Publication date: 1991-02-04
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £11.00
Price: £29.81
Review Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb/The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor/The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet/The Adventure ... Williams Vol 3 (BBC Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Creator: Kerry Shale
Publication date: 2003-07-03
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £16.99
Price: £2.50
Review Sea Glass (CD) / Orion:Anita Shreve's new novel Sea Glass represents a remarkable advance. She previously caught the attention of many readers with Fortune's Rocks and The Pilot's Wife, beautifully crafted novels with rich and subtly observed characterisation. But however impressive those books were, Sea Glass has the same adroit creation of character, but the prose is even more rich and allusive. This is a story of the human heart, of the demands of the past, and of the necessity for pragmatism in human relationships. It's 1929, and Honora Beecher and her husband Sexton are enjoying their new marriage in a cottage on the coast of New Hampshire. Honora is renovating the rundown property and searching for pieces of coloured glass washed up on the beach. Sexton attempts to buy the house they both adore, but with disastrous results: like many other Americans, he is a victim of the stock market crash and is financially wiped out. He is forced to work in a nearby mill, where a labour conflict is having violent results. The couple's struggle to maintain their marriage in the face of dangerous forces that threaten to overwhelm them is vividly and poignantly told. Shreve has written nine novels and throughout her work she has painstakingly honed her storytelling skills with elegance and intelligence. [+]She is particularly skilful at depicting interlocking lives, as in Sea Glass, and adroitly invests each with its own portion of love and tragedy. If you want to be one of the "early adopters" of Shreve's cherishable novels, now is the time: In the wet sand by her foot, a bit of colour catches her eye. The glass is green pale and cloudy, the colour of lime juice that has been squeezed into a glass. She brushes the sand off and presses the sea glass into her palm, keeping it for luck. -Barry Forshaw.
Creator: Crawford Logan
Edition: Abridged Ed
Publication date: 2002-02-28
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.50
Review The Tiger in the Smoke (Classic Crime) / Penguin Audiobooks:
Run time: 180 min.
Publication date: 1992
Review Radio Romance / BBC Radio Collection:
Publication date: 2004-12-06
RRP: £7.99
Price: £4.38
Review Three Favourite Stories: The Enormous Crocodile WITH Fantastic Mr Fox AND The Magic Finger: Complete & Unabridged / Collins Audio:
Creator: Ioan Gruffudd
Edition: Abridged Ed
Publication date: 1998-05-07
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £9.99
Price: £48.99
Review Mr.Midshipman Hornblower / Hodder & Stoughton Audio Books:
Creator: Stephen Thorne
Publication date: 1990-05
RRP: £36.37
Price: £38.36
Review The Trojan Horse: Complete & Unabridged / Chivers Audio Books:
Creator: Christian Rodska
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2003-08-30
Dewey code: 823
RRP: £36.37
Price: £38.36
Review Trial & Retribution VI / Chivers Audio Books:
Authors
- Barry Cryer
- John Cleese
- Michael Palin
- et al
- Terry Jones
Publication date: 1997-02-03
Dewey code: 817
Price: £11.00
Review The Two Ronnies (BBC Gold) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Publication date: 1998-12-31
RRP: £4.50
Price: £4.50
Review Ben Elton Live / James Clarke & Co Ltd:
Creator: Charlton Heston
Edition: Abridged Ed
Publication date: 1992-02-20
Dewey code: 813
Price: £10.99
Review The Old Man and the Sea / HarperCollins Audio:
Creator: Stephen Thorne
Publication date: 1992-10
RRP: £48.12
Price: £50.11
Review Isvik: Complete & Unabridged / Chivers Audio Books:
Creator: Michael Sheen
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 1995-11
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £9.99
Price: £0.01
Review The Picture of Dorian Gray (Classic fiction) / Naxos 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. ".
Authors
- Eric Sykes
- Larry Stephens
- Spike Milligan
Publication date: 1994-09-05
Dewey code: 817
RRP: £11.00
Price: £4.99
Review The Goon Show Classics: He's Fallen in the Water! (Previously Volume 11) (BBC Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Creator: Tim Pigott-Smith
Edition: Abridged Ed
Publication date: 2003-10-06
Dewey code: 813
Price: £10.98
Review Heretic (Grail Quest) / HarperCollins Audio:Heretic is the third book in Bernard Cornwell's much-acclaimed Grail Quest series, a series that many were initially cautious about because it represented something of a change of pace for the master historical novelist. But Cornwell quickly demonstrated that this period of history was well within his remit, and the sequence has proved to be among his most mesmerising work. Heretic begins with a bloody battle outside Calais in 1347, a short time before the city fell to the English. The sympathetic Thomas of Hookton is bending every sinew at the service of his master, the Earl of Northampton; after risking his life time and again, Thomas finds himself commissioned to track down the most sacred relic in Christendom, the Holy Grail. He travels to Gascony, seat of power of his nemesis, Guy Vexille. Utilising his archers, Thomas conducts a fierce guerrilla war against Vexille, and yearns for a face-to-face encounter. But then Thomas is routed and finds his campaign in shreds, facing the twin enemies of the church and the plague. In this third book, Bernard Cornwell ups the ante in every sense: along with the splendidly realised battle scenes (a Cornwell trademark), the evocation of the Middle Ages is more crowded and bustling than one might have thought possible without subsuming the protagonists. But most of all, it's the character of Thomas that powers the narrative; having his hero fall in love (sensitively handled here) sets off the ultimate conflict with his mortal enemy perfectly. Leave the 21st century behind and venture into a dark and foreign era-it's a journey you won't regret. [+]-Barry Forshaw.
Publication date: 2002-01-11
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £9.99
Price: £5.86
Review The Talisman / Macmillan Audio Books:
Creator: James Fox
Edition: Abridged Ed
Publication date: 1995-11-10
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £13.00
Price: £5.99
Review The Seventh Scroll / Macmillan Audio Books:
Creator: Stephen Thorne
Publication date: 1993-04
RRP: £43.42
Price: £45.41
Review Air Bridge: Complete & Unabridged / Chivers Audio Books:
RRP: £7.99
Price: £27.72
Review A Collection of Spikes (EMI Comedy Classics) / Listen for Pleasure:
Creator: Stephen Thorne
Publication date: 1989-04
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £43.42
Price: £45.41
Review Medusa: Complete & Unabridged / Chivers Audio Books:
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Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb/The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor/The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet/The Adventure ... Williams Vol 3 (BBC Radio Collection), Sea Glass (CD), The Tiger in the Smoke (Classic Crime), Radio Romance, Three Favourite Stories: The Enormous Crocodile WITH Fantastic Mr Fox AND The Magic Finger: Complete & Unabridged, Mr.Midshipman Hornblower, The Trojan Horse: Complete & Unabridged, Trial & Retribution VI, The Two Ronnies (BBC Gold), Ben Elton Live, The Old Man and the Sea, Isvik: Complete & Unabridged, The Picture of Dorian Gray (Classic fiction), The Goon Show Classics: He's Fallen in the Water! (Previously Volume 11) (BBC Radio Collection), Heretic (Grail Quest), The Talisman, The Seventh Scroll, Air Bridge: Complete & Unabridged, A Collection of Spikes (EMI Comedy Classics), Medusa: Complete & Unabridged |
