Showing results by publisher "Audible studios" in Contemporary Fiction

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Nestled in the heart of the Cotswolds, Thrush Green is normally a peaceful place. But as autumn turns to winter, feelings are running high in the village. Miss Fogerty, a respected teacher at the village school for over thirty years, is troubled by the methods of the new young teacher. Dotty Harmer takes up driving, much to the concern of others, and it isn’t long before she is involved in an accident and a threatening court case.

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.

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.

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.

「GOAT」刊行記念、書き下ろし掌編！山羊は、いつでも面白い物語を探し求めています。なぜなら、それを食べると、心もお腹も満たされるから。きょうは、どこに探しにいこう……？　やがて山羊が見つけたのは、野原にたたずむ、ひとつの家でした。

介護士の朝岡は週に２回、要介護２の一人暮らしの女性が住む四角い巨大な箱のような家に通っていた。内部は開放的ながら外見は要塞のようで、５ヶ月経っても自分がどこにいるかわからなくなることもあった──。

信じることの危うさと切実さに痺れる11篇「なあ、俺と、新しくカルト始めない？」好きな言葉は「原価いくら？」

愛に満ちた悲嘆に蝕まれながら、私はこれを書いている。もし私が失敗した時、弟が私に語った「大いなる変化」を生き延びた誰かが、この研究所に足を踏み入れ、人類が生き延びるすべを正しく理解することを祈りながら。

宇田が家事代行マッチングサービス「カジット」で、家政婦として働き出したのは七年前。素朴な出で立ちや気取らない料理が受けたのかすぐに常連の顧客が増え、今では予約の取れない人気家政婦だ。訪問先へ向かう途中、ある一軒の家の前を通った。

旧友たちから盗んだ小さな海でたゆたいながら、思い出すのは彼のこと。僕が「一番風呂泥棒」という奇妙な趣味を始めたのは、１年ぶりに稼働した大学同期５人のグループラインがきっかけだった。

大学生の〈私〉の部屋に毎晩のようにやってくる友達ミミ。大学の友達というわけではなく、地元が同じという共通点も不確か。何かがすべておかしくて、刺激的なのにセーフティな彼女との記憶。気鋭の著者が「ひと」を描いた新境地作。

台日作家交流論壇のトークイベントに登壇するため、はじめて台湾を訪れた著者による紀行エッセイ。小説で世界をひっくり返したい。物作りをする者同士だからこそわかる焦燥と悲しみに似た祈りが、台湾の地を熱くしていた。

2024年3月Ｘ日、春日陽太郎は50歳の誕生日に恋をした。これこそが本当の、初めての恋だった。まるで天使のような子だった。その天使の名はココ。二人が出会ったのは五反田のラブホテル。ココは、デリバリーヘルスに勤める風俗嬢だった──。

北海道北見市にある図書館で講演会を依頼された小説家の春諏訪石句。彼は志賀直哉の短編「網走まで」に登場する子連れの女が気になり、上野から北見まで彼女たちと同じ経路でやってくる。