Creator: Daniel Weyman
Publication date: 2008-04-03
RRP: £14.99
Price: £4.91
Review Payback (Boy Soldier) / Random House Children's Books:
Creator: Peter Joyce
Publication date: 2007-04-29
RRP: £18.49
Price: £18.49
Review Under the Greenwood Tree (Victorian Collection) / Assembled Stories:
Publication date: 2003-06-02
Dewey code: 808
RRP: £12.99
Price: £8.67
Review Forty Years on: AND A Woman of No Importance (Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Authors
- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- Bram Stoker
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 2001-10-31
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £19.99
Price: £11.38
Review Frankenstein: AND Dracula / Naxos AudioBooks:
Creator: Robert Powell
Publication date: 2006-10-05
RRP: £14.99
Price: £7.73
Review The Afghan / Random House Audiobooks:
Creator: Jacqueline Pearce
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 2002-10-28
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £9.00
Price: £6.25
Review "Doctor Who", Death Comes to Time (BBC Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Creator: David Case
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2006-08-15
Dewey code: 843.7
RRP: £17.49
Price: £12.61
Review Les Miserables / Tantor Media, Inc:
Publication date: 2007-09-06
RRP: £12.98
Price: £6.67
Review James and the Giant Peach / Puffin Audiobooks:
Publication date: 2001-09-03
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £12.99
Price: £3.98
Review The Laying on of Hands (BBC Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:The Laying on of Hands is vintage Alan Bennett, who has clearly mastered the art of the funny, wise and moving story that stands somewhere between a novel and a short story. The story revolves around the funeral of Clive Dunlop, a young man who has died in Peru under mysterious circumstances. As Father Geoffrey Joliffe prepares to lead the funeral, it seems "hard to say what Clive was, for instance, though taking note of the numerous celebrities who were still filing in, 'well-connected' would undoubtedly describe him". As Father Joliffe begins to speak, it soon emerges that the TV stars, politicians, singers, writers, and even the priest himself, who have gathered to mourn Clive were all beneficiaries of his "healing hands". Clive was a gifted masseur, although for many of his clients massage "was just a preliminary to a more protracted and intimate encounter and one which might, understandably, come a little dearer". Under the disapproving eye of one of his church superiors, Father Joliffe allows the funeral to descend into a free-for-all as Clive's friends and clients try to understand who he was, and worry over the nature of his mysterious death. Beautifully written in Bennett's laconic, adroit style, The Laying on of Hands suddenly creeps up on the reader as a funny and wise meditation on the big issues of sex, death, religion and HIV/AIDS. -Jerry Brotton.
Creator: Tony Robinson
Publication date: 2004-10-08
RRP: £17.61
Price: £5.99
Review Sourcery / Corgi Audio:
Publication date: 2004-09-27
RRP: £5.99
Price: £1.45
Review The Enormous Crocodile: Complete and Unabridged / Collins Audio:
Creator: Christopher Timothy
Publication date: 2003-03-21
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.98
Review Triple / Macmillan Audio Books:
Creator: Anton Lesser
Edition: Abridged edition
Publication date: 2004-11-04
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £16.99
Price: £7.87
Review The Algebraist / Time Warner AudioBooks:In The Algebraist, Iain Banks returns to spectacular space opera but not to his familiar Culture universe. His new setting is a complex, war-torn galaxy with an entirely different history going back almost to the Big Bang. For short-lived 'Quick' races like humans, space is dominated by the complicated, grandiose Mercatoria whose rule is both military and religious. To the Dwellers who may live billions of years, the galaxy consists of their gas-giant planets-the rest is debris. Our human hero Fassin Taak is a 'Slow Seer' privileged to work with the Dwellers of the gas-giant Nasqueron in his home system Ulubis. His life work is rummaging for data in their vast, disorganised memories and libraries. Unfortunately, without knowing it, he's come close to an ancient secret of unimaginable importance. Though Ulubis is currently cut off from the galactic wormhole travel network, two interstellar battle fleets are racing for this secret. [+]The hissable arch-villain Luseferous-whose tastes run to torture, atrocity and genocide-seems bound to arrive in overwhelming strength before the Mercatorian rescue squadron. So Fassin is reluctantly conscripted into security forces, and enters the hell of Nasqueron's atmosphere to seek the magic key (code? signal frequency? equation?) that might save everything. Even at their most helpful and charming, though, Dwellers are maddeningly elusive. For ancients, they seem bumbling and whimsical, far more interested in hunting, kudos, and extreme sports like GasClipper Races or Formal War than in saving humanity's skin. Their ramshackle transport and awesome yet run-down floating cities suggest that Dweller legends of hypertechnology are sheer bluff. But are they keeping something dark? Fassin's journeys and discoveries are exhilarating, witty, sometimes mind-boggling. Exotic weaponry abounds. The Dwellers are engagingly eccentric, like AI Minds in the Culture books-but the Mercatoria has banned artificial intelligence as Abomination, and this too is a plot strand. Additionally there are human revenge, intrigue and betrayal subplots; surprises and upsets; and the mother of all shaggy-dog revelations. Once again Banks is having enormous fun with space opera, and his exuberant enjoyment is infectious. Highly readable stuff. -David Langford.
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2003-08-04
RRP: £19.99
Price: £11.85
Review Around the World in 80 Days (Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Creator: Joanna Lumley
Publication date: 2005-09-12
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £12.99
Price: £4.99
Review Pride and Prejudice / CSA WORD:
Creator: Imogen Stubbs
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 1997-08-31
Dewey code: 823.8
RRP: £13.99
Price: £8.09
Review Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Classic fiction) / Naxos AudioBooks:
Publication date: 2004-07
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £14.99
Price: £8.88
Review Sense and Sensibility / Hodder & Stoughton Audio Books:
Creator: Dame Edith Evans
Edition: New title
Publication date: 2005-03
Dewey code: 792.202908
RRP: £10.99
Price: £4.47
Review The Importance of Being Earnest (Classic Drama) / Naxos AudioBooks:
Creator: Lionel Barrymore
Publication date: 2005-11-14
RRP: £5.95
Price: £2.98
Review A Christmas Carol: The Drama (Csa Classic Radio Drama) / CSA WORD:
Publication date: 2007-10-08
RRP: £25.00
Price: £11.95
Review Palin's New Europe: Abridged Reading / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
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Payback (Boy Soldier), Under the Greenwood Tree (Victorian Collection), Forty Years on: AND A Woman of No Importance (Radio Collection), Frankenstein: AND Dracula, The Afghan, "Doctor Who", Death Comes to Time (BBC Radio Collection), Les Miserables, James and the Giant Peach, The Laying on of Hands (BBC Radio Collection), Sourcery, The Enormous Crocodile: Complete and Unabridged, Triple, The Algebraist, Around the World in 80 Days (Radio Collection), Pride and Prejudice, Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Classic fiction), Sense and Sensibility, The Importance of Being Earnest (Classic Drama), A Christmas Carol: The Drama (Csa Classic Radio Drama), Palin's New Europe: Abridged Reading |
