Creator: Nathaniel Parker
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2004-01-29
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £13.00
Price: £7.33
Review David Copperfield (Penguin Classics) / Penguin:
Creator: Bernard Cribbins
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2001-08-06
RRP: £5.99
Price: £1.40
Review Sophie's Snail: Complete and Unabridged (Cover to Cover) / Cover to Cover Cassettes Ltd:
Publication date: 2006-09-02
RRP: £14.99
Price: £7.30
Review The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid / Random House Audiobooks:
Creator: Kim Hicks
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 2001-09-30
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £40.26
Price: £25.01
Review The Jane Austen Collection: "Persuasion", "Pride and Prejudice", "Sense and Sensibility", "Lady Susan" v. 2 (Naxos Audio) / Naxos AudioBooks:
Creator: Paul McGann
Edition: Abridged edition
Publication date: 2008-11-03
RRP: £13.99
Price: £8.53
Review Sharpe's Sword / HarperCollins Publishers Ltd:
Creator: Tony Robinson
Publication date: 2005-08-02
RRP: £14.99
Price: £7.52
Review Men at Arms / Corgi Audio:Another wild romp through Discworld! Corporal Carrot, a young dwarf, is newly in charge of the recruits guarding Ankh-Morpork. Edward, the 37th Lord d'Eath, has just discovered that Ankh-Morpork, kingless for generations, has a sovereign ruler, who must be convinced that he is, in fact, the King. The fate of Ankh-Morpork rides on a young man's courage, an ancient sword's magic and a three-legged poodle's bladder.
Creator: Tim Pigott-Smith
Publication date: 2008-03-07
RRP: £13.00
Price: £6.00
Review Elephant Song / Macmillan Digital Audio:
Publication date: 2003-11-03
Dewey code: 910
RRP: £7.99
Price: £3.29
Review Bill Bryson's African Diary / Corgi Audio:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2005-03-21
RRP: £12.99
Price: £8.47
Review Cider with Rosie / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Creator: William Hope
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 1995-07-31
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £10.99
Price: £5.97
Review The Great Gatsby (Modern classics) / Naxos AudioBooks:
Creator: Sandi Toksvig
Publication date: 2002-04-02
RRP: £9.00
Price: £5.92
Review The Story of Tracy Beaker: Complete and Unabridged (BBC Cover to Cover) / Cover to Cover Cassettes Ltd:Shortlisted for the Smarties Prize in 1991, Tracy Beaker's story, which is told in the first person by the infuriating and loveable 10-year-old Tracy, is a wonderfully funny and thought- provoking slice of life in a children's home. Tracy, as she herself tells us, has had a hard time. She's been fostered a number of times but it's never worked out. Now she dreams of her glamorous mother coming to fetch her and spends her time, when she's not quarrelling with the other children, writing her life story. And then one day, Cam, a real writer, visits the home and after a rocky start, she and Tracy really hit it off. This highly accomplished, prolific, prizewinning author is outstandingly successful in dealing with painful social and personal problems in a realistic, funny, touching and highly memorable way. The story is delightfully illustrated by Nick Sharratt and laid out in a genuinely user-friendly way. A must for 7- 11-year-olds. -Tamsin Palmer.
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2006-08-07
RRP: £9.99
Price: £5.99
Review Treasure Island (BBC Audio) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Creator: Richard E Grant
Publication date: 2007-09-06
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.67
Review George's Marvellous Medicine / Puffin:
Creator: Michael Gould
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 1997-04-30
Dewey code: 792.102908
RRP: £13.99
Price: £6.50
Review Dracula (Classic fiction) / Naxos AudioBooks:
Creator: Eleanor Bron
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2003-01-30
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £13.00
Price: £6.75
Review Tess of the D'Urbervilles / Penguin:
Creator: Tony Robinson
Publication date: 2005-10-02
RRP: £14.99
Price: £8.26
Review Interesting Times (Discworld) / Corgi Audio:
Creator: Miriam Margolyes
Publication date: 1996-11-04
Dewey code: 817
RRP: £5.00
Price: £3.98
Review Blackadder's Christmas Carol: Includes Comic Relief Blackadder - The Cavalier Years (BBC Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2005-02
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £38.50
Price: £7.00
Review Pride and Prejudice / Naxos AudioBooks:
Publication date: 2008-12-04
RRP: £14.99
Price: £10.49
Review The Fifth Elephant (Discworld Novel) / Corgi Audio:Terry Pratchett has a seemingly endless capacity for generating inventively comic novels about the Discworld and its inhabitants but there is in the hearts of most of his admirers a particular place for those novels which feature the hard-bitten captain of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch Samuel Vimes. Sent as ambassador to the Northern principality of Uberwald where they mine gold, and iron and fat, but never silver, he is caught up in an uneasy truce between dwarfs, werewolves and vampires, in the theft of the Scone of Stone (a particularly important piece of dwarf bread) and in the old werewolf custom of giving humans a short start in the hunt and then cheating. Pratchett is always at his best when the comedy is mixed with a real sense of jeopardy that even favourite characters might be hurt if there was a good joke in it. As always the most unlikely things crop up as the subjects of gags-Chekhov, grand opera, the Caine Mutiny-and as always there are remorselessly funny gags about the inevitability of story: "They say that the fifth elephant came screaming and trumpeting through the atmosphere of the young world all those years ago and landed hard enough to split continents and raise mountains. No one actually saw it land, which raised the interesting philosophical question: when millions of tons of angry elephant come spinning through the sky, and there is no one to hear it, does it-philosophically speaking-make a noise? As for the dwarfs, whose legend it is, and who mine a lot deeper than other people, they say that there is a grain of truth in it". All this, the usual guest appearances and Gaspode the Wonder Dog. [+]- Roz Kaveney.
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2008-02-29
Dewey code: 823.7
RRP: £19.49
Price: £15.76
Review Pride and Prejudice (Unabridged Classics in Audio) / Tantor Media, Inc:
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