Publication date: 1999-03-01
Dewey code: 813.52
Price: £19.66
Review Tortilla Flat / Penguin Books Australia Ltd:
Creator: Martin Jarvis
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 1995-07-24
Dewey code: 813
Price: £9.99
Review A Quiver Full of Arrows: Henry's Hiccough/A Matter of Principle/The Hungarian Professor/The Perfect Gentleman/The Century/The First Miracle v. 2 / HarperCollins Audio:
Creator: Fine Time Fontayne
Publication date: 1994-08-01
Price: £7.66
Review Richard Matthewman -Tales From a South Yorkshire Pit Village (BBC Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Creator: Steven Hartley
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 1999-03
Price: £31.95
Review Cracker: To Say I Love You: Complete & Unabridged / ISIS Audio Books:
Creator: James Frain
Publication date: 2002-07-15
RRP: £13.99
Price: £4.88
Review Rebecca's Tale / HarperCollins Audio:
Creator: Robert Hardy
Edition: Abridged Ed
Publication date: 1999-07-19
Dewey code: 813
Price: £10.99
Review The Nutmeg of Consolation / HarperCollins Audio:Shipwrecked! When Captain Aubrey and his crew run aground on a remote island, they labour to construct a seaworthy schooner from the wreckage (taking breaks, of course, to play cricket). Their subsequent adventures lead them to the dreaded penal colony at Botany Bay, and then, as always, back to sea.
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 1986-12
RRP: £25.95
Price: £25.95
Review Almonds and Raisins: Hopes and Dreams No.1 (Almonds & Raisins) / Soundings:
Creator: Henry Goodman
Edition: Abridged Ed
Publication date: 2002-10-31
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £13.00
Price: £1.36
Review Autograph Man / Penguin Audiobooks:In her second novel, The Autograph Man, Zadie Smith has set herself the unenviable task of following up a certain segment of recent literary history. Her first novel, the bestselling, award-laden and much-hyped White Teeth wore its ambitions lightly: an exuberant comic foray into the lives of three disparate families living in suburban north London, it dealt simultaneously-and deftly-with wider multicultural and political motifs. The Autograph Man has a similar ebullience and an equally dazzling panoply of characters. Its hero Alex Li-Tandem is "one of this generation who watch themselves", a Chinese-Jewish north Londoner who is first introduced as a child accompanying his father to a wrestling match between those two larger-than-life scions of 1970s Saturday afternoon television-Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks. When Alex's father dies in the pandemonium surrounding the pursuit of Big Daddy's autograph, the twin themes of the novel are launched-one is the bereaved Alex's search for a replacement to fill the gulf, the other his obsession with tracking down, buying and selling autographs. Alex seeks one autograph in particular and seemingly in vain-that of Kitty Alexander, a fading film star. The route he follows in his search has much to say about the nature of celebrity and the privacy of souls, of fantasy and reality-all narrated in Smith's breathless prose. The Autograph Man plays on many strands and clever observations-in particular Jewishness, goyishness and Zen Buddhism. Smith is a superbly assured writer whose images stick in the mind; for example, Alex's girlfriend Esther has "hair plaited like a puzzle". The dialogue is vivid and there is much humour but at times the convoluted plot threatens to spill over into anarchy and the humour can be self-conscious. [+]Though this does not diminish the entertainment value of The Autograph Man, it does-frustratingly-make it appear insincere. -Catherine Taylor.
Creator: Hugh Fraser
Publication date: 2005-08-15
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £10.99
Price: £4.00
Review The "Mysterious Mr Quin": "The Shadow on the Glass" and Other Stories: Complete & Unabridged / HarperCollins Audio:
Authors
- Alighieri Dante
- Dante Alighieri
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 1999-09
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £9.99
Price: £0.02
Review Paradise from "The Divine Comedy" (Great Epics) / Naxos AudioBooks:
Creator: Colin Buchanan
Publication date: 2000-08-21
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £10.99
Price: £0.04
Review Man and Boy / HarperCollins Audio:"Some situations to avoid when preparing for your all-important, finally-I-am-fully-grown thirtieth birthday. Having a one-night stand with a colleague from work. The rash purchase of luxury items you can't afford. Being left by your wife. Losing your job. Suddenly becoming a single parent. If you are coming up to 30, whatever you do, don't do any of that. It will fuck up your whole day. So begins Man and Boy, Tony Parson's foray into fiction. Or non-fiction. [+]Rumoured to be a roman à clef, the well-known journalist and broadcaster writes the story of a successful TV executive who brings up his child alone after a failed marriage-much like Parson's own life. Harry Silver, the book's anti-hero, has it all: a beautiful wife, an angelic son and a high-paying job. His life is just about perfect, until one night he casually sleeps with a slim redheaded coworker who has "that kind of fine Irish skin that is so pale it looks as though it has never seen the sun". After the fateful night, his life falls apart. He loses his job and his wife in rapid succession, and finds himself a single, unemployed parent. It is an excellent education for a man who up until now has been immature and irresponsible, and Parsons has some strong points to make about the puerility of far too many contemporary males: "Being a man is like being chained to the village idiot. " At times he piles on the disasters and plot-twists a little too thickly, but the ending is wildly romantic, redemptive and optimistic. In other words, Harry grows up. - Christopher Hart.
Creator: Margaret Sircom
Publication date: 2001-11-15
RRP: £44.95
Price: £46.94
Review A Pair of Sparkling Eyes: Complete & Unabridged / Story Sound:
Creator: Phyllida Nash
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 1999-12
Dewey code: 823.912
RRP: £43.42
Price: £64.57
Review The Talisman Ring: Complete & Unabridged (Vet) / Chivers Audio Books:
Creator: Laura Paton
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 1996-03
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £11.99
Price: £6.98
Review Anna Karenina (Classic Fiction) / Naxos AudioBooks:
Creator: Thora Hird
Publication date: 1990-06-04
Price: £4.00
Review The Big Alfie and Annie Rose Storytape / Collins Audio:
Publication date: 2001-10-01
RRP: £9.99
Price: £6.98
Review Christmas Pilcher / Hodder & Stoughton Audio Books:
Creator: Robert Hardy
Edition: Abridged Ed
Publication date: 1998-07-20
Dewey code: 813
Price: £10.99
Review Treason's Harbour / HarperCollins Audio:This segment of the Aubrey saga is set in Malta, where the captain's "small, sweet-sailing frigate" is undergoing repairs. The island, however, is swarming with Napoleonic agents, which means that Stephen Maturin must do everything in his power to avert sabotage. A typical O'Brian cocktail of action and intrigue.
Creator: Miriam Margolyes
Publication date: 2001-01
RRP: £36.37
Price: £38.36
Review Bliss and Other Stories: Complete & Unabridged / Chivers Audio Books:
Publication date: 2003-09-04
RRP: £13.99
Price: £0.01
Review Pompeii / Random House Audiobooks:
Creator: Simon Callow
Edition: Abridged Ed
Publication date: 2002-11-28
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.98
Review Aunts Aren't Gentlemen / Penguin Audiobooks:
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