Publication date: 1993-05-04
RRP: £17.01
Price: £22.73
Review Around the World in Eighty Days (BBC Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:The first of Palin's highly acclaimed travel trilogy, Around the World in 80 Days finds the former Monty Python comic swapping his dead parrot for his rucksack, and setting off in the footsteps of Jules Verne's intrepid traveller, Phileas Fogg. In 1872 Fogg set off from The Reform Club in London on an 80-day journey around the globe which took him through southern Europe, the Middle East, China and the USA. Palin's journey is no less hectic and incident-packed than his illustrious predecessor, as he pursues Fogg in an increasingly frenetic attempt to get back to the Reform Club within the allotted 80 days. Along the way we are treated to Palin's trademark traveller's tales and bizarre journeys, from the idyllic but at times traumatic medieval boat journey across the Indian Ocean, to dog-sledding and ballooning across the USA. Some of the finest sections come with Palin's often hilarious accounts of cultural confusion encountered throughout India and the Far East. Around the World in 80 Days is full of what has made Palin such a popular and enjoyable travel writer: wry, humorous, but ultimately humane observations on the world's foibles, and the pleasure and pains of travelling. -Jerry Brotton.
Creator: Geoffrey Palmer
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 1998-11-26
RRP: £4.99
Price: £1.16
Review Revolting Rhymes: Unabridged (Puffin Audiobooks) / Puffin Audiobooks:
Creator: John Wells
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 1995-06-01
Dewey code: 813
Price: £6.99
Review Oliver Twist (The Classic Collection) / Hodder & Stoughton Audio Books:
Creator: Sophie Ward
Publication date: 1994-06-01
RRP: £7.65
Price: £5.90
Review A Dark-adapted Eye (Penguin Audiobooks) / Penguin Audiobooks:
Creator: Richard Pasco
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 2003-04-14
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £7.99
Price: £3.55
Review Wuthering Heights / Hodder & Stoughton Audio Books:
Creator: William Gaminara
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 1999-02
Dewey code: 823.914
RRP: £43.42
Price: £45.41
Review Sharpe's Triumph: Complete & Unabridged (The Battle Assaye, September 1803) / Chivers Audio Books:
Publication date: 1998-04-06
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £10.99
Price: £3.75
Review Cider with Rosie (BBC Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Creator: Joanna Lumley
Publication date: 1995-06-01
RRP: £6.99
Price: £7.50
Review Northanger Abbey (The Classic Collection) / Hodder & Stoughton Audio Books:
Creator: Anna Massey
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 1995-01-26
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.99
Review The Vacillations of Poppy Carew / Hodder & Stoughton Audio Books:
Creator: Freire Wright
Edition: Abridged Ed
Publication date: 1998-08-27
RRP: £4.99
Price: £1.45
Review The Fantastic Mr Fox: Dramatisation (Puffin Audiobooks) / Penguin Children's Audiobooks:In the tradition of The Adventures of Peter Rabbit, this is a "garden tale" of farmer versus vermin, or vice versa. The farmers in this case are a vaguely criminal team of three stooges: "Boggis and Bunce and Bean / One fat, one short, one lean. / These horrible crooks / So different in looks / Were nonetheless equally mean. " Whatever their prowess as poultry farmers, within these pages their sole objective is the extermination of our hero-the noble, the clever, the Fantastic Mr. Fox. Our loyalties are defined from the start; after all, how could you cheer for a man named Bunce who eats his doughnuts stuffed with mashed goose livers? As one might expect, the farmers in this story come out smelling like. well, what farmers occasionally do smell like. This early Roald Dahl adventure is great for reading aloud to three- to seven-year-olds, who will be delighted to hear that Mr. [+]Fox keeps his family one step ahead of the obsessed farmers. When they try to dig him out, he digs faster; when they lay siege to his den, he tunnels to where the farmers least expect him-their own larders! In the end, Mr. Fox not only survives, but also helps the whole community of burrowing creatures live happily ever after. With his usual flourish, Dahl evokes a magical animal world that, as children, we always knew existed, had we only known where or how to look for it. (Great read aloud for any age; written at a 9- to 12-year-old reading level) -Amazon. com.
Creator: Charles Keating
Edition: Abridged Ed
Publication date: 1995-11-27
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £13.99
Price: £5.13
Review The Deceiver / HarperCollins Audio:
Creator: June Whitfield
Publication date: 1996-09-05
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £8.99
Price: £2.20
Review Farewell to Fairacre (Penguin Audiobooks) / Penguin Audiobooks:
Publication date: 1988-09-12
Dewey code: 808
Price: £11.00
Review Alan Bennett Double Bill: Starring Sir John Gielgud and Patricia Routledge: Forty Years On/A Woman of No Importance: Starring Sir John Gielgud and Patricia Routledge (BBC Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Creator: Bill Wallis
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2001-05
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £43.42
Price: £45.41
Review The Wreck of the "Mary Deare": Complete & Unabridged / Chivers Audio Books:
Creator: Christian Rodska
Publication date: 1994-05
Dewey code: 813
Price: £43.42
Review Men at Arms: Complete & Unabridged / Chivers Audio Books:
Creator: Alan Bennett
Publication date: 2002-08-05
RRP: £9.00
Price: £2.99
Review Winnie the Pooh: AND The House at Pooh Corner (BBC Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Creator: Tony Robinson
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 1995-11-01
Dewey code: 813
Price: £10.99
Review Moving Pictures (Discworld) / Corgi Audio:
Creator: Kerry Shale
Publication date: 2003-07-03
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £16.99
Price: £5.55
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: Bernard Cribbins
Publication date: 2002-03-04
RRP: £10.99
Price: £8.99
Review More Sophie Stories (Cover to Cover) / Cover to Cover Cassettes Ltd:
Creator: Nigel Lambert
Edition: Library edition
Publication date: 1987-03
RRP: £15.22
Price: £15.22
Review The Fox Busters: Complete & Unabridged / Chivers Children's Audio Books:
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Around the World in Eighty Days (BBC Radio Collection), Revolting Rhymes: Unabridged (Puffin Audiobooks), Oliver Twist (The Classic Collection), A Dark-adapted Eye (Penguin Audiobooks), Wuthering Heights, Sharpe's Triumph: Complete & Unabridged (The Battle Assaye, September 1803), Cider with Rosie (BBC Radio Collection), Northanger Abbey (The Classic Collection), The Vacillations of Poppy Carew, The Fantastic Mr Fox: Dramatisation (Puffin Audiobooks), The Deceiver, Farewell to Fairacre (Penguin Audiobooks), Alan Bennett Double Bill: Starring Sir John Gielgud and Patricia Routledge: Forty Years On/A Woman of No Importance: Starring Sir John Gielgud and Patricia Routledge (BBC Radio Collection), The Wreck of the "Mary Deare": Complete & Unabridged, Men at Arms: Complete & Unabridged, Winnie the Pooh: AND The House at Pooh Corner (BBC Radio Collection), Moving Pictures (Discworld), Sea Glass (CD), More Sophie Stories (Cover to Cover), The Fox Busters: Complete & Unabridged |
