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Ep. 8: This Ends Here
- By: Anthony Del Col, Cassandra Bond, JP Conway, and others
- Length: 25 mins
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In the thrilling finale of Melissa Lopez's podcast, the truth of Anna Winslow's mysterious death is finally revealed. Melissa's investigation comes to a dramatic conclusion as she confronts those involved, but with no hard evidence, will those she believes to be guilty avoid justice? And is the truth worth revealing, when her own life is at risk? Melissa believes so. But if that truth were to haunt us all, is it a truth we want to hear?
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Crazy and disappointing
- By lisapisa on 24-12-2020
Crazy and disappointing
Reviewed: 24-12-2020
This ended without an ending. So much hype, potential and excitement for such a flat ending. don't waste your time with this podcast. its obvious why it was free
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Unheard: The Story of Anna Winslow
- By: Anthony Del Col, Cassandra Bond, JP Conway, and others
- Length: 4 hrs
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University student Anna Winslow has gone missing and the circumstances of her disappearance are far from ordinary. Motivated by an unexplained and disturbing voicemail message from Anna on the night of her disappearance, Melissa's curiosity quickly turns into a deeper investigation, an obsession even, which she chronicles as a regular podcast. Melissa quickly discovers that Anna was a loner with hearing difficulties.
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Plodded along.
- By Serena on 13-07-2019
don't waste 4 hrs of your life
Reviewed: 22-12-2020
D grade appalling writing. repetitive to the point that a sharp edit would've reduced this boring mindless trudge to 90mibs rather than 4 hours. yes "unheard" was free. I should've been paid to listen to it. sadly, this is as low as audible could possibly get. all other free content has been thoroughly enjoyable. who ever wrote this trash should never have the nerve to tell others they're an author.
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Charity
- By: Lesley Pearse
- Narrated by: Julia Franklin
- Length: 21 hrs and 58 mins
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Charity Stratton's bleak childhood is changed forever when both her parents are killed in a fire. Separated by the authorities from her younger brothers and sister, Charity is sent out to work as a skivvy in a boys' boarding school. Her loneliness and misery are eased when she falls deeply in love with the dashing but fickle sixth-former Hugh Mainwaring, but when she discovers she is pregnant with Hugh's baby, she soon realises just how alone she really is.
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OTT
- By lisapisa on 24-03-2020
- Charity
- By: Lesley Pearse
- Narrated by: Julia Franklin
OTT
Reviewed: 24-03-2020
Ridiculous. A lifetime of misfortune and misery happens within ten years to Charity, to the point I was rolling my eyes at the absurdity. Charity is a magnet. to the horrors the world has to offer. A sharper pencil should be been used by the editor. narrator was overly pompous
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The Rules of Backyard Cricket
- By: Jock Serong
- Narrated by: Rupert Degas
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
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Darren has two big talents: cricket and trouble. It is no surprise, then, that he becomes an Australian sporting star of the bad-boy variety - one of those men who's always got away with things and just keeps going...until the day we meet him, middle aged and in the boot of a car, and everything pointing towards a shallow grave.
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Not for the squeamish
- By Kirsty on 06-02-2020
- The Rules of Backyard Cricket
- By: Jock Serong
- Narrated by: Rupert Degas
mind blowing riveting story
Reviewed: 14-03-2020
Im not a fan of cricket, so I started this story our of sheer curiosity. Im so glad I did. A fascinating insight into the underbelly of the life of Australian top cricketers and the bottom feeders around them ie the media, the corporate bosses, the sponsors, the dodgy agents/lawyers, punters and gangsters. I got completely caught up in this book, so true to life sounding, that it's hard to believe it's fiction. the author took me on A thrill ride that I didn't want to end. And a blind sider finish that almost gave me what b palpitations! this outstanding novel is a worthy winner of all the literary awards it deserve to win.
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The Hypnotist's Love Story
- By: Liane Moriarty
- Narrated by: Caroline Lee
- Length: 16 hrs and 32 mins
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The Hypnotist's Love Story is about the mild craziness that lurks behind the facades we present to the world, especially when it comes to love. Ellen O'Farrell is an expert when it comes to human frailties. She's a hypnotherapist who helps her clients deal with everything from addictions to life-long phobias. So when she falls in love with a man who is being stalked by his ex-girlfriend she's more intrigued than frightened.
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Nice listen
- By Barb on 02-10-2014
- The Hypnotist's Love Story
- By: Liane Moriarty
- Narrated by: Caroline Lee
very good but too long
Reviewed: 01-03-2020
needs a sharper edit. Repetitive and meandering in parts. The narrator was surprisingly good here (usually Caroline Lee is a turn off, when she gets carried away and has whiney nasally tones to her voice. She acted profesdionally amd was easu to listen to in tbis story.
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Gloucester Crescent
- Me, My Dad and Other Grown-Ups
- By: William Miller
- Narrated by: Robbie Scotcher
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
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Written through the eyes of a growing child, this is the story of a very particular family and their circle of brilliant, idealistic and intellectual friends in London in the '60s, '70s and '80s. We follow William through the ups and downs of childhood, as he explores the back gardens and homes of his famous neighbours, attends dramatic rehearsals with his dad, Jonathan Miller, fails exams and is bullied at school, gets drugs from the philosopher A. J. Ayer's wife, and tries to watch the moon landing with Alan Bennett and a room full of writers.
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really great story, but kept repeating DAD was Bad
- By lisapisa on 18-02-2020
- Gloucester Crescent
- Me, My Dad and Other Grown-Ups
- By: William Miller
- Narrated by: Robbie Scotcher
really great story, but kept repeating DAD was Bad
Reviewed: 18-02-2020
Dad was treated like that by his Dad, so he treated you, like how his dad treated him, so not dad's fault. He had no other teaching/example of how to be a Dad really great story, but repetitive, kept repeating a lot of the same stuff again, to the point that I thought, I must've gone back 3 chapters by accident on audiobook but nup, we get the same thing again. I realise William kept wanting to do everything to please his Dad, even thought his mum told him when he was 16 yrs, whatever you will do, nothing will ever please him. so live your life, do what you want, stop seeking his approval. but William kept on trying to get his dad's approval, Im 5 yrs younger than the author and came from a similar family, and I had the same issues, but I got over it 25yrs ago,, with the help of booze sex and a psychologist, and understood, it was my dad's problem, not mine. and Ive thrived since, and now have none of the other stuff, , so for William to be so scared that he released the book after his father died, is sad, when HE KNOWS HIS DAD WOULDVE NEVER READ IT ANYWAY.
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The Widow
- By: Fiona Barton
- Narrated by: Clare Corbett
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
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Exclusive to Audible! Listen to a discussion between the author and the narrator of The Widow at the end of this recording. We've all seen him: the man - the monster - staring from the front page of every newspaper, accused of a terrible crime. But what about her: the woman who grips his arm on the courtroom stairs - the wife who stands by him? Jean Taylor's life was blissfully ordinary. Nice house, nice husband. Glen was all she'd ever wanted: her Prince Charming.
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Great performance and read.
- By Laura Muller on 10-05-2016
- The Widow
- By: Fiona Barton
- Narrated by: Clare Corbett
I wanted to shake the woman into sensibility
Reviewed: 18-02-2020
The Main character was married to a child rapist, and protected him, put up with his physical violence, and enabled his child stealing and murder in a weird way. Uncomfortable listening, but because this was a novel of a real life stories of many people to create these characters, and because of my own community direct caring experiences, I'm the whistle blower that finds harm, incest and elder abuse, and I report them. These lead to people being arrested, and the wife beaters, and the kiddie fiddlers get some time, but the others get off, as lack of proof. I cant photo people for privacy reasons, so if there is no footage ""it didnt happen" yet my bosses and police need photo evidence to report a sex/elder abuse/ incest crime, but I'd be fired for impinging the criminals privacy, by furtively recording the crime on my phone. Yes the character of this book was weak and riddled with weird thoughts. she was a product of her bizarre parents. We need to get parents to start nurturing their kids, and stop treating them like precious property,, and give them life and coping skills
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The Valley of Amazement
- By: Amy Tan
- Narrated by: Nancy Wu, Joyce Bean, Amy Tan
- Length: 24 hrs and 51 mins
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Shanghai, 1912. Violet Minturn is the privileged daughter of the American madam of the city's most exclusive courtesan house. But when the Ching dynasty is overturned, Violet is separated from her mother in a cruel act of chicanery and forced to become a "virgin courtesan." Half-Chinese and half-American, Violet grapples with her place in the worlds of East and West - until she is able to merge her two halves, empowering her to become a shrewd courtesan who excels in the business of seduction and illusion, though she still struggles to understand who she is.
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needs a sharp edit
- By lisapisa on 10-02-2020
- The Valley of Amazement
- By: Amy Tan
- Narrated by: Nancy Wu, Joyce Bean, Amy Tan
needs a sharp edit
Reviewed: 10-02-2020
the story came to a natural ending. lovely but very long. Then ..... not an epilogue . But another 4 unnecessary chapters. now I'm simply bored and want the torture to stop. but after 21hrs. what's another 3?! the bonesetters daughter was one of best books I've ever read . since the any tan is just getting published due to her prior esteemed reputation, unless she gets a more realistic editor with a very sharp pencil. this book could've easily been culled down. instead of of letting a great novel turn into dreary waffle. Im no longer a fan. The actual hardback of this must have been heavy as a brick.. Big doesn't mean better
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Salt
- Selected Stories and Essays
- By: Bruce Pascoe
- Narrated by: Bruce Pascoe
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
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Bruce Pascoe has been described as a ‘living national treasure’ and his work as ‘revelatory’. This volume of his best and most celebrated stories and essays, collected here for the first time, ranges across his long career and explores his enduring fascination with Australia’s landscape, culture, land management and history.
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Insightfully Delightful
- By Anonymous User on 12-04-2020
- Salt
- Selected Stories and Essays
- By: Bruce Pascoe
- Narrated by: Bruce Pascoe
Hypocritical
Reviewed: 11-01-2020
Boring, dull and repetitive . This isn't a novel, its a hectoring lecture to racists and climate change deniers. But as those people wouldn't touch this author, the book is a wasted opportunity when Pascoes's fans already think respectfully like he does. So what was the point in getting tress chopped down to sell this book about "not abusing the earth and respect for the land". Also the author shouldnt read his own work . Hire a professional
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488 Rules for Life
- The Thankless Art of Being Correct
- By: Kitty Flanagan
- Narrated by: Kitty Flanagan
- Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
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488 Rules for Life is not a self-help book, because it's not you who needs help, it's other people. Whether they're walking and texting, asphyxiating you on public transport with their noxious perfume cloud, or leaving one useless square of toilet paper on the roll, a lot of people just don't know the rules. But thanks to Kitty Flanagan's comprehensive guide to modern behaviour, our world will soon be a much better place.
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I thought it would be funny
- By Anonymous User on 14-01-2020
- 488 Rules for Life
- The Thankless Art of Being Correct
- By: Kitty Flanagan
- Narrated by: Kitty Flanagan
I agree with everything you say!
Reviewed: 03-01-2020
but Kitty, after hearing your Burning bridges audio last week, and then listening to this one over the past few days, and all you've done is rehash every point or statement you made in your previous book. Good on you for realising that you can rely on the people under 50 lack of attention span, who forget everything they read/heard yesterday, so the hoover it up like its new and shiny, but I'm the same age as you, and are "not happy JAN" with getting the same info again, albeit, you didnt go into the same detail about stinky popcorn experience when you did a show, as you did in your previous book or your ex pooey b/f who refused to used bidet's in Europe on the grounds that he was in denial of having a gross arse. I can imagine the dags. I wouldn't touched him either until he'd showered, or I would've introduced him to wetwipes AND MADE IT VERY CLEAR that so called flushable wipes are a lie! Duh, fatbergs in the sewers are made of cooking oil and so called flushable wet wipes, and why is Dave Hughes think its ok to flush or clear places down the toilet, rather than put f0od waste in the bin, or the green bin. Gross, plates, eating utensils, food in or near the toilet is ethically morally and hygienically wrong. It's so wrong on so many levels, my cringe level is cringing. When you write another book, please dont use new content, not rehashed stuff from you're previous books. The stupid may not notice, but the people that love your sense of humour and intelligent and well educated like you (I only had one good nun teacher, the rest wear violent wooden duster throwing or 1 metre ruler on the calves hitting for the small crime of having a smile on my face... for no reason - physical assault was the appropriate torture for happy face,
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