Creator: Sir Derek Jacobi
Publication date: 2008-07-04
RRP: £16.63
Price: £5.50
Review Tyrant / Macmillan Digital Audio:
Creator: Tim Machin
Publication date: 2007-05-01
RRP: £14.67
Price: £2.44
Review The Woods (CD) / Orion:
Creator: Robert Powell
Edition: Abridged edition
Publication date: 2006-07-27
RRP: £15.65
Price: £12.89
Review The Greatest Knight / Time Warner AudioBooks:
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2008-11-01
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £50.00
Price: £32.24
Review Nostromo (Complete Classics) / Naxos AudioBooks:
Creator: Juliet Stevenson
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 2004-02-14
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £14.99
Price: £9.74
Review Pride and Prejudice / Hodder & Stoughton Audio Books:
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2007-07-01
Dewey code: 818
RRP: £13.99
Price: £7.45
Review The Prophet & The Wanderer (Naxos Complete Text) (Classic Fiction) / Naxos AudioBooks:
Creator: Paul McGann
Edition: Abridged edition
Publication date: 2006-01-16
RRP: £13.98
Price: £3.77
Review Regeneration / HarperCollins Audio:
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 2006-08-01
Dewey code: 822
RRP: £16.44
Price: £7.93
Review Hamlet (Classic Drama) / Naxos AudioBooks:
Creator: Samantha Bond
Publication date: 2006-02-06
RRP: £14.98
Price: £2.99
Review Second Honeymoon / Bloomsbury Publishing PLC:
Creator: Jamie Glover
Edition: Abridged edition
Publication date: 2003-09-01
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £13.98
Price: £1.97
Review The Lady and the Unicorn / HarperCollins Audio:If you think you wouldn't raise your skirts for a rakish legend about the purifying powers of a unicorn's horn, then maybe you aren't a 15th-century serving girl under the sway of a velvet-tongued court painter of ill repute. In keeping with her bestselling Girl with a Pearl Earring, and its Edwardian-era follow-up, Falling Angels, Tracy Chevalier's tale of artistic creation and late-medieval amours, The Lady and the Unicorn is a subtle study in social power and the conflicts between love and duty. Nicolas des Innocents has been commissioned by the Parisian nobleman Jean Le Viste to design a series of large tapestries for his great hall (in real life, the famous Lady and the Unicorn cycle, now in Paris's Musee National du Moyen-Age Thermes de Cluny). While Nicolas is measuring the walls, he meets a beautiful girl who turns out to be Jean Le Viste's daughter. Their passion is impossible for their world-so forbidden, given their class differences, that its only avenue of expression turns out to be those magnificent tapestries. The historical evidence on which this story is based is slight enough to allow the full play of Chevalier's imagination in this cleverly woven tale. -Regina Marler, Amazon. com.
Authors
- William Makepeace Thackeray
Publication date: 1997-06-02
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £19.99
Price: £11.50
Review Vanity Fair (Classic Fiction) / Naxos AudioBooks:
Publication date: 2005-08-01
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £14.99
Price: £4.96
Review In the Deathroom: WITH Lunch at the Gotham Cafe / Hodder & Stoughton Audio Books:
Creator: Walter Lewis
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2006-06
Dewey code: 895.635
RRP: £31.99
Price: £22.66
Review The Elephant Vanishes (Classic Fiction) / Naxos AudioBooks:
Creator: A. C. Spearing
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1999-01-21
Dewey code: 372
RRP: £15.57
Price: £11.47
Review The Merchant's Prologue and Tale CD: From The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer Read by A. C. Spearing (Selected Tales from Chaucer) / Cambridge University Press:
Creator: Steven Pacey
Publication date: 2007-08-03
RRP: £16.99
Price: £7.95
Review Area 7 / Macmillan Digital Audio:Matthew Reilly's Area 7 shows an even more concentrated skill at keeping us turning the pages than his previous bestsellers Ice Station and Temple. He knows just the kind of book he wants to write, and he's repeatedly said that the key agenda behind his kinetic thrillers is to keep the reader's pulse quickened throughout. In Area 7 America's most secret base is the eponymous Area 7, and hidden deep in the Utah desert, this high-tech Air Force installation is visited by very few unauthorised personnel. But when the President of the United States pays a call, he encounters a nasty surprise: a hostile force is waiting inside. And as mayhem erupts, Schofield, a young marine in the President's entourage, finds himself obliged to live up to his reputation: that he's a good man in a storm. Reilly's speciality is the steady accumulation of cliffhanging situations (as he demonstrated so readily in Temple) and he pulls off the trick with his usual aplomb in this one. If the President here seems considerably brighter than the current real-life incumbent, that's a minor distraction in a thriller that maintains a Rottweiler-like grip on our attention: The flashlight was the only thing that saved Book II's life. Primarily because it blinded the man on top of the decompression chamber, if only for a moment. That was all the time Book II needed. His shotgun boomed, blasting their commando's goggles to pieces, sending him flying off the top of the chamber. [+]It was a small victory, for at that exact moment, gunfire erupted around the darkened room as a legion of dark figures emerged. -Barry Forshaw.
Creator: Susan Ericksen
Edition: MP3 Una
Publication date: 2008-11
Dewey code: 813.54
RRP: £19.61
Price: £10.27
Review Salvation in Death / Brilliance Corporation:
Publication date: 2006-10-05
RRP: £19.56
Price: £8.49
Review Keeping Faith / Hodder & Stoughton:
Creator: Bill Paterson
Publication date: 2005-07-07
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £13.70
Price: £8.99
Review Dead Souls (CD) / Orion:
Edition: Abridged edition
Publication date: 2004-11-04
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £12.72
Price: £7.25
Review Holidays on Ice / Time Warner AudioBooks:
Creator: Robert Powell
Publication date: 2007-05-04
RRP: £13.00
Price: £4.70
Review Once / Macmillan Digital Audio:Once is the latest in the welcome new phase of James Herbert's career after he distanced himself from the straightforward "horror" tag afforded to him by earlier novels such as the Rats trilogy and cannily reinvented himself as a writer with considerably more psychological insight and elegance of style. Trading on a grotesque reinvention of fairy stories, Herbert has his protagonist Thorn Kindred encountering witches, goblins and demons, and being obliged to turn to some very strange sources to save his soul. The new ambitiousness of Herbert's writing may be found in the underpinning of the narrative here: this is a grim and persuasively realised spin on Nietzsche's epigram: "When fighting monsters, beware of becoming one yourself. " But long-time readers needn't worry about a lack of grisly chills: Herbert is too fine a writer not to keep us permanently on the edge of our proverbial seats. And he's better than ever at orchestrating his fear-filled climaxes, so that there is a carefully worked out structure to the book that never has the stop-and-start jerkiness of the early novels. Rather in the nature of Sondheim's musical Into the Woods, fairy tale motifs are exploded and reconstituted in this dark and erotic fable. After reading Once, fairy tales will never seem the same again. -Barry Forshaw.
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