Creator: J.Donald Walters
Publication date: 1999-09
Dewey code: 808
Price: £27.99
Review "Rubaiyat" of Omar Khayyam Explained / Clarity Sound & Light:
Creator: Simon Russell Beale
Publication date: 1999-06-30
Price: £19.57
Review The Keys to the Street: Complete & Unabridged / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Creator: Warren Clarke
Edition: Abridged edition
Publication date: 1996-02-05
Dewey code: 823.914
RRP: £8.99
Price: £12.93
Review Therapy (Penguin audiobooks) / Penguin Audiobooks:
Creator: Daniella Nardini
Edition: Abridged edition
Publication date: 2000-03-20
RRP: £10.99
Price: £3.99
Review Emotionally Weird / HarperCollins Audio:
Publication date: 1986-06
Review Smurfs: Smurf's Daydream / I.J.E. Book Publishing/Kid Stuff:
Run time: 180 min.
Creator: alan king
Publication date: 1995
Review a stranger in the mirror(sidney sheldon)read by alan king / redback:2 tape set,3 hours,redback books. Toby Temple is a superstar, the world's funniest man. He gets any woman that he wants, but under the superstar image is a lonely man. Jill Castle is a sensuous starlet. She has a dark and mysterious past and has an ambition even greater than Toby's. Together they rule Hollywood.
Creator: David Suchet
Publication date: 1992-05-21
RRP: £17.62
Price: £8.99
Review Murder on the Orient Express: Complete & Unabridged (Word for word audio books) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Run time: 113 min.
Creator: various
Publication date: 1992
Price: £10.00
Review a midsummer night's dream(complete incidental music and play (audiobook) / nimbus:dramatic performance of william shakespeare's comedy with complete incidental music by mendelssohn. rare title. nimbus records. 1 hour 53 minutes long.
Publication date: 1944-01
Review A Bell for Adano / Books on Tape:
Creator: Jeremy Sinden
Publication date: 1993-04
Dewey code: 813
Price: £36.37
Review Galahad at Blandings: Complete & Unabridged (Blandings Castle) / Chivers Audio Books:
Creator: Simon Russell Beale
Publication date: 1997-07
Price: £42.49
Review The Keys to the Street: Complete & Unabridged / Chivers Audio Books:
Creator: Delia Lindsay
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 1997-10
Dewey code: 813
Price: £11.74
Review Mask of Innocence: Complete & Unabridged (Moonlight Romance Cassettes) / Chivers Audio Books:
Publication date: 1979-01
Review Smiley's People / Books on Tape:
Creator: Terry Wale
Publication date: 2004-07
RRP: £37.95
Price: £89.57
Review Captain at Arms / Ulverscroft Large Print:
Publication date: 1920-01
Review Ulysses (Cass) 2 Tapes Joyce, James / HarperCollins,Australia:Ulysses has been labelled dirty, blasphemous and unreadable. In a famous 1933 court decision, Judge John M. Woolsey declared it an emetic book-although he found it not quite obscene enough to disallow its importation into the United States-and Virginia Woolf was moved to decry James Joyce's "cloacal obsession". None of these descriptions, however, do the slightest justice to the novel. To this day it remains the modernist masterpiece, in which the author takes both Celtic lyricism and vulgarity to splendid extremes. It is funny, sorrowful, and even (in its own way) suspenseful. And despite the exegetical industry that has sprung up in the last 75 years, Ulysses is also a compulsively readable book. Even the verbal vaudeville of the final chapters can be navigated with relative ease, as long as you're willing to be buffeted, tickled, challenged and (occasionally) vexed by Joyce's astonishing command of the English language. Among other things, a novel is simply a long story, and the first question about any story is "What happens?" In the case of Ulysses, the answer could be "Everything". William Blake, one of literature's sublime myopics, saw the universe in a grain of sand. [+]Joyce saw it in Dublin, Ireland, on June 16, 1904, a day distinguished by its utter normality. Two characters, Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom, go about their separate business, crossing paths with a gallery of inforgettable Dubliners. We watch them teach, eat, loiter, argue and (in Bloom's case) masturbate. And thanks to the book's stream- of-consciousness technique-which suggests no mere stream but an impossibly deep, swift-running river- we're privy to their thoughts, emotions and memories. The result? Almost every variety of human experience is crammed into the accordion-folds of a single day, which makes Ulysses not just an experimental work but the very last word in realism. Both characters add their glorious intonations to the music of Joyce's prose. Dedalus's accent-that of a freelance aesthetician, who dabbles here and there in what we might call "Early Yeats Lite"- will be familiar to readers of Portrait of an Artist As a Young Man. But Bloom's wistful sensualism (and naïve curiosity) is something else entirely. Seen through his eyes, a rundown corner of a Dublin graveyard is a figure for hope and hopelessness, mortality and dogged survival: "Mr Bloom walked unheeded along his grove by saddened angels, crosses, broken pillars, family vaults, stone hopes praying with upcast eyes, old Ireland's hearts and hands. More sensible to spend the money on some charity for the living. Pray for the repose of the soul of. Does anybody really?" -James Marcus.
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Review The Old Man And The Sea / Books on Tape Inc.:
Creator: Terrence Hardiman
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 1997-11-30
Price: £17.62
Review Service of All the Dead: Complete & Unabridged (Inspector Morse Mysteries (Audio)) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Publication date: 1992-01
Price: £35.08
Review After the Act: Unabridged / Magna Story Sound:
Creator: Isla Blair
Edition: Abridged edition
Publication date: 1996-04-22
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £13.90
Price: £8.30
Review House of Echoes / HarperCollins Audio:
Edition: Film tie-in edition
Publication date: 2002-09-06
RRP: £8.99
Price: £2.00
Review Divine Secrets of the Ya-ya Sisterhood / Macmillan Audio Books:Siddalee Walker's mother Vivi disowns her daughter when a reporter, who interviews the 40-year-old, successful director, describes her mother as a "tap dancing child abuser". Devastated, Sidda postpones her wedding. The Ya-Yas, Vivi's strong circle of friends since childhood, are horrified and agree to send Siddalee the scrapbook of "Divine Secrets" to try and help her to understand her mother and herself. Sidda submerges herself in the wild, wondrous and wicked world of the Ya-Yas as she reads through half-a-century's worth of letters and clippings contained in the Ya-Ya Sisterhood's parcel of "Divine Secrets". Middle-class Louisiana quakes as the quartet makes its way through adolescence: from being disqualified from the Shirley-Temple-look-a-like competition because Teensy did a "poot", to attending the premiere of Gone with the Wind in Atlanta, only for Vivi's hoop skirt, "much to her confusion, to go entirely over the head of the person sitting in the seat in front of her", to spending a night in jail after floating naked on a hot southern evening in the town's water cooler. Rebecca Wells, author of Little Altars Everywhere (in which Siddalee Walker describes the anguishes of childhood), has created a beautifully crafted, penetrating insight into society, friendship, the mother/daughter divide and religion. No subject is taboo as you dip in and out of the lives of Vivi, Teensy, Caro and Necie-the Ya Yas. -Nicola Perry.
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