RRP: £12.99
Price: £12.00
Review Straight from the Force's Mouth: The Dave Prowse Autobiography / Fantom Films Limited:
Creator: George Irving
Publication date: 2003-12-04
RRP: £12.95
Price: £6.36
Review Churchill (Life & Times) / Haus Publishing Limited:
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2003-05-05
Dewey code: 910
RRP: £45.95
Price: £58.52
Review Sahara / Chivers Audio Books:Michael Palin's personality is a combination of some very disparate elements, many of them displayed at their most attractive in Sahara. There's the friendly, avuncular manner; the easy-going charm that women find so attractive; and that vein of surrealistic, sardonic humour that is the legacy of his Monty Python days. All these characteristics combined to create the perfect host for the ambitious travel programmes with which he's latterly been associated. The shows (and the handsome companion books that invariably accompany them) avoid the sometimes over-serious approach of other presenters and show us some very exotic parts of the world filtered through Palin's very idiosyncratic vision. Audiences and readers can't get enough. Sahara gives us the latest of his epic voyages, and this one possibly represents the most arduous challenge of his career: across the massive and unforgiving Sahara desert. In this beautifully produced volume (studded with some eye-catching colour photographs), we are taken on a unique journey, as Palin reveals the Sahara to us as something considerably more than endless sand dunes. Facet by facet, Michael Palin uncovers a colourful and eccentric panoply of cultures, with chequered histories that stretch back to the dawn of time. Beginning (and ending) in Gibraltar, we are taken from the fabled realms of the ancient Egyptians to the Islamic republics of the present day, as Palin conjures up a journey that alternates between gallows humour and often considerable discomfort. Most of us will never experience the teeming nightlife of Dakar or travel down the river Niger to the fabled city of Timbuktu. [+]But Palin has done it for us, and this book (with or without the accompanying TV series) is a highly enjoyable way to relive that journey with him. -Barry Forshaw.
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 2001-05-31
Dewey code: 780
RRP: £16.99
Price: £8.78
Review The Life and Works of Chopin (Naxos Audio) / Naxos AudioBooks:
Edition: Cdr
Publication date: 2000-10
Dewey code: 252.02
RRP: £16.50
Price: £15.67
Review Archbishop Lamy in His Own Words / University of New Mexico Press:
Edition: MP3 Una
Publication date: 2008-09-30
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £25.76
Price: £22.22
Review Ice Bound: A Doctor / Brilliance Audio:
Creator: Sean Barrett
Publication date: 2007-10-01
RRP: £47.95
Price: £49.94
Review Thomas Hardy: The Time-torn Man / ISIS Publishing:
Creator: Robert Powell
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2002-11-15
RRP: £11.99
Price: £11.99
Review The Letters of Lord Byron / Greenpark Media Ltd:
Publication date: 2004-11
RRP: £6.99
Price: £8.98
Review More Max "U2" / Chrome Dreams:
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2008-01-07
Dewey code: 782.421642092
RRP: £10.49
Price: £5.75
Review A Personal Stand: Observations and Opinions from a Freethinking Roughneck / Tantor Media, Inc:
Creator: Paul Marshall
Publication date: 2005-05-07
RRP: £19.99
Price: £21.98
Review A Boy Remembers and Boys Remember More / Channel Television:
Creator: Sam Kelly
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2003-03-31
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £58.69
Price: £75.49
Review The Road to Nab End: An Extraordinary Northern Childhood / Chivers Audio Books:
Publication date: 2004-10-04
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £25.00
Price: £6.99
Review The Great Failure / Sounds True Inc.,U.S.:
Creator: Brian Keeler
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2000-09-21
Price: £31.95
Review Planet of the Blind / DELETED TITLES:Blind. Far from being an objective medical term, the word carries cultural baggage far in excess of the narrow definition from which it starts. Stephen Kuusisto could not bring himself to apply it personally, despite severely impaired vision; nor could his family. His mother in fact acquired the art of seeing ghosts as an expression of her inability to relate to her son. Planet of the Blind traces the struggle Kuusisto endured with his family, our society, but most of all with himself to come to terms with his condition and make peace with his soul. It is a harrowing, angry, majestic journey that burns an image into the mind's eye long after it is finished. Kuusisto was a premature baby, with under-developed retinas that were then scarred by an over- oxygenated incubator. Aged three he hid his first pair of glasses under the leaves of a rhubarb plant; through his 20s he was still riding a bicycle, by making his head "tilt towards the light". Rather than be pigeon-holed by society he resolutely remained in the darkness of the closet, emerging only to collide with the world. It took a state of unemployed depression for him finally to grasp a cane-a "divining rod", as he puts it-and, the door unlatched, he trains for a dog, Corky, who provides a confidence and lease of life that he had denied himself for so long. [+]Kuusisto's unflinching prose sparkles with the grace of the poet he also is and time after time he wields phrases that thrill in their unexpected beauty. As an account of coming to terms with vision impairment it is brutally honest and searching; as a debut literary offering it bristles with a darkly original talent that refuses to be hidden under the rhubarb. -David Vincent.
Creator: Marie McCarthy
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2003-11-15
RRP: £31.50
Price: £33.49
Review Evelyn / Story Sound:
Creator: Michael Kramer
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2007-03-05
Dewey code: 796.42092
RRP: £15.49
Price: £11.04
Review Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler's Olympics / Tantor Media, Inc:
Creator: Hank Williams
Publication date: 2000-01-17
Dewey code: 782.421642092
Price: £15.99
Review The Hank Williams Story (Enlightenment) / Chrome Dreams:
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2000-11-30
RRP: £42.50
Price: £44.49
Review Lip Reading / ISIS Audio Books:There is a lady bountiful quality in Maureen Lipman, her self-assured, fluctuating posh northern intonation suggestive of being a cut above. Even in occasional quandary-getting lost driving out of Guildford on a wet, dark night-the aura of authority is retained. She proclaims "I seem to spend a great deal of time exchanging witty badinage with people I will never see again or eating suppers I can't taste because afterwards I'm going to have to sing for them", and nostalgically recalls her parents entertaining in Hull. "I know we all have evenings-it's the bit between The Bill and bed. theirs weren't just evenings, they were evenings". Propensities of family and friends are lucidly and amusingly disclosed, as is-save the odd crudity and matters concerning the cat-talk of dinner parties, hazards of hanging baskets, ostensible attachment for life to a microphone and battery pack by plastic cable ties, wedding presents, underwear, wrinkles and cruises. Maureen Lipman has endured surgery and holistic healing for a tumour, danced with dolphins and thoroughly enjoyed her time playing Aunt Ella in the recent production of Oklahoma, yet there is little palpable warmth in this compendium of memoirs. -Lyn Took (2 cassettes 2hrs 45 mins).
Publication date: 2003-03
RRP: £42.50
Price: £44.49
Review Dickie Bird's Britain (Soundings CD Library) / Soundings:
Publication date: 2005-04
RRP: £7.99
Price: £9.98
Review Elvis Music and Interview / Chrome Dreams:
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Straight from the Force's Mouth: The Dave Prowse Autobiography, Churchill (Life & Times), Sahara, The Life and Works of Chopin (Naxos Audio), Archbishop Lamy in His Own Words, Ice Bound: A Doctor, Thomas Hardy: The Time-torn Man, The Letters of Lord Byron, More Max "U2", A Personal Stand: Observations and Opinions from a Freethinking Roughneck, A Boy Remembers and Boys Remember More, The Road to Nab End: An Extraordinary Northern Childhood, The Great Failure, Planet of the Blind, Evelyn, Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler's Olympics, The Hank Williams Story (Enlightenment), Lip Reading, Dickie Bird's Britain (Soundings CD Library), Elvis Music and Interview |
