Alias Grace
As the days and weeks pass Simon tries to prise open the memories Grace claims to have lost and reveals a life of love and betrayal, poverty and abuse, drawing the listener in to the rooms of Grace's mind.
Författare: Margaret Atwood
Uppläsare: Diana Quick Förlag: Harper Collins
Born bad
Harry always knew he would go back one day... Eighteen years ago when he was a boy, he had made a decision that drove him from the place he knew and loved. In those early years, between boy and man, he had carved out a life for himself, and somehow, he had found a semblance of peace.Yet through every waking moment during those long aching years, he was haunted by what happened when he was a boy. He had never forgotten that warm, carefree girl with the laughing eyes. Then he recalled the sadness, the bad timings and even now, he could not forgive himself. They say you never forget your first love and it's true.
Författare: Josephine Cox
Uppläsare: Carole Boyd Förlag: Harper Collins
Brokeback Mountain
Winner of four BAFTAs 2006, including Best Supporting Actor, Best Screenplay, Best Director and Best Film Winner of four Golden Globe Awards 2005, including Best Screenplay, Best Motion Picture and Best Director Winner of the Golden Lion Award for Best Picture, 2005 Venice International Film Festival Jack Twist and Ennis del Mar live hard and lonely lives as ranch hands in the wild, unforgiving landscape of Wyoming. They are 'country boys with no prospects, brought up to hard work and privation, both rough mannered and tough spoken', glad to have found one another's company where none had been expected. But suddenly companionship becomes something else on Brokeback Mountain: something not looked for, something deadly …
Författare: Annie Proulx
Uppläsare: Campbell Scott Förlag: Harper Collins
Busters öron
Eva har i alla år vårdat sina rosor, medveten om att relationer till blommor kan vara enklare än relationer till familjen ... Gamla sår, liksom rosenbuskarna, rivs upp på nytt. Busters öron handlar om kärlek, förtroende och svek. Ett starkt och omskakande relationsdrama och en bitterljuv kärlekshistoria.
Författare: Maria Ernestam
Uppläsare: Eva Röse Förlag: Bonnier Audio
Charlotte Gray
In 1942, Charlotte Gray, a young Scottish woman, goes to Occupied France on a dual mission: to run an apparently simple errand for a British special operations group and to search for her lover, an English airman called Peter Gregory, who has gone missing in action. In the small town of Lavaurette, Sebastian Faulks presents a microcosm of France and its agony in 'the black years'. here is the full range of collaboration, from the tacit to the enthusiastic, as well as examples of extraordinary courage and altruism. Through the local resistance chief Julien, Charlotte meets his father, a Jewish painter whose inspiration has failed him.
Författare: Sebastian Faulks
Uppläsare: Samuel West Förlag: Random House
Den som vandrar om natten
Den som vandrar om natten är en mycket spännande berättelse där huvudpersonernas livsöden är insatta i en universell helhet. Den mycket träffsäkert skildrade romerska tiden och de lockande, solmättade, larmande, doftande, färg och folkrika antika miljöerna tillför handlingen äkthet och understryker berättelsens närhet till myten.
Författare: Marianne Fredriksson
Uppläsare: Gunilla Nyroos Förlag: Earbooks
Den vita liljan
Catherina föds år 1460 i Palermo på Sicilien. Hennes mor dör i barnsäng men hinner uppfatta att den lilla bär på en ovanlig inre styrka. Av fruktan för att den känslokalle fadern ska undertrycka flickan bönfaller hon sin svägerska att låta dottern växa upp hos henne i Messina. Men när fosterfadern dör slås hennes tillvaro i spillror. Hennes biologiske far säljer henne för ett stycke land till en man som är så grym att hon tvingas fly. Av en slump träffar hon Lorenzo de´ Medici, stadens härskare och samtidens störste konstmecenat. Det uppstår en ögonblicklig kontakt dem emellan.
Författare: Elisabet Nemert
Uppläsare: Louise Raeder Förlag: Earbooks
En av de tolv
Det finns ett skimmer kring Jesus. Jakob ser det från första stund och blir en av de tolv. Jesus predikar kärlekens lära och efter hans död blir det lärjungarnas uppgift att föra denna lära vidare. Uppdraget för Jakob över det stora havet, ända till Hispania, och det är där han möter Ana. Det sägs att vi väljer vårt öde, och Jakob vet vad han har valt, men kärleken till Ana överväldigar honom. Plötsligt är hans livsval inte längre självklart
Författare: Agneta Sjödin
Uppläsare: Agneta Sjödin Förlag: Storyside
Evas bok
Evas bok berättar om mänsklighetens ursprung enligt Bibeln, om Adam och Eva och deras söner på ett sätt som vi aldrig tidigare hade mött. Eva vandrar tillbaka till paradiset. Hon är djupt bedrövad och förblindad av ilska och sorg. Den ene av hennes söner har just dödat den andre och hon måste följa sina egna spår bakåt för att kunna förstå vad som egentligen hände. Men i Eden ter sig de människor hon växt upp tillsammans med som vildar, bortom ont och gott, utan begränsningar och utan tidsuppfattning.
Författare: Marianne Fredriksson
Uppläsare: Marie Richardson Förlag: Storyside
Fire in the Blood
An old man looks back on a chequered life, concealing truths he will not reveal until the end. Fire in the Blood starts quietly, lyrically, but then races away with narrative twists and surprise revelations. A young man, newly married, is found drowned in the mill stream; an old man is more concerned about the repayment of a debt than with his young wife; a young woman asks Silvio to plead her case; no one is quite as they seem... Young women have to marry old men, youthful passions burn and the regrets of old age simmer in this rural community where secrets are kept close and passed from one generation to the next.
Författare: Irene Nemirovsky
Uppläsare: Jim Norton Förlag: Random House
If you could see me now
Elizabeth's sister Saoirse is a red haired whirlwind, always leaving behind pieces that Elizabeth struggles to pick up. One of these pieces is Saoirse's 6 year old son Luke, when Luke is playing in Elizabeth's garden one day, a friend named Ivan walks into his life. Elizabeth finds Ivan creeping under her skin and beginning to change her life in ways she could never have imagined. This is a magical novel, and a suprising love story.
Författare: Cecelia Ahern
Uppläsare: Rupert Degas,Susan Lynch Förlag: Harper Collins
Jungfrutronen
I ett benediktinkloster på Egret Island, strax utanför South Carolinas kust, står en vacker och mystisk tron med sirligt snidade sjöjungfrur till minne av det helgon som enligt legenden var sjöjungfru före sin omvändelse. När Jessie kallas hem till ön för att ta itu med sin excentriska mors angrepp på sig själv lever hon ett kontroversiellt liv tillsammans med sin man Hugh, som hon älskar. Men väl ute på ön inser hon att hon känner sig dragen till broder Thomas, en munk som snart ska avlägga klosterlöftet.
Författare: Sue Monk Kidd
Uppläsare: Gunilla Röör Förlag: Bra Böcker
Kains bok
Få karaktärer I Bibeln har varit så svårförstådda som Kain. Marianne Fredriksson ger oss i Kains Bok en ny och annorlunda bild av honom, en mjuk och kärleksfullt berättad saga. Bokens Kain är vuxen och lever tillsammans med sin familj. När hans hustru Lea ska föda deras barn överger han dem. Barnet väcker starka känslor som han har svårt att hantera. Han ger sig av för att söka Paradiset och de 'ordlösa' som hans mor berättat om. Han finner dem och mötet blir mycket dramatiskt. Kains bok är andra delen i trilogin Paradisets barn. Marie Richardson har läst in även den första, Evas bok.
Författare: Marianne Fredriksson
Uppläsare: Marie Richardson Förlag: Storyside
Kicki och Lasse
Kicki & Lasse är en berättelse om två moderna människor som älskar varandra. Trots allt och livet ut. Vi gör nedslag i deras historia under drygt trettio år. Lasse tillverkar och säljer jeans. Kicki byter ständigt jobb. Lasse måste ofta resa bort och vara ensam. Kicki måste ofta ta sig en älskare. Lasse vill ha hastighet, Kicki viktlöshet. De är ett ensamt par. En kärleksroman med melodramatiska stråk.
Författare: Peter Kihlgård
Uppläsare: Philip Zanden Förlag: Bonnier Audio
Live the Dream
In a 1930s setting, LIVE THE DREAM tells the story of three people caught up in a tangle of love and hatred which threatens to tear them apart forever. Handsome, wealthy and fair minded, Luke Hammond could have the world at his feet. Instead, he has the world on his shoulders. Consumed by sadness, Luke's only respite from his respectable life is on a Tuesday, when he heads off to seek solace in a hideaway deep in the calm heart of the woods. Locked in his thoughts and dreams, living his humble 'Tuesday' life, Luke's quiet sadness intrigues Amy Maitland, a bright young woman whom Luke seems at first not to notice. Amy finds herself wondering more and more about this elusive man.
Författare: Josephine Cox
Uppläsare: Carole Boyd Förlag: Harper Collins
Lovers and Liars
It is 1902. Emily is sixteen years of age and blissfully in love with John, two years her senior. Together they are secretly planning a life, when they are violently driven apart. Denied the man she loves, and dominated by a brutally possessive uncle, Emily is devastated when she is cruelly taken advantage of. When a child is born, her life is in tatters. And she cannot reveal the identity of the father to anyone, or there will be a terrible price to pay. Trapped and ashamed, she seeks solace in her daughter, Cathleen, but there is little consolation. As time passes, and still there is no sign of the man she loved, Emily resigns herself to the fact that he may never return, and her life begins to take another direction.
Författare: Josephine Cox
Uppläsare: Carole Boyd Förlag: Harper Collins
Noreas saga
Noreas saga är tredje delen i triologin Paradisets barn. Marie Richardson har läst in även Evas bok och Kains bok. Om Norea hade fötts på 1600 talet skulle hon ha bränts på bål som häxa. Om hon hade levt i modern tid skulle hon antagligen blivit tagen för en galning. För Norea kan se in i mörkret, hon kan se det som existerar bortom verkligheten. Hon kan förstå tid, se genom människors hjärtan, överskrida gränser som de flesta bara passerar i sina drömmar. Men hon levde i en magisk tid och i en kultur som betraktade hennes ovanliga krafter som en gåva.
Författare: Marianne Fredriksson
Uppläsare: Marie Richardson Förlag: Storyside
PS, I Love You
Everyone needs a guardian angel… Some people wait their whole lives to find their soul mates. But not Holly and Gerry. Childhood sweethearts, they could finish each other's sentences and even when they fought, they laughed. No one could imagine Holly and Gerry without each other. Until the unthinkable happens...
Författare: Cecelia Ahern
Uppläsare: Dervla Kirwan Förlag: Harper Collins
Redemption Falls
1865. The American Civil War is ending. Eighteen years after the famine ship Star of the Sea docked at New York, the daughter of two of her passengers sets out from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on a walk across a devastated America. Eliza Duane Mooney is searching for a youngster she has not seen in four years, one of the hundred thousand children drawn into the war. His fate has been mysterious and will prove extraordinary.
Författare: Joseph O'Connor
Uppläsare: Kerry Shale Förlag: Random House
Skilda verkligheter
Detta är berättelsen om en stor kärlek mellan två unga, mycket ensamma människor. De kommer från skilda världar, grälar ofta och lever i ständig rädsla för att förlora varandra. Han tror på vetenskapen, hon på intuitionen. De lever i skilda verkligheter, ändå försöker de mötas.
Författare: Marianne Fredriksson
Uppläsare: Anna Godenius Förlag: Piratförlaget
Star of the Sea
In the bitter winter of 1847, from an Ireland torn by injustice and natural disaster, the Star of the Sea sets sail for New York. On board are hundreds of fleeing refugees, some brimming with optimism, many more desperate. Among them are a maidservant with a devastating secret, bankrupt Lord Merridith and his wife and children, an aspiring novelist, a maker of revolutionary ballads, all braving the Atlantic in search of a new home.
Författare: Joseph O'Connor
Uppläsare: John Kavanagh Förlag: Random House
The Lady and the Unicorn
The Lady and the Unicorn tapestries are a set of six medieval tapestries. Beautiful, intricate and expertly made, they are also mysterious in their origin and meaning. Tapestries give an appearance of order and continuity, as if designed and made by one person, belying the complicated process required to create them. Weavers, patrons, designers, artists, merchants and apprentices were involved in their making, and behind them were the wives, daughters and servants who exercised influences over their men. Like the many strands of wool and silk woven together into one cloth, so these people came together in a complex dance to create the whole picture. Jean le Viste, a newly wealthy member of the French court, commissions the tapestries to hang in his chateau. Nicolas, his chosen designer, meets le Viste's wife Genevieve and his daughter Claude, both of whom take a keen interest in the tapestries. From Paris, Nicolas moves to a weaver's workshop in Brussels. The creation of the tapestries brings together people who would not otherwise meet – their lives become entangled, and so do their desires. As they fall in love, are shunned, take revenge, find unrequited love, turn to the church or to pagan ideals, the tapestries become to each an ideal vision of life – yet all discover that they are unable to make this ideal world their own.
Författare: Tracy Chevalier
Uppläsare: Isla Blair and Jamie Glover Förlag: Harper Collins
The other Boleyn Girl
Politics and passion are inextricably bound together in this compelling drama. The Boleyn family is keen to rise through the ranks of society, and what better way to attract the attention of the most powerful in the land than to place their most beautiful young woman at court? But Mary becomes the king's mistress at a time of change. He needs his personal pleasures, but he also needs an heir. The unthinkable happens and the course of English history is irrevocably changed.
Författare: Philipa Gregory
Uppläsare: Emilia Fox Förlag: Harper Collins
The Portrait
In the early years of the twentieth century, influential art critic William Nasmyth travels to a remote island off the coast of Brittany to sit for a portrait painted by his old friend, the gifted but tormented artist Henry MacAlpine. Over the course of the sitting, MacAlpine recalls their years of friendship, the double edged gift of the critic's patronage, the power he wielded over aspiring artists, and his apparent callousness in anointing the careers of some and devastating the lives of others. The power balance between the two shifts dramatically from what it had been, with the critic now the passive subject while the painter struggles to capture the character of the man, as well as his image on canvas…
Författare: Ian Pears
Uppläsare: Peter Capaldi Förlag: Harper Collins
The Queens Fool
The savage rivalry of the daughters of Henry VIII, Mary Tudor and Elizabeth, mirrors that of their mothers, Katherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn. Each will fight by any available means for the crown and future of the kingdom. Elizabeth's bitter struggle to claim the throne she believes is hers by right, and the man she desires almost more than her crown, is watched by her 'fool': a girl who has been forced to leave her homeland of Spain, as a Jew fleeing the Inquisition. In a court where truth is wittily denied and lies are mere games, it is the fool who can speak plainly: in these dangerous times, a woman must choose between ambition and love. Elizabeth will not make the same mistakes as her mother.
Författare: Philippa Gregory
Uppläsare: Emilia Fox Förlag: Harper Collins
Virgin's Lover
Elizabeth I has acceded to the throne of England, a position she has waited and schemed for all her life. She is surrounded by advisers, all convinced that a young woman cannot form political judgements. Elizabeth feels that she can rely on just one man: her oldest friend, Robert Dudley. It is soon plain that he is more than merely a friend. In a house in the countryside waits a very different woman, Amy Robsart – Robert's wife. She has no taste for life at court and longs for the day when her husband will return home. She has loved him since she was a girl, but now they are adults she hardly sees him.
Författare: Philippa Gregory
Uppläsare: Rupert Penry-Jones Förlag: Harper Collins
Where Rainbows End
From naughty children to rebellious teenagers, Rosie and Alex have stuck by each other through thick and thin. But just as they're discovering the joys of teenage nights on the town and dating disasters, they're separated. Alex's family moves from Dublin to America – and Alex goes with them. For good. But fate isn't quite done with them yet…
Författare: Cecelia Ahern
Uppläsare: Moira Quirk,Roger Rees Förlag: Harper Collins
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