Audiobooks by Indigenous Authors

Tell Me Why

The Story of My Life and My Music

By: Archie Roach
Narrated by: Archie Roach
Length: TBA

Winner of the 2021 ABIA Audiobook of the Year

A powerful memoir of a true Australian legend: stolen child, musical and lyrical genius, and leader.

Not many have lived as many lives as Archie Roach – stolen child, seeker, teenage alcoholic, lover, father, musical and lyrical genius, and leader – but it took him almost a lifetime to find out who... Read more

Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray

River of Dreams

By: Anita Heiss
Narrated by: Tamala Shelton
Length: 10 hours 5 minutes

‘There are books you encounter as an adult that you wish you could press into the hands of your younger self. Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray is one of those books – a novel that turns Australia’s long-mythologised settler history into a raw and resilient heartsong.' – Guardian

***WINNER 2022 NSW PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARD INDIGENOUS WRITER'S PRIZE***
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Belief

From prison to premiership glory; this is Marlion Pickett's extraordinary story

By: Marlion Pickett & Dave Warner
Narrated by: Meyne Wyatt & Dave Warner
Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

From prison to premiership glory; this is Marlion Pickett’s extraordinary story.

It’s the third quarter in the biggest game of the season. A young man lines up for goal.  The 100,000 strong crowd leaps to its feet and roars as Marlion Pickett sends the ball soaring through the goalposts for his first ever major, celebrated by every teammate, a... Read more

The Flip Out

Sam Kerr: Kicking Goals

By: Sam Kerr & Fiona Harris
Narrated by: Lisa Bailey
Length: 1 hour 38 minutes

Australian Matildas and World Cup superstar Sam Kerr teams up with Aki Fukuoka to bring young readers this fun and inspiring illustrated series about soccer, school, sport, friendship, dealing with bullies and following your dreams.
 
Sam Kerr is an Aussie rules football fan through and through. But when she’s excluded from her team she doesn’t... Read more

A New Knight

Sam Kerr: Kicking Goals

By: Sam Kerr & Fiona Harris
Narrated by: Lisa Bailey
Length: 1 hour 43 minutes

Shortlisted for the 2024 R.E.A.L. Awards
Shortlisted for the 2024 Yabba Awards, Fiction for Younger Readers

Australian Matildas and World Cup superstar Sam Kerr teams up with Aki Fukuoka to bring young readers this fun and inspiring illustrated series about soccer, school, sport, friendship, dealing with bullies and following your dreams.
 
After... Read more

Sports Day

Sam Kerr: Kicking Goals

By: Sam Kerr & Fiona Harris
Narrated by: Lisa Bailey
Length: TBA

Australian Matildas and World Cup superstar Sam Kerr teams up with Aki Fukuoka to bring young readers this fun and inspiring illustrated series about soccer, school, sport, friendship, dealing with bullies and following your dreams.
 
It’s official! Eleven-year-old Sam Kerr is a fully-fledged soccer tragic! So, when the school’s annual Sports... Read more

Finals Fever

Sam Kerr: Kicking Goals

By: Sam Kerr & Fiona Harris
Narrated by: Lisa Bailey
Length: 1 hour 46 minutes

Australian Matildas and World Cup superstar Sam Kerr teams up with Aki Fukuoka to bring young readers this fun and inspiring illustrated series about soccer, school, sport, friendship, dealing with bullies and following your dreams.
  
Sam Kerr has only been playing soccer for a few months and now her team is playing in the finals! She can’t... Read more

Cup Countdown!

Sam Kerr: Kicking Goals

By: Sam Kerr & Fiona Harris
Narrated by: Lisa Bailey
Length: 1 hour 40 minutes

Australian Matildas and World Cup superstar Sam Kerr teams up with Aki Fukuoka to bring young readers this fun and inspiring illustrated series about soccer, school, sport, friendship, dealing with bullies and following your dreams.
 
The 2006 World Cup is around the corner and thirteen-year-old Sam Kerr is pumped! Even though the games are... Read more

My Journey to the World Cup

Updated Edition

By: Sam Kerr
Narrated by: Lisa Bailey
Length: 2 hours 38 minutes

Follow Sam Kerr’s incredible journey from playing Aussie Rules as a kid to becoming one of the world’s greatest athletes, after the Matildas achieved their best-ever result at a World Cup.

Sam Kerr is widely considered to be one of the best female footballers of all time. She is famous worldwide for her skills on the soccer pitch – but before... Read more

Dirrayawadha

Rise Up

By: Anita Heiss
Narrated by: Tamala Shelton
Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

“Anita has the ability to write a sometimes beautiful yet equally confronting history into a very readable book. I really appreciate how she weaves relationships together, both good and bad. Read more

A Constellation of Minor Bears

By: Jen Ferguson
Narrated by: Julie Lumsden, Jesse Nobess & Shaun Taylor-Corbett
Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

Award-winning author Jen Ferguson has written a powerful story about teens grappling with balancing resentment with enduring friendship—and how to move forward with a life that’s not what they’d imagined.          Before that awful Saturday, Molly used to be inseparable from her brother, Hank, and his best friend, Tray. The indoor climbing... Read more

The Mighty Red

A Novel

By: Louise Erdrich
Narrated by: Marin Ireland
Length: 11 hours 26 minutes

“A fantastic read! Set over the course of 2008 and 2009, The Mighty Red is a novel rich with characters and sense of place. At its core, it is a book about choices and the repercussions of those choices over time. I'll go out on a limb and say this is Erdrich's best novel yet! The narrator was pitch perfect, too. Read more

Reclaiming Two-Spirits

Sexuality, Spiritual Renewal & Sovereignty in Native America

Queer Ideas/Queer Action: Book #12

By: Gregory Smithers
Narrated by: Shaun Taylor-Corbett
Length: 11 hours 4 minutes

Winner of the 2023 Prose Award in Cultural Anthropology and SociologyFinalist for the 2023 Publishing Triangle Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction

A sweeping history of Indigenous traditions of gender, sexuality, and resistance that reveals how, despite centuries of colonialism, Two-Spirit people are reclaiming their place in Native... Read more

Making Love with the Land

Essays

By: Joshua Whitehead
Narrated by: Joshua Whitehead
Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

A moving and deeply personal excavation of Indigenous beauty and passion in a suffering world



In prose that is evocative and sensual, unabashedly queer and visceral, raw and autobiographical, Joshua Whitehead writes of an Indigenous body in pain, coping with trauma. Deeply rooted within, he reaches across the anguish to create a new form of... Read more

The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee (Young Readers Adaptation)

Life in Native America

By: David Treuer
Narrated by: Fred Sanders
Length: 9 hours 39 minutes

The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee is a story of Native American resilience and reinvention, adapted for young adults from the adult nonfiction book of the same name.

Since the late 1800s, it has been believed that Native American civilization has been wiped from the United States. The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee argues that Native American culture is... Read more

Berry Song

By: Michaela Goade
Narrated by: Erin Tripp
Length: 14 minutes

A Caldecott Honor Book!

An Indie Bestseller!

Caldecott Medalist Michaela Goade's first self-authored picture book is a gorgeous celebration of the land she knows well and the powerful wisdom of elders.

On an island at the edge of a wide, wild sea, a girl and her grandmother gather gifts from the earth. Salmon from the stream, herring eggs from... Read more

Sweetest Kulu

By: Celina Kalluk
Narrated by: Celina Kalluk
Length: TBA

Winner of a Wordcraft Circle Award Named Best Bedtime Book Huffington Post Selected as Top Summer Read for the TD Summer Reading Club "Dream a little, Kulu, this world now sings a most beautiful song of you." This beautiful bedtime poem, written by acclaimed Inuit throat singer Celina Kalluk, describes the gifts given to a newborn baby by... Read more

My Heart Fills With Happiness / sâkaskinêw nitêh miywêyihtamowin ohci

By: Monique Gray Smith
Narrated by: Heather Gould & Dolores Greyeyes Sand
Length: 13 minutes

★ "A quiet loveliness, sense of gratitude, and—yes—happiness emanate from this tender celebration of simple pleasures." — Publishers Weekly, starred review The sun on your face. The smell of warm bannock baking in the oven. Holding the hand of someone you love. What fills your heart with happiness? This beautiful board book, with illustrations... Read more

Little You / kiya kâ-apisîsisiyan

By: Richard Van Camp
Narrated by: Dolores Greyeyes Sand
Length: 11 minutes

★ "Van Camp composes a lyrical ode to a newborn child, which is matched in its loveliness by Flett's exquisite, collage-like images of a young one with his or her parents.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review Richard Van Camp, internationally renowned storyteller and bestselling author of the hugely successful Welcome Song for Baby: A Lullaby for... Read more

Holding Our World Together

Ojibwe Women and the Survival of Community

By: Brenda J. Child
Narrated by: Alma Cuervo
Length: 6 hours 31 minutes

In this fascinating work, associate professor of American studies at the University of Minnesota and Red Lake Ojibwe Nation member Brenda J. Child spotlights the remarkable women of the Ojibwe Nation. A stunning look at a too-seldomly explored subject in history, Holding Our World Together shows how American Indian women have profoundly... Read more