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Cherrywood: The imaginative and moving new literary novel from an award winning author, for readers of Trent Dalton, shortlisted for the ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year 2025

by Jock Serong ...

From multi-award-winning author Jock Serong comes Cherrywood, an imaginative, darkly playful and deeply meaningful delight, a novel about legacy, community, wonder, love and reinvention.Shortlist Indie Book Awards for Fiction 2025Shortlist ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year 2025'One rainy Friday evening in the winter of 1993, a taxi swept through the streets of East Melbourne, on its way from ... Read more

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From multi-award-winning author Jock Serong comes Cherrywood, an imaginative, darkly playful and deeply meaningful delight, a novel about legacy, community, wonder, love and reinvention.Shortlist Indie Book Awards for Fiction 2025Shortlist ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year 2025'One rainy Friday evening in the winter of 1993, a taxi swept through the streets of East Melbourne, on its way from
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Minds Went Walking

Paul Kelly's Songs Reimagined

by Jock Serong, Mark Smith, Neil A. White ...

Jock Serong, Mark Smith and Nail A. White posed the question: what would happen if a group of Australia's finest writers were invited to let their minds go walking through the Paul Kelly songbook? The writers responded with tales of forbidden love, with the ghosts that inhibit St Kilda and the 'special treatment' of the Noongar people; with the dumb things they did when they crossed the Nullarbor, ... Read more

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Jock Serong, Mark Smith and Nail A. White posed the question: what would happen if a group of Australia's finest writers were invited to let their minds go walking through the Paul Kelly songbook? The writers responded with tales of forbidden love, with the ghosts that inhibit St Kilda and the 'special treatment' of the Noongar people; with the dumb things they did when they crossed the Nullarbor,
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The Rules of Backyard Cricket

by Jock Serong ...

Narrated by Rupert Degas ...

Unabridged

9 hours 4 min

Darren has two big talents: cricket and trouble. It is noo 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… ... Read more

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Darren has two big talents: cricket and trouble. It is noo 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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On the Java Ridge

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Narrated by Lewis Fitz-Gerald ...

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10 hours 16 min

In Canberra, a Federal election looms and Cassius Calvert, Minister for Border Integrity is facing a new hard-line policy regarding asylum-seekers. Off the Indonesian island of Dana, Isi Natoli, skipper of the Java Ridge, and a group of Australian surf tourists are anchored beside an idyllic reef. A few kilometres away, Roya and her mother are amongst the passengers fleeing persecution aboard the ... Read more

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In Canberra, a Federal election looms and Cassius Calvert, Minister for Border Integrity is facing a new hard-line policy regarding asylum-seekers. Off the Indonesian island of Dana, Isi Natoli, skipper of the Java Ridge, and a group of Australian surf tourists are anchored beside an idyllic reef. A few kilometres away, Roya and her mother are amongst the passengers fleeing persecution aboard the
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The Burning Island

by Jock Serong ...

Narrated by Danielle Carter ...

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12 hours 27 min

A father’s obsession. A daughter’s quest.Eliza Grayling, born in Sydney when the colony itself was still an infant, has lived there all her thirty-two years. Too tall, too stern—too old, now—for marriage, she looks out for her reclusive father, Joshua, and wonders about his past. There is a shadow there: an old enmity.When Joshua Grayling is offered the chance for a reckoning with his nemesis, ... Read more

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A father’s obsession. A daughter’s quest.Eliza Grayling, born in Sydney when the colony itself was still an infant, has lived there all her thirty-two years. Too tall, too stern—too old, now—for marriage, she looks out for her reclusive father, Joshua, and wonders about his past. There is a shadow there: an old enmity.When Joshua Grayling is offered the chance for a reckoning with his nemesis,
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The Settlement

by Jock Serong ...

Narrated by Lewis Fitz-Gerald ...

Unabridged

9 hours 28 min

In The Settlement, Jock Serong reimagines in urgent, compelling prose the ill-fated exploits of George Augustus Robinson at the settlement of Wybalenna—a venture whose blinkered, self-interested cruelty might stand for the colonial enterprise itself.On the windswept point of an island at the edge of van Diemen’s Land, the Commandant huddles with a small force of white men and women.He has gathered ... Read more

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In The Settlement, Jock Serong reimagines in urgent, compelling prose the ill-fated exploits of George Augustus Robinson at the settlement of Wybalenna—a venture whose blinkered, self-interested cruelty might stand for the colonial enterprise itself.On the windswept point of an island at the edge of van Diemen’s Land, the Commandant huddles with a small force of white men and women.He has gathered
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Quota

by Jock Serong ...

Narrated by Simon Harvey ...

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7 hours 54 min

Charlie Jardim has just trashed his legal career in a spectacular courtroom meltdown, and his girlfriend has finally left him. So when a colleague slings him a prosecution brief for the remote coastal town of Dauphin, Charlie reluctantly agrees to go. The case is murder. The victim was involved in illegal abalone trading and even more illegal drug trafficking. And the witnesses aren’t talking. As ... Read more

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Charlie Jardim has just trashed his legal career in a spectacular courtroom meltdown, and his girlfriend has finally left him. So when a colleague slings him a prosecution brief for the remote coastal town of Dauphin, Charlie reluctantly agrees to go. The case is murder. The victim was involved in illegal abalone trading and even more illegal drug trafficking. And the witnesses aren’t talking. As
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Cherrywood

by Jock Serong ...

Narrated by Elisa Armstrong, Phillip McInnes ...

Unabridged

12 hours 16 min

From multi-award-winning author Jock Serong comes Cherrywood, an imaginative, darkly playful and deeply meaningful delight, a novel about legacy, community, wonder, love and reinvention.Shortlisted Indie Book Awards for Fiction 2025Shortlisted ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year 2025'One rainy Friday evening in the winter of 1993, a taxi swept through the streets of East Melbourne, on its way ... Read more

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From multi-award-winning author Jock Serong comes Cherrywood, an imaginative, darkly playful and deeply meaningful delight, a novel about legacy, community, wonder, love and reinvention.Shortlisted Indie Book Awards for Fiction 2025Shortlisted ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year 2025'One rainy Friday evening in the winter of 1993, a taxi swept through the streets of East Melbourne, on its way
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The Knockout Artist

by Harry Crews ...

**Crews’s novel about a boxer with the gift of knocking himself unconscious, with a new foreword by New York Times-bestselling author S. A. CosbyA Penguin Classic**A favorite of longtime Harry Crews fans, The Knockout Artist (1988) portrays Eugene Talmadge Biggs, a young boxer from rural Georgia whose champion rise is diverted by a vulnerability, or gift, for knocking himself unconscious. As he ... Read more

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**Crews’s novel about a boxer with the gift of knocking himself unconscious, with a new foreword by New York Times-bestselling author S. A. CosbyA Penguin Classic**A favorite of longtime Harry Crews fans, The Knockout Artist (1988) portrays Eugene Talmadge Biggs, a young boxer from rural Georgia whose champion rise is diverted by a vulnerability, or gift, for knocking himself unconscious. As he
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Dusk

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by Robbie Arnott ...

**A New Yorker best book of 2025 so far“Arnott has an astonishing facility with language, and his prose imbues the Tasmanian wilderness with an extraordinary, immanent beauty . . . Starkly beautiful and deeply felt.” —James Bradley, The Guardian"This is a propulsive novel of survival and betrayal, enriched by arresting depictions of nature." —The Economist"Arresting . . . Readers will be utterly ... Read more

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**A New Yorker best book of 2025 so far“Arnott has an astonishing facility with language, and his prose imbues the Tasmanian wilderness with an extraordinary, immanent beauty . . . Starkly beautiful and deeply felt.” —James Bradley, The Guardian"This is a propulsive novel of survival and betrayal, enriched by arresting depictions of nature." —The Economist"Arresting . . . Readers will be utterly
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Tell the Truth, Shame the Devil

by Melina Marchetta ...

Narrated by Zaqi Ismail ...

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9 hours 51 min

In the wake of a devastating bombing, a father risks everything to find out who was responsible.When Bish Ortley, a recently suspended cop, receives word that a bus carrying his daughter has been bombed, he rushes to be by her side. A suspect has already been named: a 17-year-old girl who has since disappeared from the scene. The press has now revealed that she is the youngest member of one of ... Read more

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In the wake of a devastating bombing, a father risks everything to find out who was responsible.When Bish Ortley, a recently suspended cop, receives word that a bus carrying his daughter has been bombed, he rushes to be by her side. A suspect has already been named: a 17-year-old girl who has since disappeared from the scene. The press has now revealed that she is the youngest member of one of
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The Tangled Web: the new 2025 twisty historical mystery of disguise, deception and blood from a bestselling, award-winning author

by Tea Cooper ...

The sudden death of a beloved brother leads a young woman on a quest to find a missing boy and into a tangled web of mystery, blood and fear.Maitland 1892: When Viola Oswald's beloved brother Sebastian dies of a hereditary blood disease, Viola suspects her stepfather, prestigious surgeon Elias Sinclair, has used Sebastian's illness to enhance his reputation. But Viola has no proof until she ... Read more

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The sudden death of a beloved brother leads a young woman on a quest to find a missing boy and into a tangled web of mystery, blood and fear.Maitland 1892: When Viola Oswald's beloved brother Sebastian dies of a hereditary blood disease, Viola suspects her stepfather, prestigious surgeon Elias Sinclair, has used Sebastian's illness to enhance his reputation. But Viola has no proof until she
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