Creator: Dawn French
Publication date: 2005-01-03
Dewey code: 808
RRP: £15.99
Price: £5.21
Review A Certain Age: Women's Monologues v. 1 (BBC Audio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Publication date: 2006-08-10
RRP: £14.99
Price: £2.50
Review Selected Poems / Hodder & Stoughton:
Creator: Eanna MacLiam
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2002-04-30
Dewey code: 792.102908
RRP: £10.99
Price: £5.88
Review Port Authority (Classic Drama) / Naxos AudioBooks:
Creator: Hannah Gordon
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2004-07-31
Dewey code: 792.102908
RRP: £16.44
Price: £7.46
Review Pygmalion (Classic Drama) / Naxos AudioBooks:
Edition: Com Disc
Publication date: 2006-02-10
Dewey code: 821
RRP: £13.99
Price: £9.22
Review A Wind Harp: Poems / Otago University Press:
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2004-01-30
Dewey code: 808
RRP: £19.99
Price: £29.35
Review Doll's House, A / Audio Book Contractors:
Creator: Amanda Root
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2006-01-09
Dewey code: 822
RRP: £10.99
Price: £9.77
Review Much Ado About Nothing (Arkangel Complete Shakespeare) / Audio Partners Publishing:
Authors
- Naxos AudioBooks
- William Shakespeare
Publication date: 1998-02-26
Dewey code: 792.2302908
RRP: £19.96
Price: £13.38
Review A Midsummer Night's Dream CD set: Performed by Warren Mitchell & Cast (New Cambridge Shakespeare Audio) / Cambridge University Press:
Publication date: 1995-06-12
RRP: £9.99
Price: £6.00
Review Hamlet / Argo:
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2005-10-04
Dewey code: 792.102908
RRP: £29.95
Price: £8.72
Review Collected Bowrie, the: 1 / Random House Audio Assets:
Creator: Benedict Flynn
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2005-01
Dewey code: 808
RRP: £19.96
Price: £9.49
Review Paradise: From "The Divine Comedy" / Naxos AudioBooks:
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2000-07-31
Dewey code: 808
Price: £24.00
Review Glass Menagerie / HarperCollins:
Authors
- Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Booker T. Washington
- Langston Hughes
Publication date: 2002-02-28
Dewey code: 810.80896073
RRP: £10.55
Price: £4.89
Review Voices of Black America (Naxos Audio) / Naxos AudioBooks:
Creator: Douglas Hodge
Publication date: 2008-10-15
RRP: £12.99
Price: £12.99
Review Rupert Brooke: His Life and Poetry (Csa Word Classic) / CSA WORD:
Authors
- Naxos AudioBooks
- William Shakespeare
Publication date: 2001-05-03
Dewey code: 808
RRP: £19.96
Price: £14.21
Review King Richard III 3 CD Set (New Cambridge Shakespeare Audio) / Cambridge University Press:
Creator: Elizabeth Bell
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2003-03-07
Dewey code: 811
RRP: £8.99
Price: £14.99
Review The World's Wife / Macmillan Audio Books:Elvis's wimpled sister rocks on in a convent she calls Graceland; Nancy Sinatra gets out her boots made for walking with the Kray Sisters; Mrs Midas misses the touch of her now dangerous golden-handed husband; and Queen Herod decrees the killing of each mother's son to protect her baby daughter in Carol Ann Duffy's startling new collection The World's Wife. Doubling is one of the most common themes-and stylistic ploys-of Western culture and thought, and the concept around which Duffy has ingeniously organised this profoundly playful collection. Mrs Midas, Mrs Aesop, Mrs Darwin, Frau Freud, Anne Hathaway, Mrs Rip Van Winkle, the Kray Sisters; these are some of the wives, and sisters, whose stories are told. These inventive, metaphorically precise poems offer much more, however, than just a recovery of the historical voice of her (supposedly) silenced indoors. Duffy dexterously rewrites Judao-Christian and classical mythologies, subverts fairytale and zestfully reinterprets the more modern myths of Darwin and Freud. Humour is the abundant keynote of this accessible collection. Mrs Rip Van Winkle enjoys the freedom to travel and paint allowed by her husband's permanent slumbers, "Until the day / I came home with pastel of Niagara / and he was sitting up in bed rattling Viagra. " Frau Freud analyses her over-exposure to "ding-a-ling, member and jock, / of todger and nudger and percy and cock," and confesses with irony to being, "as au fait with Hunt-the Salami / as Ms M. Lewinsky. " Mrs Aesop groans about her husbands unstoppable garrulousness: "By Christ, he could bore for Purgatory," and Mrs Darwin evolves the following summary her husband's research: "7 April 1852 Went to the Zoo. [+]I said to Him- Something about that Chimpanzee over there reminds me of you. " The World's Wife throws open the windows on the stuffy annals of historical myth and breezes through some of its highlights with a sense of revelry and laugh-out-loud observation. In this wry take on the historical ubiquity of heterosexual coupledom that permeates so many cultural myths, Duffy has separated vibrant women from the shadows of their more famous husbands and brothers, and divorced them from the distortions of historical silence. -Rachel Holmes.
Creator: Rachel Atkins
Publication date: 2004-04-05
Dewey code: 808
RRP: £7.00
Price: £3.75
Review The Nation's Favourite Poems of Celebration: Selection of Celebratory Verse (BBC Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Publication date: 1997-12-04
Dewey code: 808
RRP: £19.99
Price: £11.46
Review Classic FM 100 Favourite Poems / Hodder & Stoughton:
Creator: Aiden Gillen
Publication date: 1998-01-26
Price: £5.99
Review Best of Irish Poetry (Spoken Word) / ABM:
Authors
- William Shakespeare
- Naxos AudioBooks
Dewey code: 822
RRP: £19.96
Price: £13.36
Review Romeo and Juliet CD set: Performed by Michael Sheen & Cast (New Cambridge Shakespeare Audio) / Cambridge University Press:
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A Certain Age: Women's Monologues v. 1 (BBC Audio Collection), Selected Poems, Port Authority (Classic Drama), Pygmalion (Classic Drama), A Wind Harp: Poems, Doll's House, A, Much Ado About Nothing (Arkangel Complete Shakespeare), A Midsummer Night's Dream CD set: Performed by Warren Mitchell & Cast (New Cambridge Shakespeare Audio), Hamlet, Collected Bowrie, the: 1, Paradise: From "The Divine Comedy", Glass Menagerie, Voices of Black America (Naxos Audio), Rupert Brooke: His Life and Poetry (Csa Word Classic), King Richard III 3 CD Set (New Cambridge Shakespeare Audio), The World's Wife, The Nation's Favourite Poems of Celebration: Selection of Celebratory Verse (BBC Radio Collection), Classic FM 100 Favourite Poems, Best of Irish Poetry (Spoken Word), Romeo and Juliet CD set: Performed by Michael Sheen & Cast (New Cambridge Shakespeare Audio) |
