About us

Stories you want to hear

OneHotBook is the biggest audiobook publishing house in the Czech Republic. We publish audiobooks by contemporary writers, but also modern classics and playful stories for children. The broad selection of titles and authors covers most genres including the full fiction spectrum from thrillers to romance or science fiction/fantasy, classic literature and titles with a young adult/children's focus plus many nonfiction subgenres ranging from inspiration and self-help to business advice to memoirs and biographies. As a leading audiobook publisher on the Czech and Slovakian market, we successfully released audio bestsellers by Stieg Larsson, Jo Nesbø, Jussi Adler-Olsen, Peter May, Henning Mankell, Lars Kepler, David Mitchell, Haruki Murakami, Simon Mawer, Fredrik BackmanGillian Flynn, Lyndsay Faye, Michel HouellebecqMuriel BarberyTom Robbins, John Fowles, Vladimir Nabokov, Margaret Atwood, Kazuo Ishiguro, Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman etc.

Our audiobooks are carefully prepared in our own acoustically perfect studios with full professional production in cooperation with best voice actors, audio directors, sound engineers, music composers and graphic designers. We don´t see audiobook as mere re-reading of the book aloud, but as an interpretation art or sound adaptation with its own atmosphere created by quality sound work and original music composed specially for every piece. OneHotBook publishes audiobooks on mp3-CD and files suitable for download

AWARDS received

Audiobook of the Year Awards are bestowed annually in the Czech republic for outstanding audiobooks. Awards have been granted by the Audio Publishers Association, the not-for-profit trade organization of the audiobook industry, since 2013. 

 

Audiobook of the Year 2022: Best Audiobook of the Year – Kmotr (Mario Puzo) narrated by Oldřich Kaiser. 

Audiobook of the Year 2022Best One Voice Narration – Kmotr (Mario Puzo) 

Audiobook of the Year 2022Best Narrator – Kmotr (Mario Puzo) narrated by Oldřich Kaiser. 

Audiobook of the Year 2022:  Best Female NarratorKlára a Slunce (Kazuo Ishiguro) narrated by Klára Suchá. 


Audiobook of the Year 2021: Best Audiobook in "out of category" – Svědectví o životě v KLDR (Milena Steinmasslová, Gustav Hašek, Vladimír Javorský, Eliška Zbranková, Kristýna Podzimková, Alexej Pyško, Johanna Tesařová a Nina Špitálníková)

Audiobook of the Year 2021Best One Voice Narration – Winterbergova poslední cesta (Pavel Batěk)


Audiobook of the Year 2020: Best Audiobook of the Year – Šikmý kostel (Karin Lednická) narrated by Vilma Cibulková. 

Audiobook of the Year 2020:  Best Female Narrator Šikmý kostel (Karin Lednická) narrated by Vilma Cibulková. 

Audiobook of the Year 2020Best Multivoiced Performance – Svědectví (Margaret Atwood)

Audiobook of the Year 2020Best One Voice Narration – Egypťan Sinuhet (Mika Waltari)

Audiobook of the Year 2020Best Narrator Růže pro Algernon (Daniel Keyes) narrated by Jan Potměšil.

Audiobook of the Year 2020Best Audiobook for Children  H2O a tajná vodní mise (Petr Stančík)

Audiobook of the Year 2020Best Design Vražda potřebuje reklamu (D. L. Sayers) with illustrations by Tomski&Polanski.


Audiobook of the Year 2019Best Audiobook of the Year – The Village (Petra Dvořáková).

Audiobook of the Year 2019Best Multivoiced Performance – The Village (Petra Dvořáková).

Audiobook of the Year 2019Best One Voice Narration – Serotonin (Michel Houellebecq).

Audiobook of the Year 2013: Best Narrator  Maigret's holiday (Georges Simenon) narrated by Jan Vlasák..

The Book of the Year 2019, category Audiobook – All Quiet on the Western Front (Erich Maria Remarque).


Audiobook of the Year 2018: Best Audiobook of the Year  Terror  (Dan Simmons).

Audiobook of the Year 2018: Best Multivoiced Performance  Terror  (Dan Simmons).

Audiobook of the Year 2018: Best One Voice Narration –  Bohemian Paradise (Jaroslav Rudiš) narrated by Petr Čtvrtníček.

Audiobook of the Year 2018: Best Sound Design  All About Doggie and Pussycat (Josef Čapek) narrated by Dejvice Theatre company.

Audiobook of the Year 2018: Best Design  All About Doggie and Pussycat (Josef Čapek) with illustrations by Tomski&Polanski.


Audiobook of the Year 2017 Best Audiobook of the Year – IT (Stephen King)

Audiobook of the Year 2017:  Best Multivoiced Performance – IT (Stephen King).

Audiobook of the Year 2017:  Best One Voice Narration –  Murder on the Orient Express (Agatha Christie) narrated by Lukáš Hlavica.

Audiobook of the Year 2017Best Audiobook for Children – The Jungle Book (Rudyard Kipling), narrated by Jan Zadažil and six other actors.

Audiobook of the Year 2017:  Best Design – The Neverending Story (Michael Ende) with illustrations by Přemek Ponáhlý.


Audiobook of the Year 2016Best Audiobook for Children – Doctor Proctor's Fart Powder: The End of the World, Maybe (Jo Nesbø), narrated by David Novotný.

Audiobook of the Year 2016:  Listener´s Choice of the Year – We Were a Handful (Karel Poláček), narrated by Jan Zadražil.


Audiobook of the Year 2015:  Best Multivoiced Performance  The Collector (John Fowles) narrated by Jaroslav Plesl and Lucie Pernetová.

Audiobook of the Year 2015:  Best Design  The Great Mortdecai Moustache Mystery (Kyril Bonfiglioli, completed by Craig Brown).


Audiobook of the Year 2014:  Best Audiobook of the Year  A Man Called Ove (Fredrik Backman).

Audiobook of the Year 2014:  Best One Voice Narration  The Lewis Man (Peter May) narrated by Jiří Dvořák.


Audiobook of the Year 2013:  Best Narrator  National Avenue (Jaroslav Rudis) narrated by Hynek Čermák.

Audiobook of the Year 2013: Best Audio Drama and Best Original Music  Nemesis (Jo Nesbø),
(in coproduction with Radioservis Publishing).