Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 1994-12
RRP: £41.95
Price: £43.00
Review Rosemary for Remembrance: Unabridged (Sound) / Soundings:
Creator: Pat Starr
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 1986-09
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £43.42
Price: £45.41
Review The Millionaire's Daughter: Complete & Unabridged (8 Cassettes) / Chivers Audio Books:
Creator: Frances Barber
Edition: Library Ed
Publication date: 1993-03
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £30.49
Price: £32.48
Review The Carousel: Complete & Unabridged / Chivers Audio Books:
Creator: Maggie Mash
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2003-12-15
RRP: £41.95
Price: £43.94
Review Time and Tide / Story Sound:
Creator: Vivien Heilbron
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2001-04
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £48.12
Price: £50.11
Review King's Exile: Complete & Unabridged / Chivers Audio Books:
Creator: Eve Matheson
Publication date: 1993-07
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £36.37
Price: £38.36
Review Bella: Complete & Unabridged / Chivers Audio Books:
Creator: Vari Sylvester
Publication date: 2001-01
RRP: £41.95
Price: £43.94
Review Web of Dreams: Complete & Unabridged (Soundings) / Soundings:
Creator: Maggie Mash
Publication date: 2003-04
RRP: £25.95
Price: £27.91
Review A Stranger's Glance / Soundings:
Creator: Susan Jameson
Publication date: 1996-07
RRP: £43.42
Price: £45.41
Review The Obsession: Complete & Unabridged / Chivers Audio Books:
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 1992-12
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £34.95
Price: £31.94
Review Doctor Rose: Unabridged / Soundings:
Creator: Nicolette McKenzie
Publication date: 2003-03
RRP: £62.95
Price: £64.94
Review A Different Kind of Love / Soundings:
Creator: Karen Cass
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 1997-08
RRP: £41.95
Price: £43.00
Review Choices: Unabridged / Soundings:
Creator: Lin Sagovsky
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 1998-11
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £43.42
Price: £45.41
Review Never Stand Alone: Complete & Unabridged / Chivers Audio Books:
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 1990-12
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £28.95
Price: £30.94
Review The Secret Armour: Unabridged / Soundings:
Creator: David Rintoul
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 1990-01
RRP: £53.99
Price: £55.98
Review The Daughters of the Prince: Complete & Unabridged / Chivers Audio Books:
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 1989-12
RRP: £25.95
Price: £27.94
Review The Crystal Gull: Unabridged / Soundings:
Creator: Jan Francis
Edition: Abridged Ed
Publication date: 1997-06-05
RRP: £9.99
Price: £19.95
Review Rose Cottage / Hodder & Stoughton Audio Books:
Creator: Julia Franklyn
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2000-02-01
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £37.95
Price: £34.13
Review Killing ME Softly / ISIS Audio Books:Alice Loudon is a successful London thirtysomething; she has the friends, the career, the flat and the loving boyfriend. Her life seems destined to follow a comfortable, conventional route until one morning her eyes lock with a beautiful, mesmerising man as she crosses a road. When Alice leaves work he is still there, waiting. Without exchanging names they go back to his Soho flat and have "obliterating sex". Unable to overcome her passionate feelings for him, Alice abandons the life she had established for herself to marry the powerful, taciturn Adam, a celebrated mountaineer but a virtual stranger. As their relationship develops, Alice discovers that Adam's beautiful exterior belies disturbing aggressive tendencies. He is by turns abusive and loving. In an attempt to understand her new husband and her reaction to him, she launches an investigation into his past and, in particular, his past relationships. Sadly for her, the unsettling details she uncovers do not provide the reassurance she needs. Ultimately, Alice jeopardises her own safety to stay with a man she loves to the point of obsession but fears in equal measure. [+]This audio book is a very good abridgement of a thrilling novel. The reader Emilia Fox has exactly the right tone-it as is easy to visualise her as the vibrant young woman totally in control of her own destiny as it is to see her cowering behind an armchair as she hears her husband approaching. The fact that the audio version of the story is a little slow to get going is all but forgotten in its final heart-pounding portion. -Sarah Crawford Running time approx. 3 hours.
Creator: Susan Jameson
Publication date: 1995-04
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £48.12
Price: £50.11
Review A Dinner of Herbs: Complete & Unabridged v. 2 / Chivers Press:
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 1998-06
Dewey code: 813.54
Price: £15.52
Review The Klone and I / Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group:Evidently, Danielle Steel has been kidnapped by a mad scientist who clamped her into some gizmo that fused her brain with that of Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. While Steel's umpteenth novel, The Klone and I: A High-Tech Love Story, boasts her typical trappings-a divorced heroine, a cruel man, a sexy man with big money, and lots of shopping with brand-name tags conspicuously attached-the book is also the wackiest piece of self-indulgent sci-fi since Douglas Adams's Starship Titanic. The Klone and I starts out normally enough: after a 13-year marriage, Stephanie, 41, gets dumped for a busty young bimbo. "She was gorgeous. And I felt nauseous," Stephanie reflects-though she admits that things hadn't been going well, what with hubby living off her trust fund and their having sex every six months or so. Realistically, their farewell hug goes like this: "My nose ran on his tie, while ever so cautiously he held me, kind of like a bank robber with sticks of dynamite taped all over his body. " Then, one day, on an impulsive trip to the Left Bank of Paris, Steph steps into one of those cool old French elevators with Peter, a hunk in a button-down Oxford shirt and tasteful khakis. Romance! Ritzy places! In fact, he takes her to the Ritz! Alas, Peter must Louvre her and leave her for a business trip out West. So Peter sends Paul to keep her company. Paul is a dead ringer for Peter, because he's a kind of clone created by Peter and his clever biotech company. [+]He's called a "klone" to distinguish him from a conventional clone, which is a mere replica of its original-this "klone" may be a physical copy of Peter, but inside he's had a major id upgrade. As always with Steel, the clue is in the character's clothes: from his high-heeled alligator boots to his zippered zebra jumpsuit, the decidedly non-buttoned-down Paul dresses like a psychedelic kaleidoscope. But when Paul drops that leopard-satin G-string, watch out! It's quadruple flips in flagrante delicto, with our heroine (and, the next morning, her chiropractor) coming out on top. Though Paul deplorably guzzles Chateau d'Yquem by the case and crashes Peter's Jaguar into snow banks, he's actually even more brilliantly empathic with Stephanie's kids than stuffy Peter is. What's a mother to do? Is Steph robbing Peter to play with Paul? How will the ménage à trois affect marriage plans? Does Steel know that her comic tone (though not her subject) actually slightly echoes that of Betty MacDonald's classic comedy memoir The Egg and I, whose title she alludes to? Is the author a convert from fiction to sci-fi, like Doris Lessing? Will the real Ms Steel ever reappear, or has her mind been psychedelicized? -Tim Appelo.
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Rosemary for Remembrance: Unabridged (Sound), The Millionaire's Daughter: Complete & Unabridged (8 Cassettes), The Carousel: Complete & Unabridged, Time and Tide, King's Exile: Complete & Unabridged, Bella: Complete & Unabridged, Web of Dreams: Complete & Unabridged (Soundings), A Stranger's Glance, The Obsession: Complete & Unabridged, Doctor Rose: Unabridged, A Different Kind of Love, Choices: Unabridged, Never Stand Alone: Complete & Unabridged, The Secret Armour: Unabridged, The Daughters of the Prince: Complete & Unabridged, The Crystal Gull: Unabridged, Rose Cottage, Killing ME Softly, A Dinner of Herbs: Complete & Unabridged v. 2, The Klone and I |
