Creator: James Macpherson
Edition: Abridged edition
Publication date: 2008-09-16
RRP: £16.63
Price: £9.38
Review Doors Open (Abridged) CD / Orion:
Creator: Stephen Tompkinson
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2004-02-06
RRP: £15.99
Price: £9.19
Review Millions / Macmillan Audio Books:
Creator: Samantha Bond
Publication date: 2007-08-03
RRP: £13.00
Price: £2.19
Review Postern of Fate / Macmillan Digital Audio:
Creator: Tim Machin
Publication date: 2006-05-17
RRP: £14.67
Price: £2.09
Review Promise Me (CD) / Orion:
Creator: Simon Russell Beale
Publication date: 2007-03-16
RRP: £16.99
Price: £6.00
Review Winter in Madrid / Macmillan Audio Books:
Creator: Linda Emond
Publication date: 2008-08-28
RRP: £16.99
Price: £8.98
Review Devil Bones / Random House Audiobooks:
Creator: Ian McShane
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 2008-08-01
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £10.50
Price: £4.84
Review Odds Against / HarperAudio:
Creator: Rupert Degas
Publication date: 2008-11-06
RRP: £12.99
Price: £6.41
Review Vortex: Code Red / Random House Children's Books:
Creator: Fiona Shaw
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2003-01-30
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £13.00
Price: £3.99
Review Emma / Penguin:
Creator: David Dukes
Edition: Abridged edition
Publication date: 2002-03-28
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £14.99
Price: £5.99
Review Rainbow Six (6 CDs) / Penguin:For many readers, Jack Ryan embodies the essence of the modern American hero. Morally centred, disciplined, humble yet powerful, Ryan (and his onscreen incarnations in Alec Baldwin and Harrison Ford) has made Tom Clancy one of the most popular writers in the world. But while Clancy has constructed the Ryan mythology, he has also quietly established his shadow double, John Clark. Appearing in The Cardinal of the Kremlin, Clear and Present Danger and Without Remorse, Clark has many of Jack Ryan's most appealing traits, but he is also a darker figure embodying the more paranoid sensibilities of the late nineties. As is made clear from the opening pages of Rainbow Six, ex-Navy SEAL Clark and his colleagues believe violent, deadly force to be the best deterrent for terrorism. Clark (a. k. a. Rainbow Six) has left the CIA to create an England-based organisation code-named "Rainbow". Its mission: deploy an elite squad of American operatives combined with handpicked British, French and German agents to stop terrorism in its tracks. [+]Rainbow's emergence could not be more timely: in quick succession, the force diffuses three attempted terrorist actions. But Clark becomes suspicious when Russian agents suddenly show interest in Rainbow's work. Rainbow Six appeals on all the levels that Clancy fans could hope for. The Rainbow operatives, from Navy SEALs to German mountain-leader school graduates, are rendered to inspire with their physical and mental prowess. The book is infatuated with the latest gadgets for scrambling, transmitting and decoding secrets. And, in a carefully woven narrative that simultaneously traces the Rainbow team, a former KGB agent named Popov, the Australian Olympic security team and a sinister group of American scientists, Clancy artfully reveals the mystery of "Shiva" at the centre of the novel. How does Clark measure up against Jack Ryan? He may be the perfect hero for a world with hidden villains. -Patrick O'Kelley.
Creator: David Rintoul
Edition: Abridged edition
Publication date: 2005-10-13
RRP: £15.99
Price: £13.23
Review Espresso Tales (44 Scotland Street) / Time Warner AudioBooks:
Creator: Prunella Scales
Publication date: 2007-11-05
RRP: £25.00
Price: £16.60
Review Cranford (BBC Audio) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £9.99
Price: £8.67
Review Joseph Conrad: Youth/Heart of Darkness / Various Artists:
Creator: Sandra Smith
Publication date: 2007-02-01
RRP: £16.99
Price: £6.69
Review Suite Francaise / Random House Audiobooks:
Creator: Jamie Glover
Edition: Abridged edition
Publication date: 2006-06-05
RRP: £15.99
Price: £6.85
Review The Lords of the North (Alfred the Great 3) / HarperCollins Publishers Ltd:
Creator: Christopher Tolkien
Publication date: 2002-07-15
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £20.00
Price: £12.99
Review The Tolkien Audio Collection / HarperCollins Audio:
Creator: Lynn Redgrave
Edition: Film tie-in, unabridged ed
Publication date: 2008-05-06
RRP: £14.99
Price: £8.99
Review Prince Caspian ("The Chronicles of Narnia") / HarperCollins Publishers Ltd:Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy are mysteriously transported back to Narnia where they discover that it has been hundred's of years since their reign as Kings and Queens of the land ended. Cair Paravel, the castle where they lived, is in ruins and the evil King Miraz has taken charge. Along with their old friend Prince Caspian they race to overthrow the King, calling on the help of Aslan and his trusty follower, Reepicheep the mouse. Once again we are taken back to the magical lands of Narnia in the clever, ironic and fantastical Prince Caspian, the fourth book in the Chronicles of Narnia. This edition, published in celebration of the centenary of CS Lewis, is a highly collectible addition to any treasured Narnia library. With hand-coloured illustrations by Pauline Baynes exquisitely capturing the pure essence of Narnia, this edition of Prince Caspian will live long in the memory and on the bookshelf. -Susan Harrison.
Creator: Joss Ackland
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2003-04-22
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £15.99
Price: £9.70
Review The Screwtape Letters: Complete and Unabridged / HarperCollins Audio:
Creator: Martin Jarvis
Publication date: 2004-04-15
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £16.99
Price: £11.59
Review Carry on, Jeeves (Csa Word Classic) / CSA WORD:
Creator: Kerry Shale
Publication date: 2005-05-06
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £16.99
Price: £9.79
Review One Shot / Random House USA Inc:Lee Child's Jack Reacher thrillers always have remarkably inventive setups, and One Shot is true to form. A sniper, Barr, kills five people with six shots and leaves a clear trail of evidence; arrested, he asks for Reacher. When Reacher was a military policeman, politics stopped him pursuing Barr-he cannot understand why Barr would ask for him and Barr has been beaten in jail until he cannot remember himself. Yet, for Reacher, the loner who looks at things differently from civilians, the story does not add up-Barr should not have got himself caught, should not even have fired from where he did. Child is a master of the perverse solution to the set of questions no-one ever asked in quite that way before, and the macho yet sensitive Reacher is one of the more interesting series characters in thrillers. One Shot is a smart set of puzzles which strings the reader along to false conclusions and a sense of real danger. It also, like its hero, has a heart. -Roz Kaveney.
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