Publication date: 1996-08-16
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £26.75
Price: £25.47
Review Return of the Jedi (Star Wars (Penguin Audio)) / Atlantic Books:Although Return of the Jedi is considered by many to be the weakest of the three original Star Wars films, this is by far the best of the three novelisations. James Kahn's powers of description are stylish and assured and he plays to the strengths of the novel format, taking the opportunity to explore the inner thoughts and emotions of his characters in amongst the action sequences. Of course, there is plenty of action, and Kahn handles the main set-pieces well. The struggle above the Sarlacc pit as Han Solo is rescued from Jabba the Hutt, the speeder bike chase amongst the giant trees of Endor, and the final extended battle as it intercuts between the two space fleets, the surface of the forest moon of Endor and Luke's struggle with Darth Vader and the evil Emperor, all of these are fast-paced and evocative, bringing back memories of forgotten visual details from the film. This is an entertaining way to relive the adventure, and provides a fine conclusion to the trilogy. -Elizabeth Sourbut.
Publication date: 2001-10-01
RRP: £39.95
Price: £68.31
Review New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (10-Hour Collections) / Various Artists:
Creator: Sara Kestelman
Edition: Re-issue
Publication date: 2006-02
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £19.96
Price: £9.76
Review The Mill on the Floss (Naxos Audio) / Naxos AudioBooks:
Creator: Jane Ravens
Publication date: 2001-11-19
Dewey code: 817
RRP: £12.99
Price: £2.36
Review Dead Ringers: The Specials / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Publication date: 2007-04-02
RRP: £12.99
Price: £1.49
Review It's That Man Again / Lynne Truss:
Publication date: 1999-07-31
Dewey code: 320
RRP: £15.00
Price: £5.09
Review If Evolution Is Outlawed, Only Outlaws Will Evolve (Spoken Word Album) / AK Press:
Publication date: 2004-11-01
Dewey code: 817
RRP: £12.99
Price: £12.99
Review The News Quiz: The Very Best of 2004 (Radio Collection) / The News Quiz:
Publication date: 2004-11-29
Dewey code: 808
RRP: £12.99
Price: £4.89
Review "Dead Ringers" TV Series 3 (Radio Collection) / Dead Ringers:
Authors
- Bram Stoker
- John Houseman
- Orson Welles
Publication date: 2006-08-14
RRP: £5.95
Price: £4.79
Review Dracula: A Radio Drama with Orson Welles (Csa Classic Radio Drama) / CSA WORD:
Creator: John Culshaw
Publication date: 2004-07-05
Dewey code: 817
RRP: £12.99
Price: £2.64
Review "Dead Ringers" TV Series 2 (Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Publication date: 2002-12-06
Dewey code: 320
RRP: £12.99
Price: £4.39
Review A Mad World, My Masters / Macmillan Audio Books:Some people just aren't cut out for the suburbs. As one of the BBC's top foreign correspondents, John Simpson has been at the epicentre of many of the world's flashpoints for more than 30 years. Afghanistan, Belgrade, Hong Kong, Baghdad; you name it, he's been there. And what's more, he hasn't just met the great and the good, such as Clinton and Blair, he's met the top bogey men, too. He's had Osama Bin Laden pleading with some Afghani guerrillas to kill him and his crew, he's interviewed Emperor Bokassa, Colonel Gadhafi and Arkan and had close up dealings with Saddam Hussein. And it goes without saying he was one of the first people in the entire world to see in the new millennium on the specially named Millennium Island, which the Kiribati government claimed just squeezed inside the international date line. Small wonder, then, that Simpson is a source of dozens of good stories. Many of these have been written up elsewhere in his autobiographical Strange Places, Questionable People, but there are plenty left over for this latest book in which Simpson eschews chronology and just sticks to some plain old-fashioned story telling, with sections on villains, spies, icons etc. Unsurprisingly, Simpson has a journalistic eye for detail and nuance and never holds back from telling you the things you want to know; so when he went to interview Bokassa, he managed to sneak a look inside his giant deep freeze to see if there were any human body parts. It sounds trivial but it isn't; in a strange sort of way the examination of the contents of a deep freeze can be every bit as revealing as an hour on a shrink's couch. [+]Simpson is a genial companion, not much given to introspection, and the book races seamlessly from anecdote to anecdote. And yet underpinning the narrative is Simpson's global malaise, a feeling that everywhere in the world is becoming more and more similar and that it's increasingly hard to find anywhere genuinely wild and remote. Simpson has been to many of those places, but the way he describes them makes them seem fairly similar in their own kind of way. McDonalds and the Gap may be thin on the ground, but there are bullets and danger aplenty. To have been to so many of these places is an achievement in itself; to have returned unscathed is a minor miracle; John Simpson has led a charmed life in more ways than one. -John Crace.
Creator: Bill Homewood
Edition: Abridged
Publication date: 2006-08
Dewey code: 843.7
RRP: £12.91
Price: £4.14
Review The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Classic Fiction) / Naxos AudioBooks:
Publication date: 1997-10-06
Dewey code: 791
RRP: £12.99
Price: £16.70
Review 75 Years of the BBC: A Celebration of BBC Radio (Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Publication date: 2007-05-31
Price: £12.99
Review The Autobiography / Penguin Audiobooks:
Publication date: 2005-05-09
Dewey code: 384
RRP: £14.99
Price: £1.75
Review An Evening with John Simpson / Hodder & Stoughton Audio Books:
Publication date: 2006-10-05
RRP: £14.99
Price: £2.85
Review Spike and Co / Hodder & Stoughton:
Creator: Noel Edmonds
Publication date: 2007-10-12
RRP: £16.99
Price: £4.98
Review Poptastic! (Illustrated CD) / Orion:
Publication date: 2001-11-01
RRP: £6.95
Price: £8.66
Review Miracle on 34th Street (Christmas at Radio Spirits) / Various Artists:
Publication date: 2005-09-05
RRP: £12.99
Price: £6.69
Review Hancock: The Economy Drive, the Emigrant and Two Other TV Episodes (Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Authors
- Steve Coogan
- Armando Iannucci
- et al
- Patrick Marber
RRP: £5.00
Price: £3.38
Review Knowing Me, Knowing You...: With Alan Partridge: No.3 (Canned Laughter) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
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