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Review Chivers Audio Books / Vintage Murder: Complete & Unabridged (Roderick Allen Mystery)

Vintage Murder: Complete & Unabridged (Roderick Allen Mystery) (Chivers Audio Books)

Authors

Ngaio Marsh

Creator: James Saxon
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 1999-12
Dewey code: 823
RRP: ~~£43.42~~
Price: £45.41

Review Vintage Murder: Complete & Unabridged (Roderick Allen Mystery) / Chivers Audio Books:

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Review Hodder & Stoughton Audio Books / The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon (Hodder & Stoughton Audio Books)

Authors

Stephen King

Creator: Anne Heche
Publication date: 2000-03-02
RRP: ~~£14.99~~
Price: £1.58

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.

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Review Macmillan Audio Books / Nobody True

Nobody True (Macmillan Audio Books)

Authors

James Herbert

Creator: Jonathan Firth
Publication date: 2003-09-10
Dewey code: 813
RRP: ~~£9.99~~
Price: £3.39

Review Nobody True / Macmillan Audio Books:

The title Nobody True is a complicated set of puns on its own plot; adman Jimmy True has no body because he was off on one of his regular astral jaunts when someone stuck him through the heart and carved him up like meat. His rather privileged position as an invisible observer of his own murder investigation enables him to discover uncomfortable truths about almost everyone he knows-his wife, his young daughter, his business partner-and a darker set of truths about the serial killer whose victim he appears to be. Jimmy has many problems with trust-his paranoid mother and absent father have seen to that-and at first his posthumous experiences confirm all his worst dreads. This is a book about learning valuable lessons and not thinking simple versions of the truth are necessarily the most accurate ones; it is among the most odd Herbert horror thrillers and like several of his best books has an attractive emotional core underneath all the gore and nightmare. Occasional wordiness and too much occultist waffle about dreaming, death and soul travel do not stop this also being intermittently one of his most gripping. -Roz Kaveney.

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Review Hodder & Stoughton Audio Books / Hearts in Atlantis

Hearts in Atlantis (Hodder & Stoughton Audio Books)

Authors

Stephen King

Edition: Abridged Ed
Publication date: 1999-09-14
RRP: ~~£29.99~~
Price: £9.99

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.

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A Blunt Instrument: Complete & Unabridged (Chivers Audio Books)

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