Publication date: 2006-09-04
RRP: £12.99
Price: £7.48
Review Alan Bennett, Untold Stories: Written on the Body Pt. 3 / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Creator: Anton Lesser
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 1997-02-28
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £13.99
Price: £7.51
Review Hard Times: Audio CDs 1 (Classic fiction) / Naxos AudioBooks:
Publication date: 2003-06-02
RRP: £7.00
Price: £2.29
Review Tracy Beaker (Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Creator: Stephen Fry
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2003-11-03
RRP: £9.98
Price: £4.85
Review More About Paddington: Complete & Unabridged / Collins Audio:
Publication date: 2006-10-03
RRP: £16.99
Price: £3.40
Review Michael Palin Diaries 1969-1979 (CD): The Python Years / Orion:
Publication date: 2003-11-03
Dewey code: 910
RRP: £7.99
Price: £3.40
Review Bill Bryson's African Diary / Corgi Audio:
Creator: Steven Pacey
Edition: New title
Publication date: 2005-05-05
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.84
Review George's Marvellous Medicine / Puffin Audiobooks:
Creator: Harry Secombe
Publication date: 1997-03-03
Dewey code: 817
RRP: £12.99
Price: £7.48
Review The Goon Show Classics: You Have Deaded Me Again (Previously Volume 8) (BBC Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Creator: Juliet Stevenson
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 1996-03-31
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £13.99
Price: £6.25
Review Emma (Classic fiction) / Naxos AudioBooks:"I should like to see Emma in love, and in some doubt of return; it would do her good," remarks one of Jane Austen's characters in Emma. Quick-witted, beautiful, headstrong and rich, Emma Woodhouse is inordinately fond of match-making select inhabitants of the village of Highbury, yet aloof and oblivious as to the question of whom she herself might marry. This paradox multiplies the intrigues and sparkling ironies of Jane Austen's masterpiece, her comedy of a sentimental education through which Emma discovers a capacity for love and marriage.
Creator: Garrick Hagon
Edition: New title
Publication date: 2004-09-30
RRP: £10.99
Price: £4.45
Review The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Junior Classics) / Naxos AudioBooks:
Creator: Tony Robinson
Publication date: 2005-10-02
RRP: £14.99
Price: £8.23
Review Thud! (Discworld) / Corgi Audio:
Creator: Robert Powell
Edition: Abridged Ed
Publication date: 2001-03-31
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £14.99
Price: £6.84
Review Warlock / Macmillan Audio Books:Wilbur Smith (a name synonymous with the massive blockbuster thriller) has recaptured the verve and impact of his earlier work in Warlock. This Egyptian epic thriller follows on from the equally accomplished River God and The Seventh Scroll and re-establishes Smith at the top echelons of thriller writing. The customary continent-spanning canvas is here, with a key new element in an adroitly handled supernatural aspect that gives the sequence the feel of fantasy whilst still retaining the plausibility that was always Smith's strongest asset. The reader is plunged into a vividly realised evocation of life in ancient Egypt but one presented with insights into the various characters that infuse a very contemporary feel. In the secluded deserts of North Africa, Taita has spent the years since the death of his adored Queen Lostris studying to become a Warlock, steeped in the arcane arts of the ancient Gods and a master practitioner of magic. Responding to an occult summons, Taita abandons the desert and returns to civilisation, only to find himself at the centre of a massive conflagration in which dark and sinister forces are undermining the throne of Egypt and attempting to destroy the young prince Nefer. Soon, his hard-won skills are tested to the limit. As in the previous books in the sequence, Smith knows that a strong and passionate agenda on the part of his protagonists will allow the reader to identify with them, despite the gap of centuries. Here, it is family ties: Taita is defending the young prince who is the grandson of his lost Queen, and we are quickly engaged in a narrative that rarely flags over its considerable length. The action set pieces are as impressive as one would expect: The instant he was within range the Cobra struck again, but Nefer caught the blow on the thick leather folds of the bag. [+]The beast's fangs snagged in the leather and held fast. As Nefer swung back the snake was dragged with him. It was hauled cleanly out of the nest, a writhing, seething ball of coils and polished scales. It thrashed against Nefer's legs, the heavy tail lashing him, hissing fearsomely, clouds of venom spraying from its gaping jaws and dribbling down the leather bag. So great was its weight that Nefer's whole body was shaken violently. -Barry Forshaw.
Creator: Juliet Stevenson
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2005-11
Dewey code: 823.7
RRP: £38.50
Price: £21.53
Review Sense and Sensibility: Unabridged (Naxos Complete Classics) / Naxos AudioBooks:
Creator: Anton Lesser
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 1998-03-31
RRP: £10.99
Price: £4.46
Review The Happy Prince and Other Tales (Junior Classics) / Naxos AudioBooks:
Authors
- Tony Robinson
- Terry Pratchett
RRP: £12.99
Price: £7.34
Review A Hat Full of Sky / Random House Children's Books:
Publication date: 2001-08-06
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £12.99
Price: £7.28
Review The Lady in the Van (BBC Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:Life imitates art in The Lady in the Van, the story of the itinerant Miss Shepherd, who lived in a van in Alan Bennett's driveway from the early1970s until her death in 1989. It is doubtful that Bennett could have made up the eccentric Miss Shepherd if he tried, but his poignant, funny but unsentimental account of their strange relationship is akin to his best fictional screen writing. Bennett concedes that "One seldom was able to do her a good turn without some thoughts of strangulation", but as the plastic bags build up, the years pass by and Miss Shepherd moves into Bennett's driveway, a relationship is established which defines a certain moment in late 20th-century London life which has probably gone forever. The dissenting, liberal, middle-class world of Bennett and his peers comes into hilarious but also telling collision with the world of Miss Shepherd: "there was a gap between our social position and our social obligations. It was in this gap that Miss Shepherd (in her van) was able to live". Bennett recounts Miss Shepherd's bizarre escapades in his inimitable style, from her letter to the Argentinean Embassy at the height of the Falklands War, to her attempts to stand for Parliament and wangle an electric wheelchair out of the Social Services. Beautifully observed, The Lady in the Van is as notable for Bennett's attempts to uncover the enigmatic history of Miss Shepherd, as it is for its amusing account of her eccentric escapades. -Jerry Brotton.
Creator: Toby Longworth
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 2008-01-31
RRP: £17.99
Price: £5.28
Review Matter / Hachette Audio:
Creator: Martin Freeman
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2006-12-01
RRP: £16.99
Price: £7.69
Review Mostly Harmless / Macmillan Audio Books:
Creator: William Hope
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 1995-07-31
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £10.99
Price: £6.99
Review The Great Gatsby (Modern classics) / Naxos AudioBooks:
Creator: Alan Bennett
Publication date: 2002-05-07
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.48
Review The Owl and the Pussycat: And Other Nonsense Rhymes (Cover to Cover) / Cover to Cover Cassettes Ltd:
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Alan Bennett, Untold Stories: Written on the Body Pt. 3, Hard Times: Audio CDs 1 (Classic fiction), Tracy Beaker (Radio Collection), More About Paddington: Complete & Unabridged, Michael Palin Diaries 1969-1979 (CD): The Python Years, Bill Bryson's African Diary, George's Marvellous Medicine, The Goon Show Classics: You Have Deaded Me Again (Previously Volume 8) (BBC Radio Collection), Emma (Classic fiction), The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Junior Classics), Thud! (Discworld), Warlock, Sense and Sensibility: Unabridged (Naxos Complete Classics), The Happy Prince and Other Tales (Junior Classics), A Hat Full of Sky, The Lady in the Van (BBC Radio Collection), Matter, Mostly Harmless, The Great Gatsby (Modern classics), The Owl and the Pussycat: And Other Nonsense Rhymes (Cover to Cover) |
