Creator: Jenny Agutter
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2001-09
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £57.52
Price: £54.64
Review Music and Silence: Complete & Unabridged / Chivers Audio Books:Rose Tremain deserves a Hallelujah chorus dedicated just to her: a decade after the appearance of Restoration-and with a range of stunning novels and short story collections before and after it-now comes her glorious and enthralling Music and Silence. This treasure house of delights, as haunting as it is pleasurable, teems with characters, real and imagined; with intrigues, searches, betrayals, in vivid scene after scene which loop in and out, back and forth, like overlapping and repeated chords. King Christian IV of Denmark is, in the year of 1630, living in a limbo of fear and rage for his life, his country's ruin, and his wife's not-so-secret adultery. He consoles himself with the weaving of impossible dreams and with music-played by his Royal Orchestra in the freezing cellar at Rosenborg while he listens in his cosy Vinterstue above. Music, he hopes, will create the sublime order he craves. Kirsten, his devious wife, is a continual maker of Beautiful Plans to outwit, avenge, feed her greed. And she detests music. The awkward duty of assuaging the King's miseries falls to his English lutenist, Peter Claire, his "Angel", whilst Emilia Tilsen must bend to Kirsten's every whim. Yet what Peter and Emilia seek is each other, largely in silence both necessary and cruelly imposed. Other stories, each of them full of fabulous and often joyful and witty invention, intertwine through the Royal Court's machinations: the King's mother who hoards her gold in secret; his boyhood friend, Bror, a tormenting memory; the villagers who suffer and wait in the frozen Numedal; Emilia's mute young brother Marcus. [+]And in Ireland, Johnnie O'Fingal, once a kind father and husband, is driven mad by hearing music of utter divinity in his dreams, but which neither he nor Peter Claire can make earthbound. His devoted but spirited wife has distracted herself with Claire, but now finds herself rejected. Palpable with desire and longing, this extraordinary narrative builds its grand themes in storytelling that is both profound and wonderfully satisfying. -Ruth Petrie.
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 1998-08-01
Dewey code: 158
RRP: £8.99
Price: £14.60
Review How to Get What You Want / Simon & Schuster:
Creator: Robert Hardy
Edition: Abridged Ed
Publication date: 1997-04-21
Dewey code: 813
Price: £10.99
Review H.M.S. "Surprise" / HarperCollins Audio:
Creator: Carole Boyd
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 1997-06
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £11.74
Price: £13.73
Review White Magnolia: Complete & Unabridged / Chivers Audio Books:
Creator: Alec McCowen
Publication date: 1995-02-23
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £9.99
Price: £49.82
Review The Old Curiosity Shop (Penguin Classics) / Penguin Audiobooks:
Creator: Neville Jason
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 1996-11
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £9.99
Price: £1.95
Review Within a Budding Grove: Pt. 2 (Modern Classics) / Naxos AudioBooks:
RRP: £5.99
Price: £5.00
Review Bonnie Prince Charlie and the '45 (Tell-A-Tale Collection S.) [CASSETTE]:
Publication date: 2003-08-04
RRP: £8.99
Price: £8.54
Review Jessica's Girl / Headline:
Creator: Pam Ferris
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2003-10-02
Dewey code: 813
Price: £9.99
Review The Queen and I / Penguin Audiobooks:
Creator: Juliet Stevenson
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 1996-02
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £7.99
Price: £5.99
Review Northanger Abbey (Classic fiction) / Naxos AudioBooks:
Creator: Lindsay Sandison
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 1996-08-30
RRP: £65.95
Price: £67.94
Review Appassionata (Complete and Unabridged - 22 Audio Cassettes): Ref Iab 960807 / ISIS Gold Audio Books:
Creator: Tim Pigott-Smith
Edition: Abridged Ed
Publication date: 1999-10-04
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £14.99
Price: £8.78
Review Stonehenge: A Novel of 2000 BC / HarperCollins Audio:From the earliest times, human beings have looked at the sun and the moon, and at life and death, and have imagined gods who control such things, and looked for ways to control those gods. In Stonehenge, Bernard Cornwell, famous for his novels about Rifleman Sharpe's adventures in the Napoleonic wars and for a sequence of brutally realistic Arthurian novels, considers the men and women who built Stonehenge and Avebury. These stone circles are impressive enough today; but all the more so if you imagine shifting stones from Wales to Salisbury Plain by raft and roller, dressing them with burning fat and grindstones, hauling the lintel stones up tiers of platforms. "The oxen were goaded again, and, finger's breadth by finger's breadth, the huge stone eased forward until half of it was poised and then the oxen tugged once more and Saban was shouting at the beasts' drivers to halt the animals because the stone was tipping at last. For a heartbeat, it seemed to balance on the ramp's edge, then its leading half crashed down onto the timbers, then the great boulder slid down the ramp to lodge against the hole's face. " It is the story of Saban, made architect against his will; of his brothers Lengar, the aspiring conqueror and Camaban, the cripple-turned-magician. It is the story of Derrewynn, princess-turned-witch, and Aurenna, sacrifice-turned-priestess queen. Stonehenge is an epic tale of people as smart as us, inventing religion and mythology and forcing their wills on the world and each other. -Roz Kaveney.
Creator: Timothy West
Publication date: 1992-09
Price: £43.42
Review Flashman: Complete & Unabridged / Chivers Audio Books:
Creator: TBC
Publication date: 2009-09
RRP: £9.99
Price: £9.99
Review Dead Famous / HarperCollins Audio:
Creator: Maggie Mash
Publication date: 2004-05
RRP: £25.95
Price: £27.94
Review A Good Wife / Soundings:
Creator: Simon Russell Beale
Publication date: 2002-02-28
RRP: £12.99
Price: £0.50
Review Godchildren (Tape) / Orion:
Creator: Jenny Agutter
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2001-04
Dewey code: 823.912
RRP: £53.99
Price: £55.98
Review I Capture the Castle: Complete & Unabridged (Chivers Sound Library) / Chivers Audio Books:
Creator: Michael Jayston
Publication date: 2001-12
RRP: £43.42
Price: £45.41
Review Stand into Danger: Complete & Unabridged / Chivers Audio Books:
Creator: Frances Barber
Edition: Abridged Ed
Publication date: 1996-09
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £9.99
Price: £29.78
Review Moll Flanders (Penguin Classics) / Penguin Audiobooks:
Publication date: 2003-12-01
RRP: £8.99
Price: £8.50
Review A Little Badness / Headline:
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Music and Silence: Complete & Unabridged, How to Get What You Want, H.M.S. "Surprise", White Magnolia: Complete & Unabridged, The Old Curiosity Shop (Penguin Classics), Within a Budding Grove: Pt. 2 (Modern Classics), Bonnie Prince Charlie and the '45 (Tell-A-Tale Collection S.) [CASSETTE], Jessica's Girl, The Queen and I, Northanger Abbey (Classic fiction), Appassionata (Complete and Unabridged - 22 Audio Cassettes): Ref Iab 960807, Stonehenge: A Novel of 2000 BC, Flashman: Complete & Unabridged, Dead Famous, A Good Wife, Godchildren (Tape), I Capture the Castle: Complete & Unabridged (Chivers Sound Library), Stand into Danger: Complete & Unabridged, Moll Flanders (Penguin Classics), A Little Badness |
