Resultados Editorial "Audible Studios" en Literatura de género

Constance Chatterley seeks to escape from the confines of a loveless marriage and the upper class surroundings that suffocate her. When she meets the gamekeeper of Chatterley mansion, Oliver Mellors, she is mesmerised and infatuated by his no-nonsense demeanour and passionate touch. The two soon forge a profound bond as a result of their sexual compatibility and sociopolitical views.

The war is over; Hitler is dead - and yet his evil legacy lives on. Saffron Courtney and her beloved husband, Gerhard, only just survived the brutal conflict, but Gerhard's Nazi-supporting brother, Konrad, is still free and determined to regain power. As a dangerous game of cat and mouse develops, a plot against the couple begins to stir. One that will have ramifications throughout Europe....

The Witch is dead. And the discovery of her corpse - by a group of children playing near the irrigation canals - propels the whole village into an investigation of how and why this murder occurred. Rumors and suspicions spread. As the novel unfolds in a dazzling linguistic torrent, with each unreliable narrator lingering on new details, new acts of depravity or brutality, Melchor extracts some tiny shred of humanity from these characters that most would write off as utterly irredeemable, forming a lasting portrait of a damned Mexican village.

Cuando tras un año de relación Edward Benet, un apuesto caballero inglés, le propone a Amanda Kresley viajar desde Estados Unidos a Gran Bretaña para conocer a su madre, nada hace sospechar que este pueda convertirse en el peor viaje de su vida. Cheston House, una hermosa mansión en mitad de la campiña inglesa, es el idílico lugar donde vive Meredith, la madre de Edward, una mujer extremadamente bella aunque contenida, calculada e incluso algo gélida.

The award-winning William Gibson goes beyond science fiction to the broader mainstream fiction audience. His unique world features multinational corporations and high-tech outlaws vying for power, traveling the computer-generated universe.

"Vint le moment où la souffrance des autres ne leur suffit plus : il leur en fallut le spectacle."

This first novel in The Deptford Trilogy introduces Ramsay, a man who returns from World War I decorated with the Victoria Cross but who is destined to be caught in a no man's land where memory, history, and myth collide. As we hear Ramsey tell his story, we begin to realize that, from childhood, he has influenced those around him in a perhaps mystical, perhaps pernicious way.

Hailed by The New York Times as "a marvel of storytelling", The Things They Carried’s portrayal of the boots-on-the-ground experience of soldiers in the Vietnam War is a landmark in war writing. Now, three-time Emmy Award winner-Bryan Cranston, star of the hit TV series Breaking Bad, delivers an electrifying performance that walks the book’s hallucinatory line between reality and fiction and highlights the emotional power of the spoken word.

After a staged terrorist attack kills the President and most of Congress, the government is deposed and taken over by the oppressive and all-controlling Republic of Gilead. Offred is a Handmaid serving in the household of the enigmatic Commander and his bitter wife. She can remember a time when she lived with her husband and daughter and had a job, before she lost even her own name.

The hero of Hanif Kureishi's debut novel is a dreamy teenager, desperate to escape suburban South London and experience the forbidden fruits which the 1970s seem to offer. When the unlikely opportunity of a life in the theatre announces itself, Karim starts to win the sort of attention he has been craving, albeit with some rude and raucous results.

È l'anno 2156: da una Parigi sotterranea e da un mondo ghiacciato dalle guerre nucleari, parte un'incredibile corsa spaziale, verso una nuova terra più vivibile. Contro la Proteo Tien, la scassatissima astronave sineuropea, e il suo ancor più scassato equipaggio, scendono in campo due colossali imperi: l'Impero militare samurai, con una miniastronave su cui un generale giapponese guida sessanta topi ammaestrati, e la Calalbakrab, la reggia volante del tiranno amerorusso, il Grande Scorpione.

According to Tatler's Little Black Book, The Honourable Guy Tillingford is Britain's twenty-ninth most eligible bachelor, after the Marquess of Granby and grime artist Tornado. With a seven-year-old daughter, Hatty, to care for, studious divorcee Alice Merrow doesn't have time for celebrity gossip. When Alice and her flamboyant boss, Desmond Kingston-Campbell, realise that everything – and everyone – at Tillingford Hall are not as they seem, their discoveries could tear the Tillingford family apart.

Lisa, una giovane donna con un passato da dimenticare, non riesce a credere alla propria fortuna: ha appena trovato una bellissima stanza in affitto in una splendida casa. E Martha e Jack, i proprietari con cui andrà a coabitare, sono una coppia gentile e premurosa. Sembra proprio un sogno che si realizza. Fino al giorno in cui Lisa trova, nascosto nella sua stanza, il biglietto di un uomo che annuncia il suicidio. Alla sua richiesta di spiegazioni, Martha e Jack negano che la stanza sia mai stata occupata da qualcuno prima del suo arrivo.

Donde el lenguaje no designa una realidad colonizada por la mente, donde se esfuman los sentimientos animales, dode los adornos son barridos por una corriente implacable, donde la única tabla de salvación es la conciencia pura, han naufragado el nombre, la edad, la identidad sexual, las alcachofas de dogmas y los espejos almibarados.

Tras la ruptura de su matrimonio y el fracaso en su vida profesional, Chick es un hombre roto. Lejos han quedado sus días de gloria como jugador de béisbol y su feliz matrimonio. Hundido en el alcoholismo, Chick toca fondo al recibir las fotos de la boda de su hija, a la que ni siquiera ha sido invitado. Cuando ya está decidido a suicidarse, sufre un gravísimo accidente de coche que lo coloca al borde de la muerte. Ahí, en la frontera entre la vida y el más allá, es donde se reencontrará con su madre fallecida hace ya años.

Amani è nata in Siria ma è cresciuta in Italia. Quando compie sedici anni, con una scusa, la madre la porta nel suo paese di origine per qualche giorno. Dopo i primi entusiasmi per un mondo diverso e affascinante, ricco di profumi e sapori nuovi, Amani scopre di essere stata in realtà fidanzata a un cugino, mai conosciuto e mai amato. Le dicono che in Italia non tornerà più. Amani si ribella a quel fidanzamento e a quell'uomo, pagando un prezzo molto alto, in una realtà dura e violenta dove le donne non sono che oggetti sotto la tutela dei maschi.

In the secluded Dutch territory of Sleepy Hollow, nebbish schoolmaster Ichabod Crane competes with the town hero for the hand of Katrina Van Tassel, the 18-year-old daughter and sole child of a wealthy farmer. As Crane leaves a party at the Van Tassel's farm one autumn evening, he is pursued by the Headless Horseman, an apparition said to be the ghost of a Hessian trooper snuffed out by a stray cannonball.

Cien al día. Ni una más. Esa es la cifra de palabras que la neurolingüista Jean McClellan y el resto de mujeres tienen derecho a pronunciar cada día. Una sola palabra por encima de esa cifra y cientos de voltios de electricidad recorrerán las venas de cualquier mujer que se atreva a sobrepasarla. Ese es el mandato del nuevo gobierno. Las mujeres no pueden escribir, los libros les han sido prohibidos, sus cuentas bancarias han sido transferidas al hombre de la familia más cercano y se han suprimido todos los empleos para las mujeres.

Anthony Powell's universally acclaimed epic encompasses a four-volume panorama of 20th-century London. Hailed by T Time as "brilliant literary comedy as well as a brilliant sketch of the times," A Dance to the Music of Time opens just after World War I. Amid the fever of the 1920s and the first chill of the 1930s, Nick Jenkins and his friends confront sex, society, business, and art.

Un doppiopetto grigio, il Borsalino in mano, un velo di brillantina sui capelli, lo sguardo basso. Sotto un cielo che affonda nel rosa di un tramonto infinito, un ragazzo degli anni Cinquanta torna dal passato, si ferma sul pianerottolo della casa di famiglia e aspetta il figlio, ormai adulto. Com'è possibile? E perché è tornato ora, dopo tanto tempo? Sono due sconosciuti, ma sono padre e figlio. Insieme per la prima volta e solo per una sera, provano a raccontarsi le loro vite, quello che è stato e quello che poteva essere, la storia di due generazioni vicine eppure diversissime.