Publication date: 1993-09
RRP: £12.00
Price: £22.66
Review Anne Sexton Reads... / Atlantic Books:
Creator: Frances Barber
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 1997-04
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £53.99
Price: £29.99
Review Mansfield Park: Complete & Unabridged / Chivers Word for Word Audio Books:
Publication date: 2005-10-27
RRP: £9.99
Price: £1.95
Review A Wayne in a Manger / Penguin Books Ltd:
Publication date: 2003-01-06
RRP: £8.99
Price: £7.99
Review My Lover's Lover / Headline Review:Maggie O'Farrell was heralded as a major new writer with her debut novel, After You'd Gone. And here she is with My Lover's Lover, demonstrating again her extraordinary talent. The coda to the novel's final part is Evelyn Waugh's "To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom". It's the choices and chances, the compromises and delusions, made in the search for love that preoccupy O'Farrell's central characters. The setting is 30-something London, New York, and rural China. Lily and Marcus meet at a gallery opening; almost the day after, they're sharing his chic loft, and soon after that, his bed. But if this sounds like chick-lit, any similarities end here. Narrated in four parts, O'Farrell moves adeptly from third to first person, from present to past to future. Through Lily's account in the first section, a claustrophobic fear pulsates: she is haunted by Marcus's previous lover, Sinead, who seems to be everywhere-"The flat seems sticky with Sinead's fingerprints. [Lily] doesn't know what to do. [+]" But according to Marcus, Sinead "is no longer with us". On every page, O'Farrell's transcription of the body as register of the emotions, of fear and desire, is breathtaking. Language dissects and insinuates; revelations unfurl and double back. Sinead's incredulity at Marcus's being "not exactly faithful" and Marcus's old friend Aidan's consternation at his own secret longings are described with such tactility, such spare suggestiveness that these lovers' tales take on a brooding, yet haphazard quality. O'Farrell is an insightful and passionate chronicler of human emotions. It's compulsive and thrilling stuff. -Ruth Petrie.
Publication date: 1998-05-20
RRP: £7.99
Price: £3.00
Review Inspector Morse: Deceived by Flight (Mci Talk Now) / Music Collection International:
Creator: June Whitfield
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2003-06-05
Dewey code: 813
Price: £9.99
Review At Home in Thrush Green / Penguin Audiobooks:
Creator: June Whitfield
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2001-08-06
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £11.00
Price: £2.49
Review They Do It with Mirrors: BBC Radio 4 Full-cast Dramatisation (BBC Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Creator: Jacqueline King
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 1993-07
RRP: £41.95
Price: £43.94
Review Liverpool Lou: Unabridged / Soundings:
Creator: Peter Marinker
Publication date: 1996-01
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £48.12
Price: £19.44
Review Snow Falling on Cedars: Complete & Unabridged / Chivers Audio Books:
Creator: Steven Mackintosh
Edition: Abridged Ed
Publication date: 2000-01-27
RRP: £8.99
Price: £0.01
Review The Beach / Penguin Audiobooks:In our ever-shrinking world, where popular Western culture seems to have infected every nation on the planet, it is hard to find even a small niche of unspoiled land-forget searching for pristine islands or continents. This is the situation in Alex Garland's debut novel, The Beach. Human progress has reduced Eden to a secret little beach near Thailand. In the tradition of grand adventure novels, Richard, a rootless traveller rambling around Thailand on his way somewhere else, is given a hand-drawn map by a madman who calls himself Daffy Duck. He and two French travellers set out on a journey to find this paradise. What makes this a truly satisfying novel is the number of levels on which it operates. On the surface it's a fast-paced adventure novel; at another level it explores why we search for these utopias, be they mysterious lost continents or small island communes. Garland weaves a gripping and thought-provoking narrative that suggests we are, in fact, such products of our Western culture that we cannot help but pollute and ultimately destroy the very sanctuary we seek. -Amazon. com In our ever-shrinking world, where popular Western culture seems to have infected every nation on the planet, it is hard to find even a small niche of unspoiled land-forget searching for pristine islands or continents. [+]This is the situation in Alex Garland's debut novel, The Beach. Human progress has reduced Eden to a secret little beach near Thailand. In the tradition of grand adventure novels, Richard, a rootless traveller rambling around Thailand on his way somewhere else, is given a hand-drawn map by a madman who calls himself Daffy Duck. He and two French travellers set out on a journey to find this paradise. What makes this a truly satisfying novel is the number of levels on which it operates. On the surface it's a fast-paced adventure novel; at another level it explores why we search for these utopias, be they mysterious lost continents or small island communes. Garland weaves a gripping and thought-provoking narrative that suggests we are, in fact, such products of our Western culture that we cannot help but pollute and ultimately destroy the very sanctuary we seek. -Amazon. com.
Creator: Julie Christie
Publication date: 1995-06-29
RRP: £9.99
Price: £14.98
Review Far from the Madding Crowd (Penguin Classics) / Penguin Audiobooks:
Creator: Cornelius Garrett
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2001-08
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £48.12
Price: £61.71
Review Royal Escape: Complete & Unabridged / Chivers Audio Books:
Publication date: 1999-10
Price: £43.42
Review Beloved: Complete & Unabridged / Chivers Audio Books:
Creator: Christian Rodska
Publication date: 2001-07-05
RRP: £8.99
Price: £4.49
Review The Watchman / Random House Audiobooks:
Creator: Bronwen Williams
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 1997-09
RRP: £41.95
Price: £43.94
Review From This Day Forth: Unabridged / Soundings:
Creator: John Lithgow
Publication date: 1994-09
Price: £12.99
Review Disclosure / Random House Audiobooks:
Creator: Diana Bishop
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 1997-02
RRP: £47.95
Price: £49.94
Review One More for Saddler Street: Unabridged / Soundings:
Creator: Cornelius Garrett
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2002-09
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £43.42
Price: £68.99
Review Beauvallet / Chivers Audio Books:
Creator: Patricia Jones
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 1997-12
RRP: £55.95
Price: £57.94
Review Ironmonger's Daughter: Unabridged / Soundings:
Creator: Juliet Stevenson
Publication date: 1995-06-01
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £6.99
Price: £12.99
Review Pride and Prejudice (The Classic Collection) / Hodder & Stoughton Audio Books:Elizabeth Bennet is the perfect Austen heroine: intelligent, generous, sensible, incapable of jealousy or any other major sin. That makes her sound like an insufferable goody-goody, but the truth is she's a completely hip character who ,if provoked, is not above skewering her antagonist with a piece of her exceptionally sharp, yet always polite, 18th-century wit. The real point of the book though, the critical question which will keep you fixated throughout, is: will Elizabeth and Mr Darcy hook up? Read this genuine all-time classic and discover the answer while enjoying a story that has charmed generation after generation.
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