Run time: 150 min.
Creator: max adrian
Publication date: 1984
Review all's well that ends well (shakespeare)marlowe dramatic society / argo:complete text audio cassette version by the marlowe dramatic society.
Creator: Ken Howard
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 1997-08-28
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £15.99
Price: £37.54
Review Three Past Midnight: The Library Policeman (Penguin audiobooks) / Penguin Audiobooks:
Creator: Tony Britton
Publication date: 1992-08
Dewey code: 813
Price: £48.12
Review Ross Poldark: A Novel of Cornwall, 1783-1787 (Poldark 1) (Audiobook) / Chivers Audio Books:
Creator: Author
Publication date: 1999-12
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £10.00
Price: £6.63
Review Mr. MacGregor / Simon & Schuster Audio:
Creator: Christian Rodska
Publication date: 1999-07-01
RRP: £8.80
Price: £4.34
Review Tenth Man Down / Random House Audiobooks:Ex-commando, Chris Ryan, did three extensive tours with the SAS as an "assaulter", "sniper" and "Sniper Team Leader" before becoming a bestselling thriller writer. His hands-on field experience makes a definitive mark in his writing and is personified in the character of Geordie Sharp, an everyman's Rambo. In the fifth episode, Tenth Man Down, Sharp finds himself on his toughest assignment yet: to reclaim a lucrative African diamond mine held by Kamangan rebels and escape the evil spell of a Sin'ganga or witch doctor. To make matters worse, as Sharp and his men move in, they discover the rebels are being supported by ex-US Navy SEAL mercenaries. As they try and uncover the hidden agenda, Sharp is taken prisoner with comrade-in-arms, Whinger. In line with the Sin'ganga's predictions, Whinger is brutally slaughtered, leaving Sharp to break the conspiracy and reunite with his team alone. Ryan's mean, lean, fast-moving prose is filled with colourful military descriptors and salute- inducing narrative: "I wanted to introduce him to Pen-y-Fen, the mountain whose silhouette is supposed to be graven on every Special Forces man's heart. " And for those not familiar with military jargon and the Kamangan dialect, there's also a glossary to guide you through thorny verbiage. Akin to reading a solider's diary, the action in The Tenth Man Down is gritty, straightforward and believable. -Susan Queue.
Creator: Diana Quick
Edition: Abridged edition
Publication date: 1997-10-29
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £10.99
Price: £7.25
Review The God of Small Things / HarperCollins Audio:In her first novel, award-winning Indian screenwriter Arundhati Roy conjures a whoosh of wordplay that rises from the pages like a brilliant jazz improvisation. The God of Small Things is nominally the story of young twins Rahel and Estha and the rest of their family, but the book feels like a million stories spinning out indefinitely; it is the product of a genius child-mind that takes everything in and transforms it in an alchemy of poetry. The God of Small Things is at once exotic and familiar to the Western reader, written in an English that's completely new and invigorated by the Asian Indian influences of culture and language.
Creator: etc.
Publication date: 2004-04-01
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £13.70
Price: £6.13
Review The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time: Adapted for Audio, Partly Dramatised, Complete Story / Random House Audiobooks:
Creator: Ken Howard
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 1997-08-28
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £15.99
Price: £37.54
Review Three Past Midnight: The Library Policeman (Penguin audiobooks) / Penguin Audiobooks:
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2002-02
Dewey code: 810.80896073
RRP: £8.99
Price: £3.43
Review Voices of Black America (Naxos Audio) / Naxos AudioBooks:
Creator: Nicholas Barnes
Edition: Abridged edition
Publication date: 1993-10-04
Price: £8.80
Review Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years (BBC Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Edition: Multitrack
Publication date: 1986-01-01
Dewey code: 813.54
Price: £26.95
Review Valley of the Horses / Brilliance Corporation:
Creator: Christian Rodska
Publication date: 2000-07-06
RRP: £8.80
Price: £2.99
Review The Hit List / Random House Audiobooks:Despite a derivative plot, The Hit List has a solid backbone derived from author (and ex-SAS) Ryan's explicit knowledge of death-laden situations. Armed with the vivid technical detail of raw experience, danger is omnipresent, evaded only by finely tuned intuition and training, rather than by well-worn cliché. This is marvellously evident in Neil Slater, the Ex-SAS serviceman whose chances at a peaceful life are shattered when he is approached by elite assassination squad "The Cadre", who need his anti-social skills in dispatching "enemies of the State". Slater is under no illusion about what he is and, as such, is a perfect vessel for Ryan's hardened brand of realism, thrust into situations where each act of violence is measured to provoke an exact response. Ryan's tale translates well to audio format, losing little of the tension and thrills that are so abundant in the novel. Christian Rodska's gravelly tones and enthusiastic reading certainly evoke the tension a tale like this demands. However, you might question Rodska's penchant for providing all the characters with their relevant accents. Mostly, it works, but it's unfortunate that his interpretation of an Eastern European woman sounds like a splicing of Monty Python and Zsa Zsa Gabor. However, that's forgivable, hardly detracting from this gripping, intense glimpse into an all-too-possible underworld of intrigue and extreme violence. -Danny Graydon Though The Hit List addresses the old chestnut of the military professional who cannot escape his true calling, it's got a solid backbone derived in no small part from ex-SAS author Ryan's explicit knowledge of death-laden situations. [+]Armed with the vivid technical detail that raw experience provides, danger leaps off the page, evaded only by finely tuned intuition and training, rather than by some well-worn cliché. This is marvellously evident in Neil Slater, the ex-SAS serviceman whose chances at a peaceful life are shattered when he is approached by elite assassination squad "The Cadre", who have use for his anti-social skills in dispatching "enemies of the State". Slater is under no illusion of what he is, comfortable in the "Darklands", despite the psychological difficulties it causes him. More than a emotionally-barren, pain-thriving superman-Slater bleeds, he suffers, but all the time he is the battle-honed professional. As such, he is a perfect vessel for Ryan's hardened brand of realism, thrust into situations where each act of violence is measured to provoke an exact response: Slater shot Pasquale through the top of the arch of his right foot. The pain, he knew, would be extreme. and the shock would be sufficient to break any resistance immediately. Such realism is accentuated by Ryan's use of real-life figures, with the late Robert Maxwell's plot-pivotal appearance being chillingly appealing as well as being an excellent hook, given his conspiracy strewn legacy. Another hugely enjoyable offering from Ryan, whose fluid translation of his adventurous past to gritty bullet-paced fiction offers a feast for the reader who craves a glimpse into an underworld of intrigue and extreme violence. -Danny Graydon.
Creator: Paul McGann
Publication date: 1996-10-21
Dewey code: 813
Price: £25.00
Review The Regeneration: Trilogy / HarperCollins Audio:
Creator: Alex Jennings
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2004-02-02
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £7.99
Price: £7.15
Review Our Mutual Friend / Hodder & Stoughton Audio Books:
Creator: Terence Allbright
Publication date: 2000-08-07
Price: £10.75
Review A Room with a View: BBC Radio 4 Full-cast Dramatisation (BBC Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Creator: Terence Allbright
Publication date: 2000-08-07
Price: £10.75
Review A Room with a View: BBC Radio 4 Full-cast Dramatisation (BBC Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Creator: Lynn Redgrave
Publication date: 1997-04-03
RRP: £9.99
Price: £3.99
Review Snow in April / Hodder & Stoughton Audio Books:
Creator: Hugh Laurie
Edition: Abridged edition
Publication date: 1998-09
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £10.99
Price: £8.23
Review Three Men in a Boat / CSA WORD:
Publication date: 2002-10-03
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £10.75
Price: £7.99
Review Liberation Day / Random House Audiobooks:
Creator: Jon Nicholson
Edition: Abridged edition
Publication date: 1999-12-10
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £8.80
Price: £0.55
Review Sinister Tide / Macmillan Audio Books:
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