Publication date: 2004-08-02
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £16.99
Price: £2.99
Review Lost in a Good Book (Thursday Next) / Hodder & Stoughton Audio Books:
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2008-05-01
Dewey code: 781
RRP: £16.99
Price: £11.21
Review Discover Music of the Baroque Era / Naxos AudioBooks:
Creator: Tim Piggott-Smith
Edition: Abridged edition
Publication date: 2004-06-07
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £15.99
Price: £15.99
Review Never Surrender / HarperCollins Audio:
Authors
- Pierre Ambroise Francois Choderlos de Laclos
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 1995-04
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £13.70
Price: £11.67
Review Liaisons Dangereuses: Dangerous Liaisons (Classic fiction) / Naxos AudioBooks:
Creator: Kevin Whately
Edition: Abridged edition
Publication date: 2001-03-23
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £10.99
Price: £4.59
Review The Remorseful Day / Macmillan Audio Books:As o'er now thou lean'st thy breast, With launder'd bodice crisply pressed, Lief I'd prolong my grievous ill-Wert thou my guardian angel still (Edmund Raikes, 1537-65, The Nurse). So begins the final case of Chief Inspector Morse's career. Yvonne Harrison, a married, middle-aged nurse with a penchant for S&M, is found in her bedroom naked, handcuffed, gagged and bludgeoned to death. Despite the blitzkrieg of media coverage the killing creates in the quiet village in Oxfordshire (including the enlistment of two psychics and a hypnotist), after one year, the Thames Valley CID are still stumped. That is, until two disturbing phone calls reveal new evidence and force the feisty Inspector out of furlough. Although Morse's partner, Sergeant Lewis, is accustomed to the old sleuth's numerous idiosyncrasies, the Inspector's refusal to lead the re-investigation comes as a surprise. What's more, the Sergeant learns that not only is Morse secretly conducting his own investigation, but that Harrison and he share a "friendly" past. Is the Inspector hiding evidence? Is his behaviour of late connected with a recently diagnosed ailment? It is fitting that the story in which the long-suffering Sergeant Lewis shows the most independence of mind be read by his TV incarnation, Kevin Whatley. Fans of the TV programmes will immediately feel at ease with Whatley's gentle and unintrusive Geordie tones. Although he is most recognisable as Lewis, Whatley makes a convincing Morse and his voice also lifts easily to find the female characters. [+]The Remorseful Day is an engrossing final chapter very well told. Believable and perplexing to the last, this is a fitting farewell to an outstanding series and a sharp salute to a beloved crime-fighting curmudgeon. -Running time 3 hours -Rebekah Warren.
Creator: Nicola Duffett
Publication date: 2009-01-05
RRP: £15.65
Price: £11.19
Review Faces / Hachette Audio:
Publication date: 2007-01-11
RRP: £16.63
Price: £11.02
Review Frankenstein / Hodder & Stoughton:
Creator: Gordon Griffin
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2003-06-30
Dewey code: 891.733
RRP: £17.81
Price: £11.75
Review Dead Souls / Naxos AudioBooks:
Creator: Nadia May
Edition: MP3 Una
Publication date: 2006-08
Dewey code: 242
RRP: £16.05
Price: £42.53
Review Paradise Lost / Hovel Audio:
Publication date: 2006-05-08
RRP: £19.56
Price: £3.29
Review Our Game / Hodder & Stoughton:
Creator: David Timson
Publication date: 2003-09-01
RRP: £19.99
Price: £39.42
Review Haydn: His Life and Works (Life & Works) / Naxos Audiobooks:
Creator: Simon Callow
Publication date: 2007-09-06
RRP: £13.70
Price: £3.54
Review The Thames: Working River Pt. 2: Sacred River / Random House Audiobooks:
Publication date: 2006-06-29
RRP: £39.13
Price: £24.67
Review Bag of Bones / Hodder & Stoughton:Bag of Bones is partly inspired by Daphne du Maurier's classic Rebecca, but there's more than homage in this novel of horror and romance. Like du Maurier's Manderley, King's scary old place (on the shore of Maine's remote Dark Score Lake) is haunted by the late lady of the manor. There are many gory ghosts afoot though: men, women, and wailing kids. The hero, a thriller novelist, stirs up hell's angry shades while investigating his wife's death. It turns out she either had a dark secret herself or was onto some dread scandal lurking in Dark Score Lake. As in King's previous book, Wizard and Glass, the fabric of reality is thin, and nosy narrators are in peril of plunging right out of this world and into a rather hostile otherworld. Bag of Bones is a writer-haunted book, too. The spirits of Herman Melville and Ray Bradbury are deeply felt, and so are the tale's two romances (the hero muses on his marriage and falls for a young single mum with a marvellous psychic daughter). There is also good-humoured satire of the real bestseller book world-the hero complains that "the publicity process is like going to a sushi bar where you're the sushi. " In its deep concerns with love, sprawling families, the writer's life, endangered children and good old-fashioned storytelling, the book resembles a John Irving novel. [+]It is also absolutely classic Stephen King, packed with nifty turns of phrase, irreverent wit and lurid ghouls who grab you from beneath the bed while you cower under the covers. -Tim Appelo.
Creator: Robert Glenister
Edition: Abridged edition
Publication date: 2005-05-16
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £15.65
Price: £10.19
Review Sleepyhead / Time Warner AudioBooks:The art of inducing fear in a reader via the printed page is a speciality of only a few skilled craftsmen. Mark Billingham is such an author, and Sleepy Head is such a book. The blurb on the jacket warns that we are in for a disturbing experience and that is precisely what we get: "He doesn't want you alive. He doesn't want you dead. He wants you somewhere in between". The killer who Billingham's protagonist Tom Thorne is up against is a particularly creepy specimen: he has savagely killed three victims but his fourth, although alive, is perhaps not so fortunate. She has undergone a deliberately induced stroke and although all her senses are intact, she is totally unable to move or communicate. This hideous condition, called Locked-in Syndrome is, however, quite possibly the killer's first miscalculation. [+]or is it? Soon the dogged Thorne (given to distrusting his own abilities) is playing a cat-and-mouse game with a psychopathic killer. And the brilliant and sadistic killer is just as interested in leading Thorne a merry dance as he is in fulfilling his degraded obsessions. All characterisations here are spot-on, even the killer (although one wonders just how many more hyper-intelligent psychopaths readers will be prepared to take) while the British setting is handled with intelligence, the horrific set pieces with real élan: His head moved up, through the hole and into bright white light. He blinked quickly to adjust and opened his eyes. Thorne's last thought, before his body turned ice cold and began to shake quietly, was that he'd been right to be afraid. -Barry Forshaw.
Publication date: 2008-10-02
RRP: £15.65
Price: £8.25
Review Dead Line / Quercus Publishing Plc:
Creator: David Rintoul
Publication date: 2009-05-07
RRP: £14.67
Price: £13.94
Review The Unbearable Lightness of Scones (44 Scotland Street) / Hachette Audio:
Publication date: 2007-10-15
RRP: £19.56
Price: £3.90
Review Short Stories: The Essential Timeless Collection (Csa Word Recordings) / CSA WORD:
Creator: James Macpherson
Publication date: 2007-10-18
RRP: £14.67
Price: £6.44
Review A Question of Blood (CD: LATEST EDITION) / Orion:Sometimes crime affects you directly: in A Question of Blood Inspector John Rebus is caught up in two cases that are closer to home than he would like. He is under investigation for the burning alive of a minor psychopath who threatened his attractive young sergeant Siobhan Clarke; and the son of an estranged cousin has been murdered in a high-school shooting. As always in Rankin's novels, Rebus's bad attitude to his superiors comes back to bite him: even though doctors testify that damage to his hands is a scalding from trying drunkenly to get into an over-hot bath, it is regarded as circumstantial evidence of his possible guilt. The high-school shooting looks at first sight like another ex-SAS crazy going wild-and here Rebus's own past as an SAS washout comes to haunt him-and the constant meddling of army investigators screams cover-up. In fact, though, this is one of those occasions on which Rebus's slightly paranoid preparedness to see connections everywhere pays off and he manages to solve both crimes and a lot of other unsuspected pieces of mayhem besides. Along the way, the book offers Rankin's usual intense commentary on embattled masculinity and what it means to be a Scot, and this excellent sequence's usual portrayal of an Edinburgh where modernity rubs up against time-worn slums and ancient privilege. -Roz Kaveney.
Publication date: 2005-03-21
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £12.72
Price: £9.59
Review The ABC Murders (BBC Audio Crime) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Publication date: 2004-04-12
RRP: £14.99
Price: £1.54
Review The Living Wisdom of Socrates / Hodder & Stoughton Audio Books:
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