Kirsty Leishman

Stories from The Detective's Album

by Mary Fortune Read by Kirsty Leishman 4.6
Stories from The Detective's Album invites listeners into the intriguing world of early detective fiction through the eyes of detective Mark…

The Pioneers

by Katharine S. Prichard Read by Kirsty Leishman 4.6
The Pioneers is set against the background of pioneering life in the Gippsland region of Victoria in pre-Federation Australia. Mary and Dona…

Two Sides To Every Question: From A South Australian Standpoint

by Maud Jean Franc Read by Kirsty Leishman 3.6
'Two Sides to Every Question’: From a South Australian Standpoint is a meditation on poverty, wealth, and social aspiration set in the free …

The Getting of Wisdom (Version 2)

by Henry Handel Richardson Read by Kirsty Leishman 4.4
Henry Handel Richardson was the pseudonym of Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson, a writer who was born in 1870 to a reasonably well-off fami…

Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land

by Rosa Campbell Praed Read by Kirsty Leishman 4.8
Following a failed love affair in England, Lady Bridget O'Hara accepts an invitation to travel to colonial Australia as companion to Lady Ro…

Human Toll

by Barbara Baynton Read by Kirsty Leishman 4.5
Ursula (Ursie) Ewart, orphaned as a young child, is sent away from her home in the Australian bush. While Ursie was previously doted on by s…

Bush Studies

by Barbara Baynton Read by Kirsty Leishman 4.1
Bush Studies is a short story collection published in London in 1902. Baynton presents a grimly realist view of bush life in Australia for w…