Showing results by publisher "Audible Studios" in Contemporary Fiction

Captain Jack Aubrey sails away from the hated Australian prison colonies in his favourite vessel the Surprise, pondering on middle age and sexual frustration. He soon becomes aware that he is out of touch with the mood of his ship: to his astonishment he finds that in spite of a lifetime's experience he does not know what the foremost hands or even his own officers are thinking.

Essays in Love is a stunningly original love story. Taking in Aristotle, Wittgenstein, history, religion and Groucho Marx, Alain de Botton charts the progress of a love affair from the first kiss to argument and reconciliation, from intimacy and tenderness to the onset of anxiety and heartbreak.

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.

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.

Adapted For The Film Slumdog Millionaire. Eighteen-year-old Ram Mohammad Thomas has been arrested after answering twelve questions correctly on a TV quiz show to win one billion rupees. The producers have accused him of cheating his way to victory. Twelve extraordinary events in street-kid Ram's life - how he was adopted as a foundling orphan by a priest; came to have three names; fooled a professional hit man; even fell in love - give him the crucial answers.

Gossip From Thrush Green returns readers to that delightful English village, neighbour to Fairacre, for a golden summer. But this sleepy, pristine setting conceals a flurry of activity among the villagers. Rumour has it that Mr. Venables is considering retirement just as the village’s teacher is about to make an important decision. Molly Curdle prepares for a new baby. The kindly vicar, Charles Henstock, works on his sermon - quite unaware of the disaster that will overtake him.

Goodwood is a small town where everyone knows everything about everyone. It's a place where it's impossible to keep a secret. In 1992, when Jean Brown is 17, a terrible thing happens. Two terrible things. Rosie White, the coolest girl in town, vanishes overnight. One week later, Goodwood's most popular resident, Bart McDonald, sets off on a fishing trip and never comes home. People die in Goodwood, of course, but never like this. They don't just disappear.

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…。

Just before dawn one late-summer morning, Captain Bruno Courrèges is roused from sleep by the wail of the town siren atop the Mairie, summoning the volunteer firemen of St Denis. Bruno, the only policeman in the small Périgord town, follows the fire engines towards the site of a large barn, now engulfed in flames, the surrounding fields ablaze. Everything points to arson. A Californian wine maker is planning to buy up half the valley to create a huge wine-producing operation.

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。

The mid-'70s: at an all-boys Catholic school in Melbourne, Timothy Conigrave falls wildly and sweetly in love with the captain of the football team. So begins a relationship that weathers disapproval, separation and ultimately death. With honesty and insight, Holding the Man explores the highs and lows of any partnership and the strength of heart both men have to find when they test positive for HIV. This is a book as refreshing and uplifting as it is moving - a funny and sad and celebratory account of growing up gay.

It is the early 1960s in a country village in Ireland. Caithleen Brady and her attractive friend, Baba, are on the verge of womanhood and dreaming of spreading their wings in a wider world - of discovering love and luxury and liquor and above all, fun. With bawdy innocence, shrewd for all their inexperience, the girls romp their way through convent school to the bright lights of Dublin – where Caithleen finds that suave, idealised lovers rarely survive the real world.