Creator: Jane Asher
Publication date: 1994-09-30
Price: £9.00
Review Pretty Polly: Complete & Unabridged (Cavalcade Story Cassettes) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Creator: John Lynch
Edition: Abridged Ed
Publication date: 1992-08-20
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £10.99
Price: £6.24
Review A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man / HarperCollins Audio:
Creator: Edmund Dehn
Publication date: 1994-05
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £34.95
Price: £36.94
Review The Island of Sheep: Complete & Unabridged (Isis) / ISIS Audio Books:
Creator: Richard Mitchley
Publication date: 1997-05-31
Price: £9.99
Review Step by Wicked Step: Complete & Unabridged (Word for Word Audio Books) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Creator: Joss Ackland
Edition: Abridged Ed
Publication date: 1996-06-17
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £10.99
Price: £5.89
Review The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale / HarperCollins Audio:
Edition: Abridged Ed
Publication date: 1999-10-14
Dewey code: 817
RRP: £8.99
Price: £3.35
Review Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years / Penguin Audiobooks:Adrian Mole is balding, he's bitter and he's back, this time aged 30¼. Working at the Hoi Polloy restaurant, Soho, where a typical menu includes: Heinz Tomato Soup, (with white bread floaters) Grey Lamb Chops Boiled Cabbage avec Dan Quayle Potatoes Dark Brown onion gravy Spotted Dick à la Clinton Bird's Eye Custard Cheddar Cheese, Cream Crackers Nescafé After Eight Mint he is spotted by a cable TV producer and ends up starring in a celebrity chef show celebrating offal. Though he may be older he is certainly no wiser, still passing his time by dreaming of Pandora (now a shining star in Tony Blair's New Government) after his marriage to a Nigerian beauty ends in tatters. But underneath the layers of experience and sophistication, fans of the Mole family will find the same dysfunctional mess that made Adrian's Secret Diary an instant bestseller-his young son is being brought up by his mother in Ashby-de-la- Zouch, his 16-year-old sister leaves home to live with her multiply pierced boyfriend and his father is bed- bound with manic depression. Adrian still makes constant lists of juvenile neuroses and concentrates on his penis activity to an unhealthy extent (it is when it reaches 0/10 he realises something has to be done). Townsend's trademark acerbic wit is still much in evidence; Zippo kissed my mother's hand and complimented her on the shirt she was wearing. 'Is it Vivienne Westwood?' he murmered. 'No', she muttered back. 'It's BhS'. 'You clever thing', he crooned. [+]it is only the frames of reference that have changed. Occasionally verging on the corny ("I arrived at the Brent Cross shopping centre car-park, to find that my car had been towed away five days ago and was in a police compound somewhere in Purley. A £25 cab ride took me to the Purley gates …") true Mole fanatics will forgive Townsend her occasional excesses for the numerous laugh-out-loud moments that punctuate Adrian's existence as he blunders on towards middle age. Accessible, amusing and appealing, The Cappuccino Years see an Adrian who has survived the Growing Pains; thought better of True Confessions; is out of the Wilderness Years and is facing the only really important question that remains: Is Viagra cheating? -Lucie Naylor.
Authors
- James D'Arcy
- Thomas Hardy
- Claire Rushbrook
Publication date: 2001-08-06
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £11.00
Price: £24.99
Review Tess of the D'Urbervilles: BBC Radio 4 Full-cast Dramatisation (BBC Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Creator: Stephen Thorne
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 1995-12-01
RRP: £8.99
Price: £3.29
Review Babe, The Sheep-Pig: Complete & Unabridged (Cover to Cover) / Cover to Cover Cassettes Ltd:
Creator: Francis Matthews
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2000-08
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £30.49
Price: £10.99
Review The White Cottage Mystery: Complete & Unabridged / Chivers Audio Books:
Publication date: 1996-04-01
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 3 (BBC Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Creator: Leo Sayer
Publication date: 2000-03-06
Dewey code: 817
RRP: £10.99
Price: £22.99
Review Radio Shuttleworth: Four Original Radio 4 Shows (BBC Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:Aided by his producer (and sole agent) Ken Worthington, and his hard-to-please wife Mary, the inimitable John Shuttleworth brings listeners four episodes of celebrity interviews, dodgy keyboard music, and even dodgier jingles. Guests including Leo Sayer, Patrick Moore and Wendy Craig are invited into the nerve centre of Radio Shuttleworth-the presenter's front room-to chat with the broadcaster extraordinaire and join him in song. Regular features see alternative comedians failing to "Make Mary Merry", and musicians trying to "Impress An Impressario" in order to gain a place on Ken's books. The creation of comedian Graham Fellows, John Shuttleworth is a gentle parody of countless inoffensive presenters of cosy local radio shows. When he attempts to star-gaze with Patrick Moore, his wife insists that he closes the net curtains. The news is read from the local newspaper. A feature where (in the words of the jingle) "it's time to annoy a prospective employer" sees Shuttleworth winding people up on the telephone, but even here he remains almost unsettlingly nice. The series thrives on its good-natured sense of humour, and if the result is less confrontational than a great deal of modern comedy, this has not prevented Shuttleworth from gaining a loyal following amongst discerning listeners. -John Oates.
Creator: Bruce Montague
Publication date: 1991-12
RRP: £30.49
Price: £48.71
Review The Darling Buds of May: Complete & Unabridged / Chivers Audio Books:
Creator: Clare Higgins
Publication date: 2007-04-05
RRP: £13.99
Price: £6.50
Review Winter In Thrush Green (Tape) (Thrush Green 2) / Orion:
Creator: Jonathan Oliver
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 1998-02
RRP: £52.95
Price: £54.94
Review I, Claudius: Complete & Unabridged (Gold Range) / ISIS Gold Audio Books:
Creator: Martin Jarvis
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 2003-05
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £8.99
Price: £0.01
Review Metamorphosis / Naxos AudioBooks:
Creator: Robin Bailey
Publication date: 1999-11-01
Price: £8.99
Review The Secret Garden: A BBC Radio Full-cast Dramatisation (BBC Young Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Creator: Tony Robinson
Publication date: 1992-06-30
Price: £9.00
Review Bill's New Frock: Complete & Unabridged (Cavalcade Story Cassettes) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Creator: Gerald McSorley
Edition: Abridged Ed
Publication date: 2000-04-27
RRP: £8.99
Price: £8.00
Review Dubliners (Penguin Modern Classics) / Penguin Audiobooks:
Creator: Sir Ralph Richardson
Publication date: 1995-01-05
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £9.99
Price: £0.01
Review The Best of Sherlock Holmes: v.1: Vol 1 (Golden Days of Radio) / Hodder & Stoughton Audio Books:
Creator: Tony Robinson
Publication date: 1995-11-01
RRP: £10.99
Price: £2.50
Review Guards! Guards! (Discworld) / Corgi Audio:
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Pretty Polly: Complete & Unabridged (Cavalcade Story Cassettes), A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, The Island of Sheep: Complete & Unabridged (Isis), Step by Wicked Step: Complete & Unabridged (Word for Word Audio Books), The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale, Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years, Tess of the D'Urbervilles: BBC Radio 4 Full-cast Dramatisation (BBC Radio Collection), Babe, The Sheep-Pig: Complete & Unabridged (Cover to Cover), The White Cottage Mystery: Complete & Unabridged, The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes: Four Classic Stories - With Clive Merrison & Michael Williams as Heard on Radio 4 Vol 3 (BBC Radio Collection), Radio Shuttleworth: Four Original Radio 4 Shows (BBC Radio Collection), The Darling Buds of May: Complete & Unabridged, Winter In Thrush Green (Tape) (Thrush Green 2), I, Claudius: Complete & Unabridged (Gold Range), Metamorphosis, The Secret Garden: A BBC Radio Full-cast Dramatisation (BBC Young Collection), Bill's New Frock: Complete & Unabridged (Cavalcade Story Cassettes), Dubliners (Penguin Modern Classics), The Best of Sherlock Holmes: v.1: Vol 1 (Golden Days of Radio), Guards! Guards! (Discworld) |
