Creator: John Sessions
Edition: Abridged Ed
Publication date: 2000-10-19
RRP: £9.99
Price: £19.95
Review Maya (Tape) / Orion:John Spoke, famous British author, has since the death of his wife, been left unable to write-that is until his chance meeting on a remote Fijian island with the characters who are to become the protagonists of his new novel. Jostein Gaarder takes his main characters: Ana and Jose, the enigmatic Spanish couple who speak mostly in aphorisms, Frank Anderson, an evolutionary biologist from Norway and Spoke, his author from Croydon, and has them meet in a place of extraordinary natural beauty-a garden of Eden untainted by the eco-pollution of the rest of the planet. In this location the characters are forced to contemplate Man's influence on the world, his place in evolutionary history and his responsibility for the future. Here they connect, exchange philosophies and become entwined in each others' stories. From Fiji, the action moves to Spain, and the momentum builds. We discover that Ana is in fact a famous flamenco dancing gypsy, and that she bears a striking resemblance to the subject of a painting completed 200 years before her birth: Goya's Maja Nuda. It is also revealed that Ana's life-like that of her ancestors-is punctuated by the appearance of a time-travelling dwarf. These mysteries come as challenges and we are asked to make sense of them. Maya is a novel with big themes: love, loss, ecology, evolution and consciousness. It is also ambitiously told with its multiple locations and its many narrative voices. [+]But John Sessions handles this well with a pace and style that prevent the listener from losing the action. The novel closes with a puzzle, but also with the recognition that life, while baffling at times, is certainly rich and must be lived fully. -Judith Walters.
Edition: Library edition
Publication date: 1997-04
Price: £15.22
Review Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great: Complete & Unabridged / Chivers Children's Audio Books:
Publication date: 1998-05-20
RRP: £4.99
Price: £14.99
Review Live and Seriously Funny (Comedy Club) / Music Collection International:
Publication date: 1995-10-01
Price: £4.25
Review Uncle Fred in Springtime / Leopard Books:
Creator: Bernard Cribbins
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 1996-03-15
Price: £4.00
Review Sophie's Lucky: Complete & Unabridged (Sophie) / Cover to Cover Cassettes Ltd:
Creator: Geraldine James
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 1995-11-16
RRP: £24.99
Price: £19.99
Review Joanna Trollope Collection: "City of Gems", "Leaves from the Valley", "Parson Harding's Daughter" / Hodder & Stoughton Audio Books:
Publication date: 1995-03-30
Price: £8.99
Review Waiting to Exhale (Penguin Audiobooks) / Penguin Audiobooks:
Creator: C.K.Scott Moncrieff
Edition: Library Ed
Publication date: 1996-09-15
Price: £35.95
Review Swann's Way: Part 1 / Cover to Cover Cassettes Ltd:
Creator: Samantha Bond
Edition: Abridged Ed
Publication date: 2002-04-04
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £8.99
Price: £5.75
Review The Spy Who Loved Me / Penguin Audiobooks:
Creator: Jonathan Firth
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2003-08-30
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £48.12
Price: £70.05
Review I'LL Never Be Young Again / Chivers Audio Books:
Creator: Belinda Lang
Publication date: 1997-08
RRP: £4.89
Price: £3.45
Review Emma (Classics of Value) / CSA WORD:
Publication date: 1987-11-01
Review The Prince of Tides / Random House Audio:
Creator: Carole Boyd
Publication date: 1997-06
Price: £7.99
Review Jane Eyre (Classics of Value) / CSA WORD:
Creator: Julian Glover
Edition: Abridged Ed
Publication date: 1999-02-25
Price: £8.99
Review Flight of Eagles / Penguin Audiobooks:
Creator: Jennifer Wiltsie
Publication date: 2004-01-16
RRP: £9.99
Price: £0.01
Review Good Harbor / Macmillan Audio Books:
Creator: Martin Jarvis
Edition: Abridged Ed
Publication date: 1992-01
Price: £8.99
Review Uncle Fred in the Springtime / Random House Audiobooks:
Creator: Francis Matthews
Publication date: 1994-07
Dewey code: 813
Price: £43.42
Review Cargo of Eagles: Complete & Unabridged / Chivers Audio Books:
Creator: Bernard Cribbins
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2000-06-01
RRP: £3.99
Price: £0.98
Review Sophie's Lucky: Abridged (Cover to Cover) / Cover to Cover Cassettes Ltd:
Edition: Library edition
Publication date: 1996-09
Price: £15.22
Review Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing: Complete & Unabridged / Chivers Children's Audio Books:Passed on from babysitters to their young charges, from big sisters to little brothers and from parents to children, Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing and its cousins (Superfudge, Fudge-a-mania, and Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great) have entertained children since they first appeared in the early 1970s. The books follow Peter Hatcher, his little brother Fudgie, baby sister Tootsie, their neighbour Sheila Tubman, and various pets and minor characters through New York City and on treks to suburbs and camps. Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing is the first of these entertaining yarns. Peter, because he's the oldest, must deal with Fudgie's disgusting cuteness, his constant meddling with Peter's stuff, and other grave offences, one of which is almost too much to bear. All these incidents are presented with the unfailing ear and big-hearted humour of the masterful Judy Blume. Though some of her books for older kids have aroused controversy, the Hatcher brothers and their adventures remain above the fray, where they belong. (Peter's in fourth grade, so the book is suitable for children ages 8 and older. ).
Creator: Stephen Fry
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2003-07-07
RRP: £8.99
Price: £5.60
Review A Bear Called Paddington: Complete & Unabridged / Collins Audio:
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Maya (Tape), Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great: Complete & Unabridged, Live and Seriously Funny (Comedy Club), Uncle Fred in Springtime, Sophie's Lucky: Complete & Unabridged (Sophie), Joanna Trollope Collection: "City of Gems", "Leaves from the Valley", "Parson Harding's Daughter", Waiting to Exhale (Penguin Audiobooks), Swann's Way: Part 1, The Spy Who Loved Me, I'LL Never Be Young Again, Emma (Classics of Value), The Prince of Tides, Jane Eyre (Classics of Value), Flight of Eagles, Good Harbor, Uncle Fred in the Springtime, Cargo of Eagles: Complete & Unabridged, Sophie's Lucky: Abridged (Cover to Cover), Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing: Complete & Unabridged, A Bear Called Paddington: Complete & Unabridged |
