Voices of Today

This is a tale of a highly metafictional conflict concerning language, consciousness, and theological viscosity. A computer programmer liberates the letter V, causing a global linguistic crisis where meaning and grammar collapse. This is the seventh volume in the alternative fantasy series The Greasepolis Chronicles. The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com https://www.audib...

In this instalment of the Greasepolis Chronicles, Grease itself starts to become sentient. It forms a commission, which opposes itself to the original apostles of grease, Frank and Glen. The story investigates the difficult search for a lasting equilibrium between matter and meaning, This is the sixth volume in the alternative fantasy series The Greasepolis Chronicles. The complete audiobook is av...

In this story, Frank, the prophet of the way of Grease, meet his most fearsome opponent: the Pope himself. The Vatican seeks destroy Frank and his movement, and establish a universal way of dryness. The Vatican’s regulatory efforts eventually fail when a "Great Grease Schism" culminates in Rome being flooded by "holy viscosity". This is the fifth volume in the alternative fantasy series The Grease...

A note, C sharp, escapes from the tonal palette, causing a worldwide collapse of sonic systems. Various parties, including the Bureau of Eclectic Notation, Detective Fiddlefaddle, the Fryer Prophet Frank, and the adverbial entity Softly collaborate to resolve this crisis between pitch and substance. This is the fourth volume in the alternative fantasy series The Greasepolis Chronicles. The complet...

Greasepolis III: The Wombat Ultimatum is set in a world governed by culinary principles. An elaborate linguistic and theological crisis occurs when a rogue faction of wombats, led by the charismatic tobacconist Runciman, abducts the sacred adverb Softly to demand political rights, academic degrees, and tax relief, causing global grammatical panic. This is the third volume in the alternative fantas...

In this enthralling narrative a conflict erupts between the forces of flavour and imperfection (represented by the prophets Frank and Glen the Fryer) and the forces of order and blandness (led by the metaphysical entity Softly, the Adverb, and the Bureau of Blandness). This is the second volume in the alternative fantasy series The Greasepolis Chronicles. The complete audiobook is available for pu...

A humble carpet salesman, Glen receives a unique divine calling. It begins when he receives a hot chip that ignites a new faith based on the theology of grease and viscosity, centred around the search for the elusive spiritual mentor, Frank. After a pilgrimage to Moonee Ponds, Glen finally encounters Frank, who reveals that true holiness lies not in spectacular fire but in the humble act of shared...

The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/wehdg The Twins of Emu Plains By Mary Grant Bruce Narrated by Lyndal Curran Doolan Twins Jean and Jo Weston are fifteen-year-old country girls who are just finishing their first year at boarding school in Melbourne. They receive bad news from their father: due to drought the farm at Emu Plains is struggling, and next ye...

The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/26n9d One Poet, One Poem Narrated by Evan and Marie Blackmore This collection includes favorite English-language poems by 178 favorite authors, beginning with Sir Philip Sidney and the Countess of Pembroke in Elizabethan times, and ending with T. S. Eliot and Marianne Moore in the twentieth century. Cavaliers and Purita...

The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/p7yu0m The Last of the Bushrangers An Account of the Capture of the Kelly Gang By Francis Augustus Hare Narrated by Gregory Dwyer The book is written in the first person, giving a detailed, autobiographical account of Hare’s experiences as a superintendent in the Victorian Mounted Police, particularly during the pursuit...

The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/trkcww The Eureka Stockade By Raffaello Carboni Narrated by Gregory Dwyer A firsthand account of the 1854 Eureka Rebellion in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. Carboni, an Italian revolutionary and participant in the uprising, wrote the book to document the miners’ struggle against the colonial authorities. The story captu...

The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/2nmll A Manual of Buddhism By Dudley Wright Narrated by Oberon Michaels Buddhism has a vast array of scriptures but a relatively small body of essential doctrines. In this short treatise, the author presents a systematic introduction to Buddhist teaching, commencing with a discussion of the Noble Eightfold Path. Other t...

The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/lcn3y8 The Real Jefferson Davis By Landon Knight Narrated by Ron Altman Jefferson Davis (1808 - 1889) was an American politician who became president of the Confederate States during the Civil War. He took his seat in Congress as the representative for Mississippi in 1847. As a Democrat, Davis was an enthusiastic suppor...

The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Kobo.com: https://n9.cl/3r9bmr The Complete Love Sonnets of Michael Drayton by Michael Drayton Narrated by Evan Blackmore As he himself said, Drayton’s sonnets are the most “sportive” of the great Elizabethan love poems, “ever in motion,” by turns “wild, madding, jocund, and irregular,” yet maintaining a universality and sturdy good sense that ha...

The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com. https://n9.cl/blkbp On Our Selection By Steele Rudd Narrated by Gregory Dwyer On Our Selection is a collection of humorous short stories by Australian author Steele Rudd. It follows the trials and tribulations of the Rudd family, pioneers carving out a living in the Australian bush. The book humorously depicts the struggles of farmin...

The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/ihyo2 Cynthia Wakeham's Money By Anna Katharine Green Narrated by Bonnie Trost This classic crime novel features the detective Ebenezer Grice, one of Anna Katherine Green's recurring characters. A young lawyer is summoned to draw up the will of an elderly and infirm woman. She directs that all her property be bequeathed...

The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/38xmp Memory: How to Develop, Train and Use It By William Walker Atkinson Narrated by Denis Daly Although the many works of New Thought author William Walker Atkinson (1862-1932) have generally been classified as self-help texts, their true focus tends to be self-development. This book on memory is not a catalogue of mn...

The complete audiobook is available at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/93z5vd Dr Thorndyke Intervenes By R. Austin Freeman Narrated by Graham Scott The great medical jurist Dr John Thorndyke must unravel three intricate cases, as a wealthy American attempts to prove a preposterous claim to an English earldom, based only upon a startlingly tall old family tale; a hundredweight of platinum, worth a fortu...

The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/cvvrl Sea Spray and Smoke Drift By A.L. Gordon Narrated by Gregory Dwyer Sea Spray and Smoke Drift is a collection of poetry. The book showcases Gordon’s deep connection to nature, the sea, and the rugged Australian landscape. His verses explore themes of courage, adventure, and personal struggle, often reflecting his o...

The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/64qr4 While the Billy Boils By Henry Lawson Narrated by Gregory Dwyer While the Billy Boils (1896) is a collection of short stories by Australian writer Henry Lawson, portraying life in the Australian outback during the late 19th century. The stories, written with a real touch of dry humor, focus on the struggles of bus...

The complete audiobook can be purchased at Audible .com: https://n9.cl/a2vut The Girls By Edna Ferber Narrated by Martha H. Weller The Girls is the story of three spinsters living in Chicago—an aunt, her niece, and her niece’s niece. The aunt has memories of the Civil War, and all three women have adjusted to the outbreak of the First World War. Generational changes, particularly in regard to roma...

The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/ijxnp Sea Garden By H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) Read by Nancy Beard Hilda Doolittle was an American poet and novelist who was one of the founders of the Imagist movement, which includes such poetic luminaries as Ezra Pound and Richard Aldington, with both of whom Doolittle had romantic relationships. Sea Garden, a collection...

The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/yjpgf The Escaped Cock By D. H. Lawrence Narrated by Patrick Barker The Escaped Cock is Lawrence’s take on resurrection, the life-force, and sexuality. The man who has been crucified wakes up in the garden wounded and weakened. Disillusioned with his old companions and inspired by the zest for life of the escaped cock o...

The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/fue3r The Land By Vita Sackville-West Narrated by Patrick Barker Vita Sackville-West’s book length poem celebrates the landscapes and produce of the Weald of Kent. Divided into four parts—Winter, Spring, Summer, Autumn—it paints a vivid picture of the Kentish countryside across the year and the farming practices of the...

The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: https://n9.cl/p0g1y The Jane Austen Omnibus Narrated by Catherine Bilson, Terah Tucker, Sarah Jane Rose, Graham Scott, Denis Daly and Linda Barrans. Jane Austen commenced writing in her adolescence and continued right up to her untimely death in 1817. Her novels are reflections of the socially constricted world in which she lived, an...