RRP: £28.50
Price: £30.49
Review Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy / ISIS Audio Books:
Creator: Carole Boyd
Publication date: 2007-02-12
RRP: £19.99
Price: £5.50
Review Best of Henry James (Csa Classic Authors) / CSA WORD:
Creator: Bill Homewood
Edition: Re-issue
Publication date: 2006-01
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £12.91
Price: £4.89
Review The Lady of the Camellias (Classic Fiction) / Naxos AudioBooks:
Publication date: 2003-10-30
RRP: £58.69
Price: £60.68
Review Pole to Pole / Chivers Audio Books:Having circumnavigated the globe from west to east in Around the World in 80 Days, Michael Palin proceeded to stretch even his endurance with his next journey, travelling due south from the North Pole, arriving five months later at the southernmost point of the globe, the South Pole. The result is Pole to Pole, Palin's account of his extraordinary journey between July and December 1991, passing through 17 countries from Greenland and the former Soviet Union in the north to Kenya, South Africa and Chile in the south. From the frozen wastes of both poles, to the scorching heat of Africa, Pole to Pole is a travelogue of bizarre extremes. Palin revels in the surrealism of it all as he travels through a range of vastly different European and African communities undergoing massive social and political upheavals in the aftermath of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Palin's shrewd observations are as ever interspersed with his eye for the weird and the comical, as he meets Santa Claus and Lenin, goes shopping for camels in Omdurman, and makes a final hectic dash to the South Pole via Chile. It's all quite exhausting! -Jerry Brotton.
Creator: Hayward Morse
Publication date: 2003-07
RRP: £56.50
Price: £97.51
Review Redcoat / ISIS Audio Books:
Creator: Jeff Harding
Publication date: 2005-12
RRP: £50.50
Price: £50.50
Review Sacred Stone / ISIS Audio Books:
Creator: Robert Powell
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2001-06
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £46.94
Price: £34.95
Review The Well-beloved: Complete & Unabridged / Chivers Audio Books:
Creator: Dermot Kerrigan
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 2007-07-30
Dewey code: 813
Price: £10.99
Review The Turn of the Screw (Classic Fiction) / Naxos AudioBooks:
Authors
- Sebastian Faulks
- Faulks Sebastian
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2001-07
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £68.09
Price: £70.08
Review Charlotte Gray: Complete & Unabridged / Chivers Audio Books:Sebastian Faulks established his authority as a storyteller with his best-selling Birdsong. His next book, Charlotte Gray, a haunting story of love and war set in London and occupied France in 1942-3, is loosely a sequel. Charlotte is a highly educated young Scottish woman who falls passionately in love with an airman, Peter Gregory, emotionally scarred by his many close brushes with death. When he disappears on a mission to France, she follows him as a British secret courier, sent over to help support the Resistance. Having failed to find Gregory, she decides to stay on to do what she can for the France she has loved since childhood. She and the reader are drawn ever deeper into the lives of assimilated French Jews- the children Andre and Jacob whose parents have already been sent to the death camps, and the Levades, father and son. Though ultimately powerless to help, Charlotte nevertheless learns a far deeper understanding of herself and her own family through them. This is a book full of insight into the way civilization can slip into barbarism. Its haunting themes of memory and passion stay with you long after you have finished reading. -Lisa Jardine.
Creator: Peter Wickham
Publication date: 2007-08-01
RRP: £50.50
Price: £52.49
Review The Cell / ISIS Audio Books:
Creator: Sandi Tokvig
Publication date: 2002-11-11
RRP: £13.99
Price: £9.39
Review The Dare Game: Complete & Unabridged (Cover to Cover) / Cover to Cover Cassettes Ltd:In this four-cassette audio book Jacqueline Wilson's The Dare Game is read in unabridged form by Sandi Toksvig. Just when you think Wilson cannot get any better, back she comes with another book to knock your socks off. This one marks the return of one of her greatest heroines, Tracy Beaker. The Story of Tracy Beaker introduced us to a mischievous 10-year-old girl coping with life in a children's home, lurching from one foster home to another and waiting for her ever-so-glamorous mum to come and take her away from it all. The Dare Game picks up where The Story of Tracy Beaker left off, with Tracy firmly ensconced in the home of foster mother Cam, a creative sort who was instantly drawn to the troubled child and fought for the right to take care of her. Tracy thought things would be perfect with Cam but the reality is tough. After all, it's hardly fair that Cam refuses to buy her foster-daughter designer clothes and give her loads of money, now is it? So the petulant Tracy bunks off school and hides out in her secret place to avoid being teased by the other pupils and to stop herself from strangling Vomity Bagley, the English teacher. But one day her haven is disturbed by two very different boys, each dealing with their own problematic family lives. The three form a friendship based on playing The Dare Game, a game that gets more dangerous as Tracy's life becomes even more unsettled. Trying to find new words to describe Wilson's writing is almost impossible-almost every review of any of her books is sure to feature "touching, funny and beautifully observed". [+]The Dare Game is no exception. Tracy Beaker is a classic Wilson heroine-troubled, feisty and fired by humour, hope and true grit-and this superb novel is knock-'em-dead proof that Jacqueline Wilson is simply the best. The cassettes run for four hours and 50 minutes. -Susan Harrison.
Creator: Josie Lawrence
Publication date: 2002-11
RRP: £29.32
Price: £29.32
Review Secrets / Chivers Children's Audio Books:Josie Lawrence reads Jacqueline Wilson's Secrets in this unabridged four-cassette pack. Wilson is bang on form with this stirring story of two young girls from opposite sides of the tracks and the effect they have on each others' lives. India lives in the lap of luxury on a posh housing estate. Her mum is a famous children's clothes designer and her dad is top man at a top company. But India is far from happy with her life. Her uptight anorexic mother does little to hide her disappointment in her chubby offspring, and her dad is decidedly distracted these days, so India follows in the footsteps of her heroine Anne Frank and reveals all in her secret diary. Treasure lives in a council flat with her glamorous, line-dancing Nan but is scared she may one day have to go back to live with her mum. She, too, keeps a diary but hers is called the Terrible Terry Torture Manual and is filled with all the things she would like to do to get her own back on her bullying stepfather. Treasure, the floppy-haired stringbean, and India, the rotund red-head, meet by chance and against the odds forge a friendship that is tested to the limit when Treasure runs away to avoid having to go and live with her mum and Terry again. The frightened little girl takes refuge in her new best friend's attic, while India relishes the chance to take care of a real Anne Frank. [+]Told via alternating entries from the two very different diaries, Secrets brims with the stuff of pre-teen childhood (best friends, secrets, diaries and the allure of other people's families) while cleverly combining the swift realism of class barriers, broken homes and society's deep-rooted suspicions. Wilson does it again in a story that will undoubtedly win her new fans, but will also be warmly welcomed by anyone who has read (or heard) The Illustrated Mum, The Story of Tracy Beaker, Vicky Angel, The Bed and Breakfast Star or any of the other superb award-winning titles this remarkable author has tucked safely under her belt. Ages eight and over. Running time is five hours. -Susan Harrison.
Creator: Anthony Jackson
Publication date: 2003-04
RRP: £39.50
Price: £41.49
Review Number Ten / ISIS Audio Books:
Creator: Jill Balcon
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2002-07
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £70.44
Price: £72.43
Review Marking Time: Complete & Unabridged / Chivers Audio Books:
Creator: Clive Mantle
Publication date: 2004-11-01
Dewey code: 813
Price: £19.99
Review Dark Winter (BBC MP3 CD Audio) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:Andy McNab's thrillers have been enormously successful, and Dark Winter will no doubt allow his publishers to add more noughts to his already impressive sales figures. McNab's secret is reliability. He always delivers the kind of high-octane thrills his readers expect and seems immune to the hit-or-miss syndrome that afflicts so many thriller writers. Dark Winter has the tough (and battered) Nick Stone back in business, still parleying the skills he learnt in the SAS into his new role as a Special Intelligence Service operative. Al-Qaeda are concentrating their forces in south-east Asia (McNab is as topical as ever), and Nick is sent by the CIA to deal with one of Osama bin Laden's most dangerous biochemists. But Nick is given a female partner, and the mission takes unexpected turns. Back in the US, and struggling with the problems of being guardian to an orphaned girl, Nick finds a whole nest of terrorists plotting atrocities in both the US and the UK, and his involvement becomes (against his will) very personal indeed. As always, the mixture here is incandescent, punctuating steadily accelerating narrative trajectory with stunningly orchestrated bursts of action at frequent intervals. McNab's characterisation of anyone other than the resourceful Nick is serviceable rather than detailed, but this is a strategy to ensure that the principal ingredient here-bone-crunching action-is always foregrounded. It may be a while since McNab was an SAS man himself, but the tradecraft is always coolly plausible, and McNab fans can count on getting their money's worth. [+]-Barry Forshaw.
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1979-01-01
Price: £0.75
Review Captains and the Kings (Coronet Books) / Hodder & Stoughton Ltd:
RRP: £31.50
Price: £33.49
Review Life, the Universe and Everything / ISIS Audio Books:
Creator: Nigel Planer
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2000-10-31
RRP: £42.50
Price: £71.49
Review Feet of Clay: A Discworld Novel (Discworld Novels) / ISIS Audio Books:In Feet of Clay, Terry Pratchett continues the fantasy adventures on Discworld-where anything goes. Anything but murder, that is. Commander Vimes of the Watch must investigate a puzzling series of deaths, with help from various trolls and dwarfs. Pratchett's humour and excellent writing skills draw the reader effortlessly into his zany world. Feet of Clay is 19th in the series. -Blaise Selby.
Creator: Paul McGann
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2002-08
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £41.07
Price: £52.49
Review An Awfully Big Adventure / Chivers Audio Books:
Authors
- Bill & Jessica Maxwell & Bill Buford Bryson
Dewey code: 818.5408
Review The Best American Travel Writing 2000 (The Best American Series (R)) / Houghton Mifflin:
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