Creator: Sophie Thompson
Publication date: 2002-04
RRP: £21.09
Price: £23.08
Review Billy the Bird: AND All Because of Jackson / Chivers Children's Audio Books:
Creator: Miriam Margolyes
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2002-03
Dewey code: 813
Price: £39.95
Review According to Queeney: Complete & Unabridged / Chivers Audio Books:In According to Queeney, a bold, often ribald and moving invention, Beryl Bainbridge takes the extravagant figure of Samuel Johnson, 18th-century scholar and wit, and brings his last 20 years to rumbustious life through the blunt and mocking observations of his mistress's firstborn daughter Queeney. Hurtling her readers into small and great events in the company of Garrick and Goldsmith, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Fanny Burney and Boswell, the years spin by. Johnson's wearisomely quarrelling household in Johnson's Court draws him increasingly to the sublime excesses of Streatham Court, presided over by his adored Mrs Thrale (whose wifely duties include poultices to testicles). This odd ménage is gossiped about and gawked at as child births and deaths, comeuppances and flirtations, swallowed buttons and skirmishes on staircases reveal as well as obscure unpalatable shifts of affection to the ageing Johnson and the composed but outraged Queeney. Bainbridge's handling of the troubled, demanding and contrite Johnson and of Queeney, first as child observer and then as reluctant adult correspondent, are especially vivid, quirky and captivating. And this creation of sheer delight is underlayed by a delicate attention to the vulnerabilities of the human heart. -Ruth Petrie.
Creator: Nathaniel Parker
Edition: Unabridged (13.5 hrs) 12 CDs
Publication date: 2003-05-12
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £64.57
Price: £86.95
Review Far from the Madding Crowd / Chivers Audio Books:
Creator: Fiona Shaw
Edition: Abridged Ed
Publication date: 1998-02-28
RRP: £10.99
Price: £4.96
Review Through the Looking Glass (Junior Classics) / Naxos AudioBooks:
Creator: Brigit Forsyth
Publication date: 2004-02
RRP: £24.95
Price: £26.94
Review Girls Out Late / Chivers Children's Audio Books:
Publication date: 2003-01-31
RRP: £43.42
Price: £43.42
Review The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker Series) / Chivers Audio Books:
Creator: Martin Jarvis
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2000-10
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £64.57
Price: £97.08
Review A Tale of Two Cities / Chivers Audio Books:
Creator: Stephen Briggs
Publication date: 2001-08
RRP: £29.50
Price: £31.49
Review Eric (Isis) / ISIS Publishing:
Creator: Stephen Thorne
Publication date: 2003-03
Price: £45.50
Review The Reverse of the Medal, the / Soundings:
Creator: Christopher Kay
Publication date: 2002-06
RRP: £56.50
Price: £58.49
Review Master and Commander / Soundings:
Creator: Daniel Philpott
Publication date: 2005-11-10
RRP: £9.99
Price: £11.98
Review A Christmas Carol / Furicano Productions:
Creator: Tim Piggot-Smith
Publication date: 2002
RRP: £6.30
Price: £24.99
Review The Three Musketeers / Languages & Literature, Inc.:
Creator: Diana Bishop
Publication date: 2001-12
RRP: £47.50
Price: £49.49
Review Five Quarters of the Orange (Soundings CD Library) / Soundings:
Creator: Cornelius Garrett
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2003-07
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £32.50
Price: £31.49
Review Taking the Devil's Advice / ISIS Audio Books:
Publication date: 2002-09-23
Price: £9.00
Review Spike Milligan: The Parkinson Interviews (Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Creator: Nigel Planer
Publication date: 2003-04
RRP: £42.50
Price: £103.82
Review Reaper Man (Discworld Novels) / ISIS Audio Books:
Publication date: 1000
Review GEORGE'S MARVELLOUS MEDICINE:
RRP: £7.99
Price: £7.74
Review The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes - The Bruce Partington Plans / Saland Publishing:
Publication date: 2008-11-13
RRP: £7.99
Price: £7.59
Review Foolish Mortals / Headline Review:
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.
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Billy the Bird: AND All Because of Jackson, According to Queeney: Complete & Unabridged, Far from the Madding Crowd, Through the Looking Glass (Junior Classics), Girls Out Late, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker Series), A Tale of Two Cities, Eric (Isis), The Reverse of the Medal, the, Master and Commander, A Christmas Carol, The Three Musketeers, Five Quarters of the Orange (Soundings CD Library), Taking the Devil's Advice, Spike Milligan: The Parkinson Interviews (Radio Collection), Reaper Man (Discworld Novels), GEORGE'S MARVELLOUS MEDICINE, The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes - The Bruce Partington Plans, Foolish Mortals, Bad Girls: Complete & Unabridged |
