Creator: William Franklyn
Publication date: 1997
Price: £2.95
Review The Sisterhood:
Creator: Regina Reagan
Publication date: 2006-10-01
RRP: £50.50
Price: £52.49
Review 24 Hours / ISIS Audio Books:
Creator: Eleanor Bron
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2001-06
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £53.99
Price: £75.95
Review Falling Slowly: Complete & Unabridged / Chivers Audio Books:
Creator: Clive Mantle
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2000-09
Dewey code: 813
Price: £64.57
Review Crisis Four: Complete & Unabridged / Chivers Audio Books:
Edition: Large print e.
Publication date: 1997-11
Price: £7.99
Review Illusionist, The (Camden S.) / Chivers P.:
Creator: Josie Lawrence
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2001-05
Price: £24.62
Review Bad Girls: Complete & Unabridged / Chivers Children's Audio Books:Bad Girls, Jacqueline Wilson's eighth title, is read here in unabridged form by Josie Lawrence. It deals lightly but sensitively with the terrible pain suffered by a 10-year-old girl when she becomes the victim of vicious bullying at school. When the over-protected, intelligent Mandy is cast out by her so called girl "friends" at school she takes up with the trendy, cheerful 14-year-old Tanya. Because Mandy reminds Tanya of her much-loved kid sister in care, and because she too is lonely, the two quickly become best friends. But Tanya's unhappy life has made her turn to petty crime and before long Mandy finds herself in deep water. Bad Girls is a delightful and important book, dealing very well indeed with difficult emotional and social issues. The story is presented on three cassettes and runs for four hours and 20 minutes. -Tamsin Palmer Bad Girls is Jacqueline Wilson's eighth title. Her previous books include The Suitcase Kid which won the 1993 Children's book Award, and Double Act, which won both the Smarties Prize and the Children's Book Award in 1995. Bad Girls deals lightly but sensitively with the terrible pain suffered by a 10-year-old girl when she becomes the victim of vicious bullying at school. [+]When the over- protected, intelligent Mandy is cast out by her so called girl "friends" at school she takes up with trendy, cheerful, 14-year-old Tanya. Because Mandy reminds Tanya of her much-loved kid sister in care and because she too is lonely the two quickly become best friends. But Tanya's unhappy life has made her turn to petty crime and before long Mandy finds herself in deep waters. Bad Girls is a delightful and important book. Brightly written and amusingly illustrated by Nick Sharratt it deals very well indeed with difficult emotional and social issues. - Tamsin Palmer.
Creator: Michael Ducarel
Publication date: 2004-12
RRP: £14.99
Price: £14.99
Review Just So Stories / Michael Ducarel:
Creator: Gore Newcombe
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2006-12-01
RRP: £19.99
Price: £21.98
Review Pudd'nhead Wilson (American Collection) / Assembled Stories:
Creator: William Gaminara
Publication date: 2004-03
Price: £58.69
Review Sharpe's Havoc / Chivers Audio Books:
Creator: Peter Joyce
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2007-06-18
RRP: £11.99
Price: £11.99
Review Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Victorian Collection) / Assembled Stories:
Publication date: 1999-03-01
Price: £15.99
Review Personal Effects / Listen for Pleasure:
Creator: David Case
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2006-02-01
Dewey code: 843.7
RRP: £50.49
Price: £36.95
Review The Hunchback of Notre Dame / Tantor Media, Inc:
Run time: 185 min.
Creator: Carole Boyd
Publication date: 1994
Review The Turn Of The Screw / Talking Classics:A classic tale narrated by Carol Boyd, of The Archers fame. 2 CD set. Disc 1-Old Memoirs/Encounters Good And Bad/Evil Apparition/A Woman In Black Disc 2-Innocence Corrupted/Lakeside Disaster/Departures From Bly/Final Crisis.
Creator: Peter Joyce
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2007-11-29
RRP: £18.49
Price: £12.20
Review Captains Courageous (American Collection) / Assembled Stories:
Creator: Phyllida Law
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2003-03-31
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £46.94
Price: £39.95
Review Mrs Dalloway / Chivers Audio Books:
Creator: Hayward Morse
Publication date: 2003-05
Price: £56.50
Review Rebel / ISIS Audio Books:
Creator: Nigel Planer
Edition: Abridged Ed
Publication date: 2000-10-19
RRP: £9.99
Price: £20.00
Review Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years / Penguin Audiobooks:Adrian Mole is balding, he's bitter and he's back, this time aged 30¼. Working at the Hoi Polloy restaurant, Soho, where a typical menu includes: Heinz Tomato Soup, (with white bread floaters) Grey Lamb Chops Boiled Cabbage avec Dan Quayle Potatoes Dark Brown onion gravy Spotted Dick à la Clinton Bird's Eye Custard Cheddar Cheese, Cream Crackers Nescafé After Eight Mint he is spotted by a cable TV producer and ends up starring in a celebrity chef show celebrating offal. Though he may be older he is certainly no wiser, still passing his time by dreaming of Pandora (now a shining star in Tony Blair's New Government) after his marriage to a Nigerian beauty ends in tatters. But underneath the layers of experience and sophistication, fans of the Mole family will find the same dysfunctional mess that made Adrian's Secret Diary an instant bestseller-his young son is being brought up by his mother in Ashby-de-la- Zouch, his 16-year-old sister leaves home to live with her multiply pierced boyfriend and his father is bed- bound with manic depression. Adrian still makes constant lists of juvenile neuroses and concentrates on his penis activity to an unhealthy extent (it is when it reaches 0/10 he realises something has to be done). Townsend's trademark acerbic wit is still much in evidence; Zippo kissed my mother's hand and complimented her on the shirt she was wearing. 'Is it Vivienne Westwood?' he murmered. 'No', she muttered back. 'It's BhS'. 'You clever thing', he crooned. [+]it is only the frames of reference that have changed. Occasionally verging on the corny ("I arrived at the Brent Cross shopping centre car-park, to find that my car had been towed away five days ago and was in a police compound somewhere in Purley. A £25 cab ride took me to the Purley gates …") true Mole fanatics will forgive Townsend her occasional excesses for the numerous laugh-out-loud moments that punctuate Adrian's existence as he blunders on towards middle age. Accessible, amusing and appealing, The Cappuccino Years see an Adrian who has survived the Growing Pains; thought better of True Confessions; is out of the Wilderness Years and is facing the only really important question that remains: Is Viagra cheating? -Lucie Naylor.
Edition: n.e.
Publication date: 1986-02-10
Price: £2.95
Review Christmas Tree (Flamingo S) / Fontana:
Creator: Michael Kitchen
Price: £58.69
Review Wuthering Heights / Chivers Audio Books:
Creator: Lorelei King
Publication date: 2002-10-07
RRP: £23.99
Price: £29.99
Review Girl from the South: Complete & Unabridged (Chivers W4W) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
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