Showing results by publisher "Audible Studios" in Contemporary Fiction

世界最大級のコンサルティング会社「LAC」をフィクサーとして政財界に影響を与える前嶋栄作が訪れる。

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?

The complete set of five novellas from Nick Earls. Gotham tells of the encounter between music journalist Jeff Foster and 'boy pharaoh' Na$ti Boi. Venice is about love and the tensions that pull us apart. Vancouver is the story Paul would tell if he were living in plague times - a story that comforts, a story that wards off evil. Juneau captures an acutely observed moment in which we see the universe. NoHo is about living in the shadows of the famous.

The Good Mayor is a magical debut novel. It is a love story and a story about love. Set in the little town of Dot in a forgotten part of the Baltic, it tells the story of Tibo Krovic, the good and honest Mayor of Dot, and his love for his secretary, the beautiful, lonely, but married, Mrs Agathe Stopak. In the quiet, respectable town of Dot there is nothing that Tibo can do about his love for Mrs Stopak but, one day, when she accidentally drops her lunch into a fountain, everything changes and their lives will never be the same again.

Poet, forger, and genius, Thomas Chatterton died in 1770, aged 18. His death was thought to be suicide: But what really happened? Two hundred years later, Charles Wychwood and Harriet Scrope become obsessed with decoding the clues in an 18th-century manuscript. Their investigation raises some intriguing questions....

A century before, as 19th-century artist Henry Wallis paints his celebrated portrait of Chatterton lying dead in an attic room, he, too, becomes fascinated by the mystery. Then Chatterton himself steps forward, with his own story....

After facing a truth she never imagined, Beulah has to find a new path. Build a life without help and take care of her sister alone. Or does she...?

Born to elegant but frivolous parents, Harriet grows up ignored and unguided, and retains a curious innocence that neither her marriage to Freddie Lytton, nor her friendship with the beautiful Tessa can dispel. Freddie is far older than she is - a companion rather than a lover - and slightly disapproving of Tessa and her irresponsible, attractive husband, Jack. Yet all four are bound together: by their backgrounds, their children, by Harriet’s unspoken feelings for Jack and by the tragedy that lies in wait for all of them.

僕の考えていることが本当に正しいかどうか、わからない。でもこの場所にいる僕はそれに勝たなくてはならない。

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！

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――。

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。

“地方創生の真実”を暴く！大ベストセラー『震える牛』『ガラパゴス』に連なる樫山順子シリーズ最新刊！北海道警から山梨県警に異動した樫山順子は、大規模農場開発に怪しい動きを嗅ぎつけた。

社会派ミステリの名手によるクライム巨編。後味最凶の作家デビュー20周年記念作品！二〇二〇年五月、大学生の芹沢涼風はコロナ禍の影響で息が詰まりそうになる毎日を過ごしていた。

「わたしは長いあいだ、その壺のなかに押しこめられていた者です」――。すぐそこにいる悪魔、その「活躍」を描くショートショート。

唯一無二の主人公、再び。……と思いきや、まさかの事件発生！？10万部突破の前作に続き、読み応え、ますますパワーアップの第２作！

「今はまちがった時間です。あなたは今ここにいてはいけないのです」しかし綿谷ノボルによってもたらされた深い切り傷のような痛みが僕を追いたてた。

第13回本屋大賞、第4回ブランチブックアワード大賞2015、第13回キノベス！2016 第1位……伝説の三冠を達成！
ゆるされている。世界と調和している。それがどんなに素晴らしいことか。言葉で伝えきれないなら、音で表せるようになればいい。高校生の時、偶然ピアノ調律師の板鳥と出会って以来、調律の世界に魅せられた外村。ピアノを愛する姉妹や先輩、恩師との交流を通じて、成長していく青年の姿を、温かく静謐な筆致で綴った物語。

The two-hundred-year-old cottages known as Tyler’s Row, with charming leaded-glass windows and an arched thorn hedge over the gateway, are supposed to provide a haven of peace for their new owners, Peter and Diana Hale.

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.