Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 2006-08-01
Dewey code: 822
RRP: £16.44
Price: £7.25
Review Hamlet (Classic Drama) (Classic Drama) / Naxos AudioBooks:
Publication date: 2004-08-16
RRP: £28.99
Price: £24.98
Review Recorder Magic Christmas Stars: 12 Christmas Greats, Arranged in 4 Parts - Solo or Ensemble (Recorder Magic) / A & C Black Publishers Ltd:
Creator: Rachel Atkins
Publication date: 2004-04-05
Dewey code: 808
RRP: £7.00
Price: £3.64
Review The Nation's Favourite Poems of Celebration: Selection of Celebratory Verse (BBC Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Creator: Janet Maw
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 2000-03-30
Dewey code: 809
RRP: £10.99
Price: £3.99
Review Winter Words: Poetry and Personal Writings of Thomas Hardy (Poetry) / Naxos AudioBooks:
Authors
- Philip Larkin
- Kingsley Amis
Publication date: 2002-08-05
Dewey code: 808
Price: £9.00
Review Dear Philip, Dear Kingsley: Starring Alan Bennett & Robert Hardy (BBC Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Publication date: 2003-08
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £13.99
Price: £8.09
Review Omega (Doctor Who) / Big Finish Productions Ltd:
Publication date: 2003-05-12
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £13.99
Price: £8.60
Review Creatures of Beauty (Doctor Who) / Big Finish Productions Ltd:
Creator: James Winny
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1999-01-21
Dewey code: 372
RRP: £15.22
Price: £11.91
Review The Miller's Prologue and Tale CD: From The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer Read by A. C. Spearing (Selected Tales from Chaucer) / Cambridge University Press:
Publication date: 2003-03-25
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £13.99
Price: £7.81
Review Doctor Who and the Pirates (Doctor Who) / Big Finish Productions Ltd:
Creator: Matthew Marsh
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 2006-12
Dewey code: 821.7
RRP: £9.35
Price: £5.49
Review Realms of Gold / Naxos AudioBooks:
Creator: Juliet Stevenson
Publication date: 2006-10-20
RRP: £13.00
Price: £2.29
Review Rapture / Macmillan Audio Books:
Publication date: 2003-12-31
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £13.99
Price: £7.81
Review Scherzo (Doctor Who) / Big Finish Productions Ltd:
Creator: David Timson
Publication date: 2004-08-31
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £13.99
Price: £9.59
Review The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: v. 5: Vol. 5: v. 5 / Naxos AudioBooks:
Publication date: 2004-01
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £13.99
Price: £8.09
Review The Creed of the Kromon (Doctor Who) / Big Finish Productions Ltd:
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2008-04-01
Dewey code: 808
RRP: £10.99
Price: £4.79
Review Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Classic Literature with Classical Music) / Naxos AudioBooks:
Creator: Heathcote Williams
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2005-02-28
Dewey code: 808
RRP: £16.99
Price: £11.18
Review Inferno: From "The Divine Comedy" / Naxos AudioBooks:
Creator: Benedict Flynn
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2006-10
Dewey code: 808
RRP: £10.99
Price: £5.49
Review Beowulf (Poetry) / Naxos AudioBooks:
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.
Authors
- William Shakespeare
- Lewis Carroll
- Robert Herrick
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Publication date: 2005-02-06
RRP: £9.95
Price: £6.56
Review A Fairy Fantasy: Music and Verse of Fairyland / Classical Communications Ltd:
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2003-02-28
Dewey code: 823.8
RRP: £13.99
Price: £8.16
Review The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: v. 6 (Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Audio)) / Naxos AudioBooks:
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Hamlet (Classic Drama) (Classic Drama), Recorder Magic Christmas Stars: 12 Christmas Greats, Arranged in 4 Parts - Solo or Ensemble (Recorder Magic), The Nation's Favourite Poems of Celebration: Selection of Celebratory Verse (BBC Radio Collection), Winter Words: Poetry and Personal Writings of Thomas Hardy (Poetry), Dear Philip, Dear Kingsley: Starring Alan Bennett & Robert Hardy (BBC Radio Collection), Omega (Doctor Who), Creatures of Beauty (Doctor Who), The Miller's Prologue and Tale CD: From The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer Read by A. C. Spearing (Selected Tales from Chaucer), Doctor Who and the Pirates (Doctor Who), Realms of Gold, Rapture, Scherzo (Doctor Who), The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: v. 5: Vol. 5: v. 5, The Creed of the Kromon (Doctor Who), Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Classic Literature with Classical Music), Inferno: From "The Divine Comedy", Beowulf (Poetry), The World's Wife, A Fairy Fantasy: Music and Verse of Fairyland, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: v. 6 (Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Audio)) |
