Creator: Robert Powell
Edition: Abridged Ed
Publication date: 1999-06-07
Price: £8.99
Review The Moon of Gomrath / Collins Audio:
Creator: Alan Bates
Edition: Abridged Ed
Publication date: 1999-04-08
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £12.99
Price: £5.96
Review An Equal Music (Tape) / Orion:
Creator: Tim McInnerny
Publication date: 1992-11-02
Dewey code: 817
RRP: £11.00
Price: £41.38
Review Blackadder the Third: 6 Historic Episodes (BBC Audio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Creator: Julia Sands
Publication date: 2000-06
RRP: £25.95
Price: £27.94
Review An Apple from Eve: Unabridged / Soundings:
Creator: Jack Davenport
Edition: Abridged Ed
Publication date: 1999-11-15
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £10.99
Price: £5.98
Review Remote Control / HarperCollins Audio:
Creator: Richard E. Grant
Publication date: 1995-03
Price: £5.99
Review Goldfinger / Music Collection International:
Creator: William Hope
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 1995-07
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £8.99
Price: £25.70
Review The Great Gatsby (Modern Classics) / Naxos AudioBooks:
Run time: 150 min.
Creator: Hugh Burden
Publication date: 1989
Review short stories(somerset maugham)read by hugh burden / listen for pleasure:side 1;facts of life side 2;colonel's lady side 3;gigolo and gigolette side 4;point of honour
Publication date: 1990-08-16
Price: £7.48
Review My Cousin Rachel / HarperCollins Audio:
Creator: HARRY SECOMBE
Publication date: 1989
Review GOON SHOW CLASSICS 3:From June 1952 until January 1960 THE GOON SHOW was one of the funniest and certainly the most innovative comedy shows on British radio. It's influence is felt to this day. This double cassette set contains the following: THE TREASURE OF LOCH LOMOND THE GREENSLADE STORY WINGS OVER DAGENHAM THE RENT COLLECTORS.
Publication date: 2001-01-04
Price: £9.99
Review Mr. Commitment / Hodder & Stoughton Ltd:Her: "What if I told you I didn't love you any more?" Me: "I wouldn't believe you. " Her: "But you wouldn't ever give up trying?" Me: "Nah. Some things you can't give up on, can you?" Mike Gayle became the popular prince of romantic comedy overnight with his first bestselling novel My Legendary Girlfriend. With Mr Commitment he's back with a tale of the modern male that delivers its punchlines directly to the heart. The world of aspiring stand-up comic Benjamin Dominic Duffy is shaken to its uncertain foundations when his adored girlfriend Mel revokes her previously held opinion of marriage as "an outmoded concept created by a patriarchal society to keep women in their place" and, on bent knee, proposes to him. Mel, "a living, breathing, moving version of Chrissie Hynde singing "Brass in Pocket"," is the girl of his dreams-but Duffy's dilemma is that marriage is still his worst nightmare. Dan, his best friend, flatmate and fellow bath-dodger counsels him to retain The Ways of the Bachelor, while Mel's best friend Julie-known as Nosferatu due to her bloodless dislike of all things Duffy-urges her to rebuff his increasingly desperate attempts to regain her affections. When a blissful reunion is sabotaged by domestic rites of passage through IKEA, Duffy resolves to "become a bachelor boy like Dan-a superstud of seduction, a he-who-will-never-again-come- off-worse-with-the-chicks, a righteous dude committed to anything but commitment. " But when even TV's Hottest Totty media-babe Alexa Wells cannot help him become a success as a stand- up-in more ways than one-Duffy begins to wonder if he's given up all for nothing. Gayle has an eye for the soulful romance and wry comedy in the utterly ordinary, and Mr Commitment marries heartfulness and hilarity with a yearning that stops comfortably short of the sentimental. [+]-Rachel Holmes.
Creator: Geoffrey McGivern
Publication date: 1993-09-06
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £15.99
Price: £2.99
Review The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Primary and Secondary Phase (BBC Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Creator: Robert Hardy
Publication date: 1995-09
Price: £8.50
Review Post Captain / Bespoke Audio:The year is 1803, and that scalliwag Napoleon Bonaparte has gone to war again. For Captain Jack Aubrey, who has fled to France to escape his creditors, this is doubly alarming news. In short order the captain is interned, makes his escape across the French countryside, then leads a ship into battle. And again, his adventures are cleverly counterpointed by those of his alter ego Stephen Maturin. -Amazon. com.
Creator: SPIKE MILLIGAN
Edition: 1st
Publication date: 1989
Price: £4.99
Review GOON SHOW CLASSICS 4 (BBC RADIO COLLECTION) / BBC:From June 1952 until January 1960 THE GOON SHOW was one of the funniest and certainly the most innovative comedy shows on British radio. It's influence is felt to this day. This double cassette set contains the following: THE MAN WHO NEVER WAS THE CASE OF THE MISSING CD PLATES WORLD WAR I THE NASTY AFFAIR AT THE BURAMI OASIS.
Creator: Paul Newman
Publication date: 2001-04-17
RRP: £9.99
Price: £1.95
Review The Adventures of Tom Sawyer / Simon & Schuster Audio:
Creator: Timothy West
Edition: Abridged Ed
Publication date: 1998-11-26
RRP: £7.99
Price: £6.99
Review Danny, the Champion of the World (Puffin Audiobooks) / Penguin Children's Audiobooks:
Creator: John Moffatt
Publication date: 1994-07-28
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £9.99
Price: £18.80
Review The Picture of Dorian Gray (Penguin Classics) / Penguin Audiobooks:A lush, cautionary tale of a life of vileness and deception or a loving portrait of the aesthetic impulse run rampant? Why not both? After Basil Hallward paints a beautiful, young man's portrait, his subject's frivolous wish that the picture change and he remain the same comes true. Dorian Gray's picture grows aged and corrupt while he continues to appear fresh and innocent. After he kills a young woman, "as surely as if I had cut her little throat with a knife", Dorian Gray is surprised to find no difference in his vision or surroundings. "The roses are not less lovely for all that. The birds sing just as happily in my garden. " As Hallward tries to make sense of his creation, his epigram-happy friend Lord Henry Wotton encourages Dorian in his sensual quest with any number of Wildean paradoxes, including the delightful "When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy. " But despite its many languorous pleasures, The Picture of Dorian Gray is an imperfect work. Compared to the two (voyeuristic) older men, Dorian is a bore, and his search for ever new sensations far less fun than the novel's drawing-room discussions. Even more oddly, the moral message of the novel contradicts many of Wilde's supposed aims, not least "no artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style. [+]" Nonetheless, the glamour boy gets his just deserts. And Wilde, defending Dorian Gray, had it both ways: "All excess, as well as all renunciation, brings its own punishment. " A lush, cautionary tale of a life of vileness and deception or a loving portrait of the aesthetic impulse run rampant? Why not both? After Basil Hallward paints a beautiful, young man's portrait, his subject's frivolous wish that the picture change and he remain the same comes true. Dorian Gray's picture grows aged and corrupt while he continues to appear fresh and innocent. After he kills a young woman, "as surely as if I had cut her little throat with a knife", Dorian Gray is surprised to find no difference in his vision or surroundings. "The roses are not less lovely for all that. The birds sing just as happily in my garden. " As Hallward tries to make sense of his creation, his epigram-happy friend Lord Henry Wotton encourages Dorian in his sensual quest with any number of Wildean paradoxes, including the delightful "When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy. " But despite its many languorous pleasures, The Picture of Dorian Gray is an imperfect work. Compared to the two (voyeuristic) older men, Dorian is a bore, and his search for ever new sensations far less fun than the novel's drawing-room discussions. Even more oddly, the moral message of the novel contradicts many of Wilde's supposed aims, not least "no artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style. " Nonetheless, the glamour boy gets his just deserts. And Wilde, defending Dorian Gray, had it both ways: "All excess, as well as all renunciation, brings its own punishment. ".
Publication date: 1994-10-03
Dewey code: 792
RRP: £11.00
Price: £0.48
Review Diaries, 1980-90 (BBC Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Creator: David Rintoul
Publication date: 1988-12
RRP: £36.37
Price: £11.00
Review Casino Royale: Complete & Unabridged / Chivers Audio Books:
Creator: Maggie Mash
Publication date: 2002-03
RRP: £25.95
Price: £27.94
Review The Hasty Marriage: Complete & Unabridged / Soundings:
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