Showing results by publisher "Audible studios" in Contemporary Fiction

育児の現場は毎日が「どんでん返し」！？東大卒の頭脳派ミステリ作家である著者は、データサイエンティストの夫とともに、家事や育児もすべてGoogleスプレッドシートで進捗管理。育児も仕事も完璧にこなせている……はずだった。

忘れ得ぬ人と映画の思い出を叙情豊かに描く　岩瀬修は６３歳。今は文具会社の経営陣に収まっている。彼には、昔夢中になった任侠映画にまつわる忘れられない思い出があった。初めて観たのは中二のとき。すぐに高倉健のファンになった。

過去をリセットできるとしたらどうしますか。　ある日、作家の新居航生のもとに一通の書状が届いた。航生は、作家として５年前に出版した『もう一つの扉』が大ヒットを飛ばしたが、その後は小説を書いておらず、

物語を読み進めながら小説の書き方がわかる本書は、主人公が小説を書くことで､父親として息子との絆を回復する物語であるとともに、何度か挫折を味わいながらも、新人賞を受賞してプロデビューするまでを描いた話である。

女たち、記憶の湖へ還る。佳代、千代、三代の三姉妹は、瑞ノ瀬村に暮らしていた。大切な人が戦地から帰ってくる日も、結婚式を挙げた日も、家で子を産んだ日も、豊かな自然を讃えた山々の景色が、佳代たちを包み込み、見守ってくれていた。

髪型を変えれば、人生は前向きになる！　学校職員の須川沙紀は、気が弱くて後輩にも強いことがいえない性格で、仕事はできるのだが回りからなめられていた。しかも、ワンマン経営を行っている理事長の命令で、架空の議事録作成もさせられていた。

緻密で鮮烈なマルチ・アートミステリー！かつて「ぎんなみ商店街の白雪姫」と呼ばれた八百谷雪子は、現在認知症を患い入院中。商店街の人気焼き鳥店「串真佐」三姉妹の次女・都久音は宝石店店主の神山と見舞いに行くことに。

発売即重版！阿川佐和子さん大絶賛の随筆集【発売たちまち＆続々大重版！３刷】◎阿川佐和子さん、大笑いして大絶賛！「どうして文士とは、総じてワガママで変人なのか。

Most of the big money belongs to Torquil Paterson Frisby, the dyspeptic American millionaire – but that doesn’t stop him wanting more out of it. His niece, the beautiful Ann Moon, is engaged to ‘Biscuit’, Lord Biskerton, who doesn’t have very much of the stuff and so he has to escape to Valley Fields to hide from his creditors. Meanwhile, his old schoolfriend Berry Conway, who is working for Frisby, himself falls for Ann – just as Biscuit falls for her friend Kitchie Valentine.

Compelling, challenging and resilient, over 10 beautifully contained chapters Clade canvasses three generations, from the very near future to late this century. Central to the novel is the family of Adam, a scientist, and his wife, Ellie, an artist. Clade opens with them wanting a child and Adam in a quandary about the wisdom of this. Their daughter proves to be an elusive little girl and then a troubled teenager, and by now cracks have appeared in her parents' marriage. Their grandson is in turn a troubled boy.

The Group follows eight graduates from exclusive Vassar College as they find love and heartbreak, and choose careers and husbands against the backdrop of 1930s New York.

When Lord Petrefact hires Walden Yapp, Professor of Demotic Historiography at Kloone University, to write a scurrilous family history Yapp finds plenty of material in Buscott village, where Frederick Petrefact is running the Mill and adding new vices to the family collection. If Yapp can lay his hands on the Petrefact Papers in the Buscott Museum he may be able to expose the multi-national capitalism of the Petrefacts to the whole world.

Geoff Rickly’s debut novel Someone Who Isn’t Me is a feverish journey through the psyche of someone who no longer recognizes himself. When Geoff hears that a drug called ibogaine might be able to save him from his heroin addiction, he goes to a clinic in Mexico to confront the darkest and most destructive versions of himself. In this modern reimagining of the Divine Comedy, survival lurks in the darkest corners of Geoff’s brain, asking, will he make it? Can anyone?

The end of the school year often brings unmitigated rapture for schoolteachers, and so it should for Miss Read, schoolmistress in the charming English village of Fairacre. But on the very first day of the long summer holiday, she falls and breaks her arm. Just when her summer seems ruined, her old friend Amy Garfield, comes to her aid with a diverting suggestion. They travel to Crete for two weeks, and the change of scene provides a welcome break for both of them.

☆2026年本屋大賞ノミネート☆【第9回未来屋小説大賞】【第2回あの本、読みました？大賞】沈みゆく列島で、“界隈”は沸騰する――。あるアイドルグループの運営に参画することになった、家族と離れて暮らす男。

As a boy, William Bellman commits one small cruel act that appears to have unforeseen and terrible consequences. The killing of a rook with his catapult is soon forgotten amidst the riot of boyhood games. And by the time he is grown, with a wife and children of his own, he seems indeed, to be a man blessed by fortune. Until tragedy strikes, and the stranger in black comes, and William Bellman starts to wonder if all his happiness is about to be eclipsed. Desperate to save the one precious thing he has left, he enters into a bargain.

The instinct of the true Porterhouse man faced with a crisis is to reach for the bottle and then to fall back on the subtle tactical skills honed at Cambridge down the centuries: blackmail and kidnap. But will these be enough? Menaced on all sides - by the collapse of the Chapel, by the tentacles of organised crime, and by the hovering threat of the abominable Dog’s Nose Man - will Porterhouse be forced to unleash the most fearsome weapon in its armoury - the college food?

In a prison cell in the US, a man stands trembling, naked, fearfully waiting to be shipped to Guantánamo Bay. How did it come to this? he wonders.... August 9th, 1945, Nagasaki. Hiroko Tanaka takes in the view of the terraced slopes leading up to the sky. Wrapped in a kimono with three black cranes swooping across the back, she is twenty-one and in love with the man she is to marry. In a split second, the world turns white.

For the whole of Rose's respectable married life, she had kept faith with two men. To Ned she was a perfect wife, mother of his son, and elegant hostess of Slepe. To Mylo, Rose was an impetuous and unconventional mistress, answering his erratic and impassionate calls throughout 50 years of tactful duplicity. After Ned's funeral Rose looks back on a life of dual constancy, passion, humour, and the ambiguities of love - and chooses her future.

When a man and a woman get married, things can get complicated. When they have children from previous marriages, "complicated" can become the understatement of the year.