Audiobooks by Francis Spufford

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Cahokia Jazz

"A thrilling tale of murder and mystery in a city where history has run a little differently — from the bestselling author of Golden Hill. In a city that never was, in an America that never was, on a snowy night at the end of winter, two detectives find a body on the roof of a skyscraper. It’s 1922, and Americans are drinking in speakeasies, dancing to jazz, stepping quickly to the tempo of modern times. Beside the Mississippi, the ancient city of Cahokia lives on – a teeming industrial metropolis, containing every race and creed. Among them, peace holds. Just about. But that body on the roof is about to spark off a week that will spill the city’s secrets, and bring it, against a soundtrack of wailing clarinets and gunfire, either to destruction or rebirth. The multiple-award-winning Francis Spufford returns, with a lovingly created, richly pleasure-giving, epically scaled tale set in the golden age of wicked entertainments."

Francis Spufford (Author), Andy Ingalls (Narrator)

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[German] - Ewiges Licht (ungekürzt)

"Am 25. November 1944 schlägt eine deutsche V2 in ein Londoner Kaufhaus ein. 168 Menschen verlieren binnen Sekundenbruchteilen ihr Leben, die meisten sind Frauen und Kinder. Francis Spufford macht aus dem Andenken an die Getöteten einen Anfang. Er erzählt von fünf ungelebten Leben: Da sind die Zwillingsschwestern Jo und Val. Val, die Lebenslustige, verliebt sich in den Falschen, landet im Gefängnis und tut ein Leben lang Buße. Jo, die Hochbegabte, geht nach Amerika, aber für eine Frau ist in der Musikindustrie nur die Rolle als Freundin des Stars vorgesehen. Vern, der von keinem Geliebte, macht Geschäfte, er triumphiert und scheitert und geht dabei über Leichen. Alecs Leben verläuft in den vorbestimmten Bahnen seiner Klasse - bis der Umbruch der Thatcherjahre alle Gewissheiten zerschlägt. Und dann ist da Ben, der Bedrohteste von allen, sein Lebensleid scheint beinahe unerträglich, aber am Ende wartet auf ihn das hellste Glück, das ein Autor sich einfallen lassen kann. Ein Roman, so unvorhersehbar wie das wahre Leben, erfüllt von großem Leid und von der Hoffnung, dass allen Menschendingen am Ende doch ein Sinn innewohnt. Eine bewegende Lektüre, fesselnd, erheiternd und zu Tränen rührend."

Francis Spufford (Author), Gabriele Blum (Narrator)

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Light Perpetual

"NOMINATED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE November 1944. A German rocket strikes London, and five young lives are atomised in an instant. November 1944. That rocket never lands. A single second in time is altered, and five young lives go on - to experience all the unimaginable changes of the twentieth century. Because maybe there are always other futures. Other chances. Light Perpetual is a story of the everyday, the miraculous and the everlasting. Ingenious and profound, full of warmth and beauty, it is a sweeping and intimate celebration of the gift of life. From the best-selling, prize-winning author of Golden Hill, a novel of the everyday, the miraculous and the everlasting. 'Dazzling.' The Times 'Exceptional.' Guardian 'Brilliant.' Observer 'Extraordinary.' Financial Times"

Francis Spufford (Author), Imogen Church (Narrator)

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Golden Hill

"New York, a small town on the tip of Manhattan Island, 1746. One evening, a handsome young stranger off the boat from England pitches up to a counting house on Golden Hill Street, with a compelling proposition -- he has an order for a thousand pounds in his pocket that he wishes to cash. But can he be trusted? New York is a place where a young man with a fast tongue can reinvent himself, fall in love, and find trouble . . ."

Francis Spufford (Author), Sarah Borges (Narrator)

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Unapologetic

"Unapologetic is a brief, personal, sharp-tongued defence of Christian belief. It isn't an argument that Christianity is true, because how could anyone know that (or indeed its opposite)? It's a book for believers who are fed up with being patronised, for non-believers curious about faith in the twenty-first century, and for anyone who feels there is something indefinably anti-imaginative and intolerant about the way the atheist case is currently being made."

Francis Spufford (Author), Francis Spufford (Narrator)

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