No audiobooks in my music app?

I have recently downloaded two audiobooks from iTunes and can not find them in the music app. I have no 'more' or 'audiobook' options showing in my music. Can anyone help me find them?

Audiobooks are a one-time only download from the store, so it wouldn't have shown on your phone unless you had synced it to it. You can try the 'report a problem' page to contact iTunes Support and see if they will grant you a redownload of it (if they do then you may want to download it on your computer's iTunes and then sync it to your iPad and phone) : http://reportaproblem.apple.com
If the 'report a problem' link doesn't work then you can try contacting iTunes support via this page : http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/contact/- click on Contact iTunes Store Support on the right-hand side of the page, then Purchases, Billing & Redemption
You can turn off 'automatic syncing' on your computer's iTunes when a device is connected to your computer's it via the Devices tab in Edit > Preferences (iTunes > Preferences on a Mac), and you can copy purchases from a device to your computer's iTunes by connecting it and doing File > Devices > Transfer Purchases.

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Clicked reply by accident, and now can't edit the post.
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