Creator: Michael Kramer
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2006-12-15
Dewey code: 973.7349
RRP: £35.49
Price: £24.83
Review The Gettysburg Gospel: The Lincoln Speech That Nobody Knows / Tantor Media, Inc:
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2008-05-08
Dewey code: 975.302
RRP: £12.49
Price: £7.04
Review Washington Burning: How a Frenchman's Vision of Our Nation's Capital Survived Congress, the Founding Fathers, and the Invading British Army / Tantor Media, Inc:
Edition: Har/Com
Publication date: 2005-12-15
Dewey code: 782
RRP: £14.91
Price: £4.03
Review Carmen (Black Dog Opera Library) / Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers Inc:
Authors
- Flagtower Multimedia
- Cmflg 9
Price: £21.53
Review War in the Pacific C/Win/Us / Full Gospel Bible Inst:
Creator: Simon Vance
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2006-08-22
Dewey code: 932
RRP: £30.49
Price: £18.45
Review Mountains of the Pharaohs: The Untold Story of the Pyramid Builders / Tantor Media, Inc:
Edition: 4
Publication date: 2003-10-01
Price: £28.99
Review 4 CD Set / Prentice Hall:
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 2005-04
Dewey code: 305.244
RRP: £11.95
Price: £2.06
Review The Red Hat Society: Fun and Friendship After Fifty / Time Warner AudioBooks:
Creator: Anna Massey
Publication date: 2002-02-04
Dewey code: 941
Price: £12.99
Review This Sceptred Isle: Dynasties: Britain's Most Powerful Families Vol 1 (BBC Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:This Sceptred Isle: The Dynasties is Christopher Lee's third book on British history taken from BBC Radio 4 series. The first was a bracing gallop through the centuries from the Roman invasion to the death of Victoria, the second a more leisurely chronicle of the country in the 20th century. Both were solidly traditional in their commitment to narrative and to the decisive impact of great men (and, occasionally, great women) on events. This third book on the country's most powerful families necessarily makes even clearer Lee's belief that the story of the nation is to be found in the actions of great individuals. From the Godwines of late Anglo-Saxon England through the Mortimers of medieval warfare and the Cecils of Tudor politicking to the Churchills and Russells of more modern times, he traces the stories of 15 power-broking families in a series of self-contained chapters. The book has its faults. Because many of the families coincided in the times of their greatness, the reader gets some of the same stories (from the Glorious Revolution, for example) told again and again beyond the point where repetition seems valuable. There are too many paragraphs outlining aristocratic genealogy in the sort of detail that only those who read Burke's Peerage for pleasure will find enjoyable. But Lee's narrative skill, his sense of character and gift for choosing the stories to best illustrate it, all combine to produce a book that conveys vividly, and often brilliantly, the power that a handful of families have wielded in British history. -Nick Rennison.
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2005-11-07
RRP: £25.00
Price: £15.40
Review This Sceptred Isle: Empire: 1155-1783 v. 1 (Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2007-03-12
RRP: £43.47
Price: £45.46
Review The Good Old Days / Oakhill Publishing Limited:
Creator: Simon Vance
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2006-12-01
Dewey code: 813.6
RRP: £30.49
Price: £21.07
Review The Book of Samson / Tantor Media, Inc:
Creator: Todd McLaren
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2007-01-01
Dewey code: 813.54
RRP: £40.49
Price: £28.61
Review The Sky People / Tantor Media, Inc:
Authors
- Queen of Great Britain Victoria
Publication date: 2002-11-15
RRP: £11.99
Price: £11.99
Review Leaves from the Highland Journals of Queen Victoria / Greenpark Media Ltd:
Creator: Stephen Hoye
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2006-12-01
Dewey code: 333.8232
RRP: £19.49
Price: £11.02
Review Internal Combustion: How Corporations and Governments Addicted the World to Oil and Subverted the Alternatives / Tantor Media, Inc:
Creator: Timothy West
Publication date: 2004-11-11
Dewey code: 355
RRP: £50.01
Price: £47.50
Review Forgotten Voices of the Second World War (CD box set) / Random House Audiobooks:
Creator: Carole Boyd
Publication date: 2004-04
RRP: £49.95
Price: £49.95
Review My East End / BBC Audiobooks:The heart of the East End has always been Tower Hamlets; Gilda O'Neill is enough of a partisan to regard even Hackney as a bit out of bounds. My East End starts with the earliest times-the East of London has always been where dirty industry congregated, downstream from the Court and Parliament, and it has always been where incomers started, from Flemings in the Middle Ages to Bengalis today. The greater part of this excellent book, though, is not a competent academic run through of the sources, but an invaluable collection of oral history, in which pensioners talk about the classic East End of late Victorian times and the inter-war period, a time when grinding poverty could just about be survived with luck, when people were forced to live in each other's pockets and children played around the open door of their homes until all hours: "There was always a jigsaw on the go and everyone that called had a go at putting some pieces in. Nanny usually came round on Friday nights and always brought a bag of sweets-winter warmers-and, as she was going home, she would call out 'Goodnight, kidlets'. I said that when I grew up I would go out singing in the streets and buy her a pair of blue bloomers. " O'Neill is fascinating about both the positive and negative sides of a way of life that went forever when families were moved out to housing estates on the fringes of London and about the parts of it that have survived into a new multi-cultural East End; My East End is a good book because it has an unsnobbish respect for the voices it draws on. -Roz Kaveney.
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2006-08-13
RRP: £38.77
Price: £38.77
Review The Gamblers / Oakhill Publishing Limited:
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 2006-10-26
Dewey code: 509
RRP: £17.99
Price: £7.19
Review Love That Works: The Art and Science of Giving / Templeton Foundation Press (Div. of John Templeton:
Creator: Christopher Lee
Publication date: 2002-03-04
Dewey code: 900
Price: £12.99
Review This Sceptered Isle: Dynasties Vol 4 (BBC Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:This Sceptred Isle: The Dynasties is Christopher Lee's third book on British history taken from BBC Radio 4 series. The first was a bracing gallop through the centuries from the Roman invasion to the death of Victoria, the second a more leisurely chronicle of the country in the 20th century. Both were solidly traditional in their commitment to narrative and to the decisive impact of great men (and, occasionally, great women) on events. This third book on the country's most powerful families necessarily makes even clearer Lee's belief that the story of the nation is to be found in the actions of great individuals. From the Godwines of late Anglo-Saxon England through the Mortimers of medieval warfare and the Cecils of Tudor politicking to the Churchills and Russells of more modern times, he traces the stories of 15 power-broking families in a series of self-contained chapters. The book has its faults. Because many of the families coincided in the times of their greatness, the reader gets some of the same stories (from the Glorious Revolution, for example) told again and again beyond the point where repetition seems valuable. There are too many paragraphs outlining aristocratic genealogy in the sort of detail that only those who read Burke's Peerage for pleasure will find enjoyable. But Lee's narrative skill, his sense of character and gift for choosing the stories to best illustrate it, all combine to produce a book that conveys vividly, and often brilliantly, the power that a handful of families have wielded in British history. -Nick Rennison.
Creator: Dick Hill
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2006-12-01
Dewey code: 910.916346
RRP: £35.49
Price: £22.77
Review When the Dancing Stopped: The Real Story of the Morro Castle Disaster and Its Deadly Wake / Tantor Media, Inc:
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