Creator: Diana Quick
Edition: Abridged edition
Publication date: 1992-05-21
Price: £10.99
Review Remember / HarperCollins Audio:
Creator: Brian Cox
Edition: Abridged edition
Publication date: 1995-12-04
RRP: £10.99
Price: £5.99
Review Treasure / HarperCollins Audio:
Publication date: 2001-07-19
Price: £9.99
Review The Dog Catcher / Hodder & Stoughton Ltd:
Creator: Nigel Davenport
Publication date: 1984-04
Price: £35.59
Review No Comebacks: Complete & Unabridged / Chivers Audio Books:
Publication date: 1970-11
Price: £2.20
Review Mahler Symphonies and Songs (Music Guides) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Creator: Michael Jayston
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 1999-11
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £39.04
Price: £81.24
Review To Glory We Steer: Complete & Unabridged (Captain Richard Bolitho Adventures) / Chivers Audio Books:
Creator: John Wells
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2003-06-09
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £7.99
Price: £2.20
Review Oliver Twist / Hodder & Stoughton Audio Books:
Creator: Eleanor Bron
Edition: Abridged edition
Publication date: 1994-04-28
Dewey code: 823.8
RRP: £9.99
Price: £8.00
Review Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Penguin Classics) / Penguin Audiobooks:
Creator: Tom Stechschulte
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 1999-12
Dewey code: 813
Price: £57.52
Review Carnal Innocence / Recorded Books Inc:
Creator: Clifford Norgate
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 1990-07
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £35.59
Price: £35.59
Review Inspector West Cries Wolf: Complete & Unabridged / Chivers Audio Books:
Creator: Stephen Thorne
Edition: Library Ed
Publication date: 1996-09-15
Dewey code: 813
Price: £44.95
Review Tess of the D'Urbervilles / Cover to Cover Cassettes Ltd:
Creator: Dexter Fletcher
Edition: Abridged edition
Publication date: 2000-01-21
RRP: £8.80
Price: £0.35
Review Glamorama / Macmillan Audio Books:Glamorama is a satirical mass-murder opus more ambitious than Ellis's 1990 American Psycho. It starts as a spritz-of-consciousness romp about kid-club entrepreneur Victor Ward, "the It boy of the moment," an actor/model up for Flatliners II. Ellis has perfect pitch for glam-speak, and he gives nightlife the fizz, pace, and shimmer it lacks in drab reality. Anyone could cite the right celeb names and tunes; but like a rock-polishing machine, his prose gives literary sheen to fame-chasing air-kissers. He's coldly funny: when Victor's girl tries to argue him out of a break up, she angrily snorts six bumps of coke, stops, mutters, "Wrong vial," snorts four corrective doses from whatever she has in her other fist, then objects to a rival at the party wearing the same dress she's wearing. You had to be there; Ellis makes you feel you are. But such satire is a very smart bomb targeting a very large barn. Models' status anxiety doesn't merit Ellis's Tom Wolfe-esque expertise. Glamorama gets better when Victor gets drafted into a mysterious group of model/terrorists who bomb 747s and the Ritz in Paris, wearing Kevlar-lined Armani suits. Oh, they still behave like shallow snobs, pronouncing "cool" as if it had 12 "o"s, but now when somebody swills Cristal, it's apt to be poisoned, to horrific effect, which Ellis expertly describes. [+]His enfant-terrible debut Less Than Zero aped Joan Didion. Now Ellis has grown into a lesser Don DeLillo-and that's high praise. -Tim Appelo.
Creator: Teresa Gallagher
Publication date: 2000-07
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £8.99
Price: £2.90
Review The Biography of Jane Austen (Non Fiction) / Naxos AudioBooks:
Edition: Abridged edition
Publication date: 1998-08-06
Price: £8.80
Review Filth / Random House Audiobooks:Irvine Welsh has produced more than his share of revolting characters in his short yet spectacular writing career, but in the creation of Detective Sergeant Bruce Robertson he has surpassed himself. The protagonist of Filth is, both personally and professionally, utterly corrupt; a thief, drug user, misogynist and racist, with standards of appearance and personal hygiene that are simply beyond belief. It goes without saying that his wife and children have left him but, oddly, he still has few drinking mates, and even some of the women he so hideously abuses are still prepared to give him the benefit of the doubt. "The undeniable sexuality which is part and parcel of the complete dominance over another human being", opines the viciously selfish Robertson, is just part of what makes, "poliswork such a satisfying career. " But, strangely, as we chart his inevitable decline. from what is admittedly a very low baseline-a solid, almost conventional, underlying morality begins to assert itself. Amid the degradation we come across a hint of reason as Welsh's stunningly direct dialogue and hideously imaginative plot combine in a thrilling, undeniably unsettling novel. -Nick Wroe.
Creator: Andrew Sachs
Edition: Abridged edition
Publication date: 2005-03-07
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £13.98
Price: £13.98
Review Saturday / HarperCollins Audio:The critical response to Saturday must be making Ian McEwan a very happy man (not that his virtually unassailable position as Britain's leading novelist has been in doubt). While contemporaries (and rivals) Martin Amis and Will Self have had much more hit-or-miss records recently, each new McEwan novel gleans a host of plaudits, and Atonement has been generally hailed as his masterpiece. Saturday may not enjoy quite such acclaim, but it's a remarkably accomplished piece of work, as richly drawn and characterised as anything he has written. McEwan's protagonist is neurosurgeon Henry Perowne, a man comfortably ensconced in an enviable upper middle class existence. His wife is a successful newspaper lawyer, his daughter Daisy a budding poet. But as he wakes one Saturday morning and witnesses a plane accident through his window, he is not yet aware that this is a harbinger of a sustained assault on all that he holds dear. It's a McEwan trademark to begin his novels with a striking or violent rupture of everyday existence, but this opening is a prelude to his most impressively sustained narrative yet. It's the publication day of Henry's daughter's poetry collection, but a chance encounter with a drunken trio emerging from a lap-dancing club ends violently, even as a march against the war in Iraq streams past nearby. And this encounter with the menacing Baxter, main antagonist of the group, is to have fateful consequences. As Saturday progresses, Henry is forced to examine every aspect of his life and beliefs, not least his attitude to the war. [+]Unlike many of his peers, McEwan is not content to reduce the issues of the war to simple opposition, in which Tony Blair is characterised as a war criminal. Henry has treated a victim of Saddam's brutality, and although a comic encounter with the Prime Minister himself is a highlight of the book, both Henry (and his creator) are obliged to consider the complex skein of the conflict from all sides. While there are missteps (the poetic daughter, Daisy, is thinly drawn), McEwan's invigorating and trenchant novel is an unmissable experience. -Barry Forshaw.
Run time: 180 min.
Creator: ian holm
Publication date: 1982
Review othello (shakespeare) marlowe dramatic society:complete text audio cassette version by the marlowe dramatic society.
Publication date: 2001-04-02
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £15.65
Price: £5.00
Review Wuthering Heights : A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation (BBC Classic Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Creator: Crawford Logan
Publication date: 1996-09-26
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £9.99
Price: £28.80
Review The Woodlanders (Penguin Classics) / Penguin Audiobooks:
Creator: Juliet Stevenson
Publication date: 1994-04-05
Dewey code: 813
Price: £13.70
Review Jane Eyre (BBC Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Creator: Juliet Stevenson
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 1995-11
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £9.78
Price: £12.44
Review Mansfield Park (Classic fiction) / Naxos AudioBooks:The Mansfield Park of the title, a magnificent, idyllic estate which is home to the wealthy Bertram family, stands as a bastion of English tradition and stability. The novel's heroine, Fanny Price, is a "poor relation" living with the Bertrams, acutely conscious of her inferior status and yet daring to love their son Edmund-but from afar. However, with five marriageable young people on the premises, the peace at Mansfield cannot last. Courtships, entertainments and intrigues throw the place into turmoil, and Fanny finds herself unwillingly competing with a dazzlingly witty and lovely rival. As critic Margaret Drabble has pointed out, the house becomes "full of the energies of discord-sibling rivalry, greed, ambition, illicit sexual passion, and vanity," and the novel becomes ever more engrossing as it builds to Mansfield's final scandal and, finally, a satisfying conclusion. Unique in its moral design and brilliant interplay of the forces of tradition and change, Mansfield Park was the first novel of Jane Austen's maturity, and the first in which the author turned her unerring eye on the concerns of English society at a time of great upheaval.
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