Creator: Christopher Kay
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 1997-05
RRP: £47.95
Price: £49.94
Review The Pillow Fight: Unabridged / Soundings:
Creator: Anne Heche
Publication date: 2000-03-02
RRP: £14.99
Price: £1.64
Review The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon / Hodder & Stoughton Audio Books:Stephen King has been for so long the master of the thick blockbuster horror paperback that it is salutary to be reminded of the quieter writer of shorter, tighter stories that he also is. His new novella could hardly be simpler-a nine-year-old girl, smart and resourceful, gets herself lost in the deep woods when she strays off the path for a moment and struggles to survive with a little food, not especially sensible clothing and a Walkman. One of the threats dogging Trisha is her imagination-she is an smart enough child to know how much trouble she is in and gradually to personify the wasps, and midges and dangerous animals, as a God of the Lost. And that imagination is also her strongest resource-she has a baseball cap signed by the Red Sox pitcher Tom Gordon, which becomes her talisman. This is a story of almost pure sentiment and suspense; King has always had fascinating insight into the minds of children and a command of detail that makes him the ideal writer of certain sorts of shipwreck. The almost minimal material here-a single character, what she has on her, and deep woods-make this one of his most gripping and compulsive tales. -Roz Kaveney.
Creator: Simon Callow
Edition: Abridged Ed
Publication date: 1996-01-22
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £10.99
Price: £12.00
Review Riotous Assembly / HarperCollins Audio:
Run time: 120 min.
Creator: alan arkin
Publication date: 1985
Review catch 22 / listen for pleasure:two cassette audio book of joseph heller's serious but brilliantly funny novel about the absurdity of war
Creator: Adjoa Andoh
Publication date: 2003-11-13
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £14.99
Price: £2.68
Review The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency (No 1 Ladies Detective Agency 1) / Time Warner AudioBooks:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2001-01-12
Dewey code: 813
Price: £8.99
Review The Angels Weep / Macmillan Audio Books:
Creator: Hugh Fraser
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2003-04-22
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £14.99
Price: £1.49
Review The Mystery of the Blue Train / HarperCollins Audio:
Creator: Various Artists
Publication date: 2000-07
Dewey code: 822
RRP: £8.99
Price: £0.23
Review Historical Shakespeare Recordings: Audio Cassettes / Naxos AudioBooks:
Creator: Amanda Redman
Edition: Abridged Ed
Publication date: 1999-07-09
RRP: £8.99
Price: £2.50
Review Warhol's Prophecy / Macmillan Audio Books:
Creator: Simon Callow
Edition: Abridged Ed
Publication date: 2000-08-31
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £8.99
Price: £5.93
Review Jeeves in the Offing / Penguin Audiobooks:Written in 1960, Jeeves In The Offing finds PG Wodehouse's best-loved characters on as fine form as ever. With Jeeves on holiday, Bertie Wooster accepts an invitation to Brinkley Court, where he hopes to pass a few pleasant days. However, there is little time to relax when the visit turns out to involve Bertie's ex-headmaster, a former fiancée, an eccentric playboy, and a purloined cow-shaped creamer. Bertie struggles to master the situation, but soon enough he needs to call for the assistance of his butler. The supremely competent Jeeves saves the day as usual, able to assess any situation in a moment and dispense the appropriate advice. He guides his employer safely through numerous trials, with a great deal of humour derived from the very triviality of the obstacles which must be overcome, as well as the comic ways in which the difficulties are resolved. Simon Callow's reading captures the characters' nuances perfectly-the Butler's "Very good, sir" and "Indeed, sir" (for example) have just the right measure of professional respectfulness, studied disinterest, and a slightly superior air. As with the other cassettes in the Penguin series, Jeeves In The Offing provides a wonderful rendition of Wodehouse's expertly-crafted material. -John Oates.
Creator: David Rintoul
Edition: Abridged Ed
Publication date: 1995-12-04
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £10.99
Price: £1.95
Review Rebel (The Starbuck Chronicles) / HarperCollins Audio:
Creator: Robert Hardy
Edition: Abridged Ed
Publication date: 1997-04-21
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £10.99
Price: £6.59
Review H.M.S. "Surprise" / HarperCollins Audio:
Creator: Clifford Norgate
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 1993-11
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £48.12
Price: £90.50
Review Envious Casca: Complete & Unabridged / Chivers Audio Books:
Creator: Patricia Hodge
Edition: Abridged Ed
Publication date: 2000-04-17
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £10.99
Price: £1.00
Review Marrying the Mistress / HarperCollins Audio:The court official leaned closer. "'What's gone past', he said 'is not just an advocate, any old lady advocate. What's gone past is his Honour's totty'. " And what's going past is the life of Guy Stockdale, a 62-year-old judge, who has been married forever, has two sons-Simon and Alan-and three grandchildren. For the past seven years, he's also had a mistress; Merrion Palmer is intelligent, attractive and half Guy's age, which also makes her younger than both Simon and Alan. Her dad died when she was a toddler and she's well aware that Guy is something of a father substitute. For years the role of mistress has suited her but then, suddenly, this style of relationship isn't enough for either of them. They've both had enough of sneaking around and avoiding people, so Guy has momentously made up his mind to leave his wife Laura and marry Merrion. Marrying the Mistress dives into the shock waves that buffet the Stockdale family after Guy leaves Laura. The novel addresses the question of how his sons are going to cope, the explosive opinions of his forthright daughter-in-law Carrie and what his teenage grandchildren make of it all. [+]Can any of them avoid taking sides? Should they? And what about the abandoned wife Laura, a woman apparently so long-sufferingly self-sacrificing she makes Mother Teresa look selfish?From queen of the aga saga Joanna Trollope comes a dexterous portrayal of the causes and effects of marital breakdown: the stresses, the battle of wills, the bitterness and personal growth, the renegotiation of relationships-and an exposure of the depths to which the moral high ground can sink. -Lisa Gee.
Creator: James Saxon
Publication date: 1994-03
RRP: £43.42
Price: £39.00
Review Death at the Bar: Complete & Unabridged / Chivers Audio Books:
Creator: Caroline Hunt
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 1999-03
Dewey code: 813
Price: £43.42
Review The Convenient Marriage: Complete & Unabridged / Chivers Audio Books:
Edition: Abridged Ed
Publication date: 1999-09-14
RRP: £29.99
Price: £3.29
Review Hearts in Atlantis / Hodder & Stoughton Audio Books:Stephen King's collection of five stories about '60s kids reads like a novel. The best is "Low Men in Yellow Coats," about Bobby Garfield of Harwich, Connecticut, who craves a Schwinn for his 11th birthday. But his widowed mum is impoverished and so bitter that she barely loves him. King is as good as Spielberg or Steven Millhauser at depicting an enchanted kid's-eye view of the world, and his Harwich is realistically luminous to the tiniest detail: kids bashing caps with a smoke-blackened rock; a car grille "like the sneery mouth of a chrome catfish"; a Wild Mouse carnival ride that makes kids "simultaneously sure they were going to live forever and die immediately. " Bobby's mum takes in a lodger, Ted Brautigan, who turns the boy on to great books such as Lord of the Flies. Unfortunately, Ted is being hunted by yellow-jacketed men-monsters from King's Dark Tower novels who take over the shady part of town. They close in on Ted and Bobby, just as a gang of older kids menace Bobby and his girlfriend, Carol. This pointedly echoes the theme of Lord of the Flies (the one book King says he wishes he'd written): war is the human condition. Ted's mind-reading powers rub off a bit on Bobby, granting nightmare glimpses of his mum's assault by her rich, vile, jaunty boss. King packs plenty into 250 pages, using the same trick Bobby discerns in the film Village of the Damned: "The people seemed like real people, which made the make-believe parts scarier. [+]" Vietnam is the otherworldly horror that haunts the remaining four stories. In the title tale, set in 1966, University of Maine college kids play the card game Hearts so obsessively they risk flunking out and getting drafted. The kids discover sex, rock and politics, become war heroes and victims, and spend the '80s and '90s shell-shocked by change. The characters and stories are criss-crossed with connections that sometimes click and sometimes clunk. The most intense Hearts player, Ronnie Malenfant ("evil infant"), perpetrates a My Lai-like atrocity; a nice Harwich girl becomes a radical bomber. King's metaphor for lost '60s innocence is inspired by Donovan's "sweet and stupid" song about the sunken continent, and his stories hail the vanished Atlantis of his youth with deep sweetness and melancholy intelligence. -Tim Appelo.
Creator: David Rintoul
Edition: Abridged Ed
Publication date: 1995-12-04
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £10.99
Price: £4.95
Review Copperhead (The Starbuck Chronicles) / HarperCollins Audio:
Creator: Billie Whitelaw
Publication date: 1996-05-30
RRP: £8.99
Price: £2.75
Review An Experiment in Love (Penguin Audiobooks) / Penguin Audiobooks:
Creator: Brad Pitt
Edition: Abridged Ed
Publication date: 1996-09-16
RRP: £10.99
Price: £1.00
Review The Crossing / HarperCollins Audio:
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