Showing results by publisher "Audible Studios" in Contemporary Fiction

Hidden by London’s wealth, energy and need for cheap labour, the city’s immigrant population is powerless, despised and often illegal. So when a young woman’s body is discovered on Hampstead Heath one cold morning, she could be anyone...Rich or poor, outsider or insider, five strangers are connected in undreamed-of ways as greed, courage, murder and kindness link their lives.

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.

真犯人Xは生きている――。網川は、高井は栗橋の共犯者ではなく、むしろ巻き込まれた被害者だと主張して、「栗橋主犯・高井従犯」説に拠る滋子に反論し、一躍マスコミの寵児となった。

ひとつの嘘があった。柏木卓也の死の真相を知る者が、どうしてもつかなければならなかった嘘。

The recent death of one of the descendants of Dr. Watson has brought to light his personal papers. These include a number of stories that Dr. Watson suppressed at the time for various reasons. As all involved are long dead, the inheritor has agreed to the publication of a set of eight of the most interesting adventures.

逃げて、逃げて、逃げのびたら、私はあなたの母になれるだろうか……。

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....

脱サラし、お笑い芸人になった西野勤。しかし才能がなく、８年間、売れることなくくすぶっている。そんな彼の元にガネーシャが降臨！

謎のウイルスをぶっ飛ばせ!!「マドンナ・ウイルス? なんじゃそりゃ」第二次内閣を発足させたばかりの武藤泰山を絶体絶命のピンチが襲う。

『悪人』『路』『怒り』の作家が満を持して放つ 2016年最大の話題作。
新次元の群像ドラマ、ここに誕生！
ビール会社の営業課長、明良。
部下からも友人からも信頼される彼の家に、謎めいた贈り物が？
都議会議員の夫と息子を愛する篤子。
思いがけず夫や、ママ友の秘密を知ってしまう。
TV局の報道ディレクター、謙一郎。
香港の雨傘革命や生殖医療研究を取材する。結婚を控えたある日……
2014年の東京で暮らす3人の選択が、 未来を変えていく！

バブル期に大手銀行に入行し、大阪西支店で融資課長となった半沢直樹。支店長命令で無理に融資の承認を取り付けたものの、会社は倒産、支店長の浅野はすべての責任を半沢に押しつけてきた。四面楚歌の半沢に残された道は債権回収しかない。半沢が取った一発逆転の方法は――!?
基本は性善説。やられたら、倍返し。大ヒットドラマ「半沢直樹」原作!!

Against the odds, former steel worker Harry Perkins has led the Labour Party to a stunning victory. His manifesto includes the removal of American bases, public control of finance and the dismantling of media empires. The Establishment is appalled. Something must be done. As MI5 conspires with the City and the press barons to bring Perkins down, he finds himself caught up in a no-holds-barred battle for survival.

Harriet Goodman, brave, wry and handsome, is determined to triumph no matter what. With a decade of therapy under her belt and a new large inheritance, it seems there is nothing she cannot achieve. When she finds herself in charge of a school full of precocious little girls, rich in everything but care, she vows to make their childhoods amongst the happiest ever spent.

大手自動車メーカーのエリート社員・君嶋隼人は、横浜工場の総務部長に左遷させられ、ラグビー部アストロズのゼネラルマネージャーを兼務することに。

仕事も恋もあきらめきれない女性社員の部屋にガネーシャが降臨し、筋肉隆々のブラック姿に変身！

Lucas will nichts als seine Ruhe in einer Welt, die ihn einfach nicht in Ruhe lässt. Eine Kurzgeschichte vom internationalen Bestsellerautor Fredrik Backman Videospiele, Wein und Pad Thai – das ist der perfekte Abend für Lucas. Andere Menschen? Muss nicht sein. Warum denn, wenn er auch alleine glücklich sein kann? Als der dreiköpfige Vorstand der Bewohnervertretung überraschend an seiner Tür klingelt und eine Inspektion seiner Bratpfanne verlangt, ist Lucas alles andere als begeistert. Doch Abwimmeln ist nicht.

" Sur Instagram, elle est suivie par plus de sept cent trente mille personnes. Dont moi. Je connaissais Lou par coeur - et pourtant je ne l'avais jamais rencontrée. " Sur les réseaux sociaux, Lou est la reine de son univers. Suivie et adulée, tout lui réussit. Diane l'observe à distance, comme les autres, peut-être davantage. Jusqu'à ce qu'une relation complexe se noue entre les deux jeunes femmes, dans l'inconscience du drame qui se prépare. Avec ce premier roman, Camille Yolaine livre un conte cruel sur les jeux d'influence en amitié et sur les réseaux sociaux, où l'admiration n'est que la face cachée de la jalousie.

Meet Yumi Fuller. A Japanese-American prodigal daughter, Yumi (aka Yummy) is returning home to the Idaho potato farm she ran away from 25 years earlier. Then a freewheeling hippie chick, Yumi is now a fairly responsible parent and a professor with a side gig selling lava lots in Hawaii. But can she possibly be prepared to face her dying father, her Alzheimer's-devastated mother, and Cass, the best friend she left behind?

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