Yellow Shelf Podcast

Biohackher: Live Well Longer – The longevity guide every woman needs Take control of your biology and improve your healthspan. Join the female longevity revolution. One where women finally get the science, strategies, and the straight-talk they deserve. In Biohackher, Azra Alagic breaks down research from the world’s leading experts in longevity, biohacking, hormones, fitness, and nutrition – turn...

 ‘The Way of the Samurai Women: A Journey in Search of Warrior Wisdom for Busy Modern Lives’ This is an unexpectedly tender book: part search for the lost women of samurai history, part love letter to a remarkable mother. Rimika Tanaka writes with warmth and candour about grief, belonging and the courage it takes to build a life between cultures. When Rimika's mother Akemi Tanaka died in 2021...

When the police won’t believe you, what can you do but take matters into your own hands. On Victoria’s secluded west coast, Sarah and husband Ewen walk across a narrow bridge at dusk. Behind them, a truck rattles onto the bridge. Moments later Sarah finds herself fighting for her life as she’s dragged on the inlet tide out to sea. She makes it to shore but discovers both Ewen and the truck have di...

Master crime writer Chris Hammer returns with his first standalone blockbuster thriller.   A gripping new thriller of secrets, murder and mystery. ‘If there is enough money involved, truth becomes a tradeable commodity. Like gold, it is malleable; it can be melted down and recast without losing its value.’ Travis Somerland is a man accustomed to danger, but nothing can prepare him for the peril, t...

Mega Focus: Take Back Control. Join the Attention Revolution. You want to perform at your best, build a successful career and live a deeply satisfying life. All three depend on what you pay attention to. But your brain, your technology and the world around you are working against you ― pulling your focus toward everything except what counts. Mega Focus gives you the ability to take back control of...

This collection of Australian short stories from Michael Buxton explores the lives of ordinary people who sought a better life in the suburbs after World War Two, embracing a faith in progress and the promise of an unendingly improving future. It examines their pursuit of a new suburban ideal and the gradual disintegration of the paradise they built. Misplaced Memories in Moments of Being is a hau...

Work Fame: Get the Projects, Promotions and Perks You Deserve You know you’re good at your job. You hit your targets, solve problems and consistently go above and beyond. Yet somehow, when projects and promotions arise, you aren’t the one given the opportunity. In today’s workplace, good work no longer speaks for itself; you need to make your talent visible. Work Fame is the playbook for any profe...

Moving is living ...emphasizes that staying physically active and engaged in life is essential for health, independence, and overall well-being. Getting older isn't the problem. Slowing down before you're ready is. The garden. The walking group. Time with family. The next trip you’re looking forward to. These are the things you want to keep enjoying for plenty more years. Moving Is Livin...

An Australian journalist attends a party in Rome, the Eternal City. The result is at once a celebration and a distillation of what travel can be and still is: an intelligent, hilarious, and sometimes prickly conversation between cultures. With finesse, Antoni Jach affectionately lampoons everything from the publishing world and the writing life to relationships, his beloved hometown Melbourne, and...

 Work wasn't supposed to feel like this. Remember when you were a kid, and you asked a hundred questions a day? When everything felt interesting? When possibility seemed to be everywhere? Somewhere in between deadlines, meetings and figuring out what to make for dinner, many of us lost touch with our sense of wonder. In this refreshing and thought-provoking book, Brooke Hill makes the case th...

What if the life you are searching for begins with reconnecting with what truly matters? You may have built a full life, met expectations and become someone others depend on, yet find yourself wondering where you fit within it all. Perhaps a relationship has changed, your children need you differently, or the work that once gave you direction no longer feels the same. Soulful Simplicity offers spa...

Saigon, 1968, on the eve of Tet. The Vietnamese New Year draws near, and the city waits, restless and uneasy, the air thick with rumours of ceasefire and the taste of betrayal. Smith has served his time in the secret world – an Australian case officer grown weary of the lies that pass for intelligence, and the loyalties that dissolve at first suspicion. When a colleague is murdered and leaves behi...

From a poetic new voice in historical fiction comes a story of resistance, community, and survival set against the breathtaking backdrop of the Austrian Alps and the heartbreaking onset of World War II. Growing up on a farm, high among the flowering slopes of Carinthia, Mitzi Hausler has never fit in―not even with her own family. At thirteen, she’s no taller than a six-year-old, and her peers’ tau...

The raw, funny, unflinching memoir of a woman who stopped chasing achievement and started listening. Not a weight-loss story but a reckoning .... about grief, perfectionism, and the courage to come home to yourself, again and again. Railene Turner-Rose didn’t wake up one day and decide to change her life. She woke up one day and realised she already had. Day One Again is the raw, relentless, and u...

A comedy about a man, a microphone, and absolutely no self-awareness. A new Aussie comedy that takes a satirical look at the chaotic world of podcasting, creator culture and modern media. Sonny Tyler, host of the podcast The Sonny Disposition, must deal with a dysfunctional team, chaotic co-work space, and a messy personal life, while chasing sponsorship, celebrity and relevance, in pursuit of the...

Don’t avoid conflict. Learn how to harness it. Conflict is where the best decisions, strongest relationships and most creative work come from. The trouble is, almost nobody is taught how to do it well. We treat tension as a sign that something’s gone wrong, when it’s usually a sign that something matters. But conflict is a skill, and like any skill, it can be built. When you learn how to handle co...

Sex, Money, Control How to create a successful mindset, develop your confidence and become the director of your own life. This book invites you to step into your own power, choose your own path, and walk it in whatever shoes life asks you to wear! Charlie Puchala is an incredibly interesting human with a story to tell. An incredibly successful entrepreneur and businesswoman, global adventurer, hum...

Will Your Grandkids Be OK?: A Grandparent’s Guide to Mentoring Future-Ready Grandchildren A practical and inspiring grandparenting guide for supporting grandchildren in a rapidly changing world. What kind of world will your grandchildren inherit – and will they be ready for it? Rapid technological change, social fragmentation, climate uncertainty, and rising anxiety are reshaping the world young p...

Crud Comics is an Australian surf‑culture comedy series following four surfers and a dog through chaotic, cheeky, and often ridiculous adventures. It follows Bazza, Boof, Sly, Turtle, and their dog Sniffer, who roam beaches, parties, storms, and strange encounters while chasing waves and good times. The tone is deliberately irreverent, leaning into rebellious surf culture, stoner humour, and exagg...

In the quiet between worlds, some hearts echo louder than time. Everyone loves Indigo Wolfe. But all he wants is for someone to truly see him. Radiant and reckless, Indigo moves through high school like a legend come to life. But beneath the popularity he wears like armor, he’s unravelling. Haunted by feelings that aren’t his, voices no one else hears, and visions he can’t explain, he’s consumed b...

Shadow Ledger: A Zoe Blaise Mystery Prequel Before every mystery, there was one mistake. Long before Zoe Blaise uncovered the conspiracies threatening the global beauty industry, there was Giovanni Jones. Brilliant, principled and deeply committed to justice, Giovanni is a forensic accountant seconded from the Bank of Italy whose unusual ability to read the intentions hidden within numbers has dra...

Precious Gems Collected over 70 years: Life Lessons, Reflections, and Timeless Wisdom for Meaningful Living 40 timeless life lessons distilled from seven decades of experience, reflection, and learning—offering practical wisdom for a happier, more meaningful, and fulfilling life. What if the most valuable lessons in life are simple, practical, and already within your reach? Throughout a lifetime o...

FIRST MOVERS: Courageous Leadership for a Human Future in the AI Era Part memoir, part leadership manifesto – First Movers is a brave, bold and personal case for why courage, not confidence, is where real leadership in life and work begins. Drawing on her own journey as an elite athlete, a police officer, and a technology director, Yasmin London blends hard-won personal lessons with the reimagined...

When the parachutes fail to deploy during Annie’s first-ever tandem skydive, her instructor takes the ground impact, but is killed in the heroic act of saving her. Hailed ‘Miracle Girl’, Annie’s death-defying fall from high above land becomes news around the world, setting off a chain of mysterious and deadly events, with origins going back twenty years. After several weeks in hospital, Annie rega...

 Connected Leadership: Wisdom For Women Who Lead For the women who are still here, still leading, still struggling through the web of gendered inequalities.  You did everything right ....  but the view from the top is bleak. You worked harder. Prepared more. Committed deeper. So why is your confidence and influence eroding? Leadership is costing women their health, their relationships, their voice...