Audiobooks narrated by Zehra Jane Naqvi

"'A god is nothing without a good story.' It has been six months since the fall of the great cities of Ancient Sumer. Six months since war and chaos scattered everyone to the wind. Ereshkigal, the queen of the underworld, finds herself trapped in the rubble of her realm with only one thought: to rescue the man she loves. In the realm of light, Harga and Marduk mount a hopeless resistance against the vast Akkadian forces, whilst Gilgamesh, once king of Uruk, travels to Egypt in search of a legend that could save them. High above them all, in the kingdom of Heaven, a goddess with no memory lies imprisoned and helpless whilst a faint voice on the wind whispers a name . . . Inanna. And, wandering between the realms, a lost and lonely spirit named Ninshubar desperately tries to find her lost mistress. But as their search for one another begins to draw them closer, Tiamat, the many-headed dragon-queen of Heaven, is preparing for an assault on the realm of light that could crush all life on Earth."

Emily H. Wilson (Author), Zehra Jane Naqvi (Narrator)

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Eva Reddy's Trip of a Lifetime: The new funny and uplifting read for book clubs in 2025 about advent

"Mrs Winterbottom Takes a Gap Year meets The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and Where'd You Go Bernadette in this witty novel about coming of (middle) age and discovering that you don't have to be who you've become. How hard can it be to find a pair of Bollywood-dancing septuagenarians? When Eva Moore wakes up on her fiftieth birthday, her drab middle-class life immediately starts to unravel. First, she receives an anonymous Facebook message claiming her husband is having an affair. Next, she is restructured out of her job by her obnoxiously young boss. Then, just when she thinks her life can't get any worse, her elderly parents wilfully go missing from their group tour of India. All they've left behind is an increasingly bizarre series of TikTok videos. Eager to put some distance between herself and her failing marriage, Eva undertakes a rescue mission, determined to save her parents from certain disaster. She wants to find them. But what Eva really needs is to find herself. If she can do that, she might get a second chance at life and love - and, along the way, become an inspiration to anyone who fears their best days are behind them ... Witty, warm and acutely observed - a book club book from an extraordinary new Australian voice about taking life, and adventure, by the horns. A funny, defiant shout into the face of society's expectations around ageing. PRAISE: 'Eva Reddy took me on a wild, comical ride through India with a dash of romance on the side as she discovered friends and family may shape our lives but being true to yourself is the most important thing. I loved being along for the journey.' - Tricia Stringer, bestselling Australian author 'Fiona has taken the gritty challenges of infidelity, middle age, dementia, unemployment - not to mention traveling in India - and wrapped them up in a charming fairytale that tells you all is not lost.' - Tracy Grimshaw 'An important message delivered with humour and warmth. So much I could relate to!' - Tracy Bowden 'It's a funny, irreverent rollick, filled with likeable crazies. Proof that you really can 'kickstart' life - at any age - as long as you're a certain kind of woman.' - Ray Martin 'Every serious journalist thinks they will one day write a book - most don't. Fiona continues to demonstrates that she has not only the skill, but the drive and courage to write very clever fiction. Eva Reddy's Trip of a Lifetime is a terrific holiday read.' - Sandra Odorisio 'What a wild ride! Funny, poignant ... much of it hilariously relatable. Eva is the pin up girl of the sandwich generation.' - Melissa Doyle 'Laugh-out-loud funny from the very first page. Eva Reddy is immediately relatable and likeable as a main character. A fast paced, easy read - funny, and insightful - with a lovely dash of nostalgia for women of a certain age. Brava!' - Angela Cox 'A warm, amusing and adventurous tale of one woman's search for answers ... and herself.' - Kim Lock, author of The Other Side of Beautiful 'A coming of (middle) age romp that has an abundance of wit and pathos. Finding destiny through desperation gives us all hope, and in this delightful novel, many laughs along the way. Eva speaks for and to millions of women who share her experiences, fears and triumphs, beautifully distilled into an addictive read.' - Tara Brown"

Fiona McKenzie Kekic (Author), Zehra Jane Naqvi (Narrator)

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Splintered Mind

"Viv just wants work—any work. Well, not quite any work. But she's desperate enough to accept a job offer as personal assistant to Jasper Renner—the rich and mysterious owner of the Renner Tea House—even though odd things happen whenever he's around. She expects to deal with rich, entitled Melbournians and a full business schedule. Instead, Viv finds herself following Jasper into a strange new world where a murderous madman has been incarcerated in a secret floor at the old Kew Asylum that may or may not exist in the human world as she knows it. Reality is just as worryingly soft at the old tea house itself, which hides a few too many not-quite-human secrets. In one of the downstairs rooms, there's a little girl who has been a little girl for a suspiciously long time; in the uppermost floor, there are a few windows that show a view that doesn't exist in Melbourne. And then there are the giant cephalopod tentacles that appear from nowhere and disappear again, seemingly at will . . . Now Viv isn't sure if she's going mad, or if the world itself has gone mad and the lunatic in Kew Asylum is the only sane person she knows."

W.R. Gingell (Author), Zehra Jane Naqvi (Narrator)

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Splintered Life

"The world isn't the same as it was yesterday. In fact, Viv is no longer sure that she is the same as she was yesterday. She can do something she never knew was possible—and Luca tried to kill her, just like Jasper said he would if she let him get too close. At the teahouse, it's business as usual, however: tentacles in the top floor, an invasion of not-quite-real-but-nevertheless-terrifying spiders . . . and a new murderer to catch, of course. Someone is trying to make sure a Greek-Australian couple never makes it to the altar, and it's not just perfume they're sneaking into the bride's room. But Luca isn't talking to Viv; not since she stopped him from escaping. That shouldn't be surprising—and the last thing Viv should be doing is trying to talk to him more than she has to—but there's another murderer on the loose, and they're going to need Luca's help to catch him. Life was already hard, but now Viv has to somehow stop the wilder side of that life from spilling over into her normal life. Her human life. But if the two halves begin to split apart, which should she try to hold onto?"

W.R. Gingell (Author), Zehra Jane Naqvi (Narrator)

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The Lost Trident of Poseidon

"Agana Taitano Hofstadter is a brilliant expert in cryptanalysis. She is working, under the Clean Blue Project of the Great Restoration, to rid the seas of Earth-Ocean of the last of the chemical weapons that were dumped there over two hundred years ago. Taitano’s dolphin mentor and professor informs her that, for unknown reasons, she has been summoned by the United Nations Commission for Ennean Cross-Cultural Exchange to the dark and inhospitable planet Ennea, whose only inhabitants are the enigmatic Enneans. Over one hundred years ago, the Enneans arrived in their interstellar vessel and saved Earth-Ocean from a massive solar flare; and yet communication with them is still a mystery. Despite Taitano’s ongoing struggle to manage a debilitating psychological condition, she is persuaded by her cantankerous grandfather to follow her destiny and undertake this journey across the stars. Included in her team are an arrogant cybernetically enhanced human, an irrepressible dolphin doctoral student, and an artificial intelligence with a proclivity for holographic antics. When they arrive and begin their work deep beneath the sub-terranean Ocean of Ennea, this group of intrepid scientist-explorers uncovers a world-changing conspiracy. In a race against time, Taitano and her colleagues must work together to save the Enneans—and themselves—from certain destruction."

Grant Dawson (Author), Zehra Jane Naqvi (Narrator)

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Palestine in a World on Fire

"As more and more people align themselves with the Palestinian people, Palestine in a World on Fire provides the global perspective and analysis needed to inform how we forge ahead on this path of newfound solidarity. Editors Ilan Pappé and Katherine Natanel have gathered a collection of interviews that are intimate, challenging, and rigorous—many of them conducted before October 7th but still startlingly prescient. The interviewees connect the struggle for Palestinian liberation to various liberatory movements around the world, simultaneously interrogating and recontextualizing their own positions given the ongoing aggression in Palestine. This incredible group includes Angela Y. Davis, Noam Chomsky, Judith Butler, Nadine El-Enany, Gabor Mate, Mustafa Barghouti, Yanis Varoufakis, Paul Gilroy, Elias Khoury, Gayatri Spivak, and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian. Palestine in a World on Fire highlights the centrality of Palestine in struggles shared across the world: capitalism, imperialism, misogyny, neocolonialism, racism, and more. Each conversation tackles urgent events and unfolding dynamics, and the scholar-activists interviewed here provide invaluable perspectives and insights, illuminating the richness and relevance of recent scholarship on Palestine."

Ilan Pappe, Katherine Natanel (Author), Zehra Jane Naqvi (Narrator)

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Ryder Bird of Prey: An Ayesha Ryder Novel

"According to the last words of a dying man, the Maltese Falcon was no mere legend: The fabulously jeweled golden bird really existed—still exists, in fact. And Ayesha Ryder is hot on its trail. Rumor says the Falcon conceals clues to the burial place of Harold II, the conquered Anglo-Saxon King of England—and to an artifact of astonishing significance that few besides Ryder would understand. Hunted by Scotland Yard, MI5, and those who seek the Falcon to break up the United Kingdom, Ryder joins forces with Joram Tate, a mysterious librarian with a reputation for turning up things that don't want to be found. Soon Ryder and her handsome, erudite new companion are venturing through lost tombs and ancient abbeys, following a trail left ages ago by the Knights Templar. Ryder knows she's close to a game-changing secret, hidden for a thousand years beneath an English castle. But with ruthless killers waiting in the wings, Ryder must go medieval—to defend her life, her country, and the world as we know it."

Nick Pengelley (Author), Zehra Jane Naqvi (Narrator)

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Rumbles: A Curious History of the Gut

"The fascinating—and often secret—history of the body's most fascinating system: the gut. The stomach is notoriously outspoken. It growls, gurgles, and grumbles while other organs remain silent, inconspicuous, and content. For centuries humans have puzzled over this rowdy organ, deliberating on the extent of its influence over cognition, mental wellbeing, and emotions, and wondering how the gut became so central to our sense of self. Traveling from ancient Greece to Victorian England, eighteenth-century France to modern America, historian Elsa Richardson leads us on a tour of the gut, exploring all the ways that we have imagined, theorized, and probed the mysteries of the gastroenterological system. We'll meet a diverse cast of characters including Edwardian body builders, hunger-striking suffragettes, demons, medieval alchemists, and one poor teenage girl plagued by a remarkably vocal gut, all united by this singular organ. Engaging, eye-opening, and thought-provoking, Rumbles leaves no stone unturned, scrutinizing religious tracts and etiquette guides, satirical cartoons and political pamphlets, in its quest to answer the millennia-old question: Are we really ruled by our stomachs?"

Elsa Richardson (Author), Zehra Jane Naqvi (Narrator)

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Ryder American Treasure: An Ayesha Ryder Novel

"During of the War of 1812, British troops ransacked the White House and made off with valuables that were never returned. Two centuries later, a British curator finds a vital clue to the long-vanished loot. Within hours, the curator is assassinated—and Ayesha Ryder, a Palestinian-born antiquities expert, is expertly framed for his murder. Who could be behind such a conspiracy? And why do they want Ryder out of the way? To find out, she picks up a trail leading from a mysterious nineteenth-century letter to the upcoming presidential election. As Ryder dodges killers in the shadow of hidden alliances, sexual blackmail, and international power plays, she finds that all roads lead to the Middle East, where a fragile peace agreement threatens to unravel . . . and another mystery begs to be discovered. Ryder's rarefied academic career and her violent past are about to collide. And her only hope of survival is to confront a powerful secret agent who has been waiting for one thing: the chance to kill Ayesha Ryder with his own two hands."

Nick Pengelley (Author), Zehra Jane Naqvi (Narrator)

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Gilgamesh

Emily H. Wilson (Author), Zehra Jane Naqvi (Narrator)

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Ryder: An Ayesha Ryder Novel

"Ayesha Ryder bears the scars of strife in the Middle East. Now her past is catching up to her as she races to unravel a mystery that spans centuries—and threatens to change the course of history. As Israeli and Palestinian leaders prepare to make a joint announcement at the Tower of London, an influential scholar is tortured and murdered in his well-appointed home in St. John's Wood. Academic researcher Ayesha Ryder believes the killing is no coincidence. Sir Evelyn Montagu had unearthed shocking revelations about T. E. Lawrence—the famed Lawrence of Arabia. Could Montagu have been targeted because of his discoveries? Ryder's search for answers takes her back to her old life in the Middle East and into a lion's den of killers and traitors. As she draws the attention of agents from both sides of the conflict, including detectives from Scotland Yard and MI5, Ryder stumbles deeper into Lawrence's secrets, an astounding case of royal blackmail, even the search for the Bible's lost Ark of the Covenant. Every step of the way, the endgame grows more terrifying. But when an attack rocks London, the real players show their hand—and Ayesha Ryder is left holding the final piece of the puzzle."

Nick Pengelley (Author), Zehra Jane Naqvi (Narrator)

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Inanna: A Novel

"Stories are sly things . . . they can be hard to catch and kill. Inanna is an impossibility. The first full Anunnaki born on Earth in Ancient Mesopotamia. Crowned the goddess of love by the twelve immortal Anunnaki who are worshipped across Sumer, she is destined for greatness. But Inanna is born into a time of war. The Anunnaki have split into warring factions, threatening to tear the world apart. Forced into a marriage to negotiate a peace, she soon realizes she has been placed in terrible danger. Gilgamesh, a mortal human son of the Anunnaki, and notorious womanizer, finds himself captured and imprisoned. His captor, King Akka, seeks to distance himself and his people from the gods. Arrogant and selfish, Gilgamesh is given one final chance to prove himself. Ninshubar, a powerful warrior woman, is cast out of her tribe after an act of kindness. Hunted by her own people, she escapes across the country, searching for acceptance and a new place in the world. As their journeys push them closer together, and their fates intertwine, they come to realize that together, they may have the power to change to face of the world forever."

Emily H. Wilson (Author), Zehra Jane Naqvi (Narrator)

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Audiobooks Narrated by Zehra Jane Naqvi