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The Tin Ticket: The Heroic Journey of Australia's Convict Women by Deborah J. Swiss

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/817220 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/817220] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Tin Ticket: The Heroic Journey of Australia's Convict Women Author: Deborah J. Swiss Narrator: Corinne Davies Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 50 minutes Release date: November 26, 2024 Genres: Australia & Oceania Publisher's Summary: The convict women who built a continent . . . 'A moving and fascinating story.' —Adam Hochschild, author of King Leopold's Ghost Historian Deborah J. Swiss tells the heartbreaking, horrifying, and ultimately triumphant story of the women exiled from the British Isles and forced into slavery and savagery—who created the most liberated society of their time. The Tin Ticket takes us to the dawn of the nineteenth century and into the lives of Agnes McMillan, whose defiance and resilience carried her to a far more dramatic rebellion; Agnes's best friend Janet Houston, who rescued her from the Glasgow wynds and was also transported to Van Diemen's Land; Ludlow Tedder, forced to choose just one of her four children to accompany her to the other side of the world; Bridget Mulligan, who gave birth to a line of powerful women stretching to the present day. It also tells the tale of Elizabeth Gurney Fry, a Quaker reformer who touched all their lives. Ultimately, it is the story of women discarded by their homeland and forgotten by history—who, by sheer force of will, become the heart and soul of a new nation.

Australian Ghost Stories by James Phelps

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/792164 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/792164] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Australian Ghost Stories Author: James Phelps Narrator: Silas Aiton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 24 minutes Release date: October 2, 2024 Genres: Australia & Oceania Publisher's Summary: Haunting true crime stories of the supernatural and paranormal The most haunted home that world-famous ghost hunter Lorraine Warren ever stepped foot in was a three-bedroom brick home in suburban Sydney. FORGET THE HORRORS OF AMITYVILLE AND DELVE INTO AUSTRALIA'S MOST HAUNTED PLACES Australian Ghost Stories is a spine-tingling collection of true crime tales that will leave you feeling haunted long after you've turned the last page. From the ghostly apparitions that haunt historic landmarks to diabolical presences in everyday suburban houses, these are stories of ordinary Australians and their encounters with the unexplainable. This thrilling blend of true crime and supernatural encounters will leave you questioning everything you know about this world ... and the next.

Question 7 by Richard Flanagan

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/734224 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/734224] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Question 7 Author: Richard Flanagan Narrator: Richard Flanagan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 38 minutes Release date: September 17, 2024 Genres: Australia & Oceania Publisher's Summary: THE WASHINGTON POST'S TOP TEN NOTABLE BOOKS OF THE YEAR • WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE • SHORTLISTED FOR PRIX FÉMINA ETRANGER • LONGLISTED FOR PRIX MÉDICIS • An exquisite, genre-defying new book from the Booker Prize–winning author of The Narrow Road to the Deep North, a reckoning with his life and family, and the role of fiction in our times 'Spectacular. . . A book that will have an overwhelming effect on readers.” —Colm Tóibín, author of Long Island Sometimes I wonder why we keep returning to beginnings—why we seek the single thread we might pull to unravel the tapestry we call our life... By way of H. G. Wells and Rebecca West’s affair through 1930s nuclear physics to Flanagan's father working as a slave laborer near Hiroshima when the atom bomb is dropped, this daisy chain of events reaches fission when Flanagan as a young man finds himself trapped in a rapid on a wild river not knowing if he is to live or to die. At once a love song to his island home and to his parents, this hypnotic melding of dream, history, place and memory is about how our lives so often arise out of the stories of others and the stories we invent about ourselves.

Keith Murdoch’s Gallipoli Letter by Sir Keith Murdoch

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/805415 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/805415] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Keith Murdoch’s Gallipoli Letter Author: Sir Keith Murdoch Narrator: Sarah Bacaller Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 49 minutes Release date: September 3, 2024 Genres: Australia & Oceania Publisher's Summary: The National Library of Australia describes Keith Murdoch’s Gallipoli Letter in the following way: “The Gallipoli letter is an 8000-word private report written by journalist Keith Arthur Murdoch, with the help of British war correspondent Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett, after visiting the Gallipoli peninsula in September 1915. It describes the organisation and conditions of the Gallipoli campaign. It was sent to Andrew Fisher (then-Prime Minister of Australia) and Henry Herbert Asquith (then-Prime Minister of the UK). Murdoch’s twenty-eight-page letter helped to establish the idea of Gallipoli as a military disaster. Fisher sent Murdoch to Gallipoli for an honest report on the campaign. Contrary to the rules of censorship, Murdoch wrote and sent his letter without submitting it to the military censors. In the eyes of some, this was a grave betrayal of Murdoch’s role at Gallipoli. Murdoch, however, strongly defended his action on the grounds that his letter was not for publication but for the information of the prime minister. Whether or not Murdoch did the right thing in sending the letter uncensored, it had a serious impact and brought about rapid results. It can be argued that Murdoch’s letter led directly to the ending of the Gallipoli campaign, and the evacuation of British and Anzac troops from the peninsula.” Here, this important historical document is made available in audiobook form.

The Golden Gang: Bushranger Frank Gardiner and the biggest gold robbery in Australian history by Ian W. Shaw

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/783574 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/783574] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Golden Gang: Bushranger Frank Gardiner and the biggest gold robbery in Australian history Author: Ian W. Shaw Narrator: Steve Shanahan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 36 minutes Release date: August 13, 2024 Genres: Australia & Oceania Publisher's Summary: The first comprehensive biography of the godfather of Australian bushranging – Frank Gardiner – leader of the Lachlan gang and mastermind of the largest gold heist in Australian history. Atop the hierarchy of Australian bushrangers sits Ned Kelly – the ultimate outlaw – and just below him, the tragic figure of Ben Hall, who joined a gang led by a man whose name today is less well known, but in his time was much more famous than any other: Frank Gardiner. Mastermind of the largest gold robbery in Australia’s history, Gardiner led an extraordinary life, the full telling of which is long overdue. In a tough country and among a group of tough men, Gardiner was the toughest of them all. But while he engaged in gunfights with police to evade capture, he was always courteous and could lay claim to never killing anyone, and never stole from those who couldn't afford to be robbed. He went by three different surnames in his lifetime and spent almost half of it behind bars, including at some of the colonies' most notorious penal institutions: the Pentridge Stockade, Cockatoo Island and Darlinghurst Gaol. But if Gardiner was never quite the Robin Hood he sometimes imagined himself to be, he was nevertheless a natural leader, and a man capable of inspiring a motley bunch of stockmen and drifters to become the most effective and successful bushranging gang in the country’s history. His Lachlan gang operated with a clockwork efficiency that culminated in the robbery of the Gold Escort at Eugowra Rocks, and from 1861 to 1863 it held reign over the roads of the Western Plains of New South Wales. Richly detailed, The Golden Gang shines a new light onto Gardiner's remarkable life – one that ended in shocking tragedy – and reinstates him in the pantheon of Australian outlaw heroes.