiobook, Leigh talks intimately with people who've faced the unimaginable, from terrorism to natural disaster to simply being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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A different Perspective
- By Anonymous User on 04-10-2018
- Any Ordinary Day
- Blindsides, Resilience and What Happens After the Worst Day of Your Life
- By: Leigh Sales
- Narrated by: Leigh Sales
Leigh Sales is a total pro
Reviewed: 05-12-2018
This was simultaneously a deeply sad and heart warming listen. Audiobooks read by the author are often especially compelling, and Sales' Journo-trained narration is exemplary as could be expected. Highly recommended.
6 people found this helpful
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Forest Mage
- The Soldier Son Trilogy, Book 2
- By: Robin Hobb
- Narrated by: Jonathan Barlow
- Length: 24 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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The second book in the brand-new trilogy from the author of the Tawny Man trilogy, following on from the best-selling Shaman’s Crossing. The King's Cavalla Academy has been ravaged by the Speck plague. The disease has decimated the ranks of both cadets and instructors, and even the survivors remain sickly. Many have been forced to relinquish their military ambitions and return to their families to face lives of dependency and disappointment. As the Academy infirmary empties, Cadet Nevare Burvelle also prepares to journey home, to attend his brother Rosse's wedding.
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Forest Fatty
- By Josh on 15-10-2018
- Forest Mage
- The Soldier Son Trilogy, Book 2
- By: Robin Hobb
- Narrated by: Jonathan Barlow
Astonishing
Reviewed: 12-11-2018
If Franz Kafka were a modern fantasy author, this is the horror he might write.
1 person found this helpful
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Shaman's Crossing
- The Soldier Son Trilogy, Book 1
- By: Robin Hobb
- Narrated by: Jonathan Barlow
- Length: 21 hrs and 4 mins
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Young Nevare Burvelle is the second son of a second son. Traditionally in Gernia, the firstborn son is heir to the family fortunes, the second son bears a sword and the third son is consecrated to the priesthood. Nevare will follow his father – newly made a lord by the King – into the cavalry; to the frontier and thence to an advantageous marriage, to carry on the Burvelle name. It is a golden future, and Nevare looks forward to it with relish.
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I Love this book
- By donnelle on 04-04-2019
- Shaman's Crossing
- The Soldier Son Trilogy, Book 1
- By: Robin Hobb
- Narrated by: Jonathan Barlow
Immersive
Reviewed: 26-10-2018
A gently narrated and well crafted world with many interesting themes woven in. Hobb is a delight and Barlow brings out her strengths. An immersive and easy listen.
2 people found this helpful
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The Blade Itself
- The First Law: Book One
- By: Joe Abercrombie
- Narrated by: Steven Pacey
- Length: 22 hrs and 15 mins
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Inquisitor Glokta, a crippled and bitter relic of the last war, former fencing champion turned torturer, is trapped in a twisted and broken body - not that he allows it to distract him from his daily routine of torturing smugglers.Nobleman, dashing officer and would-be fencing champion Captain Jezal dan Luthar is living a life of ease by cheating his friends at cards. Vain and shallow, the biggest blot on his horizon is having to get out of bed in the morning to train with obsessive and boring old men.
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Gritty, violent, dark..... And hilarious. Enjoy
- By Marc on 15-11-2015
- The Blade Itself
- The First Law: Book One
- By: Joe Abercrombie
- Narrated by: Steven Pacey
GrimACE
Reviewed: 21-12-2016
grimACE (v): a contorted facial spasm following Pacey's second-syllable emphasis. A sudden preference for chalkboard-nails.