Audio Book Titles
Added to the Braille and Talking Book Library in January 1999
Please contact the Braille and
Talking Book Library for details on how to borrow these titles.
AYLIFFE, John Stephen
Blind man's bluff : Roger's extraordinary journey
Narrated by Paul Treasure
Blind--Australia--Biography
Australian man's story of becoming blind through disease and facing adversity.
15 cassettes Accession number: S5543 (WABL)
** Content warning: Strong language.
COURTENAY, Bryce
The family frying pan
Narrated by Ray Thompson
Short stories
A collection of short stories and a variety of tried and tested recipes.
5 cassettes Accession number: S5546 (WABL)
DUNN, Frank Penrose
A century of Sundays
Narrated by Dawn Campbell-Kelly
Australian newspapers--Western Australia--History
Story of the Sunday Times birth, its growth and its evolution over a century of
Sundays'. It has captured many of those events that shaped Western Australia and the
nation from colonial times on; including two world wars, the Depression and more.
7 cassettes Accession number: S5539 (WABL)
FAST, Howard
An independent woman
Narrated by Jocelyn Castledine
Romance
Continues the story of Barbara Lavette, the matriach of the large and powerful Lavette
clan, to whom everyone turns to for guidance and strength. After years as a journalist,
she discovers the joys of real love when she marries Philip Carter.
8 cassettes Accession number: S5541 (WABL)
FORSTER, Margaret
Shadow baby
Narrated by Judy Meagher
Mothers and daughters--Fiction
Two girls have only one thing in common; both were abandoned as babies by their mothers.
Different times, different circumstances, but these two girls grow up sharing the same
obsession. Each sets out to stalk and then haunt her natural mother.
10 cassettes Accession number: S5540 (WABL)
HAMILL, Pete
Snow in August
Narrated by Elwyn Edwards
Historical fiction
Brooklyn 1947: The war veterans have come home and, in one close-knit working class
neighbourhood, an 11-year-old Irish Catholic boy has just made friends with a lonely rabbi
from Prague. An evocative deeply affecting fable tells of an unusual friendship.
8 cassettes Accession number: S5545 (WABL)
HENDERSON, Leila
Slow down, take a deep breath and relax
Narrated by Pip Leake
Relaxation
A short book on how to overcome stress and do relaxation. Australian version.
2 cassettes Accession number: S5518 (WABL)
KUUSISTO, Stephen
Planet of the blind
Narrated by John Goldsmith
Blind--United States--Biography
Kuusisto, legally blind since birth, writes of his blindness and his struggles to read and
learn in a US public school. Kuusisto's poetic prose is filled with reflections on the
tribulations of blindness and common misconceptions about the blind.
5 cassettes Accession number: S5520 (WABL)
LOANE, Bill
The Koolama incident
Narrated by John Phillips
World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operations
A dramatic true story of survival in the north Kimberley region of Western Australia after
the MV Koolama is attacked and bombed by three Japanese float planes in February 1942.
7 cassettes Accession number: S5542 (WABL)
ROBSON, Arthur W
Light out of darkness
Narrated by Harry Fenwick
Drugs
Story of Anton, a handsome young male and his traumatic and tragic youth. He was only
twelve when first initiated into the use of drugs. Now at twenty, he tells his side of the
story.
6 cassettes Accession number: S5519 (WABL)
** Content warning: Explicit sexual description.
SILVESTER, Richard
The Bermuda Triangle : mystery no more
Narrated by Pip Leake
Ocean-atmosphere interaction
Looks into the effects of whirlwinds and ocean-atmosphere interaction relating to this
part of the world.
5 cassettes Accession number: S5544 (WABL)
WHITE, Patrick
The solid mandala
Narrated by Maureen Taylor
Australian fiction
The story of twin brothers that unfolds through half a century. Inextricably intertwined
are the lives of Waldo, perceived as reasonable and competent, and Arthur, perceived as a
blundering, loving, innocent half-wit.
10 cassettes Accession number: S5547 (WABL)
WHITNELL, Barbara
The candlewood tree
Narrated by David Thatcher
General fiction
Set during the time of South Africa's worst apartheid strife. A woman who returns to
England is separated from her son; he turns up years later in an English hospital, but who
would want him dead?.
14 cassettes Accession number: S5517 (WABL)