Ian McGuire has 4 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 3 narrators, with an average listener rating of 3.2★ across 17 ratings. The most-rated is The North Water.
The North Water
Summary
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice A 19th-century whaling ship sets sail for the Arctic with a killer aboard in this dark, sharp, and highly original tale that grips like a thriller. Behold the man: stinking, drunk, and brutal. Henry Drax is a harpooner on the Volunteer, a Yorkshire whaler bound for the rich hunting waters of the arctic circle. Also aboard for the first time is Patrick Sumner, an ex-army surgeon with a shattered reputation, no money, and no better option than to sail as the ship's medic on this violent, filthy, and ill-fated voyage. In India, during the Siege of Delhi, Sumner thought he had experienced the depths to which man can stoop. He had hoped to find temporary respite on the Volunteer, but rest proves impossible with Drax on board. The discovery of something evil in the hold rouses Sumner to action. And as the confrontation between the two men plays out amid the freezing darkness of an arctic winter, the fateful question arises: Who will survive until spring? With savage, unstoppable momentum and the blackest wit, Ian McGuire's The North Water weaves a superlative story of humanity under the most extreme conditions.
©2016 Ian McGuire (P)2016 Macmillan Audio
The Abstainer
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“This is Dickens in the present tense, Dickens for the 21st century.” (Roddy Doyle, The New York Times Book Review) An Irishman in 19th-century England is forced to take sides when his nephew joins the bloody underground movement for independence in this propulsive novel from the acclaimed author of The North Water. Named One of the Ten Best Books of the Year by Chicago Tribune and One of the Best Books of the Year by The New York Times • The New York Public Library • New Statesman • Publishers Weekly Manchester, England, 1867. The rebels will be hanged at dawn, and their brotherhood is already plotting its revenge. Stephen Doyle, an Irish American veteran of the Civil War, arrives in Manchester from New York with a thirst for blood. He has joined the Fenians, a secret society intent on ending British rule in Ireland by any means necessary. Head Constable James O’Connor has fled grief and drink in Dublin for a sober start in Manchester. His job is to discover and thwart the Fenians’ plans, whatever they might be. When a long-lost nephew arrives on O’Connor’s doorstep looking for work, he cannot foresee the way his fragile new life will be imperiled - and how his and Doyle’s fates will become fatally intertwined. In this propulsive tale of the underground war for Irish independence, the author of The North Water once again transports listeners to a time when blood begot blood. Moving from the dirt and uproar of industrial Manchester to the quiet hills of rural Pennsylvania, The Abstainer is a searing novel in which two men, haunted by their pasts and driven forward by the need for justice and retribution, must fight for life and legacy.
©2020 Ian McGuire (P)2020 Random House Audio
Dans les eaux du Grand Nord
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Patrick Sumner, un ancien chirurgien de l'armée britannique traînant une mauvaise réputation, n'a pas de meilleure option que d'embarquer sur le "Volunteer", un baleinier du Yorkshire en route pour les eaux riches du Grand Nord. Mais alors qu'il espère trouver du répit à bord, un garçon de cabine est découvert brutalement assassiné. Pris au piège dans le ventre du navire, Sumner rencontre le mal à l'état pur en la personne d'Henry Drax, un harponneur brutal et sanguinaire. Tandis que les véritables objectifs de l'expédition se dévoilent, la confrontation entre les deux hommes se jouera dans les ténèbres et le gel de l'hiver arctique.
©2016/2017 Titre Original : "The North Water" / Ian McGuire, 2016 / Éditions 10/18, Département d'Univers Poche, pour la traduction française. (P)2018 Lizzie, un département d'Univers Poche, Paris
Nordwasser
Summary
Henry Drax kennt kein Gewissen. Er ist Harpunierer auf der Volunteer, einem Walfangschiff, das von England Kurs auf die arktischen Gewässer der Baffinbucht nimmt. Ebenfalls an Bord ist Patrick Sumner, ein Arzt von zweifelhaftem Ruf, der glaubt, schon alles gesehen zu haben - nicht ahnend, dass seine größte Prüfung noch bevorsteht, nachdem er Drax einer ungeheuerlichen Tat überführt hat. Während sich der Konflikt zwischen den beiden Männern zuspitzt, wird auch der eigentliche Sinn der verhängnisvollen Expedition zunehmend klar...
©2018 Lübbe Audio. Übersetzung von Joachim Körber (P)2018 Lübbe Audio