Creator: Valerie Georgeson
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 1998-08
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £11.74
Price: £13.73
Review The Place of Happiness: Complete & Unabridged / Chivers Audio Books:
Creator: Karen Cass
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 1999-09
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £37.95
Price: £27.54
Review Mallory Keep: Complete & Unabridged / ISIS Audio Books:
Creator: Susan Jameson
Edition: Abridged Ed
Publication date: 2006-06-02
RRP: £9.99
Price: £7.79
Review Chaff Upon the Wind / Macmillan Audio Books:
Creator: Anna Massey
Publication date: 1994-08-01
Price: £7.66
Review The Pursuit of Love (BBC Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Creator: Prunella Scales
Edition: Library Ed
Publication date: 1993-11-01
Dewey code: 813
Price: £39.95
Review Emma / Cover to Cover Cassettes Ltd:"I should like to see Emma in love, and in some doubt of return; it would do her good," remarks one of Jane Austen's characters in Emma. Quick-witted, beautiful, headstrong and rich, Emma Woodhouse is inordinately fond of match-making select inhabitants of the village of Highbury, yet aloof and oblivious as to the question of whom she herself might marry. This paradox multiplies the intrigues and sparkling ironies of Jane Austen's masterpiece, her comedy of a sentimental education through which Emma discovers a capacity for love and marriage.
Authors
- Joanna Trollope
- Caroline Harvey
Publication date: 1995-08-17
Price: £9.99
Review Legacy of Love ("Good Housekeeping" audio collection) / Hodder & Stoughton Audio Books:
Creator: Eve Matheson
Publication date: 2001-02
RRP: £48.12
Price: £50.11
Review Secrets of the Heart: Complete & Unabridged / Chivers Audio Books:Secrets of the Heart has all the impressive observation of Elizabeth Buchan's earlier books, allied to a warm and nuanced sympathy for her characters that is completely unforced. The finest romance titles nowadays have all the requisite elements but are written by authors who are real stylists, with an intelligence and grasp of character that was a rarity 10 years ago. Readers of romantic fiction have every right to expect the very best these days and it is writers like Elizabeth Buchan who have wrought this change. Gone are the days when the genre could get away with slapdash writing and a parade of clichés. In Secrets of the Heart, Agnes Campion has reached the age of 30 when she takes on the squabbling aunts and decaying splendour of Flagge House, which has been left to her. Just maintaining this troublesome property is keeping her more than occupied but she is also dealing with two distinctively different suitors, both involved with other women. Julian is a property developer, suave and handsome, but a man who sets all kinds of ideological alarm bells ringing in Agnes's mind. Andrew, an organic farmer struggling with both a marriage and a business that are falling apart, is an even more tricky prospect. Completing an emotional quartet, Kitty, Julian's deceptively fragile mistress, has Agnes in her sights as an enemy. All four characters are beautifully fleshed out by Buchan with the subtle touches that her admirers have come to know well, and even the slightly predictable schematic of the book (it's clear early on that two characters will find happiness, while two will not) actually adds to the pleasurable juggling with the genre conventions that Buchan does so well. [+]Take the vengeful Kitty's examination of her own motives: The anger never seen by others stirred in Kitty's soul. She knew, from experience, that anger tightened the ligaments in her neck and hardened her features. Oh, Kitty, Kitty, what a sham you are. If she was truthful, and Kitty tried hard to be so, her anger was really a form of grief and impotence, not the strong, cleansing emotion that psychotherapists advised it should be. The author's first book, Daughters of the Storm marked Buchan out as an impressive writer, and when her third novel Consider the Lily won the 1994 Romantic Novel of the Year Award, expectations were very high for subsequent work. If Perfect Love lost a little of the momentum, it is triumphantly regained here. -Barry Forshaw.
Publication date: 1920-01-01
Dewey code: 813.54
Price: £18.12
Review Bittersweet / Bantam USA:Like the rest of her novels, Steele's 46th testifies to the insatiable appetite for unrequited love and the success of TVs Life Styles of the Rich and Famous. Meet India Taylor, the coulda-woulda-shoulda been a Pulitzer Prize winning photojournalist if it wasn't for her meddling husband. Although they met in the Peace Corps 20 years prior, Doug insisted she put down the camera, pick up a broom and raise four kids in the comfy Connecticut 'burbs. However, after 17 years of carpooling, Little League and Doug's revelation that he's happy with a platonic marriage, India moves on to greener pastures. She finds her cash cow in the form of Paul Ward, aka "Lion of Wall Street" who has a yacht called the "Sea Star," and likes to coo such things as "I think I'm a little crazy, but I love you. " Although he may be senile and she is still married, the duo seems destined for each other as Paul slowly helps India reclaim her past and follow her passion. Even though Steele has an inordinate fondness for beginning sentences with "And," Bittersweet is packed with more name-dropping and glamour icons that Robin Leach could meet in a year.
Creator: Anne Dover
Publication date: 2001-06-01
RRP: £50.95
Price: £52.94
Review THE WILLOW POOL / ISIS Audio Books:
Creator: Kate Binchy
Publication date: 1992-01-31
Price: £8.99
Review Light a Penny Candle / Random House Audiobooks:
Run time: 120 min.
Publication date: 1982
Review class / emi:
Creator: Kate Beckinsale
Edition: Television tie-in edition
Publication date: 1996-09-05
RRP: £9.99
Price: £3.25
Review Emma / Hodder & Stoughton Audio Books:
Creator: Kelly Hunter
Publication date: 1999-09-30
Price: £18.00
Review The Day of the Storm: Complete & Unabridged / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Authors
- Jane Austen Narrated by Prunella Scales
Publication date: 1989
Review persuasion (Argo) / EMI:argo audiobooks. When Anne falls in love with a handsome and charming young man, she must make a wrenching decision. He is perfect in every way but one; he lacks the wealth and social status that would make him a suitable match for her. So she sends him away - but has she made the right choice? Time will tell.
Creator: Susan Jameson
Publication date: 1981-10
RRP: £30.49
Price: £28.96
Review Mary Ann and Bill: Complete & Unabridged / Chivers Audio Books:
Creator: Timothy West
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2001-11
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £30.49
Price: £32.48
Review Injury Time: Complete & Unabridged (Albert Campion Mysteries) / Chivers Audio Books:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2006-03-13
RRP: £9.99
Price: £9.99
Review Friends Forever / Headline:
Creator: June Barrie
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2001-05
Dewey code: 813
Price: £48.12
Review Regency Buck: Complete & Unabridged / Chivers Audio Books:
Creator: Nicolette McKenzie
Publication date: 2006-03
RRP: £28.95
Price: £28.95
Review To the Doctor, a Daughter / Soundings:
Creator: Anna Bentick
Publication date: 2003-11
RRP: £31.95
Price: £31.95
Review Better Strangers / Soundings:
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The Place of Happiness: Complete & Unabridged, Mallory Keep: Complete & Unabridged, Chaff Upon the Wind, The Pursuit of Love (BBC Radio Collection), Emma, Legacy of Love ("Good Housekeeping" audio collection), Secrets of the Heart: Complete & Unabridged, Bittersweet, THE WILLOW POOL, Light a Penny Candle, class, Emma, The Day of the Storm: Complete & Unabridged, persuasion (Argo), Mary Ann and Bill: Complete & Unabridged, Injury Time: Complete & Unabridged (Albert Campion Mysteries), Friends Forever, Regency Buck: Complete & Unabridged, To the Doctor, a Daughter, Better Strangers |
