Creator: Simon Callow
Edition: Abridged Ed
Publication date: 2000-08-31
Dewey code: 813
Price: £9.99
Review Very Good, Jeeves / Penguin Audiobooks:Beginning with a mysterious message and a visit to the dreaded Aunt Agatha, Very Good, Jeeves once again sees Bertie Wooster beset by difficulties that can only be untangled by his faithful butler. Indeed, by the time of this entry in the Jeeves cycle, written in 1930, everyone is seeking the butler's advice-he is universally recognised as the man to get you out of a spot of bother. When he becomes attached to an unsuitable young woman, Bertie is asked-much to his indignation-"You don't believe for a moment Jeeves will sanction the match?" Even if Bertie refuses to acknowledge his butler's influence, it does not escape the attention of those around him. As always, Wodehouse perfectly captures (and exposes to ridicule) the trivial concerns of the idle rich. Poor Bertie finds it impossible to refuse to help a friend-"We Woosters have our code"-and always finds that the solution to the muddle results in his own embarrassment, generally engineered by the discretely manipulative Jeeves. Read by Simon Callow, this audio abridgement offers a lively reading of the source material, which will both enchant Wodehouse's many fans, and convince newcomers to explore the rest of the author's extensive oeuvre. -John Oates.
Creator: Patricia Hodge
Edition: Abridged Ed
Publication date: 1998-03-16
RRP: £10.99
Price: £2.15
Review Other People's Children / HarperCollins Audio:
Creator: Tim Pigott-Smith
Edition: Abridged Ed
Publication date: 1996-07-04
Dewey code: 823.914
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.88
Review The Lord of the Flies (Penguin/Faber Audiobooks) / Penguin Audiobooks:
Creator: Pauline Baynes
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2000-10-02
RRP: £6.99
Price: £0.48
Review The Last Battle (Chronicles of Narnia) / Collins:A false Aslan is roaming the land of Narnia, forcing the terrified Narnians to work for the evil Calormenes. Jill Pole and Eustace Scrubb find themselves called back to Narnia just one more time to help them in their biggest and most frightening battle against injustice yet alongside King Tirian, who helps to lead them in the almighty struggle between good and evil. The final book in the Chronicles of Narnia, The Last Battle, is a roller-coaster fantasy adventure through the strange and mystical land of Narnia, a place that has captured the hearts and minds of so many young readers since the Chronicles were first published in the 1950s. Pauline Baynes, with her hand-coloured illustrations, again highlights the magic of the original stories by dramatically conjuring up imaginative visions of the Narnians as they fight for their lives in this stunning, special edition, published to celebrate the centenary of CS Lewis. -Susan Harrison.
Publication date: 1995-10-01
Dewey code: 813
Price: £14.99
Review The Horse Whisperer / Corgi Audio:Nicholas Evans's best-selling Horse Whisperer is a story of tragedy, soul-searching and unabashed romance. When the Graves family-13-year-old daughter Grace, high-powered, highly charged Annie, and her lawyer husband Robert-is struck by tragedy, each searches for their own way to come to terms with it. Annie thinks if she can fix Grace's physically and spiritually battered horse, she'll mend her daughter's maimed soul in the process. And so the search for the mythical horse whisperer begins. He appears in the form of Tom Booker-a handsome, rugged, sensitive Montana cowboy. The story travels from Upstate New York to Manhattan, then makes an eventful detour through the glorious foothills of the Rocky Mountains. -Colleen Preston.
Creator: Edward Petherbridge
Edition: Abridged Ed
Publication date: 2001-11-05
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £10.99
Price: £7.73
Review The Woman in White: Radio 4 Classic Serial Dramatisation (BBC Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
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Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 1997-10-02
Dewey code: 790
RRP: £19.99
Price: £12.79
Review Moab Is My Washpot: Unabridged [8 tapes]: Unabridged / Random House Audiobooks:
Creator: James Frain
Edition: Abridged Ed
Publication date: 2001-10-01
Price: £13.99
Review Gallows Thief / HarperCollins Audio:
Creator: Ioan Gruffudd
Edition: Abridged Ed
Publication date: 1998-10-01
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.50
Review Hornblower and the Happy Return / Hodder & Stoughton Audio Books:
Creator: Anna Massey
Edition: Abridged Ed
Publication date: 1995-09-25
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £13.99
Price: £9.79
Review Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy / HarperCollins Audio:
Creator: Alan Bennett
Publication date: 1996-04-07
RRP: £8.99
Price: £260.95
Review The Whitsun Weddings (Penguin/Faber Audiobooks) / Penguin Audiobooks:
Creator: June Whitfield
Publication date: 1996-09-05
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £9.99
Price: £2.90
Review A Peaceful Retirement (Penguin Audiobooks) / Penguin Audiobooks:
Creator: Kerry Shale
Publication date: 2000-08-01
Dewey code: 910
RRP: £12.99
Price: £2.80
Review Down Under / Corgi Audio:These evocative descriptions of Australia and its lifestyle are accurate and interesting. Facts, figures, history, extent and division of territories, flora and fauna; how they look, how deadly or how tame they are, and how many of them exist, will stir exciting memories for those who have been Down Under and paint a precise picture in the mind for those who haven't. Events, how people look and what they say are recorded faithfully and with master of observation Bill Bryson's wonderful facility for making you laugh out loud, there are plenty of reasons for doing so. His running commentary on a radio broadcast cricket match, a game about which he knows nothing, is brilliantly inventive. There's not a single actual word or expression associated with the game but the nuance is stunning. Spiky conversations with his English producer friend as they drive to Ayres Rock, the sighting of a rotary clothes-line in the depths of the outback, confrontations with receptionists and waiters, a beer-drinking man at the bar of the Nambucca telling him "Dining room's closed mate. The chef's crook. Must have ate some of his own cooking" and a full tuckerbag more, are entertainingly, albeit rather hastily, delivered by the reader. -Running time 3 hours - Lyn Took.
Creator: Simon Callow
Edition: Abridged Ed
Publication date: 2002-11-28
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.85
Review Aunts Aren't Gentlemen / Penguin Audiobooks:
Creator: June Whitfield
Publication date: 1996-09-05
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £8.99
Price: £2.24
Review Farewell to Fairacre (Penguin Audiobooks) / Penguin Audiobooks:
Creator: June Whitfield
Edition: Abridged Ed
Publication date: 1999-08-26
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £9.99
Price: £3.99
Review Friends at Thrush Green / Penguin Audiobooks:
Publication date: 1999-08-05
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.76
Review Paperweight: Vol 2 / Random House Audiobooks:
Publication date: 1996-03-04
Dewey code: 813
Price: £11.00
Review The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes: Four Classic Stories - With Clive Merrison & Michael Williams as Heard on Radio 4 Vol 2 (BBC Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Creator: Sean Bean
Edition: Abridged Ed
Publication date: 1997-06-16
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £10.99
Price: £10.29
Review Sharpe's Tiger / HarperCollins Audio:
Creator: Ioan Gruffudd
Edition: Abridged Ed
Publication date: 1998-06-04
Dewey code: 823.912
RRP: £9.99
Price: £3.70
Review Lieutenant Hornblower (Hornblower Saga) / Hodder & Stoughton Audio Books:
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