Creator: Danny Glover
Edition: Abridged Ed
Publication date: 2004-09-07
Dewey code: 960
RRP: £16.99
Price: £9.45
Review A Long Walk to Freedom / Time Warner AudioBooks:
Publication date: 2007-09-06
RRP: £14.99
Price: £7.69
Review Spilling the Beans / Hodder & Stoughton:
Creator: Trevor Nichols
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 1999-04-30
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £10.99
Price: £4.25
Review Famous People in History: v. 1 (Junior Classics) / Naxos AudioBooks:
Creator: Anna Massey
Edition: Abridged Ed
Publication date: 2004-06-07
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £16.99
Price: £9.67
Review Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China / HarperCollins Audio:
Creator: John Sessions
Edition: Abridged Ed
Publication date: 2003-03-07
Dewey code: 324
RRP: £16.99
Price: £8.99
Review Churchill: A Biography / Macmillan Audio Books:Book buyers will never tire of reading about Winston Churchill, for "the greatest adventurer of modern political history" (RA Butler's verdict) led a life of action-packed drama and global significance. Roy Jenkins' Churchill is the latest biography of this great Briton, following closely in the tailwind of Geoffrey Best's Churchill: A Study in Greatness. Where Best restores altitude to Churchill's dipping reputation, seeing off academic critics of the last decade or so, Jenkins provides a jumbo-size old-fashioned biography, lauding his subject's achievements, sympathising with his quirks, and stepping lightly over his well-known mistakes. As he did in his earlier biographies of Dilke, Asquith and Gladstone, Jenkins sticks closely to the published record, utilising in particular the definitive researches of Martin Gilbert, but he brings the authority and the inside knowledge of British politics to his book, slipping in his own memories of Churchill, and his own comparable experience sat the Cabinet table. It is all here, from the Boer Wars to the nuclear bomb, from the hustings in Oldham to the diplomacy of Yalta, with due coverage of the big moments-at the Board of Trade and at the Admiralty in Asquith's peacetime and wartime cabinets, taking on the appeasers in the 1930s and Hitler in the 1940s. All the books are here, and all the political relationships tetchy and touchy alike, from Lloyd George to Baldwin, Smuts to Stalin, and of course, the British people. Like its subject the book is bulky and at times indulgent, but impossible not to enjoy. -Miles Taylor.
Publication date: 2006-11-02
RRP: £13.99
Price: £6.70
Review Dear Me / Random House Audiobooks:
Publication date: 2008-02-04
RRP: £12.99
Price: £5.74
Review Anything Goes / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Creator: Bill Nighy
Publication date: 2007-10-09
RRP: £16.99
Price: £9.16
Review Eric Clapton: The Autobiography / Random House Audiobooks:
Creator: Anthony Head
Publication date: 2007-06-11
RRP: £14.99
Price: £6.19
Review Agent Zigzag (CD): The True Wartime Story of Eddie Chapman, Lover, Betrayer, Hero, Spy / Orion:
Authors
- Harry Patch
- Richard Van Emden
Publication date: 2008-06-05
RRP: £14.99
Price: £8.46
Review The Last Fighting Tommy: The Life of Harry Patch, the Only Surviving Veteran of the Trenches / Hachette Audio:
Creator: Benjamin Soames
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2006-10
Dewey code: 609.22
RRP: £10.99
Price: £5.16
Review Great Inventors and Their Inventions: Archimedes, Gutenberg, Franklin, Nobel, Bell, Marconi, The Wright Brothers, Edison (Junior Classics) / Naxos AudioBooks:
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2007-09-03
RRP: £15.99
Price: £8.69
Review Shakespeare: The World as a Stage / HarperPress:
Publication date: 2005-10-10
RRP: £12.99
Price: £3.59
Review Untold Stories - Part 1: Stories: The Stories Pt. 1 / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Publication date: 2000-11-06
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £12.99
Price: £5.50
Review Telling Tales (Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Publication date: 2004-10-11
Dewey code: 796
RRP: £14.99
Price: £4.18
Review Evening with Dickie Bird / Hodder & Stoughton:
Creator: Dennis Boutsikaris
Publication date: 2006-10-10
RRP: £16.99
Price: £3.19
Review The Innocent Man / Random House Audiobooks:
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 2008-07-21
Dewey code: 153
RRP: £8.99
Price: £4.19
Review The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance / The Free Press:
Publication date: 2007-10-19
RRP: £13.99
Price: £4.09
Review On The Edge (CD): My Story / Orion:
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2007-03-01
Dewey code: 509
RRP: £10.99
Price: £4.36
Review Great Scientists and Their Discoveries (Junior Classics) (Junior Classics) / Naxos AudioBooks:
Publication date: 2008-05-16
RRP: £16.99
Price: £8.58
Review Up Till Now / Macmillan Digital Audio:
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