Creator: Jenny Agutter
Publication date: 1999-06-03
Dewey code: 813
Price: £9.99
Review A Sense Of Belonging (Tape): Abridged / Orion:
Creator: Robert Hardy
Publication date: 1999-08-16
Dewey code: 813
Price: £10.99
Review Clarissa Oakes / HarperCollins Audio:
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2000-10-05
Price: £20.00
Review The Stars' Tennis Balls / Random House Audiobooks:Ned Maddstone was born lucky; he is charming, handsome and on the school cricket team. In fact, Ned has everything most likely to grate with others less fortunate than himself, others who will do all they can to topple him from his elevated position. Fry takes his title from Webster's play the Duchess of Malfi: "We are merely the star's tennis balls, struck and bandied which way may please them", and Ned finds out that while fate dealt him a kind hand at birth, his luck cannot hold indefinitely. Fry's novel, which he reads in its entirety for this audio book, plots a tragic cycle of blame, retribution and just plain bad luck. Yet as this pattern builds it quickly spirals out of control; running at ten hours long this is an ambitious novel and the strain shows with Fry, who like the story's villain Ashley, frequently relies on cliché to overcome difficulties. However, if Fry's story is flawed, his reading is virtuosic. Unsurprisingly in a novel so concerned with power and status, accent is of key importance, with large sections of the novel consisting entirely of dialogue, yet Fry never resorts to caricature to differentiate between voices. Instead, he relies on precise observation of nuance and inflection creating a beautiful layering of different types of speech. It is this which most recommends Fry's reading-both as a valuable complement to the novel and as a performance in its own right. Those who know Fry best as a comic actor will not be disappointed by the sharp one-liners sprinkled throughout the piece, they may however be surprised by its darkness. [+]-Anoushka Alexander.
Creator: Rula Lenska
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 1998-03
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £39.89
Price: £41.88
Review Like We Used to Be: Complete & Unabridged / Chivers Audio Books:
Creator: Gerald Harper
Publication date: 1995-05-04
Price: £9.99
Review Immortal Beloved: The untold love story of Ludwig van Beethoven / Hodder & Stoughton Audio Books:
Publication date: 2002-02-04
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £8.99
Price: £0.01
Review Girl from the South / Bloomsbury Publishing PLC:
Creator: Trevyn McDowell
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 1995-05-18
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £9.99
Price: £24.47
Review The Steps of the Sun / Hodder & Stoughton Audio Books:
Creator: Elizabeth Henry
Publication date: 2002-01
RRP: £25.95
Price: £27.94
Review A Savage Adoration: Complete & Unabridged / Soundings:
Creator: Juliet Stevenson
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 1996-09-05
RRP: £13.00
Price: £2.99
Review Anna Karenina (Penguin Classics) / Penguin Classics:
Creator: Rosemary Davis
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2000-03-01
RRP: £41.95
Price: £43.94
Review Treasons of the Heart / ISIS Audio Books:
Creator: Gordon Griffin
Publication date: 1999-10
RRP: £34.95
Price: £36.94
Review The Village Show: Unabridged (Soundings) / Soundings:
Creator: Eleanor Bron
Publication date: 1996-11
Dewey code: 823.914
RRP: £43.42
Price: £45.41
Review Next of Kin: Complete & Unabridged / Chivers Audio Books:
Creator: Patricia Hodge
Edition: Abridged Ed
Publication date: 1993-10-25
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £10.99
Price: £1.15
Review A Spanish Lover / HarperCollins Audio:
Creator: Robert Hardy
Publication date: 1995-06
Price: £7.99
Review Master and Commander / Bespoke Audio:The opening salvo of the Aubrey-Maturin epic, in which the surgeon introduces himself to the captain by driving an elbow into his ribs during a chamber music recital. Fortunately for millions of readers, the two quickly make up. Then they commence one of the great literary voyages of our century, set against an immaculately detailed backdrop of the Napoleonic wars. This is the place to start-and in all likelihood, you won't be able to stop. -Amazon. com.
Creator: Juliet Stevenson
Publication date: 1994-09-15
Dewey code: 813
Price: £9.99
Review Pemberley / Hodder & Stoughton Audio Books:
Creator: Patricia Jones
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 1998-06
RRP: £31.95
Price: £33.94
Review The Constant Heart: Unabridged / Soundings:
Creator: Griff Rhys-Jones
Edition: Library Ed
Publication date: 1988-06
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £36.37
Price: £56.71
Review Porterhouse Blue: Complete & Unabridged / Chivers Audio Books:
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 1992-12
RRP: £34.95
Price: £24.01
Review London Pride: Unabridged v. 1 / Soundings:
Creator: Andrew Sachs
Edition: Abridged Ed
Publication date: 1993-02-22
Dewey code: 813
Price: £10.99
Review Wilt / HarperCollins Audio:
Authors
- Patrick O'Brian
- Patrick O'Brien
Edition: Abridged Ed
Publication date: 2000-03-20
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £10.99
Price: £8.00
Review The Wine-dark Sea / HarperCollins Audio:
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