Audiobooks by John Boyne

[Spanish] - Mi hermano se llama Jessica Audiobook

Sam conoce a su hermana Jessica de toda la vida, pero hoy se encontrarán por primera vez. Mi hermano se llama Jessica es una conmovedora historia de John Boyne, autor del fenómeno literario El niño con el pijama de rayas, que no puede llegar en un momento más oportuno. Con esta novela intensa, emotiva, escrita con empatía, ligereza e ironía, el escritor retrata el viaje de una familia hacia la aceptación. Sam Waver es un chico solitario al que le cuesta hacer amigos, y sus padres están tan ajetreados que a veces se siente invisible. Por suerte, cuenta con su hermano mayor, Jason, quien parece tener una vida perfecta: no sólo es encantador y popular, también es la estrella del equipo de fútbol, y todas las chicas están deseando salir con él. Sam lo idolatra. Sin embargo, un día, Jason reúne a su familia para contarle un secreto que lleva guardando mucho tiempo: en realidad se llama Jessica. Sus padres no dan crédito y Sam descubre que no son las personas abiertas y tolerantes que creía. Las vidas de todos dan un vuelco y parece que las cosas nunca volverán a ser como antes. La crítica ha dicho: «Tan divertida como conmovedora... Es de lectura obligada para todas las edades.» Irish Independent «Esta historia cautivadora y emotiva no te dejará indiferente.» Attitude Magazine «Sobresaliente.» Irish Examiner «John Boyne se hizo un nombre con El niño con el pijama de rayas y en Mi hermano se llama Jessica está en plena forma. Un relato oportuno, escrito con delicadeza.» Daily Express

John Boyne (Author), Marcel Navarro (Narrator)

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Der Junge im gestreiften Pyjama (ungekürzt)

Berlin 1942: Als Bruno eines Tages nach Hause kommt, werden gerade alle seine Habseligkeiten in Kisten verpackt. Sein Vater wurde befördert und die Familie muss umziehen, an einen weit entfernten Ort, wo es niemanden gibt, mit dem er spielen kann. Ein hoher Zaun trennt ihn von den seltsamen Menschen in gestreiften Anzügen in der Ferne. Aber Bruno beschließt, dass es mehr an diesem verlassenen Ort geben muss, als es den Anschein hat. Er trifft auf einen Jungen, dessen Lebensumstände ganz anders als seine eigenen sind. Die beiden Jungen freunden sich an - und das hat Folgen.

John Boyne (Author), Ulrich Matthes (Narrator)

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Der Junge mit dem Herz aus Holz (ungekürzt)

So verspielt, so traurig, so überraschend schön: Eines Morgens läuft Noah Barleywater von zu Hause fort. Ein einsamer Waldweg führt ihn zu einem Spielzeugladen voller Zauber und Magie. Hier lernt Noah einen ungewöhnlichen Spielzeugmacher kennen. Der alte Mann hat viel zu erzählen: In seiner Geschichte geht es um Abenteuer, Wunder, gebrochene Versprechen und um die Menschen, die wir am meisten lieben und deren Verlust wir am meisten fürchten. So nimmt er Noah mit auf eine Reise. Eine Reise, die Noahs Leben verändern wird. Und die auch unser Leben verändern könnte. Eine märchenhafte Parabel über den Trost des Erzählens.

John Boyne (Author), Ulrich Matthes (Narrator)

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The Thief of Time

Brought to you by Penguin. Matthieu Zela has lived his life well. In fact, he's lived several lives well. Because Matthew Zela's life is characterised by one amazing fact: his body stopped ageing before the end of the eighteenth century. Starting in 1758, a young Matthieu flees Paris after witnessing his mother's brutal murder. His only companions are his younger brother Tomas and one true love, Dominique Sauvet. The story of his life takes us from the French Revolution to 1920s Hollywood, from the Great Exhibition to the Wall Street Crash, and by the end of the twentieth century, Matthieu has been an engineer, a rogue, a movie mogul, a soldier, a financier, a lover to many, a cable TV executive and much more besides. Brilliantly weaving history and personal experience, this is a dazzling story of love, murder, missed chances, treachery - and redemption. © John Boyne 2011 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

John Boyne (Author), George Blagden (Narrator)

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Mutiny On The Bounty

Brought to you by Penguin. Pickpocket John Jacob Turnstile is on his way to be detained at His Majesty's Pleasure when he is offered a lifeline, what seems like a freedom of sorts - the job of personal valet to a departing naval captain. Little does he realise that it is anything but - and by accepting the devil's bargain he will put his life in perilous danger. For the ship is HMS Bounty, his new captain William Bligh and their destination Tahiti. From the moment the ship leaves port, Turnstile's life is turned upside down, for not only must he put his own demons to rest, but he must also confront the many adversaries he will encounter on the Bounty's extraordinary last voyage. Walking a dangerous line between an unhappy crew and a captain he comes to admire, he finds himself in a no-man's land where the distinction between friend and foe is increasingly difficult to determine... © John Boyne 2008 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

John Boyne (Author), Piers Hampton (Narrator)

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This House is Haunted

Brought to you by Penguin 1867. On a dark and chilling night Eliza Caine arrives in Norfolk to take up her position as governess at Gaudlin Hall. As she makes her way across the station platform, a pair of invisible hands push her from behind into the path of an approaching train. She is only saved by the vigilance of a passing doctor. It is the start of a journey into a world of abandoned children, unexplained occurrences and terrifying experiences which Eliza will have to overcome if she is to survive the secrets that lie within Gaudlin’s walls… © John Boyne 2013 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

John Boyne (Author), Harrie Hayes (Narrator)

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A History of Loneliness

Brought to you by Penguin. Odran Yates enters Clonliffe Seminary in 1972 after his mother informs him that he has a vocation to the priesthood. He goes in full of ambition and hope, dedicated to his studies and keen to make friends. Forty years later, Odran’s devotion has been challenged by the revelations that have shattered the Irish people’s faith in the church. He has seen friends stand trial, colleagues jailed, the lives of young parishioners destroyed and has become nervous of venturing out in public for fear of disapproving stares and insulting remarks. But when a family tragedy opens wounds from his past, he is forced to confront the demons that have raged within a once respected institution and recognise his own complicity in their propagation. It has taken John Boyne fifteen years and twelve novels to write about his home country of Ireland but he has done so now in his most powerful novel to date, a novel about blind dogma and moral courage, and about the dark places where the two can meet. At once courageous and intensely personal, A History of Loneliness confirms Boyne as one of the most searching chroniclers of his generation. © John Boyne 2014 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

John Boyne (Author), Owen Mcdonnell (Narrator)

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A Traveller at the Gates of Wisdom

Brought to you by Penguin. Some stories are universal. They play out across human history. And time is the river which will flow through them. It starts with a family, a family which will mutate. For now, it is a father, mother and two sons. One with his father’s violence in his blood. One who lives his mother’s artistry. One leaves. One stays. They will be joined by others whose deeds will change their fate. It is a beginning. Their stories will intertwine and evolve over the course of two thousand years – they will meet again and again at different times and in different places. From distant Palestine at the dawn of the first millennium to a life amongst the stars in the third. While the world will change around them, their destinies will remain the same. It must play out as foretold. It is written. A Traveller at the Gates of Wisdom is the extraordinary new novel from acclaimed writer John Boyne. Ambitious, far-reaching and mythic, it introduces a group of characters whose lives we will come to know and will follow through time and space until they reach their natural conclusion. ©John Boyne 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

John Boyne (Author), Tim Mcinnerny (Narrator)

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The Congress of Rough Riders

Brought to you by Penguin. William Cody grows up surrounded by his father's tales of Buffalo Bill, to whom he is distantly related, and his fantasies of the Wild West. Though he escapes his heritage by fleeing abroad and starting a new life for himself, he finds that he is always drawn back to England and to his ancestry. When his father proposes that together they should recreate Buffalo Bill's stage show, 'The Congress of Rough Riders of the World' for a contemporary audience, William refuses to have any part of it. When tragedy strikes, however, it is to his father that he must eventually return. © John Boyne 2011 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

John Boyne (Author), Wilf Scolding (Narrator)

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Next of Kin

Brought to you by Penguin. 1936: London is abuzz with gossip about the affair between Edward VIII and Mrs. Simpson. But the king is not the only member of the aristocracy with a hard decision to make. Owen Montignac, the handsome and charismatic descendent of a wealthy land-owning family, is anxiously awaiting the reading of his late uncle's will. For Owen has run up huge gambling debts and casino boss Nicholas Delfy has given him a choice: find £50,000 by Christmas - or find yourself six feet under. So when Owen discovers that he has been cut out of the will in favour of his beautiful cousin Stella, it is time to prove just how cunning he can be... And Owen is nothing if not inventive - even a royal crisis can provide the means for profit. And for murder... ©John Boyne 2012 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

John Boyne (Author), Jack Holden (Narrator)

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The House of Special Purpose

Brought to you by Penguin. Russia, 1915: At the age of 16, Georgy Jachmenev steps in front of an assassin's bullet intended for the heart of a senior member of the Russian Imperial Family. He is instantly proclaimed a hero. Before the week is out, his life as the son of a peasant farmer is changed forever when he is escorted to St Petersburg to take up his new position - as bodyguard to Alexei Romanov, the only son of Tsar Nicholas II. Sixty five years later, visiting his wife Zoya as she lies dying in a London hospital, memories of the life they have lived together flood his mind. Their marriage, while tender, has been marked by tragedy, the loss of loved ones, and experiences of exile that neither can forget. THE HOUSE OF SPECIAL PURPOSEis a novel about a young man ripped from a loving home and thrust into the heart of a dying empire. Privy to the secrets of Nicholas and Alexandra, the machinations of Rasputin and the events which led to the final collapse of the autocracy, Georgy is a witness and participant in a drama which will echo down the century. His is also a story of a marriage in which a husband finds it impossible to live in the present and a wife unable to reconcile herself with the past. Part love story, part historical epic, part tragedy, the novel moves from revolutionary St Petersburg to Paris after the First World War, and from London during the Blitz to the eastern coast of Finland during the 1980s, before returning to a quiet hospital bed where Georgy and Zoya's story must finally be resolved. ©John Boyne 2009 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

John Boyne (Author), James Wilby (Narrator)

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The Boy at the Top of the Mountain

Brought to you by Penguin. When Pierrot becomes an orphan, he must leave his home in Paris for a new life with his Aunt Beatrix, a servant in a wealthy household at the top of the German mountains. But this is no ordinary time, for it is 1935 and the Second World War is fast approaching; and this is no ordinary house, for this is the Berghof, the home of Adolf Hitler. Quickly, Pierrot is taken under Hitler's wing, and is thrown into an increasingly dangerous new world: a world of terror, secrets and betrayal, from which he may never be able to escape. ©John Boyne 2015 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

John Boyne (Author), Alex Wyndham (Narrator)

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