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 […]
Entries Tagged as 'audiobook'
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 […]
Tags: A Darker Shade of Sweden·Adam Grupper·audiobook·Carol Monda·crime·Erik Bergmann·John-Henri Holmberg·Maggi-Meg Reed·mysterious press·narrator·reader·scandinavia·scott brick·Stieg Larsson·Sweden·Tavia Gilbert
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, […]
Tags: algonquin·audiobook·bookstore·earphone·Fikry·Gabrielle Zevin·grammy·history decoded·narrator·reader·Rendezvous·scott brick·The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry
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 […]
Tags: audiobook·Dave Isay·featured audio giveaway·StoryCorps·Ties That Bind
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 […]
Tags: Anthony De Sa·audiobook·AudioFile·earphones·Is this Tomorrow·Kicking the Sky·Krista Bremer·My Accidental Jihad·narrator·The Art Forger·Tomas Marsh·Xe Sands
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 […]
Tags: audiobook·emily woo zeller·guests on earth·highland hospital·last girls·lee smith·zelda fritzgerald
A Different Kind of Noir Classic: The City When It Rains
October 22nd, 2013 · No Comments · Uncategorized
I’ve been wanting to listen to the Mysterious Press-HighBridge Audio Classics recording of Thomas H. Cook‘s The City When It Rains for a while, ever since meeting Tom at Bouchercon in St. Louis and hearing that this was the favorite of his many books. A recent road trip provided the perfect opportunity for me to […]
Tags: audiobook·HighBridge·mysterious press·mysterious press-highbridge audio classic·mystery·R. C. Bray·The City When It Rains·Thomas H. Cook
Digital Classic: Penance
October 7th, 2013 · No Comments · Uncategorized
First published in the mid-1990s, Penance was David Housewright’s first novel, and won the Edgar Award for the Best First Novel. A Minnesota native and resident, Housewright has gone on to write more than ten novels to date, with about as many short stories under his belt. Penance was released under the Mysterious Press-HighBridge Audio […]
Tags: audiobook·David Housewright·detective·minneapolis·mysterious press·mystery·Penance·police·R. C. Bray·St. Paul