Creator: Timothy Dalton
Publication date: 2008-09-05
RRP: £17.99
Price: £8.09
Review Christine Falls / Macmillan Digital Audio:
Publication date: 2001-06-04
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £12.99
Price: £7.39
Review Dick Barton: BBC Radio's First Superhero: Special Agent: BBC Radio's First Superhero (BBC Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Publication date: 2006-11-02
RRP: £29.99
Price: £7.00
Review Misery / Hodder & Stoughton:
Creator: Kate Reading
Publication date: 2008-05-15
RRP: £15.99
Price: £4.89
Review The Front / Hachette Audio:
Publication date: 2006-04-03
RRP: £15.99
Price: £9.99
Review Falco: Shadows in Bronze (BBC Audio) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Publication date: 2005-03-07
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £12.99
Price: £7.73
Review Gaudy Night (BBC Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2005-03-21
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £12.99
Price: £7.52
Review Murder on the Links (BBC Audio Crime) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Publication date: 2004-11-04
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £13.99
Price: £4.93
Review Deep Black / Random House Audiobooks:
Creator: Phil Gigante
Publication date: 2008-07-03
RRP: £16.99
Price: £8.59
Review Fractured / Random House Audiobooks:
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2007-07-01
Dewey code: 823
RRP: £16.99
Price: £9.16
Review The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes: v. 1 (Complete Classics) / Naxos AudioBooks:
Publication date: 2003-05-05
RRP: £15.99
Price: £9.75
Review Five Red Herrings: BBC Radio 4 Full-cast Dramatisation (Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Creator: David Timson
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2005-01
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £58.50
Price: £37.64
Review The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: vol.1-6 (Adventures of Sherlock Holmes) / Naxos AudioBooks:
Creator: Hugh Fraser
Publication date: 2006-06-19
RRP: £14.99
Price: £9.13
Review The Unexpected Guest / HarperCollins Publishers Ltd:
Creator: Martin Jarvis
Publication date: 2008-01-04
RRP: £14.99
Price: £8.52
Review Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less / Macmillan Digital Audio:
Authors
- Dan Brown NARRATED BY Jeff Harding
Publication date: 2007-08-01
RRP: £29.36
Price: £15.93
Review The Da Vinci Code (Unabridged edition) / Whole Story Audio Books:
Creator: Robert Powell
Edition: Abridged edition
Publication date: 2001-03-31
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £14.99
Price: £7.68
Review Warlock / Macmillan Audio Books:Wilbur Smith (a name synonymous with the massive blockbuster thriller) has recaptured the verve and impact of his earlier work in Warlock. This Egyptian epic thriller follows on from the equally accomplished River God and The Seventh Scroll and re-establishes Smith at the top echelons of thriller writing. The customary continent-spanning canvas is here, with a key new element in an adroitly handled supernatural aspect that gives the sequence the feel of fantasy whilst still retaining the plausibility that was always Smith's strongest asset. The reader is plunged into a vividly realised evocation of life in ancient Egypt but one presented with insights into the various characters that infuse a very contemporary feel. In the secluded deserts of North Africa, Taita has spent the years since the death of his adored Queen Lostris studying to become a Warlock, steeped in the arcane arts of the ancient Gods and a master practitioner of magic. Responding to an occult summons, Taita abandons the desert and returns to civilisation, only to find himself at the centre of a massive conflagration in which dark and sinister forces are undermining the throne of Egypt and attempting to destroy the young prince Nefer. Soon, his hard-won skills are tested to the limit. As in the previous books in the sequence, Smith knows that a strong and passionate agenda on the part of his protagonists will allow the reader to identify with them, despite the gap of centuries. Here, it is family ties: Taita is defending the young prince who is the grandson of his lost Queen, and we are quickly engaged in a narrative that rarely flags over its considerable length. The action set pieces are as impressive as one would expect: The instant he was within range the Cobra struck again, but Nefer caught the blow on the thick leather folds of the bag. [+]The beast's fangs snagged in the leather and held fast. As Nefer swung back the snake was dragged with him. It was hauled cleanly out of the nest, a writhing, seething ball of coils and polished scales. It thrashed against Nefer's legs, the heavy tail lashing him, hissing fearsomely, clouds of venom spraying from its gaping jaws and dribbling down the leather bag. So great was its weight that Nefer's whole body was shaken violently. -Barry Forshaw.
Publication date: 2005-07-18
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £17.99
Price: £10.20
Review The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Publication date: 2004-06-14
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £16.99
Price: £6.99
Review Monday Mourning / Random House Audiobooks:In Monday Mourning Tempe Brennan finds the bones of three dead adolescents in a basement and she has to convince her police colleagues that they are recent enough that the case should be investigated. The book has all the technical know-how, crisply explained, that we expect from Kathy Reichs; readers find themselves peering over Tempe's shoulder as she works out, not only the solution to a puzzle, but how to begin to solve it. Reichs is a practising forensic archaeologist in real life-but she never forgets that her readers cannot be expected to know everything she does. For a genuine expert though, she is remarkably unpatronising to our ignorance-one of the reasons why Tempe has so many colleagues who know comparatively little is so that her explanations can instruct us while we watch prickly Tempe tread on colleagues' toes. Like all of Reichs' books, Monday Mourning has a pronounced sense of place-Montreal in the snow has rarely seemed so real. If there is a downside to this clever police procedural, it is that we get rather too much of Tempe's fairly conventional emotional life-apparent problems with her lover Ryan end up in quite the corniest of explanations for apparent individuality, while her concern for an apparently suicidal friend adds artificial suspense to a plot that was doing the whole thing quite well in the first place. -Roz Kaveney.
Creator: Mary Stuart Masterson
Publication date: 2007-10-23
RRP: £15.99
Price: £4.73
Review Book of the Dead / Time Warner AudioBooks:
Publication date: 2006-11-02
RRP: £29.99
Price: £18.69
Review John Le Carre Collection / Hodder & Stoughton:
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