Kategoriarkiv: Språk: engelska

Liane Moriarty: Three Wishes

Publicerat av
Svara

Liane Moriarty: Three Wishes. 2003
Ljudbok (BookBeat, 11 h 31 min)

Moriartys debutbok.
Lyn, Cat, and Gemma Kettle, beautiful 33-year-old triplets, seem to attract attention everywhere they go. Lyn has organized her life into one big checklist, juggling the many balls of work, marriage, and motherhood with expert precision, but is she as together as her datebook would have her seem? Cat has just learned a startling secret about her marriage — can she bring another life into her very precarious world? And can free-spirited Gemma, who bolts every time a relationship hits the six-month mark, ever hope to find lasting love? They struggle to survive their divorced parents’ dating each other, their technologically savvy grandmother, a cheating husband etc

Hernan Diaz: Trust

Publicerat av
Svara

Hernan Diaz: Trust. 2022
Ljudbok (BookBeat  10 h 21 min)

WINNER of the Pulitzer Prize.
Best Books of 2022 pick – New York Times, Obama, TIME, Slate, Oprah Daily, Kirkus, LA Times, EW, Sarah Jessica Parker

It’s a sweeping, unpredictable novel about power, wealth and truth, set against the backdrop of turbulent 1920s New York.A Wall Street tycoon takes a young woman as his wife. Together they rise to the top in an age of excess and speculation. But now a novelist is threatening to reveal the secrets behind their marriage, and this wealthy man’s story – of greed, love and betrayal – is about to slip from his grasp.

Composed of four competing versions of this deliciously deceptive tale, read by a full cast of narrators, Trust brings us on a quest for truth while confronting the lies that often live buried in the human heart.

 

Annie Lyons: The Air Raid Book Club

Publicerat av
Svara

Annie Lyons: The Air Raid Book Club. 2023
Ljudbok (BookBeat, 9 h 30 min)

London, 1938: The bookstore just doesn’t feel the same to Gertie Bingham ever since the death of her beloved husband Harry. Bingham Books was a dream they shared together, and without Harry, Gertie wonders if it’s time to take her faithful old lab, Hemingway, and retire to the seaside.- In Germany, Jewish families are making the heart-wrenching decision to send their children away from the growing turmoil. After a nudge from her dear friend Charles, Gertie decides to take in one of these refugees, a headstrong teenage girl named Hedy. Hedy reminds Gertie of herself at the same age, and shows her that she can’t give up just yet. When the Blitz begins and bombs whistle overhead, Gertie and Hedy come up with the idea to start an air raid book club. Together with neighbors and bookstore customers, they hold lively discussions of everything from Winnie the Pooh to Wuthering Heights. But even the best book can only provide a temporary escape, and as the tragic reality of the war hits home, the book club faces unimaginable losses. They will need all the strength of their stories and the bonds they’ve formed to see them through to brighter days.

Agatha Christie: The Murder at the Vicarage

Publicerat av
Svara

Agatha Christie: The Murder at the Vicarage. 1930
Ljudbok (8 h 11 min, BookBeat)
Uppläsare: Richard E.Grant
Första Miss Marple-romanen.

Colonel Protheroe, local magistrate and overbearing land-owner is the most detested man in the village. Everyone–even in the vicar–wishes he were dead. And very soon he is–shot in the head in the vicar’s own study.

Lucina Riley: Storm Sister

Publicerat av
Svara

Lucina Riley: Storm Sister. 2015
Ljudbok (BookBeat, 19 h 47 min)

Ally D’Aplièse is about to compete in one of the world’s most perilous yacht races, when she hears the news of her adoptive father’s sudden, mysterious death. Rushing back to meet her five sisters at their family home, she discovers that her father – an elusive billionaire affectionately known to his daughters as Pa Salt – has left each of them a tantalizing clue to their true heritage. Ally has also recently embarked on a deeply passionate love affair that will change her destiny forever. Ally decides to leave the open seas and follow the trail that her father left her, which leads her to the icy beauty of Norway . . There, Ally begins to discover her roots – and how her story is inextricably bound to that of a young unknown singer, Anna Landvik, who lived there over a hundred years before, and sang in the first performance of Grieg’s iconic music set to Ibsen’s play ’Peer Gynt’.

 

Lucinda Riley: The Seven Sisters

Publicerat av
Svara

Lucinda Riley: The Seven Sisters. 2014
Ljudbok (BookBeat, 18 h 11 min)
Seven Sisters, del 1.

Maia D’Aplièse and her five sisters gather together at their childhood home–a fabulous, secluded castle situated on the shores of Lake Geneva–having been told that their beloved adoptive father, the elusive billionaire they call Pa Salt, has died. Each of them is handed a tantalising clue to their true heritage–a clue which takes Maia across the world to a crumbling mansion in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil.

Eighty years earlier, in the Belle Époque of Rio, 1927, Izabela Bonifacio’s father has aspirations for his daughter to marry into aristocracy. But Izabela longs for adventure, and convinces him to allow her to accompany the family of a renowned architect on a trip to Paris. In the heady, vibrant streets of Montparnasse, she meets ambitious young sculptor Laurent Brouilly, and knows at once that her life will never be the same again.

Frank McCourt: Magistern/Teacher

Publicerat av
Svara

Frank McCourt: Magistern/Teacher. 2005
Ljudbok (förkortad 5 h 24 min, BookBeat) + pocket (Toffe har köpt)

Frank McCourt arrived in New York as a young, impoverished and idealistic Irish boy. He joined the New York Public Library and every night when he came back from his hotel work he would sit up reading the great novels. Building his confidence and his determination, he talked his way into NYU and gained a literature degree and so began a teaching career that was to last 30 years, working in New York’s public high schools. Frank estimates that he probably taught 12,000 children during this time and it is on this relationship between teacher and student that he reflects in Teacher Man. At least once a day someone would put up their hand and shout ’Mr. McCourt, Mr. McCourt, tell us about Ireland, tell us about how poor you were…’

Julianne Donaldson: Edenbrooke

Publicerat av
Svara

Julianne Donaldson: Edenbrooke. 2012

Marianne Daventry will do anything to escape the boredom of Bath and the amorous attentions of an unwanted suitor. So when an invitation arrives from her twin sister, Cecily, to join her at a sprawling country estate, she jumps at the chance. From a terrifying run-in with a highwayman to a seemingly harmless flirtation, Marianne finds herself embroiled in an unexpected adventure filled with enough romance and intrigue to keep her mind racing.

 

Monica Ali: Brick Lane

Publicerat av
Svara

Monica Ali: Brick Lane. 2003
Ljudbok (BookBeast 15 h 21 min)

After an arranged marriage to Chanu, a man twenty years older, Nazneen is taken to London, leaving her home and heart in the Bangladeshi village where she was born. As a good Muslim girl, Nazneen struggles to not question why things happen. She submits, as she must, to Fate and devotes herself to her husband and daughters. Yet to her amazement, she begins an affair with a handsome young radical, and her erotic awakening throws her old certainties into chaos.

 

Ken Follett: Night over Water

Publicerat av
Svara

Ken Follett: Night over Water. 1991.
Ljudbok (BookBeat, 18 h 41 min) + lite från pocket.

At the outbreak of the Second World War, a mismatched group of passengers flee across the Atlantic to escape Britain. Britain has just declared war against Nazi Germany. In Southampton, the world’s most luxurious airliner, the Pan American Clipper, takes off on its final flight to neutral New York. The passengers aboard the plane each have their own reasons for leaving Britain. Amongst them are an English aristocrat fleeing with his family and a fortune in jewels; a German scientist running away from the Nazis; a murderer returning under FBI escort; a wife escaping her controlling husband; and a devious thief determined to keep his spoils.