Creator: Bill Bailey Edition: Abridged Publication date: 1995-02-28 Dewey code: 813.3 RRP: £16.99 Price: £11.04
Review Moby Dick (Classic fiction) / Naxos AudioBooks:Arguably Herman Melville's greatest work, and hailed as a classic American novel, Moby Dick tells the tale of one man's fatal obsession and his willingness to sacrifice his life and that of his crew to achieve his goal. The story follows the fortunes of Captain Ahab and the culturally and spiritually diverse crew of the Pequod, a 19th century whaling ship. The Pequod is on its last voyage out of New Bedford, Mass, in pursuit of Moby Dick, the great white whale which has been Ahab's obsessional quarry and bitter adversary for many years. Narrated by sole survivor Ishmael, the tale forms a complex fictional fusion, combining a wealth of literary symbolism, hidden meaning and philosophical debate with adventure narrative and a detailed historical account of the 19th century whaling trade. -Emily Lowson.
Publication date: 2008-05-01 RRP: £14.99 Price: £7.73
Review This Charming Man / Penguin:
Publication date: 2008-04-04 RRP: £16.99 Price: £8.15
Review Cultural Amnesia: Notes in the Margin of My Time / Macmillan Digital Audio:
Creator: Richard Armitage Publication date: 2006-11-06 RRP: £9.99 Price: £3.50
Review Robin Hood, Will You Tolerate This?: Episode 1 (Robin Hood) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Creator: Paul McGann Edition: Abridged edition Publication date: 2008-08-25 RRP: £13.99 Price: £11.23
Review Sharpe's Gold / HarperCollins Publishers Ltd:
Creator: Russell Boulter Edition: Abridged edition Publication date: 2008-01-07 RRP: £15.99 Price: £5.79
Review Lords of the Bow / HarperCollins Audio:
Creator: Clare Higgins Edition: New edition Publication date: 2007-04-05 RRP: £14.67 Price: £6.99
Review Winter In Thrush Green (CD) (Thrush Green 2) / Orion:
Creator: Toby Stephens Edition: New edition Publication date: 2004-12-31 Dewey code: 873.01 RRP: £16.99 Price: £10.07
Review The Aeneid / Naxos AudioBooks:
Creator: Ian McKellen Edition: Unabridged Publication date: 2004-10 Dewey code: 813 RRP: £10.55 Price: £5.06
Review "The Tempest" / Naxos AudioBooks:
Creator: Adjoa Andoh Edition: Abridged edition Publication date: 2004-05-06 Dewey code: 813 RRP: £15.99 Price: £8.88
Review The Full Cupboard of Life (No 1 Ladies Detective Agency 5) / Time Warner AudioBooks:
Creator: Kevin Whately Edition: Abridged edition Publication date: 2002-11-08 Dewey code: 813 RRP: £13.00 Price: £5.99
Review The Jewel That Was Ours (Inspector Morse) / Macmillan Audio Books:
Creator: Joan Hickson Publication date: 2003-02-17 Dewey code: 813 RRP: £16.99 Price: £9.99
Review Nemesis / HarperCollins Audio:
Edition: New edition Publication date: 2006-01-09 RRP: £12.99 Price: £7.15
Review Five Little Pigs (BBC Audio Crime) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Publication date: 2008-12-01 Dewey code: 791.4472 RRP: £17.99 Price: £11.85
Review A Prairie Home Companion: Never Better (Prairie Home Companion): Never Better (Prairie Home Companion) / HighBridge Audio:
Publication date: 2007-10-01 RRP: £12.99 Price: £6.80
Review The Archers: Ambridge Affairs: Love Triangles (BBC Audio) / The Archers - Ambridge Affairs:
Publication date: 2008-10-02 Price: £14.99
Review Frank Skinner on the Road: Love, Stand-up Comedy and the Queen of the Night / Random House Audiobooks:
Edition: Exclusive to Gardners Publication date: 2007-10-01 RRP: £9.99 Price: £5.52
Review The Thirty Nine Steps (Classic Drama) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Edition: Unabridged Publication date: 2001-04-02 Dewey code: 813 RRP: £13.99 Price: £6.99
Review King Richard III: Performed by Kenneth Branagh & Cast (Classic Drama): Performed by Kenneth Branagh & Cast (Classic Drama) / Naxos AudioBooks:"Now is the winter of our discontent," intones Richard, Duke of Gloucester at the beginning of Shakespeare's Richard III, one of his most abidingly popular plays, and one of the most chilling portrayals of political tyranny ever seen on stage. Richard emerges from the chaos which surrounds the reign of Henry VI, already dramatised by Shakespeare earlier in his career, determined to become king by removing his elder brother Edward IV by convincing him that their brother Clarence is plotting against the crown. The deaths of both Clarence and Edward take Richard inexorably towards the crown, and the series of murders and conspiracies that Richard masterminds confirms his claim that "I am determined to prove a villain". Richard's political and sexual charisma are truly chilling, and his seduction of Lady Anne, over her husband's corpse is one of the most disturbing scenes in Shakespeare. At another level, the play is also a strongly anti-Yorkist play, which has a vested interest in portraying Richard as such as vicious tyrant before seeing him toppled, ushering in a period of rule which prefigured the Tudor dynasty of which Elizabeth I was herself a part. The play has had a deep and lasting influence on audiences and writers; Brecht rewrote the play as The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, while both Laurance Olivier and Ian Mckellen have produced memorable film versions of Richard III, the latter updating the play into a 1930s fascist state ruled over by a Richard akin to Oswald Mosley. -Jerry Brotton.
Publication date: 2006-11-06 RRP: £9.99 Price: £4.90
Review Robin Hood, Who Shot the Sheriff? (Robin Hood) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Publication date: 2007-04-02 RRP: £12.99 Price: £7.15
Review The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency: Chief Justice and Confession v. 3 (Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
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