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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 […]

47 Ronin: Serving a Cold Dish of Honorable Revenge

December 13th, 2013 · No Comments · HighBridge at the Movies

Now a major motion picture starring Keanu Reeves (release date December 25), John Allyn’s definitive telling of this unforgettable tale has been the gold standard of this story for almost 50 years. Allyn lived in Japan for a number of years studying Japanese literature and theater, later earing his PhD in theater history (with an […]

Kim Mai Guest to Narrate The Axe Factor

December 11th, 2013 · No Comments · Author/Narrator News

HighBridge is pleased to announce that Kim Mai Guest will be reading The Axe Factor, the third and final installment in Colin Cotterill’s Jimm Juree series. With a major storm headed their way and a potential serial killer on the loose, it looks like journalist Jimm Juree, her eccentric family, and the whole town of […]

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 […]

Narrators Tap Into Their Darker Side for A Darker Shade of Sweden

November 27th, 2013 · No Comments · Author/Narrator News

HighBridge is excited to announce that the highly anticipated audio short-story collection, A Darker Shade of Sweden, will be read by a thrilling and impressive array of talent: Carol Monda, Scott Brick, Adam Grupper, Maggi-Meg Reed, Erik Bergmann, and Tavia Gilbert. Containing seventeen stories, all never before published in English, A Darker Shade of Sweden […]

Scott Brick to Narrate The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry

November 13th, 2013 · No Comments · Author/Narrator News

HighBridge is proud to announce that award-winning narrator Scott Brick will be reading The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry, a highly anticipated new title by author Gabrielle Zevin. The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry follows irascible A. J. Fikry, the owner of independent book store Island Books. Fikry has already lost his wife, […]

Featured Audio Giveaway – Nov 2013 – Ties That Bind

November 6th, 2013 · No Comments · Featured Audio Giveaways

Celebrating 10 years of StoryCorps Ties That Bind: Stories of Love and Gratitude from the First Ten Years of StoryCorps hosted by Dave Isay; as told by StoryCorps participants They’ve made you laugh, cry, ponder, and muse: Stories from all walks of life about all manner of people and places. And it’s StoryCorps that’s made […]

HighBridge Narrator Updates

November 6th, 2013 · No Comments · Author/Narrator News

HighBridge is pleased to announce that Xe Sands will be reading My Accidental Jihad by Krista Bremer, and Tomas Marsh will narrate Kicking the Sky by Anthony De Sa. My Accidental Jihad, available in April, is a profoundly moving and often funny meditation on tolerance, and explores what it means to open our hearts to […]

Lee Smith’s Guests on Earth:
An accompaniment both obbligato and
ad libitum

October 28th, 2013 · No Comments · Uncategorized

On first blush, Guests on Earth by Lee Smith (The Last Girls) bears resemblance to The Secret Life of Bees: A young girl, believing herself responsible for her mother’s death, leaves her home and finds herself among a group of women that soon become her second family. Even Emily Woo Zeller’s voice, while unaccented, has […]

HighBridge in the Studio

October 23rd, 2013 · No Comments · Author/Narrator News

HighBridge is proud to announce that Donna Postel will be narrating Red 1-2-3 by John Katzenbach, available in January. Red 1-2-3 is a gripping psychological thriller by one of the preeminent authors of the genre. Redhead One is a fifty-one-year-old single doctor. Redhead Two, a thirty-three-year-old middle school teacher. Redhead Three is a seventeen-year-old prep […]

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