Literary Fiction Audiobooks | Literature

"The audiobook beaches were made for. The Balcon sisters are London's paparazzi darlings. Serena, the country's most beautiful actress, Venetia the glamorous designer, Camilla the rising political star and Cate the feisty magazine editor. They have wealth, privilege and sizzling sex lives. But money doesn't buy you love. When their aristocratic and tyrannical father Oswald Balcon is found dead, the finger of suspicion points towards his glamorous daughters and their dazzling lives. Suddenly we find that beneath the ritzy façade of the Balcon family lies a web of deceit and betrayal that hides a thirty-year-old secret that threatens to destroy them all. From the sun drenched beaches of Mustique to Manhattan's elite society circuit. From the exclusive fashion houses of Milan to the star-studded streets of Cannes, the Balcon Sisters play out their lives in a whirl of glitz and the ultra chic. But as tragedy and danger stalks each one of them, the scene is set for a stunning climax."

Tasmina Perry (Author), Eleanor David (Narrator)

Audiobook

The Almost Moon

"When all is said and done, killing my mother came easily. A woman steps over the line into the unthinkable in this brilliant, powerful and unforgettable novel by the author of The Lovely Bones . For years, Helen Knightly has given her life to others: to her haunted mother, to her enigmatic father, to her husband and now-grown daughters. When she finally crosses a terrible boundary, her life comes rushing in at her in a way she never could have imagined. Unfolding over twenty-four hours, The Almost Moon explores the ties between mothers and daughters, wives and lovers, the meaning of devotion and the line between love and hate. It is a challenging, moving, gripping story, written with the humanity and fluidity that only Alice Sebold can bring to the page."

Alice Sebold (Author), Joan Allen (Narrator)

Audiobook

The Sea

"‘A masterly study of grief, memory and love recollected’ Professor John Sutherland, Chair of Judges, Man Booker Prize 2005 The Sea is John Banville's Man Booker prize-winning exploration of memory, childhood and loss. When art historian Max Morden returns to the seaside village where he once spent a childhood holiday, he is both escaping from a recent loss and confronting a distant trauma. The Grace family had appeared that long-ago summer as if from another world. Mr and Mrs Grace, with their worldly ease and candour, were unlike any adults he had met before. But it was his contemporaries, the Grace twins Myles and Chloe, who most fascinated Max. He grew to know them intricately, even intimately, and what ensued would haunt him for the rest of his years and shape everything that was to follow."

John Banville (Author), Jim Norton (Narrator)

Audiobook

[German] - Das Lied der Wildgänse: Eine Hörspiel-Romanze

Helmut Habrich (Author), Agnes Fink, Ernie Wilhelmi, Hans-Christian Blech (Narrator)

Audiobook

[German] - Beatrice und Juana

"Günter Eich siedelt seine Themen immer wieder zwischen Traum und Wirklichkeit an, so auch in dieser Hörspielkomödie nach einem Motiv von Prosper Mérimée: Carlo wird beim Tennisspiel von einer Rokoko-Statue ins 18. Jahrhundert entführt. Hier, in seinem früheren Leben, steht noch eine Entscheidung aus: Beatrice oder Juana?"

Günter Eich (Author), Carl Simon, Ernie Wilhelmi, Ernst Stankowski, Fritz Strassner, Hans-Hermann Schaufuß, Helmut Käutner, Johanna Hofer, Leonhard Steckel, Rudolf Vogel (Narrator)

Audiobook

[German] - Affaire Blum

"Das Hörspiel geht auf einen waren Kriminalfall zurück: Magdeburg 1926, die Untersuchung eines Mordes durch die rassistisch voreingenommene Justiz wird dem jüdischen Fabrikanten Blum zum Verhängnis. Die Verfilmung der 'Affaire Blum' von Erich Engel (1948), das Filmdebüt Hans-Christian Blechs, wurde zu einem Klassiker des frühen deutschen Nachkriegsfilms. Ebenso besticht die Vertonung."

Robert A. Stemmle (Author), Dagmar Altrichter, Erich Ponto, Gerd Westphal, Hans-Christian Blech, Horst Beilke, Leonard Steckel, Paul Hoffmann, Wofgang Golisch (Narrator)

Audiobook

[German] - Kaspar Hauser - Das Rätsel seiner Zeit

"Unlängst haben DNA-Analysen die Diskussion um den vor 160 Jahren eines gewaltsamen Todes gestorbenen Kaspar Hauser neu entfacht: War er der Sohn des Großherzogs Karl von Baden, der wegen dynastischer Ränke um die Erbfolge mit einem toten Kinde vertauscht und jahrelang versteckt worden war? Tatsache ist, daß am 26.5.1828 auf dem Unschlittplatz in Nürnberg wie aus dem Nichts ein junger Mann auftauchte, der kaum Laufen und Sprechen konnte, der zum vielbestaunten 'Naturkind' wurde und auf dessen Grabstein steht, er sei 'Das Rätsel seiner Zeit' gewesen. Das spannende Hörspiel orientiert sich inhaltlich an den überlieferten Originaldokumenten dieses berühmten Kriminalfalles."

Kurd E. Heyne (Author), Adolf Gondrell, Adolf Rückert, Alfed Schnös, Carl Simon, Charles Regnier, Hans-Christian Blech, Helene Robert, Ingeborg Wurt, Kurt Marquardt, Kurt Stieler, Marianne Brandt, Otto Osthoff, Otto Riegel, Otto Wernicke, Willy Knörer (Narrator)

Audiobook

[German] - Die Rose von Jericho - Die Geschichte eines Neuanfangs (Ungekürzt)

"Die Rose von Jericho ist eine der ältesten Wüstenblumen der Welt, die auch nach langer Dürre immer wieder zu neuer Blüte erwacht ... Einfühlsam und berührend erzählt Erfolgsautor Sergio Bambaren von der Chance im Leben jedes Menschen, noch einmal ganz neu anzufangen. Sergio Bambarens ehrlichstes und mutigstes Buch. 'Meine Erzählung ist indirekt autobiographisch: Auch ich hatte eine persönliche Krise zu meistern, in meinem Fall eine schwere Krankheit. Die zwölf Schritte haben mir geholfen und mich gelehrt, die Freude am Leben wieder zu finden.' Sergio Bambaren"

Sergio Bambaren (Author), Markus Hoffmann (Narrator)

Audiobook

The Tell Tale Heart

Edgar Allan Poe (Author), B.J. Harrison (Narrator)

Audiobook

The Children of Húrin

"Painstakingly restored from Tolkien’s manuscripts and presented for the first time as a fully continuous and standalone story, the epic tale of The Children of Húrin will reunite fans of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings with Elves and Men, dragons and Dwarves, eagles and Orcs, and the rich landscape and characters unique to Tolkie There are tales of Middle-earth from times long before The Lord of the Rings, and the story told in this book is set in the great country that lay beyond the Grey Havens in the West: lands where Treebeard once walked, but which were drowned in the great cataclysm that ended the First Age of the World. In that remote time Morgoth, the first Dark Lord, dwelt in the vast fortress of Angband, the Hells of Iron, in the North; and the tragedy of Túrin and his sister Nienor unfolded within the shadow of the fear of Angband and the war waged by Morgoth against the lands and secret cities of the Elves. Their brief and passionate lives were dominated by the elemental hatred that Morgoth bore them as the children of Húrin, the man who had dared to defy and to scorn him to his face. Against them he sent his most formidable servant, Glaurung, a powerful spirit in the form of a huge wingless dragon of fire. Into this story of brutal conquest and flight, of forest hiding-places and pursuit, of resistance with lessening hope, the Dark Lord and the Dragon enter in direly articulate form. Sardonic and mocking, Glaurung manipulated the fates of Túrin and Nienor by lies of diabolic cunning and guile, and the curse of Morgoth was fulfilled. The earliest versions of this story by J.R.R. Tolkien go back to the end of the First World War and the years that followed; but long afterwards, when The Lord of the Rings was finished, he wrote it anew and greatly enlarged it in complexities of motive and character: it became the dominant story in his later work on Middle-earth. But he could not bring it to a final and finished form. In this book Christopher Tolkien has constructed, after long study of the manuscripts, a coherent narrative without any editorial invention."

J.R.R. Tolkien (Author), Christopher Lee (Narrator)

Audiobook

Sula

"Sula and Nel are born in the Bottom-a small town at the top of a hill. Sula is wild, and daring; she does what she wants, while Nel is well-mannered, a mamma's girl with a questioning heart. Growing up they forge a bond stronger than anything, stronger even than the dark secret they have to bear. Strong enough, it seems, to last a lifetime-until, decades later, as the girls become women, Sula's anarchy leads to a betrayal that may be beyond forgiveness. One of The Atlantic's Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years Masterful, richly textured, bittersweet, and vital, Sula is a modern masterpiece about love and kinship, about living in an America birthed from slavery. Nobel Prize laureate Toni Morrison gives life to characters who struggle with what society tells them to be, and the love they long for and crave as Black women. Most of all, they ask: When can we let go? What must we hold back? And just how much can be shared in a friendship?"

Toni Morrison (Author), Toni Morrison (Narrator)

Audiobook

[German] - Ein Abend mit Ruth Maria Kubitschek

"Ruth Maria Kubitschek: 'Immer, wenn ich nach Indien komme, habe ich das Gefühl, ich komme heim. Dieses andere Leben und diese indische Erde, die getränkt ist von dem Leben so vieler Heiliger, wirkt auf uns über. Und wir werden glücklich.' Ruth Maria Kubitschek, die Grande Dame des deutschen Fernsehens liest aus ihren Werken und lässt das Publikum durch ihre warme Stimme in fremde Welten, atmosphärische Bilder und wunderschöne Geschichten eintauchen. Mit Texten aus 'Das Wunder der Liebe', 'Elfen, Elfen' und ihrem neuen Bestseller 'Der indische Ring'. Diese Aufnahme entstand 2006 bei einer Veranstaltung der Buchhandlung 'Seitz & Auer' in Donauwörth. Ruth Maria Kubitschek, 1932 in Komotau geboren, zählt zu den bedeutendsten TV-Schauspielerinnen der Gegenwart. Schon mit vier Jahren beschloss sie Schauspielerin zu werden. Berühmt wurde sie in den 80er-Jahren als 'Spatzl' des Monaco Franze an der Seite von Helmut Fischer."

Ruth Maria Kubitschek (Author), Ruth Maria Kubitschek (Narrator)

Audiobook

Literary Fiction Audiobooks in Literature