When twelve-year-old Bab Sharkey finds a magical beard in the Egyptian desert, it attaches itself to his face, making him the Pharaoh and granting him strange powers. Bab also finds the friends he’s always needed: a pair of undead animals wrapped in bandages called Scaler the Fish Mummy and Prong the Ibis Mummy. But the previous owner of the Beard, an ancient and evil sorceress called the Unpharaoh, is determined to get it back. Can Bab and his new Animal Mummy friends banish the Unpharaoh back to the Afterworld?
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For more on the Bab Sharkey series go to animal-mummies.com
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A WaveSound Production. Created at Squaresound studios in Melbourne.

Bab Sharkey and the Animal Mummies_Book 1_The Weird Beard narrated by the authors

As bushfires rage outside the city, three women watch a performance of a Beckett play and as the performance unfolds, so does each woman's story. 
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The Performance by Claire Thomas, An extra special Hachette Audio Production created at SquareSound studios, narrated by Edwina Wren and directed and mixed by Justine Sloane-Lees, with Ryan D’Sylva.
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Audio drama performances by Tamala Shelton, Helen Morse, Sylvie de Crespigny, Melissa Madden Gray, Laura Robinson and Harvey Zielinski.

The Performance, multi voice narration

A paradigm-shifting book in the vein of Sapiens that brings a crucial Indigenous perspective to historical and cultural issues of history, education, money, power and sustainability - and offers a new template for living.
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As a First Nations person, Tyson Yunkaporta looks at global systems from a unique perspective, one tied to the natural and spiritual world. In considering how contemporary life diverges from the pattern of creation, he raises important questions. How does this affect us? How can we do things differently?
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An Audible Australia Production, @audible_au narrated by Tyson Yunkaporta, who colours the original written text in this audio version. Recorded with Yen Nguyen @squaresoundstudio Melbourne, Australia.
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Audio: Sometimes I wonder if echidnas ever suffer from the same delusion that many humans have, that their species is the intelligent centre of the universe. They are smart enough, their pre-frontal cortex, the area of the brain used for complex reasoning and decision making is the biggest in relation to body size of any mammal. 50% of the echidna brain is used for some of the hardest kinds of thinking. I humans it’s not even 30%. In acknowledging this, I am paying my respects to the sentient totemic entities all over Australia where these echidnas follow the song-lines of their creation. Maps of story, carrying knowledge along the lines of energy that manifest as lore. In the mind and land as one. Webbed throughout the traditional lands of the First Peoples.

Sandtalk narrated by Tyson Yunkaporta

We had such a blast casting, recording and producing this black comedy oral documentary, The Whitewash by Siang Lu.
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Unofficial and Unasked for.
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A Wavesound Production that is so smart, so woke it hurts.
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Big thanks to all the cast, Yen Nguyen, Marty Rhone, Tim Potter, Keith Brockett, Jing-Xuan Chan, James Huang, Eva Seymour, Nick Ravenswood, Daniel Qin, Berlin Lu, Jamie Hart, Tom Hart, Ichigon and with a cameo appearance by Siang Lu.

The WhiteWash By Siang Lu, ABIA AWARD WINNER 2023, Multi Narration

Written by Ruth McIver and narrater by Michael Robinson, Tim Walter and Brigid Gallacher

I know all about being afraid of the dark.

Like my uncle, in my thirties I found my way into my own dark forest, face-to-face with the big bad wolf. He was so close to me the whole time, I could taste the blood on his breath. Meeting him felt like a fairytale. I fact, I met him at a bar called the Wolf's Lair.

A sensational trial for an historic serial murder. A missing woman with a trail of secrets. A top lawyer famous for defending notorious criminals. A retired homicide cop hunting for the truth.

Intriguing and distinctive, this taut novella will have you listening with the lights on.

This project is a work of fiction. Names, characters, companies and events are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, companies or events is entirely coincidental.

The Blackout Multi Narration

A novella by Graeme Simsion

If Emily and Scott can write one more best seller together, the world’s their oyster. But each of them believes they’re the talent....

Emily was an aspiring literary writer, forced to make a living from editing annual reports, when she met Scott, a screenwriter in similar circumstances. With Scott’s punchy plot and Emily’s luminous prose, they crafted an international hit - and fell in love doing it. Three years later, Scott’s own novel has flopped, Emily’s struggling with her literary manuscript, and their relationship is falling apart. Can they overcome their creative differences to produce another masterpiece?

Graeme Simsion is the internationally best-selling author of The Rosie Project, The Rosie Effect, The Rosie Result and The Best of Adam Sharp. He lives with Anne Buist, a novelist in her own right and co-author of Two Steps Forward and Two Steps Onward, in Melbourne, Australia.  

This project is a work of fiction; any resemblance to actual persons or events is entirely coincidental. Sort of.

Creative Differences Narrated by Edwina Wren and Stephen Phillips

Dead Man’s Pose is a tension-reliever in yoga. Not this time!

A spirited yoga teacher teams up with a dark horse partner (determined to right wrongs); and together they seek closure on the sudden and mysterious death of a friend.

Throw in a cast of quirky characters that includes a savvy outback detective, an eccentric academic, a highly observant (but sight-challenged) witness, an exotic hairdresser, a Falstaffian nomad, crooked officials, and some assorted mob thugs.

Add some heat between the investigators, plus Ric’s wry humour and Elaina’s smart dialogue, while they both tumble into chase scenes to avoid sharks, cruise through a darkened saloon and conduct late-night spying on a ‘high roller’ that floats.

Combine that with word pictures of Sydney, one of the world’s most picturesque cities (which also has sleazy backstreets and a gummy web of intrigue), and you have the cocktail mix of Dead Man’s Pose.

It’s a jigger of Agatha Christie’s compelling plotline; adding two parts of Cherringham Murder Mysteries; shake in the backdrop of Sydney, Australia which acts as another character and garnish with the mood and tempo of a Michael Connelly’s clue-packed charge. Dead Man’s Pose has all the classic hallmarks of a whodunit genre…but presented as a gin fizz romantic mystery with extra fizz.

Your Dead Man’s Pose audiobook is just a click away. Hungry for more? Dead Man’s Pose is first in the Yoga Mat Mysteries’ line-up. Second in the series (now online) is Cobra Pose. Next will be Tree Pose!

Dead Mans Pose, Audiofile Best Novel, narrated by Rupert Degas

BOYS WILL BE BOYS narrated by Clementine Ford

FATHERHOOD narrated by William McInnes

HAPPY NEVER AFTER narrated by Jill Stark

LEAP narrated by Samuel Johnson

MAN OUT OF TIME narrated by Mark Coles-Smith

LEILAS SECRET narrated by Nisha Joseph & Raj Sidhu

Title: The Bet of Adam Sharp
Narrator: David Barker
Author: Graeme Simsion
Casting: Maryanne Plazzer
Director: Chris Chapple

The Best of Adam Sharp

THE BEST OF ADAM SHARP narrated by David Barker

THE BONE SPARROW narrated by Keith Brockett

The Hate Race
Author: Maxine Beneba Clarke
Narrator: Zarha Newman 
Casting: Maryanne Plazzer
Director: Justine Sloane-Lees

The Hate Race

THE HATE RACE narrated by Zara Newman

BACK TO SLEEP narrated by Zoe Foster-Blake

TOP END GIRL narrated by Miranda Tapsell with James Colley

WHAT ZOLA DID narrated by Pia Miranda

DEADMAN IN A DITCH narrated by Luke Arnold

HONEYBEE narrated by Harvey Zielinski

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