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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 […]

Billingham–and Tom Thorne–Back for More

December 10th, 2013 · 1 Comment · Acquisition News

This just in, you crime fiction aficionados: HighBridge has acquired audio rights to the next Tom Thorne novel by celebrated British mystery writer Mark Billingham. It’s called The Bones Beneath (June, 2014), and it’s a rematch between Thorne and one of the most vile psychopaths he has ever faced (hint: it’s a villainous master manipulator […]

Sweden behind the Shades

November 6th, 2013 · No Comments · Acquisition News

There’s been a lot of excitement about the forthcoming collection of short stories, A Darker Shade of Sweden, which will be published in February 2014 by The Mysterious Press and, I’m here to say with no small measure of gratification, by HighBridge Audio as well. The brouhaha has largely focused on the fact that it […]

Attention all Colin Cotterill fans!

October 16th, 2013 · No Comments · Acquisition News

I’m thrilled to announce that we recently acquired the audio rights to the third and final book in the Jimm Juree mystery series by Colin Cotterill. The title is The Axe Factor and will be available simultaneously with the St. Martin’s Press hardcover in April of 2014. His first two, Killed at the Whim of […]

Calling All Midwives

October 3rd, 2013 · No Comments · Acquisition News

I’m pleased to announce . . . I’m thrilled to announce . . . I couldn’t be happier to announce . . . Isn’t there any other way to say this? How about: I’m ‘eaven and ‘ell chuffed ter tell what HighBridge has picked up the bloody rights to produce audiobook editions of the remaining […]

47 Ronin, Classic Tale of Samurai Vengeance Will Reach Theaters – and Audio Fans – this December

September 18th, 2013 · No Comments · Acquisition News, HighBridge at the Movies

We’re pleased to announce that HighBridge will release an audio edition of John Allyn’s much revered samurai classic 47 Ronin to coincide with the highly anticipated feature film releasing December 25, 2013. Universal’s much publicized, $200 million adventure stars a sword wielding Keanu Reeves in full samurai regalia. 47 Ronin is an unforgettable rendering of actual […]

Tom Thorne Novels Come to America on Audio

September 9th, 2013 · No Comments · Acquisition News

In the UK, Mark Billingham is a national treasure, one of the most popular and celebrated crime writers on the island. Though he came to mystery novels only after turns at acting, stand-up comedy, and television writing, his Tom Thorne novels have all been best-sellers across the pond, and he was the first two-time winner of […]

Latino Americans set for HighBridge release (and PBS Broadcast!) in September 2013

August 21st, 2013 · No Comments · Acquisition News

HighBridge is delighted to announce it will be publishing the audio edition of Latino Americans by longtime public media favorite Ray Suarez in September 2013. Not only is the book a landmark history of the Latino role in shaping the Americas – and the US in particular, but it captures the sprawling, emotional, personality-rich tale that will […]

New Camilla Läckberg Coming May 2014

July 31st, 2013 · No Comments · Acquisition News

HighBridge has acquired rights to record The Hidden Child, the fifth in the Erica Falck/Patrik Hedström mystery series by Swedish writer Camilla Läckberg. The audiobook will be published in May 2014 simultaneously with the hardcover from Pegasus. For those not into the Scandanavian mystery/thriller phenomenon or else living on the moon the past few years, […]

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