Showing results by publisher "Audible Studios" in Contemporary Fiction

When 26-year-old Ayan is sent to live with his grumpy old grandfather Gopal Shanker in a tiny village in Kerala, he is understandably devastated. What can a sleepy, idyllic village without even internet connectivity offer a young man?

Aavarana: The Veil by S. L. Bhyrappa is a story of a free-spirited and rebellious young woman, Lakshmi, who marries the man she is deeply in love with. Amir, her husband, requests she convert to Islam, and she reluctantly agrees. Despite her father being completely against the marriage, she breaks ties with him and changes her name to Razia. However, things change for the worse, and she discovers a different side to Amir. He is not the progressive and liberal person she thought he was.

The whole of the harbour was touched with gold - the tops of the quiet waves, warehouse roofs, the bulging folds of sails at rest, the tips of seagull wings - giving him one sweeping glimpse of beauty just as he was leaving, a vision of things as they ought always to be just as they were not.... March, 1912. A sultry Indian summer hangs over the west coast of Australia and aboard the luxury steamship SS Koombana, three tales entwine.

Alfred Larribee is sent by his father to live with his cousin’s family in the West. Larribee proves to be lazy and shiftless…spending most of his time in town…drinking and gambling…even cheating at cards. What changes all this is the appearance of Sky Blue…a magnificent stallion that has never been ridden. Dan Gurry is the owner and hopes to find a cowboy who can ride Sky Blue…but the first one to try is seriously injured. After that no one is willing to volunteer to try again except Larribee.

When the younger players in India's cricket team find out that advertising executive Zoya Singh Solanki was born at the very moment India won the World Cup back in 1983, they are intrigued. When having breakfast with her is followed by victories on the field, they are impressed. And when not eating with her results in defeat, they decide she's a lucky charm. The nation goes a step further. Amazed at the ragtag team's sudden spurt of victories, it declares her a goddess.

Paul has been led into a life of crime by his schoolyard protector, Daniel - but one night, what started as petty theft escalates fatally. Now, at 19, Paul must bear witness against his friend to avoid imprisonment. Louisa has her own dark secrets. Having fled from them many years ago, she now spends her days steeped in history, renovating the grounds of a crumbling Elizabethan mansion. But the her fragile peace is shattered when she meets Paul....

Pietro Rinaldi ha ottant'anni e vuole essere lasciato in pace. Ormai è convinto che la sua vita sia arrivata al capolinea e, mentre mangia penne all'arrabbiata, riflette su quanto i libri siano meglio delle persone. Se già fatica a sopportare se stesso, figuriamoci gli altri! Non ha proprio intenzione di avere a che fare con l'umanità... fino a quando, un giorno, nel suo mondo irrompe Diego, il nipotino quindicenne.

舞台俳優・家福をさいなみ続ける亡き妻の記憶。彼女はなぜあの男と関係したのかを追う「ドライブ・マイ・カー」。

吸血鬼一家が営む山奥のピッツェリア。ある日、新たな仲間が加わることに！漫画家を目指す双子の小学生吸血鬼、ルキアとラキア。

この物語の主人公は沖縄である 「バクさんの詩、わたし好きだなあ」 故郷への想いは海を越え、時を超え、やがて未来を切り拓く―― 『ジョーカー・ゲーム』の著者、畢生の長編小説！

大好きだった彼が死んだ――心中だった。 みちかと太一が大学で出会った空人は、明るく誰からも好かれる人気者だった。二人は空人に密かに恋心を抱いていた。しかし、卒業から一年後。空人が死んだ。心中だった。

この異常が、私たちの日常 未知の細菌がもたらした毒素が猛威をふるい続け数百年。世界の人口は激減し、人類の平均寿命は25歳にまで低下した。

消された歴史に命を宿す傑作歴史長編！こんなに魂に沁みる小説はめったにない！今こそ、読むべき物語だ。

既刊全巻・重版出来、待望の第５弾！東京は銀座の片隅にある老舗文房具店「四宝堂」。常連客はもちろんのこと、外国からの旅行者も虜にする名店だ。そんな店を一人で切り盛りする宝田硯のもとには、今日も様々なお客が訪れて――。

どうかあなたに、希望の光がさしますように「太ったら、食べちゃダメなの」。幼いころに聞いた母の言葉をずっと忘れられないでいる早織。

元料理人の書店主が贈る心あたたまる物語 　古びた商店街にある小さな書店「ふくふく書房」。店を切り盛りするのは元料理人の夏郎とその娘の成、そして看板犬のフクコと猫の大福だ。

僕らは誰も彼女のことを忘れられなかった。 　私たち六人は、京都で学生時代を過ごした仲間だった。十年前、鞍馬の火祭りを訪れた私たちの前から、長谷川さんは突然姿を消した。

やなせ先生夫妻の秘書が語るふたりのこと2025年春NHK朝ドラ「あんぱん」のモデルとなったやなせ夫妻に20年寄り添った秘書がはじめて語るおふたりの暮らし、生活、仕事に思い出…。

事故か、自殺か、殺人か――。母の手記と娘の回想が交錯し、浮かび上がる事件の真相とは。圧倒的に新しい、母娘ミステリー!

Es ist der Alptraum einer jeden Familie: Die passionierte Reiterin Mikaela wird von ihrem Pferd abgeworfen – und ihr 9-jähriger Sohn Bret gibt sich die Schuld daran. Nach Wochen im Koma rechnet niemand mehr mit ihrem Aufwachen. Allein ihr Mann Liam glaubt fest daran, dass er sie mit seiner Liebe ins Leben zurückholen kann. Nur mit Mühe gelingt es ihm jedoch, sich um die beiden Kinder zu kümmern. Vor allem der kleine Bret ist durch den Verlust der Mutter schwer traumatisiert. Doch dann stößt Liam auf ein langgehütetes Geheimnis seiner Frau.