Audio Originals
From Shakespeare to a Venetian thriller
Discover David’s groundbreaking work in the world of original audiobooks with narrators like Richard Armitage and Alan Cumming
Romeo & Juliet
I think Romeo and Juliet is the greatest, most tragic love story ever told. What David Hewson did with this script is so exciting to me. I really love the fact that he followed avenues that Shakespeare suggested but didn’t necessarily detail in depth. If you want to immerse yourself in a warm bath of Garganega and the heat of Verona and hear a brilliant story about a young woman who is challenging the restraints of her time, listen to this audiobook, which has romance, poetry, politics, and humor to spare.
Richard Armitage
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Realer
‘Life is real.. but this is Realer…’ Realer promises a new virtual reality, a safe and sanitised window into a virtual existence without the risks of the real, crumbling, post-pandemic society beyond the door.
Sixteen-year-old Charlotte ‘Charlie’ Mackintosh is a loner whose father works for the company. He gives her Realer for her birthday – only to be murdered as she watches through her high-tech hood at home.
Alone in a tense, post-lockdown world, Charlie has to turn to Realer to find his killers. She’s soon trapped in a murderous conspiracy behind a system that’s steadily beginning to take over people’s lives.
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Hamlet Prince of Denmark
A tale of ghosts, of madness, of revenge – of old alliances giving way to new intrigues. Denmark is changing, shaking off its medieval past. War with Norway is on the horizon. And Hamlet – son of the old king, nephew of the new – becomes increasingly entangled in a web of deception – and murder.
Beautifully performed by actor Richard Armitage (“Thorin Oakenshield” in the Hobbit films), Hamlet, Prince of Denmark takes Shakespeare’s original into unexpected realms, reinventing a story we thought we knew.
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Shooter in the Shadows
In 2008, when the financial world was collapsing, Tom Honeyman worked as a reporter on a failing local newspaper in a fictional upstate New York town called Prosper. The sleepy little place is shocked by the vicious murders of a local teacher and her pupil who seem to have been having an affair, a story so notorious it soon gathers national attention.
Rich and briefly famous, Tom uses his unexpected wealth to buy a remote island in the north of the Venetian lagoon and the semi-derelict mansion there. It’s his bolthole, a writer’s paradise supposedly, cut off from the world without a phone signal, internet or easy access to the rest of the lagoon. But he’s not alone.
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Macbeth a Novel
Macbeth is a war hero and a patriot, doing everything in his power to hold together Duncan’s crumbling kingdom, which is beset by sedition from within and with threats from overseas. But when Duncan, contrary to ancient Scottish tradition, turns to building a family dynasty instead of rewarding those who have borne the brunt of the fighting, Macbeth and his powerful wife, Skena, make plans of their own, plans designed to hold both the nation and their strained relationship together. Sinister figures who claim supernatural knowledge spur them on, but the terrible outcome is as much about accident and failure as it is malevolence.
Alan Cumming’s stunning narration put the work onto the shortlist for the annual Audie awards.
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Macbeth Ein Epos
Macbeth: Ein Epos is a thrilling dramatic version of the audiobook adaptation originally narrated by Alan Cumming, written by David with A.J. Hartley. Featuring a cast list of some of Germany’s finest actors, it takes the audiobook version back into the realm of drama, telling the bloody tale of Macbeth’s rise to the Scottish throne and eventual fall.
Nearly eight hours in length, it’s the story you thought you knew reimagined, an epic of warfare, struggle and love in the wilds of Scotland. David wrote the script based on our original audiobook. If you know the original adaptation you’ll recognise the essential story, but expect a few surprises too, and the excitement of a highly dramatic production.
Tobias Kluckert leads as a tortured but determined Macbeth, joined in tragedy by Claudia Urbschat-Mingues as Lady Macbeth, a more sympathetic character than the usual production but no less steely.
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