Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2008-03-31
Dewey code: 823.8
RRP: £15.49
Price: £10.88
Review A Tale of Two Cities / Tantor Media, Inc:
Edition: Large print e.
Publication date: 1997-11
Price: £7.99
Review Illusionist, The (Camden S.) / Chivers P.:
Creator: Stephen Thorne
Publication date: 2003-01
RRP: £50.50
Price: £52.49
Review Treason's Harbour / Soundings:This segment of the Aubrey saga is set in Malta, where the captain's "small, sweet-sailing frigate" is undergoing repairs. The island, however, is swarming with Napoleonic agents, which means that Stephen Maturin must do everything in his power to avert sabotage. A typical O'Brian cocktail of action and intrigue.
Publication date: 1998-09-17
RRP: £14.99
Price: £17.32
Review Two Moons / Headline Review:
Creator: Emilia Fox
Publication date: 2003-05-01
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £12.99
Price: £8.18
Review Holy Fools / Random House Audiobooks:Holy Fools is Joanne Harris's most enjoyable novel yet, a beautifully detailed and sharply observed piece that emotionally moves the reader unlike anything she has tackled before. The immense success of Chocolat and Coastliners has made Harris one of the most cherished authors at work today, and each new book is something of an event. Holy Fools is set in 17th century France, and the central character is Juliette, a former actress and rope dancer who has given up her travelling life to become a teaching nun at a remote abbey. Juliette has settled with her young daughter into an existence very different from that she knew, and she finds comfort from the advice of the wise and friendly abbess. Harris brilliantly delineates both phases of her heroine's life: the colourful earlier era and the new demands of the semi-cloistered life. Things change radically when the abbess dies and her place is taken by an 11-year-old girl whose appetite for reform quickly destroys much that Juliet has come to love in her new life. What makes the book so refreshingly original is not just the unusual structure (the heroine's dual life alone is handled with radiant detail), but the surprising new trajectory the narrative takes after the death of the abbess, as everything Juliette was used to begins to go wrong. We become involved in every minor crisis, however much we question that the religious life is the answer to her problems. Juliette is a brilliantly drawn character, and the plotting of this ambitious novel is both thoughtful and invigorating, while the basic theme-the ploys we all use to distract ourselves from the painful realities of existence-is handled with subtlety. -Barry Forshaw.
Publication date: 2005-03
RRP: £53.50
Price: £55.49
Review Back Hander / ISIS Audio Books:
Creator: Anton Lesser
Publication date: 2007-07-30
RRP: £16.99
Price: £14.87
Review The Christmas Collection: AND A Christmas Carol / Naxos AudioBooks:
Creator: Neville Jason
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 1998-09-29
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £11.91
Price: £8.90
Review Sodom and Gomorrah: Cities of the Plain: Cds Part 1 (Modern Classics) / Naxos AudioBooks:
Creator: Prunella Scales
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2003-02-28
RRP: £24.62
Price: £24.62
Review Charm School / Chivers Children's Audio Books:Bonny is certainly not keen to spend a day at Charm School, but her mother has to sit an exam and can't find a babysitter so she bites the bullet and heads off for a day of sheer agony. As the delightfully bitchy Charm School girls-prissy little Tinkerbells with fluffy hair and glittery dancing shoes-rev up for the competition to win the glistering tiara of Miss Supreme Queen, the confused and self-conscious Bonny finds herself in the middle of an out-and-out, no-holds-barred, war. Anne Fine has never fought shy of digging for emotional truth in her work, and here the author of Madame Doubtfire and Goggle-Eyes, doesn't fail the reader for one second as she skilfully takes one day in the life of a group of little girls and gives an exquisite, achingly sad yet robustly comical insight into what makes us all tick. -Susan Harrison.
Edition: Large Print Ed
Publication date: 1997-03-01
Price: £14.99
Review The Illusionist / Chivers Large print (Chivers, Windsor, Paragon & C:
Creator: Stephen Thorne
Publication date: 2002-09
RRP: £53.50
Price: £55.49
Review The Mauritius Command / Soundings:Ashore without a command-and on half pay to boot-Jack Aubrey's prayers are answered when Stephen Maturin shows up with a secret mission for him. The two men have been ordered to the Cape of Good Hope. There they hope to dislodge the French garrisons on the islands of Mauritius and La Reunion. Alas, two of their own colleagues-a dilettante and a martinet-prove to be nearly as great an obstacle as the French themselves. -Amazon. com.
Authors
- Jane Horrocks (Piglet)
- A A Milne
- Robert Daws (Rabbit)
- Judi Dench (Kanga)
- Sandi Toksvig (Tigger)
- Steven Webb (Christopher Robin)
- Geoffrey Palmer (Eeyore)
- Michael Williams (Owl)
- Finty Williams (Roo)
- Stephen Fry (Pooh)
Publication date: 1997
Review The House at Pooh Corner by A A Milne dramatised by David Benedictus / Hodder Headline Audiobooks:
Creator: Julia Franklin
Publication date: 2002-03
RRP: £35.50
Price: £37.49
Review The Bottle Factory Outing: Complete & Unabridged / Soundings:
Creator: Peter Joyce
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2007-03-24
RRP: £13.49
Price: £15.48
Review Diary of a Pilgrimage (Victorian Collection) / Assembled Stories:
Publication date: 1973-01-18
RRP: £8.50
Price: £28.26
Review The Gates / Hamish Hamilton Ltd:
Creator: Lorelei King
Publication date: 2002-10-07
RRP: £23.99
Price: £28.99
Review Girl from the South: Complete & Unabridged (Chivers W4W) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Creator: Eve Best
Publication date: 2002-04-30
RRP: £29.32
Price: £31.31
Review Vicky Angel / Chivers Children's Audio Books:Eve Best reads Vicky Angel in this unabridged four-CD pack. Jacqueline Wilson never seems to disappoint her readers, and with Vicky Angel she once again pulls a little magic out of the hat and delivers another stunning novel with her trademark sensitivity and panache. Jade and Vicky are best friends, but when Vicky is killed in an accident she doesn't let a little old thing like being dead interfere with her life. Instead, she continues as normal, following Jade around, telling her what to do, how to think, how to behave and ruining any chance Jade may have to make new friends. Eventually Jade tires of it all, and although she still loves Vicky deeply, she realises she has to get on with her own life. Once again, Wilson digs deep and delves into tricky territory with a tenacity that at first shocks; but within a few minutes the shock subsides and the reader is drawn into Jade's world, willing her to come to terms with Vicky's death and praying that she will soon find her own way. As ever, Wilson's characters are beautifully observed, and the story is filled to the brim with an emotional truth that is both awe inspiring and captivating. Jade's response to Vicky's death, her realisation that the pedestal on which Vicky was placed during her short life was not as stable as she first believed and the ultimate release from the burden of guilt and love are dealt with a sleight of hand that allows the reader to become completely involved with the story without a hint of darkness, captured instead by a lightness of touch that can only serve to make Wilson's peers green with envy. For ages eight and over. Running time is four hours 15 minutes. [+]-Susan Harrison.
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1999-10-07
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £7.99
Price: £3.62
Review The Christmas Tree / Headline Review:
Creator: Lynne Thigpen
Edition: Unabridged
RRP: £46.95
Price: £48.94
Review Tar Baby / Recorded Books Inc:
Creator: Miles Richardson
Publication date: 2006-11-06
RRP: £4.00
Price: £5.99
Review Sherlock Holmes: The Bruce-Partington Plans / Irregular Special Press:
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A Tale of Two Cities, Illusionist, The (Camden S.), Treason's Harbour, Two Moons, Holy Fools, Back Hander, The Christmas Collection: AND A Christmas Carol, Sodom and Gomorrah: Cities of the Plain: Cds Part 1 (Modern Classics), Charm School, The Illusionist, The Mauritius Command, The House at Pooh Corner by A A Milne dramatised by David Benedictus, The Bottle Factory Outing: Complete & Unabridged, Diary of a Pilgrimage (Victorian Collection), The Gates, Girl from the South: Complete & Unabridged (Chivers W4W), Vicky Angel, The Christmas Tree, Tar Baby, Sherlock Holmes: The Bruce-Partington Plans |
