Eyes & Ears
Books and podcasts to enjoy while you’re travelling with Journey Beyond.
Broken Country Clare Leslie Hall (Simon & Schuster)
Beth and Frank have a good marriage and a quiet life on a Dorset farm, until a stray dog brings the past back to their door. The dog belongs to Gabriel Wolfe, the man who broke Beth’s heart as a teenager, and his return to the village sets in motion a chain of events nobody saw coming. At its heart, Hall’s Broken Country is a love story, though its thriller elements ensure the tension never lets up.
Seed Bri Lee (Simon & Schuster)
For one month each year, Mitchell and Frances retreat to Antarctica to work on a secret seed vault, a biodiversity insurance policy against a warming planet. It is their utopia. Then the helicopter doesn’t come. As the days grow shorter and the ice closes in, the secrets Mitchell has been carrying begin to surface, and the fault lines in their perfect social experiment start to show. Unsettling, suspenseful and deeply human..
Revenge of the Tipping Point Malcolm Gladwell (Little Brown)
Twenty-five years after The Tipping Point, Gladwell returns to the ideas that made him famous and asks what we missed the first time. How do ideas, behaviours and social phenomena spread, and why do some take hold in ways nobody anticipated? From LA bank robbers to forgotten television shows, it’s classic Gladwell: riveting stories, counterintuitive conclusions and the nagging feeling that the world makes slightly more sense than you thought.
Good Things Simon Nosrat (Every Publishing)
The author of Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat returns with a love letter to food, friendship and the table. Warm, generous and full of the kind of recipes that make you want to cook for everyone you know. Perfect for the long stretches between meals, or as inspiration for what to make when you get home.
View from the Top
Melbourne is a city best felt from the ground and understood from above. These tracks are for when your head is in the clouds. From level 88 at Melbourne Skydeck.
Off Menu
Comedians Ed Gamble and James Acaster invite a new guest each week to order their perfect meal, starters, mains, sides, dessert and a drink, in their imaginary dream restaurant. Simple enough, until the opinions start flying. Warm, funny and surprisingly revealing about what food says about a person.
Short History Of...
From Viking longships to the Silk Roads, gladiators to the Cold War — Short History Of takes the moments and figures that shaped the world and tells them as they deserve to be told. Hosted by John Hopkins and produced by the award-winning Noiser network, this is history that makes the hours disappear.
Aspire with Emma Grede
Emma Grede built SKIMS and Good American before most people had heard her name. Now she’s asking the questions everyone wants answered – how the world’s most successful people actually got there, what they got wrong along the way, and what they wish they’d known sooner.
But Are You Happy?
Ashani Dante and Clinical Psychologist Dr Anastasia Hronis cut through the noise on self-development and mental health, delivering the kind of honest, grounded information that actually makes a difference. Equal parts warm and straight-talking, this is the podcast for anyone who wants real answers over easy ones.