Creator: Irene Worth
Publication date: 1994-10-24
Dewey code: 811
RRP: £8.99
Price: £3.90
Review Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats / HarperCollins Audio:
Publication date: 2005-07-04
RRP: £14.67
Price: £4.67
Review Small Island / Headline Review:
Creator: Pam Ferris
Publication date: 2003-12-04
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £12.72
Price: £5.75
Review Intrigue In The Village (Tape) / Orion:
Authors
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Arthur Conan Doyle
Edition: Abridged edition
Publication date: 2000-10-05
RRP: £17.99
Price: £9.99
Review Sherlock Holmes (Audio Assembly) / Penguin Audiobooks:
Creator: Francis Matthews
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2000-08
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £29.84
Price: £29.84
Review The White Cottage Mystery: Complete & Unabridged / Chivers Audio Books:
Publication date: 2003-02-03
RRP: £8.80
Price: £7.40
Review Her Father's Sins / Headline:
Creator: Brian Cox
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2000-11-30
Price: £8.99
Review The Time Machine: Unabridged (Penguin Modern Classics) / Penguin Audiobooks:Herbert George Wells had a shoddy education, worked unwillingly as a draper's assistant and then as a chemist's assistant, for which he acquired sufficient Latin in a five-hour burst of study. He then studied science and became a teacher, but was rendered semi-invalid by a football accident, and was finally forced into authorship by a burst blood-vessel in his lungs. A born fighter, he immediately produced The Time Machine, which is now regarded as the best of all his books, and whose intellectual audacity is extraordinary, given the primitive scientific ambiance of 1895. The inventor-hero announces to a group of friends that the geometry they learned at school was a misconception, and promises-despite their incredulity-that he will prove experimentally that time is the fourth dimension. He produces a minute machine, points out two levers marked "past" and "future" and presses one, whereupon the model grows indistinct and then vanishes. He then shows them the full-scale machine in which he himself will time-travel. Eight days later he reappears dirty, hungry, bleeding, and exhausted: with poetic intensity he describes the sun jerking from solstice to solstice while the moon spins through her quarters. The world he has visited was divided into a soft, idle aristocracy and a vicious underclass of murderous workers: in other words, a powerful social allegory reflecting his own innate radicalism. Brian Cox's reading is both convincing and gripping, as he relives his helpless headlong flight to the world of AD 802701. -Betty Tadman.
Creator: Alan Cumming
Publication date: 1996-07-11
RRP: £8.99
Price: £7.99
Review Mr. Norris Changes Trains (Penguin Classics) / Penguin Audiobooks:
Publication date: 2003-06-02
RRP: £8.80
Price: £7.50
Review Whistledown Woman / Headline:
Creator: Martin Jarvis
Publication date: 1995-10-26
Price: £8.99
Review A Dog's Life (Penguin audiobooks) / Penguin Audiobooks:
Creator: Stephen Thorne
Publication date: 1994-03
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £36.37
Price: £56.38
Review To Love and be Wise: Complete & Unabridged (Inspector Grant Mysteries) / Chivers Audio Books:
Creator: Robert Hardy
Edition: Abridged edition
Publication date: 1999-11-01
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £10.99
Price: £4.40
Review Blue at the Mizzen / HarperCollins Audio:Why do the sea-faring adventure novels of Patrick O'Brian enjoy such a phenomenally devoted readership? Actually, O'Brian enthusiasts can take their pick from a variety of qualities of excellence: the sheer command of writing technique; the adroit characterisation of his heroes, every bit as rich and well-rounded as anything in serious fiction; and, of course, the bracingly-realised atmosphere of the sea on which the author sets his tales of derring-do. The latest volume, Blue at the Mizzen, represents an even greater refinement of O'Brian's art. His long-time protagonist Jack Aubrey is about to achieve his ambition. Unusually, his finances are in good order and his professional life is ship-shape. But as he reaches the upper echelons of the Captain's list, his prospects of gaining that final promotion are in the balance. In the powder-keg revolutionary atmosphere of South America, his shipmate Stephen Maturin is coming to terms with the loss of his wife by throwing himself into the intelligence work he so enjoys. Both men become involved in a series of labyrinthine intrigues, splendidly punctuated by the action that O'Brian delivers so well. And the writing is as non-pareil as ever: "Then came the repeated broadsides: this was not the dumb show of usual practice at divisions, but the shattering din of battle, the flashing stabs of fire, the shriek of each gun's very dangerous recoil, the heady scent of powder-smoke along the decks. " Blue at the Mizzen is a treat for lovers of O'Brian and a perfect introduction for those who have not yet read him. -Barry Forshaw.
Run time: 120 min.
Creator: IAIN CUTHBERTSON
Publication date: 1994
Review DIARY OF A NOBODY (THE TIMES AUDIO LIBRARY) / CASTLE:
Publication date: 1995-07
Price: £35.59
Review Lord of the Flies: Complete & Unabridged / Chivers Word for Word Audio Books:
Publication date: 2002-08-26
Dewey code: 813.54
Price: £12.99
Review Bedtime Stories / Sounds True Inc.,U.S.:
Creator: Susannah Harker
Publication date: 2003-02-20
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £13.70
Price: £3.99
Review A Country Affair / Orion:
Creator: Carole Boyd
Publication date: 2006-04-05
RRP: £13.70
Price: £10.94
Review A Village Feud (Tape) / Orion:
Creator: Anton Lesser
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 1997-02
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £9.78
Price: £8.99
Review Hard Times (Classic fiction) / Naxos AudioBooks:
Creator: Gerard McSorley
Publication date: 2000-09-28
RRP: £12.72
Price: £0.01
Review Turlough / Random House Audiobooks:As famine and plague sweep across Ireland, and foreign oppressors drive the people from their land, one man spreads a message of hope and courage. Through his words and music, the 17th-century bard Turlough Carolan bewitches, shocks and delights all who hear him, winning fame and notoriety throughout the land. A complex man, Turlough's musical skills are matched only by his capacity for hell-raising and strong drink. Blind from an early age, his life is a protest against darkness, in all its forms. As Turlough and those who have loved him take stock of his life, it becomes apparent that this was no drunken troubadour, but a troubled saint. Turlough represents a bold leap from the factual-journalistic world of Keenan's previous book, An Evil Cradling. But the two worlds are curiously entwined-for while he was held hostage in Beirut, Keenan was visited by a spiritual presence whom he believes to have been the real-life Turlough Carolan. This fictional account of the bard's life is a personal homage-steeped in powerful imagery and vibrant with historical colour, the ghostly presence of its hero can be felt on every page. Mysticism has never been so entertaining. -Matthew Baylis.
Creator: Niamh Cusack
Edition: Abridged edition
Publication date: 1999-07-10
Price: £8.99
Review Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married / Penguin Audiobooks:Lucy Sullivan is your basic fun-loving type of gal, so when her coworkers suggest a trip to the fortune teller, she goes along for the ride. Since Lucy is less than impressed by the rather pedestrian psychic, Mrs. Nolan, she doesn't give much credit to the prediction of a marriage in her near future. But when the fortunes of her friends come true, she begins to consider her male companions with a new eye. The gorgeous Gus has potential, if he can overcome his aptitude for imbibing and his reliance on the dole. Jed, the fresh new employee at work, has his charms-and a healthy sense of co-dependency. And of course there's always Daniel, a reliable friend with a wicked sense of humour and a devilish history with women. But before Lucy can start picking out China patterns, she needs to sort out her feelings for the first man in her life, her father. Though Lucy has always seen her father as good-hearted and fun-spirited, Lucy's mother has endured decades of his unpredictability and alcoholism with lessening patience. When her mother leaves him, Lucy steps in where her mother left off-and learns some hard lessons about relationships and responsibility. [+]Like Nick Hornby and Helen Fielding, Marian Keyes uses complementary touches of humour and humanity to capture the essence of singlehood in modern London. Keyes's sharp dialogue and the rich, internal development of her characters will both entertain and inspire singletons everywhere-from office gossip and erratic roommates ("I wouldn't have liked to live in her head, it must have been a dark, lonely, frightening place. You could walk for miles and miles without meeting a single intelligent thought. ") to bizarre blind dates and bittersweet realisations, Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married is a grand success. -Nancy R E O'Brien.
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