Creator: Anton Lesser
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 1996-05-31
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £16.99
Price: £9.24
Review Great Expectations: Audio CDs (Abridged) (Classic fiction) / Naxos AudioBooks:An absorbing mystery as well as a morality tale, the story of Pip, a poor village lad, and his expectations of wealth is Dickens at his most deliciously readable. The cast of characters includes kindly Joe Gargery, the loyal convict Abel Magwitch and the haunting Miss Havisham. If you have heartstrings, count on them being tugged.
Creator: Richard Bebb
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2006-09
Dewey code: 808
RRP: £12.91
Price: £5.66
Review The Knight's Tale: In Middle English (Poetry) / Naxos AudioBooks:
Creator: Hugh Fraser
Publication date: 2006-12-04
RRP: £16.99
Price: £9.79
Review Partners in Crime: Complete & Unabridged / HarperCollins Audio:
Creator: Samantha Bond
Edition: Abridged edition
Publication date: 2006-10-20
RRP: £13.00
Price: £3.95
Review By the Pricking of My Thumbs / Macmillan Audio Books:
Creator: Neville Jason
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2006-11-01
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £75.00
Price: £39.99
Review War and Peace: v. 2 (Classic Fiction) / Naxos AudioBooks:
Creator: David Soul
Publication date: 2005-05-16
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £14.67
Price: £5.97
Review The Closers (CD) / Orion:The Closers puts Harry Bosch back in the Los Angelese Police Department, where he was meant to be, and sets him to solving old cases, which is what he always did best, alongside Kiz Rider, who was always the best of the partners fate, and Connolly, gave him. They are working on the death of a bi-racial teenager back in the 1980s, abducted from her bedroom and shot dead. The racial tensions of the time are clearly a factor - the DNA of a known racist is trapped in blood on the gun - but in a Michael Connolly novel, things are never as simple as they seem. And Bosch finds, not to his especial surprise, that he has been asked back into the LAPD as someone's weapon in the dance of departmental politics. The death of Backy Verloren was a tragedy - the investigation of her murder was a series of mistakes that left her father an alcoholic mess and her mother an obsessive trapped in the past, and someone profited by their misery. Connolly is always at his best when Harry is caught up in the problems of other people, rather than his own, and this excellent, twisty police procedural is a snappy return to form. -Roz Kaveney.
Creator: Stephen Mangan
Edition: Abridged edition
Publication date: 2002-10-31
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £9.99
Price: £5.38
Review The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4 / Penguin:
Publication date: 2006-04-03
RRP: £15.99
Price: £9.99
Review Falco: Shadows in Bronze (BBC Audio) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Creator: Michael Brandon
Publication date: 2007-11-02
RRP: £16.99
Price: £6.99
Review Stone Cold / Macmillan Digital Audio:
Creator: Adjoa Andoh
Edition: Abridged edition
Publication date: 2003-11-13
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £15.99
Price: £8.75
Review Tears of the Giraffe / Time Warner AudioBooks:
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2008-05-01
Dewey code: 823.912
RRP: £19.99
Price: £10.99
Review To The Lighthouse (Complete Classics) / Naxos AudioBooks:
Publication date: 2004-06-21
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £12.99
Price: £6.63
Review Bonecrack: BBC Radio 4 Full-cast Dramatisation (BBC Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2007-07-01
Dewey code: 813.54
RRP: £15.99
Price: £6.67
Review Slaughterhouse Five / HarperCollins:It took Vonnegut more than 20 years to put his Dresden experiences into words. He explained, "there is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre. Everybody is supposed to be dead, to never say anything or want anything ever again. " Slaughterhouse Five is a powerful novel incorporating a number of genres. Only those who have fought in wars can say whether it represents the experience well. However, what the novel does do is invite the reader to look at the absurdity of war. Human versus human, hedonist politicians pressing buttons and ordering millions to their deaths all for ideologies many cannot even comprehend. Flicking between the US, 1940's Germany and Tralfamadore, Vonnegut's semi- autobiographical protagonist Billy Pilgrim finds himself very lost. One minute he is being viewed as a specimen in a Tralfamadorian Zoo, the next he is wandering a post-apocalyptic city looking for corpses. Slaughterhouse Five-Or The Children's Crusade A Duty-Dance with Death is a remarkable blend of black humour, irony, the truth and the absurd. [+]The author regards his work a "failure", millions of readers do not. Released the same time bombs were falling on South East Asia, this title caused controversy and awakening. Essential reading for all. So it goes. -Jon Smith.
Creator: Hugh Fraser
Publication date: 2005-02-21
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £16.99
Price: £9.40
Review Endless Night: Complete & Unabridged / HarperCollins Publishers Ltd:
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2002-02-28
Dewey code: 823.912
RRP: £16.99
Price: £9.87
Review A Study in Scarlet (Classic Literature With Classical Music. Classic Fiction) / Naxos AudioBooks:
Creator: Benedict Flynn
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2006-10
Dewey code: 808
RRP: £10.99
Price: £5.80
Review Beowulf (Poetry) / Naxos AudioBooks:
Creator: Michael Sheen
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 1995-08-31
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £13.99
Price: £9.09
Review The Idiot (Classic fiction) / Naxos AudioBooks:
Publication date: 2004-08-05
RRP: £16.99
Price: £7.95
Review Enigma / Random House Audiobooks:
Creator: Juliet Stevenson
Publication date: 2006-10-18
RRP: £14.67
Price: £2.13
Review The Thirteenth Tale (CD) / Orion:
Creator: Adjoa Andoh
Edition: Abridged edition
Publication date: 2003-11-13
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £15.99
Price: £7.33
Review Morality for Beautiful Girls / Time Warner AudioBooks:
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Great Expectations: Audio CDs (Abridged) (Classic fiction), The Knight's Tale: In Middle English (Poetry), Partners in Crime: Complete & Unabridged, By the Pricking of My Thumbs, War and Peace: v. 2 (Classic Fiction), The Closers (CD), The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4, Falco: Shadows in Bronze (BBC Audio), Stone Cold, Tears of the Giraffe, To The Lighthouse (Complete Classics), Bonecrack: BBC Radio 4 Full-cast Dramatisation (BBC Radio Collection), Slaughterhouse Five, Endless Night: Complete & Unabridged, A Study in Scarlet (Classic Literature With Classical Music. Classic Fiction), Beowulf (Poetry), The Idiot (Classic fiction), Enigma, The Thirteenth Tale (CD), Morality for Beautiful Girls |
