Get Your Free Audiobook
-
Skylarking
- Narrated by: Zehra Jane Naqvi
- Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
- Categories: Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction
Non-member price: $24.50
People who bought this also bought...
-
Animal Farm
- By: George Orwell
- Narrated by: Simon Callow
- Length: 3 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Animal Farm is George Orwell's great socio-political allegory set in a farmyard where the animals decide to seize the farmer's land and create a co-operative that reaps the benefits of their combined labours. However, as with all great political plans, some animals see a bigger share of the rewards than others and the animals start to question their supposed utopia.
-
-
A Classic!!
- By Anonymous User on 26-05-2020
-
The Mother Fault
- By: Kate Mildenhall
- Narrated by: Claudia Karvan
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Mim’s husband is missing. No one knows where Ben is, but everyone wants to find him - especially The Department. And they should know, the all-seeing government body has fitted the entire population with a universal tracking chip to keep them "safe". But suddenly Ben can’t be tracked. And Mim is questioned, made to surrender her passport and threatened with the unthinkable - her two children being taken into care at the notorious BestLife.
-
-
Worthy read
- By Anonymous User on 27-03-2021
-
The Girls with No Names
- By: Serena Burdick
- Narrated by: Emily Lawrence, Nancy Peterson, Amy McFadden
- Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Growing up in New York City in the 1910s, Luella and Effie Tildon realize that even as wealthy young women, their freedoms come with limits. But when the sisters discover a shocking secret about their father, Luella, the brazen elder sister, becomes emboldened to do as she pleases. Her rebellion comes with consequences, and one morning Luella is mysteriously gone.
-
Remarkable Creatures
- By: Tracy Chevalier
- Narrated by: Hattie Morahan
- Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
From the moment she’s struck by lightning as a baby, it is clear Mary Anning is marked for greatness. When she uncovers unknown dinosaur fossils in the cliffs near her home, she sets the scientific world alight, challenging ideas about the world’s creation and stimulating debate over our origins. In an arena dominated by men, however, Mary is soon reduced to a serving role, facing prejudice from the academic community, vicious gossip from neighbours, and the heartbreak of forbidden love.
-
-
A wonderful story, beautifully told and read.
- By J. A. Burman on 24-05-2019
-
The Echo Wife
- By: Sarah Gailey
- Narrated by: Xe Sands
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
A dark and suspenseful novel of lies, betrayal, and identity - perfect for fans of Big Little Lies and Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror. It was meant to be an evening to honour and celebrate Evelyn Caldwell's award-winning, career-making scientific research - but Evelyn has things on her mind. Things like Nathan, her husband, who has left her for a younger, better, newer woman. A woman who is now pregnant - but shouldn't be - and is strikingly familiar. Too familiar to be a coincidence. A woman who shouldn't exist.
-
The Godmothers
- By: Monica McInerney
- Narrated by: Nikki Shiels, Ella Scott Lynch, Annie Maynard
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Eliza Miller grew up in Australia as the only daughter of a troubled young mother, but with the constant support of two watchful godmothers, Olivia and Maxie. Despite her tricky childhood, she always felt loved and secure. Until, just before her 18th birthday, a tragic event changed her life. Thirteen years on, Eliza is deliberately living as safely as possible, avoiding close relationships and devoting herself to her job. Out of the blue, an enticing invitation from her godmothers prompts a leap into the unknown.
-
-
Beautiful story
- By Anonymous User on 16-10-2020
-
Animal Farm
- By: George Orwell
- Narrated by: Simon Callow
- Length: 3 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Animal Farm is George Orwell's great socio-political allegory set in a farmyard where the animals decide to seize the farmer's land and create a co-operative that reaps the benefits of their combined labours. However, as with all great political plans, some animals see a bigger share of the rewards than others and the animals start to question their supposed utopia.
-
-
A Classic!!
- By Anonymous User on 26-05-2020
-
The Mother Fault
- By: Kate Mildenhall
- Narrated by: Claudia Karvan
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Mim’s husband is missing. No one knows where Ben is, but everyone wants to find him - especially The Department. And they should know, the all-seeing government body has fitted the entire population with a universal tracking chip to keep them "safe". But suddenly Ben can’t be tracked. And Mim is questioned, made to surrender her passport and threatened with the unthinkable - her two children being taken into care at the notorious BestLife.
-
-
Worthy read
- By Anonymous User on 27-03-2021
-
The Girls with No Names
- By: Serena Burdick
- Narrated by: Emily Lawrence, Nancy Peterson, Amy McFadden
- Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Growing up in New York City in the 1910s, Luella and Effie Tildon realize that even as wealthy young women, their freedoms come with limits. But when the sisters discover a shocking secret about their father, Luella, the brazen elder sister, becomes emboldened to do as she pleases. Her rebellion comes with consequences, and one morning Luella is mysteriously gone.
-
Remarkable Creatures
- By: Tracy Chevalier
- Narrated by: Hattie Morahan
- Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
From the moment she’s struck by lightning as a baby, it is clear Mary Anning is marked for greatness. When she uncovers unknown dinosaur fossils in the cliffs near her home, she sets the scientific world alight, challenging ideas about the world’s creation and stimulating debate over our origins. In an arena dominated by men, however, Mary is soon reduced to a serving role, facing prejudice from the academic community, vicious gossip from neighbours, and the heartbreak of forbidden love.
-
-
A wonderful story, beautifully told and read.
- By J. A. Burman on 24-05-2019
-
The Echo Wife
- By: Sarah Gailey
- Narrated by: Xe Sands
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
A dark and suspenseful novel of lies, betrayal, and identity - perfect for fans of Big Little Lies and Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror. It was meant to be an evening to honour and celebrate Evelyn Caldwell's award-winning, career-making scientific research - but Evelyn has things on her mind. Things like Nathan, her husband, who has left her for a younger, better, newer woman. A woman who is now pregnant - but shouldn't be - and is strikingly familiar. Too familiar to be a coincidence. A woman who shouldn't exist.
-
The Godmothers
- By: Monica McInerney
- Narrated by: Nikki Shiels, Ella Scott Lynch, Annie Maynard
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Eliza Miller grew up in Australia as the only daughter of a troubled young mother, but with the constant support of two watchful godmothers, Olivia and Maxie. Despite her tricky childhood, she always felt loved and secure. Until, just before her 18th birthday, a tragic event changed her life. Thirteen years on, Eliza is deliberately living as safely as possible, avoiding close relationships and devoting herself to her job. Out of the blue, an enticing invitation from her godmothers prompts a leap into the unknown.
-
-
Beautiful story
- By Anonymous User on 16-10-2020
-
Invisible Girl
- By: Lisa Jewell
- Narrated by: Donna Banya, Rebekah Staton, Connor Swindells
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Saffyre Maddox was 10 when something terrible happened; she's carried the pain of it around with her ever since. The man who she thought was going to heal her didn't, and now she hides from him, invisible in the shadows, learning his secrets; secrets she could use to blow his safe, cosy world apart. Owen Pick is invisible, too. He's 33 years old and he's never had a girlfriend, he's never even had a friend. Nobody sees him. Nobody cares about him. But when Saffyre Maddox disappears from opposite his house on Valentine's night, suddenly the whole world is looking at him. Accusing him.
-
-
Oh hell no
- By elizabeth b. on 18-08-2020
-
The Missing One
- By: Lucy Atkins
- Narrated by: Buffy Davies
- Length: 20 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The loss of her mother has left Kali McKenzie with too many unanswered questions. But while clearing out Elena's art studio, she finds a drawer packed with postcards, each bearing an identical one-line message from a Canadian gallery owner called Susannah Gillespie: thinking of you. Who is this woman and what does she know about Elena's hidden past? Desperate to find out, Kali travels with her toddler, Finn, to Susannah's isolated home on a remote British Columbian island, a place of killer whales and storms.
-
The Children
- By: Charlotte Wood
- Narrated by: Jane Nolan
- Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
When their father is critically injured, foreign correspondent Mandy and her siblings return home. Mandy's head is filled with terror and war, and her homecoming only heightens her disconnection from ordinary life. Cathy, her younger sister, has stayed in contact with her parents, unlike their brother Stephen who, has distanced himself from the family for years. In the hospital the children sit, struggling to connect with their emotions, their past and each other.
-
The Wife Upstairs
- By: Rachel Hawkins
- Narrated by: Emily Shaffer, Kirby Heyborne, Lauren Fortgang
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
When Jane, a broke dog-walker newly arrived in town, meets Eddie Rochester, she can’t believe her luck. Eddie is handsome, rich and lives alone in a beautiful mansion since the tragic death of his beloved wife a year ago. Eddie can give Jane everything she’s always wanted: stability, acceptance and a picture-perfect life. But what Jane doesn’t know is that Eddie is keeping a secret - a big secret.
-
Gulliver's Wife
- By: Lauren Chater
- Narrated by: Jilly Bond
- Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
London, 1702. When her husband is lost at sea, Mary Burton Gulliver, midwife and herbalist, is forced to rebuild her life without him. But three years later when Lemuel Gulliver is brought home, fevered and communicating only in riddles, her ordered world is turned upside down. In a climate of suspicion, poverty and violence, Mary is caught in a crossfire of superstition and fear driven by her husband’s outlandish claims of the wonders he has seen, and it is up to her to navigate a passage to safety for herself and her daughter, and the vulnerable women in her care.
-
-
Ho Hum
- By lisa on 09-05-2020
-
Wolfe Island
- By: Lucy Treloar
- Narrated by: Abbe Holmes
- Length: 12 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
For years Kitty Hawke has lived alone on Wolfe Island, witness to the island’s erosion and clinging to the ghosts of her past. Her work as a sculptor and her wolfdog Girl are enough. News of mainland turmoil is as distant as myth until refugees from that world arrive: her granddaughter Cat, and Luis and Alejandra, a brother and sister escaping persecution. When threats from the mainland draw closer, they are forced to flee for their lives. They travel north through winter, a journey during which Kitty must decide what she will do to protect the people she loves.
-
-
Stunning! Pure Joy
- By christiana O on 21-09-2019
Publisher's Summary
Kate and Harriet are best friends who are growing up together on an isolated Australian cape in the 1880s. As daughters of the lighthouse keepers, the two girls share everything until a fisherman, McPhail, arrives in their small community.
When Kate witnesses the desire that flares between him and Harriet, she is torn by her feelings of envy and longing. Ultimately a moment of skylarking in McPhail's hut changes everything....
Critic Reviews
More from the same
What listeners say about Skylarking
Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story

- sliceandserve
- 02-04-2017
Just fine. To pass some time.
I chose this audio, because having searched for well-reviewed Aussie novels, this one kept being recommended.
The narration was fine. A sweet voice, that was easy to listen to and reflected the traits of the lead characters.
The story itself? Fine. I mean, given the readership reviews, I expected something more heart-tugging, or perhaps with more profundity. But by this audio it feels too light and cliche to be of any real impact. A nice short-lived (you'll understand) slice of life from a historical community.
Maybe that's it? Given the opportunity of landscape and history and demographics, this cldve been a wonderful, weighty, piece of writing... but as the story comes to a close, I'm distracted by its brevity and consider if that's a ruse to have a second book...
Anyhoo. It's fine. Honestly. It's not going to change your life. Or even keep you company for a second once finished.... but it's a nice way to pass an afternoon or two.
20 Best Fantasy Audiobooks
This genre is so full of talent, it can be difficult to know what to listen to next — so look no further than this list to get you started.



20 Best Nonfiction Audiobooks
From the entire history of humanity to astrophysics, to our gut and mental health, dig into this list and learn something new.



Best Australian Podcasts on Audible
Audible Original Podcasts are free for Audible members. Check out this list of home-grown content, from binge-worthy true crime to self-help.


