Creator: David Tennant
Edition: Abridged edition
Publication date: 2004-09-20
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £13.70
Price: £7.75
Review Quite Ugly One Morning / Time Warner AudioBooks:
Creator: Hugh Thomas Grant
Publication date: 2002-05-07
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £7.00
Price: £3.89
Review Cover Her Face: BBC Radio 4 Full-cast Dramatisation (BBC Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2004-03-25
Dewey code: 371
RRP: £12.72
Price: £6.68
Review Up and Down in the Dales / Penguin:
Creator: Laurel Lefkow
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2005-08-01
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £17.61
Price: £13.98
Review The Time Traveler's Wife / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Creator: Benedict Cumberbatch
Publication date: 2008-12-04
RRP: £13.70
Price: £5.30
Review Artists in Crime / Hachette Audio:
Publication date: 2003-10-06
Dewey code: 817
RRP: £8.80
Price: £4.85
Review Ladies of Letters Make Mincemeat (Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Creator: Geoffrey Palmer
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2006-10-26
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £11.06
Price: £9.56
Review A Christmas Carol / Penguin Classics:
Creator: Kate Binchy
Publication date: 2008-10-02
RRP: £9.78
Price: £3.94
Review Evening Class (CD) / Orion:It's the perfect gift: Laughter, the best medicine! From beloved author Maeve Binchy, who has captured the hearts of millions with her spectacular national bestsellers, including Circle of Friends and Tara Road. In Evening Class, she applies her signature warmth, wit and understanding to something new-a wickedly funny book for anyone who's checked into the hospital, headed for an operation or convalesced at home. Maeve Binchy can always be counted on to spin an involving tale about ordinary people that brings out the extraordinary in everyone. Here, she zooms in on the working-class of Dublin. Schoolteacher Aidan Dunne organises an evening class in Italian with the help of Nora O'Donoghue, an Irishwoman returning home after 26 years in Sicily. When the somewhat squashed-by-life denizens of the surrounding neighbourhood take the unexpected step of enrolling in the class, they find their lives transformed. Binchy tells her story from the viewpoints of eight different characters and rewards both them and her readers with happy endings after the requisite rocky road. Reading a novel by Maeve Binchy is like catching up with old friends-you know everything will turn out fine in the end, but you're still interested in how things get that way.
Creator: Anton Lesser
Publication date: 2007-09-07
RRP: £16.99
Price: £10.16
Review Dark Fire (Shardlake) / Macmillan Digital Audio:
Creator: Nigel Anthony
Publication date: 2008-11-20
RRP: £14.67
Price: £7.46
Review Portobello / Random House Audiobooks:As well as Ruth Rendell’s customary expertise with the narrative demands of crime fiction, Portobello provides a colourful and eccentric portrait of one of the most distinctive areas of the capital, the Portobello district of West London. To both Londoners and visitors, the areas is lively and exciting, but there is a level of criminality here which Rendell handles as adroitly as ever. The book is something of departure for the author, less plot-led than customarily. Eugene Wrenn, who lives modestly despite his wealth, has inherited an art gallery from his father. But Eugene moves to a more upmarket location in Kensington Church Street. He is 50, but looks older than his age, and is plagued by an addictive personality (currently, he finds himself unable to give up an addiction to low-calorie sweets). Despite this, he has a reasonably happy relationship with a GP, Ella, who finds herself able to put up with these quirks - at least, those she knows about. Eugene discovers an envelope containing money, which he picks up in the street. But instead of doing the logical thing and taking it to the police, he sticks a note on a lamppost near his house, asking whoever lost it to claim the money (but withholding information only known to the real owner) The first to apply is a small-time criminal, Lance (recently thrown out of his house for domestic violence), who is thinking of casing the house of his benefactor - even if he is initially unable to get the money. But the genuine owner of the money is the disturbed Joel, who lives in a self-induced darkness and shares his life with a phantom companion. [+]Utilising this disparate and eccentric cast of characters, Rendell forges a discursive but compelling novel that (as always with her work) keeps us reading inexorably. Some may find the characterisation broader than they are used to with Rendell, but this is still seductive fare. -Barry Forshaw.
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2006-05-01
RRP: £15.65
Price: £9.99
Review Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves (BBC Audio) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Publication date: 2005-07-18
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £9.00
Price: £3.90
Review The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: v. 3 (BBC Audio) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Publication date: 2006-06-05
RRP: £12.72
Price: £6.24
Review Paul Temple and the Tyler Mystery (BBC Audio) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Creator: Richard E. Grant
Publication date: 2007-10-05
RRP: £19.99
Price: £9.64
Review The Pillars of the Earth / Macmillan Digital Audio:
Creator: Marcella Riordan
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2004-09-30
Dewey code: 808
RRP: £10.99
Price: £4.93
Review The Life and Poetry of W.B.Yeats (Naxos Audio) / Naxos AudioBooks:
Publication date: 2007-11-05
RRP: £12.72
Price: £8.80
Review Agatha Raisin: The Potted Gardener and the Walkers of Dembley: v. 2 (BBC Audio Crime) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Publication date: 2009-03-26
RRP: £9.77
Price: £6.83
Review 8th Confession (Womens Murder Club 8) / Random House Audiobooks:
Creator: Author
Publication date: 2001-08-06
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £12.72
Price: £7.06
Review The Lady in the Van (BBC Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:Life imitates art in The Lady in the Van, the story of the itinerant Miss Shepherd, who lived in a van in Alan Bennett's driveway from the early1970s until her death in 1989. It is doubtful that Bennett could have made up the eccentric Miss Shepherd if he tried, but his poignant, funny but unsentimental account of their strange relationship is akin to his best fictional screen writing. Bennett concedes that "One seldom was able to do her a good turn without some thoughts of strangulation", but as the plastic bags build up, the years pass by and Miss Shepherd moves into Bennett's driveway, a relationship is established which defines a certain moment in late 20th-century London life which has probably gone forever. The dissenting, liberal, middle-class world of Bennett and his peers comes into hilarious but also telling collision with the world of Miss Shepherd: "there was a gap between our social position and our social obligations. It was in this gap that Miss Shepherd (in her van) was able to live". Bennett recounts Miss Shepherd's bizarre escapades in his inimitable style, from her letter to the Argentinean Embassy at the height of the Falklands War, to her attempts to stand for Parliament and wangle an electric wheelchair out of the Social Services. Beautifully observed, The Lady in the Van is as notable for Bennett's attempts to uncover the enigmatic history of Miss Shepherd, as it is for its amusing account of her eccentric escapades. -Jerry Brotton.
Publication date: 2005-03-21
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £7.00
Price: £4.24
Review A Pocket Full of Rye (BBC Radio Collection: Crimes and Thrillers) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Publication date: 2001-06-04
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £12.72
Price: £7.14
Review Dick Barton: BBC Radio's First Superhero: Special Agent (BBC Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
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