I’m not usually one to have much to say about middle-grade literature, but the first book in a new series is so much fun, I want to let everyone know that it’s coming. The series is The Wollstonecraft Detective Agency by Jordan Stratford, and HighBridge has rights to all three books. The first is The […]
Middle-Grade Historical, Literary–and Funny–Mystery Series
May 7th, 2014 · No Comments · Acquisition News
Tags: Ada Lovelace·audiobook·detective fiction·HighBridge·Jordan Stratford·mary Shelley·middle-grade fiction·mystery·Romantic Period·young reader
The Power and Peril of Words: The Transcriptionist by Amy Rowland
April 21st, 2014 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Isolated on the 11th floor of the Record, a venerable New York newspaper in the midst of making the awkward transition to the digital age, Lena Respass, the title character of Amy Rowland’s novel The Transcriptionist, spends her days typing other people’s words. These words, the dictations of reporters for the Record, flow in through […]
Tags: algonquin·amy rowland·highbridge audio·journalism·language·literary fiction·newspapers·novel·The Transcriptionist·Xe Sands
New Tom Cook Novel Coming This September from HighBridge
April 16th, 2014 · No Comments · Acquisition News
HighBridge will publish the audio edition of Thomas H. Cook’s new novel, A Dancer in the Dust, which will release this fall in print from Mysterious Press. It will be narrated by the estimable Ray Chase. Cook’s most recent book, Sandrine’s Case, is a well-deserved finalist for the 2014 Edgar Award for Best Novel, but […]
Tags: A Dancer in the Dust·Africa·audiobook·genocide·HighBridge·mysterious press·mystery·Sandrine's Case·The Crime of Julian Wells·Thomas H. Cook
Sandrine’s Case: The Mystery of Self
March 27th, 2014 · No Comments · Uncategorized
In Thomas H. Cook’s most recent novel, Sandrine’s Case (a Mysterious Press-HighBridge Audio, read by Brian Holsopple), the first-person narrator, English literature Professor Samuel Madison, is on trial for his life for the premeditated murder of his wife Sandrine, also a professor at tiny Coburn College. Madison contends Sandrine’s death was suicide; the prosecution is certain […]
Tags: audiobook·Brian Holsopple·crime fiction·HighBridge·mysterious press·mystery·Sandrine's Case·Thomas H. Cook
Kit Cobb Is Back–and HighBridge Has Got Him
March 6th, 2014 · No Comments · Acquisition News
Book three of the exciting Christopher Marlowe Cobb series of historical spy thrillers will be coming your way on audio this October. If you haven’t already discovered these terrific books by Robert Olen Butler, go grab a copy of The Hot Country, the first in the series, and give it a listen. It’s brilliantly narrated […]
Tags: Christopher Marlowe Cobb·Empire of Night·espionage·HighBridge·Kit Cobb·mysterious press·Robert Olen Butler·spy novel·The Hot Country·The Star of Istanbul·thriller·World War I
When Books Could Change the World: The Travail and Triumph of Doctor Zhivago
February 6th, 2014 · No Comments · Acquisition News
I’m excited to announce that HighBridge will produce the audio edition of The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle Over a Forbidden Book by Peter Finn & Petra Couvée, a story that is part Cold War spy thriller, part mesmerizing literary biography, part secret history of the blockbuster book that shook the […]
Tags: audiobook·Boris Pasternak·Cold War·Doctor Zhivago·literary history·Perter Finn·Petra Couvée·Russian history·Russian literature·Simon Vance
No “Us and Them”: Father Gregory Boyle’s Tattoos on the Heart
January 28th, 2014 · No Comments · Uncategorized
And we are put on earth for a little space that we may learn to bear the beams of love. —William Blake We’ve all heard the stories of horrific gang violence in urban areas across the nation, and no city has been more wracked with that relentless bloodshed than the “gang capital of the world,” […]
Tags: Audiobooks·Dolores Mission·gangs·gregory boyle·homeboy industries·homegirl cafe·read by author·tattoos on the heart
Hot Stuff: Robert Olen Butler’s THE HOT COUNTRY
December 23rd, 2013 · No Comments · Uncategorized
I confess that I’ve read (or listened to) almost nothing in the historical thriller genre, but if The Hot Country by Robert Olen Butler is in any way indicative of the quality of work to be found there, I need to get busy. Because this novel is as well-written, with characters as three-dimensional and interesting […]
Tags: audiobook·Chirstopher Marlowe Cobb·HighBridge·historical thriller·Mexican Civil War·mysterious press·Ray Chase·Robert Olen Butler·The Hot Country·war correspondent