Publication date: 2000-11-30
Dewey code: 817
RRP: £10.99
Price: £2.90
Review The Goon Show Classics: Vol 18 (BBC Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Creator: Graham Stark
Publication date: 1999-03-01
Dewey code: 817
RRP: £10.99
Price: £2.48
Review The Goon Show Classics: Goon Show and Guests Vol 16 (BBC Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Creator: Paul Scofield
Edition: Abridged Ed
Publication date: 1992-05-21
RRP: £8.99
Price: £0.49
Review Nicholas Nickleby / HarperCollins Audio:
Edition: Abridged Ed
Publication date: 2001-11-30
Dewey code: 813.0876208
RRP: £12.99
Price: £7.95
Review What Lay Beyond (Star Trek Gateways) / Simon & Schuster Audio:
Publication date: 2002-11-08
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £9.99
Price: £2.99
Review The Red Tent / Macmillan Audio Books:Anita Diamant's The Red Tent is an epic celebration of womanhood, written for women everywhere, regardless of their status, creed or colour. It is the story of a woman whose life was blessed by great love and torn by tragedy, of the lessons she learned through her own experiences and those of the women, and men, whose lives she touched. Diamant has chosen as her leading lady a woman whose name alone conjures up echoes of mystery, passion and betrayal. The Red Tent is the fictional tale of Dinah, whose life, like the majority of women in the Old Testament, merits only a passing mention. It is the men in Dinah¹s life that history has remembered: her famous father Jacob, his dozen sons and especially her brother, Joseph and his technicolour dreamcoat. Not religious? Don' t worry, this biblical character and the story Anita Diamant has woven from the merest hints, will appeal to all. Strangely, even though Dinah lived her life several thousand years ago in a culture far removed from almost all of the women who will read this book, her story is as relevant and fresh as any written in recent years. This novel is as compelling for its female take on the grand themes that transcend time-birth, death, love, hate, betrayal and forgiveness-as it is for its meticulously researched and hugely fascinating picture of everyday life as an early Jewish woman. The book's title refers to the tent where the women retired each month to pass their menstruation, and the descriptions of their time spent celebrating this fundamental rite of womanhood, and other daily customs make this a most original and inspiring book. In an age when gender and family traditions are becoming more and more diluted, The Red Tent honours women and their many and varied roles in life. [+]Carey Green The red tent is the place where women gathered during their cycles of birthing, menses and even illness. Like the conversations and mysteries held within this feminine tent, this sweeping piece of fiction offers an insider's look at the daily life of a biblical sorority of mothers and wives and their one and only daughter Dinah. Told in the voice of Jacob's daughter Dinah (who only received a glimpse of recognition in the Book of Genesis), we are privy to the fascinating feminine characters that bled within the red tent. In a confiding and poetic voice, Dinah whispers stories of her four mothers, Rachel, Leah, Zilpah, and Bilhah-all wives to Jacob, and each one embodying unique feminine traits. As she reveals these sensual and emotionally charged stories we learn of birthing miracles, slaves, artisans, household gods, and sisterhood secrets. Eventually Dinah delves into her own saga of betrayals, grief, and a call to midwifery. "Like any sisters who live together and share a husband, my mother and aunties spun a sticky web of loyalties and grudges," Anita Diamant writes in the voice of Dinah. "They traded secrets like bracelets, and these were handed down to me the only surviving girl. They told me things I was too young to hear. They held my face between their hands and made me swear to remember. " Remembering women's earthy stories and passionate history is indeed the theme of this magnificent book. In fact, it's been said that The Red Tent is what the Bible might have been had it been written by God's daughters, instead of her sons. -Gail Hudson.
Creator: Ioan Gruffudd
Edition: Abridged Ed
Publication date: 1999-03-04
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £9.99
Price: £25.99
Review Hornblower and the Ship of the Line / Hodder & Stoughton Audio Books:
Publication date: 1998-09-07
Dewey code: 808
RRP: £10.99
Price: £1.98
Review Alan Bennett at the BBC (BBC Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Creator: Paul McGann
Edition: Abridged Ed
Publication date: 1999-03-01
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £10.99
Price: £4.45
Review Sharpe's Fortress / HarperCollins Audio:
Creator: Greg Wise
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 1999-10
Dewey code: 823.914
RRP: £36.37
Price: £38.36
Review Metroland: Complete & Unabridged / Chivers Audio Books:
Creator: Paul Scofield
Edition: Abridged Ed
Publication date: 1992-06-25
RRP: £8.99
Price: £18.99
Review Great Expectations / HarperCollins Audio:
Creator: Richard E. Grant
Publication date: 1998-05-20
RRP: £6.99
Price: £11.99
Review You Only Live Twice / Music Collection International:
Creator: Julie Christie
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 1995-08-31
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £13.00
Price: £2.60
Review Sense and Sensibility / Penguin Classics:
Creator: Eleanor Bron
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2001-06-22
RRP: £9.99
Price: £3.49
Review The Light Years (The Cazalet Chronicle) / Macmillan Audio Books:
Publication date: 1994-10-03
Dewey code: 920
Price: £10.99
Review The Lady in the Van/My Uncle Clarence (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: 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:
Publication date: 2000-09-18
Dewey code: 355
RRP: £10.99
Price: £2.00
Review Immediate Action / HarperCollins Audio:
Creator: Eleanor Bron
Publication date: 1996-11-22
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £9.99
Price: £14.99
Review Casting Off (Cazalet Chronicle 4) / Macmillan Audio Books:
Creator: Robert Powell
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 1981-07
Price: £30.49
Review The Thirty-nine Steps: Complete & Unabridged (4 Cassettes) / Chivers Word for Word Audio Books:
Creator: Naveen Andrews
Edition: Abridged Ed
Publication date: 1995-11
Price: £7.99
Review The Buddha of Suburbia / Random House Audiobooks:
Publication date: 1998-05-20
Price: £6.99
Review Saturday Night, Sunday Morning / Music Collection International:
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The Goon Show Classics: Vol 18 (BBC Radio Collection), The Goon Show Classics: Goon Show and Guests Vol 16 (BBC Radio Collection), Nicholas Nickleby, What Lay Beyond (Star Trek Gateways), The Red Tent, Hornblower and the Ship of the Line, Alan Bennett at the BBC (BBC Radio Collection), Sharpe's Fortress, Metroland: Complete & Unabridged, Great Expectations, You Only Live Twice, Sense and Sensibility, The Light Years (The Cazalet Chronicle), The Lady in the Van/My Uncle Clarence (BBC Radio Collection), Danny, the Champion of the World (Puffin Audiobooks), Immediate Action, Casting Off (Cazalet Chronicle 4), The Thirty-nine Steps: Complete & Unabridged (4 Cassettes), The Buddha of Suburbia, Saturday Night, Sunday Morning |
