Yellow Shelf Podcast

After suffering a loss, Janine and her husband, Kamal, need a fresh start. They leave their family and everything they know in Manchester and move to Bamblethorpe, a picturesque Lancashire village where they expect nothing but peace and quiet. It’ll be just what Janine, a thriller writer, needs to work on her next manuscript. But the peace of their new village life is disrupted when longtime local...

With the clock striking every hour Merrie Moo races all over town. In and out of every shop she goes, running round and round. Can you guess what Merrie Moo needs, because she has no clue? Or will she surprise us all and remember what to do? An entertaining read-aloud picture book that is perfect for a shared reading experience. Merrie Moo is a fantastic and fun way to introduce the concept of tim...

The Light Within: The Aura Academy of Magic Sometimes you must look within yourself to show others what you are capable of. Seventeen-year-old Alice Morgan has always lived a quiet life in Ring Four, until it’s time to leave Optimum for her mandatory year at the Aura Academy of Magic. Ready to leave for the academy, her father dies suddenly, and without her knowing, the seer magic buried within he...

In this inspirational novel, a family traumatized by addiction and catastrophe discover their great-grandmother’s lost account of Australia’s saint-in-waiting—a severely disabled woman who barely survived childhood but defied the Catholic Church and provided free nursing care in Sydney’s slums—and miracles happen. With a dual timeline, novelist Kate Clinch weaves the story of Eileen O’Connor, whos...

The National Library of Australia holds millions of letters in its collections: love letters, reports on scientific discoveries, impassioned pleas, newsy notes about the week that's just been, responses from politicians to members of the electorate, letters to the editor and so many more. We've made a selection of remarkable letters from those millions, and passed them on to modern Austr...

To Be Honest…: How making truth happen builds better businesses, lives and societies. A toolkit to help restore our relationship with the truth, create cultures of truth-telling in our businesses, and improve our personal and professional results in ways that really matter. In a world that desperately needs more honesty, we're drowning in lies and misinformation. From well-meaning mistakes to...

The Secrets of St Jude's: When finding the truth can be dangerous  Once regarded as one of the nation’s leading schools, grand old St Jude’s School for Girls finds itself on the brink of collapse after a number of public scandals damage its reputation. Rosie Gladshaw ... a dynamic and successful educator in her 40s  is appointed principal to lead the school into a bright new future. However,...

A hilarious and moving debut novel about a woman who writes a ‘f*ck-it’ list to reclaim herself after her marriage unexpectedly implodes. Forty-nine-year-old Grace Miller is the ultimate good girl. Good wife, good mother, good role model. She has to be, she’s been married to a notable evangelical Christian pastor for nearly thirty years. But when Grace’s marriage implodes, she realises she’s spent...

Six Figures in Sales: How to win more customers without spending a cent on ads Boost sales with this comprehensive, friendly guide to low-cost marketing, mastering SEO, social media, email campaigns and copywriting, and see your business grow. A friendly, go-to guide for low-cost marketing and sales tactics that deliver big wins without spending a cent on social media advertising. Kate Toon, an aw...

Tell Your Eating Disorder to F**k Off is a self-help book for eating disorders from someone who lives with one. Kate Purcell has spent much of her life in the grips of anorexia nervosa. Now healthy and happy, she is here to tell you how to separate who you are from your Disorder. In these pages are the tools to start building a life that you are in love with. A life full of hope and inspiration an...

Creativity Found: Finding Creativity Later in Life. Claire Waite Brown ... host of Creativity Found is a conversational podcast focused on rediscovering creativity in adulthood. At its core, the show features real-life stories from people who have found—or re-found their creative side later in life. Claire interviews guests across a wide range of creative fields (art, writing, music, business, and...

Good Girl, Goodbye: Rewrite Your Story, Reclaim Your Power, Build a Life You Love  We’ve spent years being the good girl: saying yes when we mean no, shrinking ourselves to make others comfortable and prioritising everyone else’s needs. Our conditioning to be ‘good’ runs deep. As children, we’re praised for being polite, quiet and well-behaved. In the workplace, we’re rewarded for compliance over...

 A gripping new legal thriller ..... New graduate Fei Fei Chou is an outlier at her prestigious law firm. She's too quiet. She wears too much makeup. She's only here because the boss has a thing for Asians.  But Fei isn't here to climb the corporate ladder - she's here for revenge.   Thirty years ago, three schoolgirls were kidnapped and abused by a man who's never been id...

Vitalify Unplugged™ blends health, tech and AI, brain rot, brain fog, brain emergence, neurospicy perspectives, parenting, and soul wisdom with zero filters. Hosted by Steph Liyanage and Gry Stene (aka the quirky twins - 20 years and 15,000kn apart), we talk about the real stuff behind vitality in midlife. Hosts ...  Steph — writer, wellness explorer.  Gry — strategist, speaker, and recovering per...

When 72-year-old Elizabeth sees a dead body - her own - on a park bench, she knows it's a sign that it's time for her to make some big changes in her life. She has recently moved into the heavily regimented nursing home The Cloisters and, after becoming a widow, has lost all sense of herself and her life. Jolted suddenly out of the greyness of her life, she performs a daring abscondence...

Veils of the Fallen by Hannah Kristen is the first instalment in the History of the Fallen series, introducing a richly imagined fantasy world where prophecy, power, and identity collide. The story follows Esme, a woman who has always felt out of place, only to be abruptly torn from Earth and thrust into the mysterious Celestial Plane—a realm filled with ancient creatures, political tension, and l...

The Couples Retreat by Mercedes Mercier is a tightly wound destination thriller set on the remote beauty of Kangaroo Island, where three wealthy couples reunite for a weekend of luxury, indulgence, and celebration.  Beneath the polished surface, however, old friendships are strained by jealousy, buried history, and long-held secrets. When the group wakes to a brutal murder, the glamorous escape qu...

7 Minute Stories is the leading short-form autobiographical storytelling podcast in the world, reaching over 30 million listeners through weekly unscripted personal narratives. Each episode delivers a true story from Aaron Calafato’s extremely normal yet deeply relatable life in Ohio, told in about seven minutes with no script. This show is quick, immersive, and tinged with nostalgia. Each story f...

Fractured Motherhood: when love, trauma and parenting intertwine  She never thought she could be a mother. Not after an abusive childhood. Not with a mind fractured by multiple personality disorder. And not with the fear that she might repeat her parents’ mistakes. But when Maggie Walters and her partner adopted three children from the Philippines, motherhood became both a reckoning and a revelati...

Two lands divided by sea have had over one thousand years of war. One, Asalandia, is a kingdom dominated by strong men, ruled by a long line of strong kings. Tall men with locks of gold and long, bushy beards. These strong men have been raised to hate the country of Kastanair, a democratic land, always changing leaders, always resourceful and innovative. The Wars Between Lee J. Mavin is an author...

From Jade Riley Mystery Series... The Runaway Girl (Book 4) Three missing girls. One deadly secret. In Lagos, Nigeria, journalist Jade Riley investigates three girls’ disappearance and uncovers a shadowy underworld of money, power and exploitation. Far from the city, young Yinka flees a life of hardship, seeking a new start. Their paths converge as Jade and Yinka are drawn into the same web of dan...

Tiny Rice Grains How Small and Impactful Actions Build Inclusive Workplaces Author Lyn R. Lee Tiny Rice Grains explores the human side of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI). Given the business case that diverse and inclusive organizations thrive and drive better performance, the question begs to be asked: why are so many organizations still struggling to implement and embed DEI in the workplace...

Don't Forget to Remember Me is a heartfelt coming-of-age novel about first love, identity and the value of true friendship. Thirteen-year-old Starling 'Star' Cooney lives with her grandfather, Roy, in Rocky Point. She has not made any friends that is, until new student Bronte arrives. Then Roy disappears, and Star must decide who to trust as she searches for her mum. To connect with...

PREPARE TO THINK.  PREPARE TO QUESTION.  PREPARE FOR ‘TRUE WILD LIGHT’. In a world on the brink, the seemingly accidental death of the Australian Museum's Chairman unearths a venomous generational feud and something far more insidious. Enter environmentalist Dylan Woodward, tasked with coaching a ruthless CEO intent on fracking Arnhem Land, sacred country for his tribal Aboriginal friend. But...

Maybe some of the most fascinating wildlife is just outside your door.  Siski Kalla is the author and illustrator of the URBAN WILDLIFE EXPOLORERS series for children that looks at the underappreciated wildlife all around us.  her books share facts about the hedgehogs and the pigeons, the ducks and the moths, and even the snails that we see and ignore every day.  Most people live in urban settings...