The Ruin of Magic

Released: April 7, 2026
Length: 9 hrs 38 mins
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Publisher: Penguin Audio

Follow Kate Holden View on Audible amazon apple

The Ruin of Magic by Kate Holden is a poetic exploration of identity, belonging, and the search for beauty amid modern life's glare, blending personal reflection with philosophical insights. Through elegant prose and references to poets, thinkers, and historical themes, Holden meditates on what it means to feel at home both within oneself and in the Australian landscape. This work offers a thoughtful, nuanced reflection on nostalgia, magic, and the ways contemporary life shapes our sense of wonder.

biography essays general

RecentAudiobook tracks Kate Holden and over 141,000 other authors for new releases.

Follow the authors you love and hear about every new audiobook the day it lands.

Get started Browse authors

You Don't Know Me

Sara Foster

Purple Roads

Fleur McDonald

Blue Skies

Fleur McDonald

Essays

George Orwell

The Ultimate Essays Collection: 29 of the Greatest Essays Ever Written from George Orwell, Thomas Paine, Henry David Thoreau, Virginia Woolf, Zorea Neale Huston, Langston Hughes, Jack London, & More

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Henry David Thoreau, Robert Louis Stevenson, Mark Twain, Virginia Woolf, Jonathan Swift, Edgar Allan Poe, George Orwell, Edgar Allen Poe, F Scott Fitzgerald, Robert L Stevenson, Dr. Jonathan Swift

The Winter Road

Kate Holden

Thought Through the Centuries

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Napoleon Hill, Marcus Aurelius, Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

I Hate the Ivy League

Malcolm Gladwell

In My Skin