Creator: Terrence Hardiman
Publication date: 2000-06
RRP: £48.12
Price: £50.11
Review The Remorseful Day: Complete & Unabridged / Chivers Audio Books:
Creator: Martin Jarvis
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 1995-10
Price: £4.25
Review Leave It Up to Psmith / Leopard Books:
Creator: Hugh Fraser
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2003-09-15
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £14.99
Price: £8.96
Review Cards on the Table: Complete & Unabridged / HarperCollins Audio:
Publication date: 2003-05-01
RRP: £9.99
Price: £1.85
Review Barracuda 945 / Random House Audiobooks:With Barracuda 945 Patrick Robinson takes many of the testosterone-fuelled certainties of the modern military thriller and turns them vehemently on their heads. Confronted with a massacre of Palestinian civilians by the sorely provoked Israeli troops he is advising (but who will not listen to him) SAS commander Ray Kerman rediscovers his long-lost Islamic roots, turns on his own men and defects, for good. What follows is a disaster-not for the world of Islamic fundamentalism into which he slips as neatly as a shark into a welcoming ocean but for the West which trained him. Robinson proceeds to demonstrate how a properly trained commander trusted by the Iranian ayatollahs and their terrorist proxies could do damage so much more severe than 9/11 that it takes the breath away. This feels like the first of a sequence-Ray Kerman becomes Ravi Rashood, finds true love and works mischief while half a world away a CIA analyst puts the story together and plans some eventual come-uppance. This is an interesting thriller because Robinson has some real political agendas, however reactionary they may be, and because he has a certain sense of how things work. -Roz Kaveney.
Creator: Terrence Hardiman
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 1996-02
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £36.37
Price: £38.36
Review The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn: Complete & Unabridged / Chivers Audio Books:
Creator: Robert Hardy
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 2001-01-04
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £5.99
Price: £12.25
Review Gulliver's Travels - Hodder Headline Audiobooks (Classic Collection) / Hodder & Stoughton Audio Books:
Creator: Christopher Lee
Edition: Abridged Ed
Publication date: 1998-06-15
Dewey code: 823.8
RRP: £10.99
Price: £5.99
Review Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire and Other Stories (Sherlock Holmes) / HarperCollins Audio:
Creator: Laura Brattan
Publication date: 1997-11-10
Price: £12.99
Review Windfall (Tape) / Orion:
Edition: Library Ed
Publication date: 1990-01
Dewey code: 823
RRP: £36.37
Price: £38.36
Review The Dead of Jericho: Complete & Unabridged / Chivers Audio Books:
Authors
- Mike Walker
- Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
Edition: Abridged Ed
Publication date: 2000-06-05
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £9.99
Price: £24.99
Review Crime and Punishment: A BBC Radio 4 Full-cast Dramatisation (BBC Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:"For those who have vision and the courage to follow it, there is no law and no crime and no punishment, only a revaluation of all values. " So declares Rodya Raskolnikov the young Russian intellectual living in ugly poverty. In order to eat, he is forced to pawn precious possessions for a few roubles to the greedy "cockroach", Alyona. If he kills her, Rodya argues, he commits no crime: rather he will rid the world of a "filthy insect", just like one of the cockroaches the listener can hear being crushed beneath his boots. As Alyona examines Rodya's silver cigarette case, he brings his axe down upon her with the horrifying sound of steel hitting human flesh. Despite this not being a crime, Rodya suffers fearful guilt-and inevitable punishment. It is Sonya, the abused young woman forced into prostitution by her drunken father, who holds the power of Rodya's redemption. Dramatisation is a superb vehicle for this tense psychological masterpiece and the performances are powerful: the baiting of Rodya by Jim Norton as Petrovich, the police officer who suspects Rodya's guilt, is chilling; while Barnaby Kay skilfully conveys Rodya's duality as his human conscience, breathless with panic, argues with his controlled and truculent intellect. -Running time approx 2 hours 50 minutes-Rachel Redford.
Creator: Francis Jeater
Publication date: 2003-09-29
RRP: £11.98
Price: £6.65
Review The Waves (Modern Classics) / Naxos AudioBooks:
Creator: Christopher Ravenscroft
Publication date: 1995-02
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £36.37
Price: £38.36
Review A Guilty Thing Surprised: Complete & Unabridged / Chivers Audio Books:
Creator: Eleanor Bron
Publication date: 1996-11-22
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £9.99
Price: £6.75
Review Confusion / Macmillan Audio Books:
Edition: Abridged Ed
Publication date: 2002-11-04
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £10.99
Price: £24.00
Review Anita and Me / HarperCollins Audio:
Creator: Martin Jarvis
Edition: Abridged Ed
Publication date: 1992-01
Price: £8.99
Review Uncle Fred in the Springtime / Random House Audiobooks:
Publication date: 2003-10-01
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £11.00
Price: £6.63
Review The Lottie Project (Radio Collection) / Cover to Cover Cassettes Ltd:Eve Karpf reads veteran children's author Jacqueline Wilson's The Lottie Project in this unabridged three-cassette pack. This is the story of Charlie, a bright and happy young girl on the brink of change, told with a brilliant combination of comedy, poignancy and a touch of history. For her Victorian history project, Charlie hits upon the idea of writing the diary of Lottie, a young Victorian serving girl. When her mother, Jo, loses her job as a shop manageress and starts work as a cleaner, Charlie's previously happy and comfortable lifestyle is threatened and she finds that her own hardships and struggles are not so different from Lottie's. The Lottie Project is at once entertaining and intelligent. By eloquently capturing Charlie's anxiety as she faces up to her new and uncertain future, Wilson's talent for taking an important topic and treating it with respect and humour as she pushes her characters forward is again harnessed in this touching, human story. Running time is four hours 40 minutes. -Susan Harrison In The Lottie Project veteran children's author Jacqueline Wilson brilliantly combines comedy, poignancy and a touch of history as she tells the story of Charlie, a bright and happy young girl on the brink of change. For her Victorian history project, Charlie hits upon the idea of writing the diary of Lottie, a young Victorian serving girl. When her mother, Jo, loses her job as a shop manageress and starts work as a cleaner, Charlie¹s previously happy and comfortable lifestyle is threatened and she finds that her own hardships and struggles are not so different from Lottie's. [+]The Lottie Project is at once entertaining and intelligent. By eloquently capturing Charlie's anxiety as she faces up to her new and uncertain future, Wilson's talent for taking an important topic and treating it with respect and humour as she pushes her characters forwards is again harnessed in this touching, human story. -Susan Harrison.
Creator: Jonathan Cecil
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 1999-04
Dewey code: 813
Price: £36.37
Review Psmith Journalist: Complete & Unabridged / Chivers Audio Books:
Creator: Lesley Manville
Publication date: 2002-11-08
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £9.99
Price: £0.98
Review Double Deal / Macmillan Audio Books:
Publication date: 2003-09-04
RRP: £13.99
Price: £0.99
Review The Sea, the Sea / Random House Audiobooks:
Publication date: 2003-11-06
RRP: £19.99
Price: £11.39
Review Gervase Phinn 2 Giftset: "The Other Side of the Dale", "Over Hill and Dale", "Head Over Heels in the Dales" No.2 / Penguin Audiobooks:
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The Remorseful Day: Complete & Unabridged, Leave It Up to Psmith, Cards on the Table: Complete & Unabridged, Barracuda 945, The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn: Complete & Unabridged, Gulliver's Travels - Hodder Headline Audiobooks (Classic Collection), Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire and Other Stories (Sherlock Holmes), Windfall (Tape), The Dead of Jericho: Complete & Unabridged, Crime and Punishment: A BBC Radio 4 Full-cast Dramatisation (BBC Radio Collection), The Waves (Modern Classics), A Guilty Thing Surprised: Complete & Unabridged, Confusion, Anita and Me, Uncle Fred in the Springtime, The Lottie Project (Radio Collection), Psmith Journalist: Complete & Unabridged, Double Deal, The Sea, the Sea, Gervase Phinn 2 Giftset: "The Other Side of the Dale", "Over Hill and Dale", "Head Over Heels in the Dales" No.2 |
