Publication date: 2004-10-25
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £15.99
Price: £6.95
Review The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Tertiary Phase (BBC Audiobooks) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Tertiary Phase is a new six-part dramatisation of the third book in Douglas Adams's "Trilogy in Four Parts", Life, the Universe and Everything. We rejoin Arthur Dent-after his anticlimactic revelation of the meaning of life and his unceremonious return to earth-to find him living in a hideously miserable cave in prehistory. However, just as he thinks that things cannot possibly get any worse, they suddenly do. He discovers that the Galaxy is not only mind-bogglingly big and bewildering, but also that most of the things that happen in it are staggeringly unfair. Many of the cast of the original BBC Radio 4 series have been reunited for superb sequel, which features 20 minutes of material not heard in the broadcast version. The sound is crystal clear and the running time is a massively entertaining 3 hours and 10 minutes. Among the returning cast are Simon Jones as Arthur Dent, Geoffrey McGivern as Ford Prefect, Susan Sheridan as Trillian, Mark Wing-Davey as Zaphod Beeblebrox and Stephen Moore as Marvin the Paranoid Android. And even the delightful Joanna Lumley pops up unexpectedly. -Paul Eisinger.
Publication date: 2004-09-06
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £15.99
Price: £9.50
Review The Odyssey (Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Creator: Tony Robinson
Publication date: 2005-07-04
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £14.99
Price: £8.32
Review Pyramids (Discworld) / Corgi Audio:
Publication date: 2005-05-23
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £12.99
Price: £7.24
Review The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Quandary Phase (BBC Audiobooks) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
RRP: £65.99
Price: £41.94
Review Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Book 6 - Unabridged 17 Audio CD Set - Childrens Edition) / J.K. Rowling:Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the sixth book in J. K. Rowling's bestselling series, picks up shortly after we left Harry at the end of The Order of the Phoenix. Lord Voldemort is acting out in the open, continuing his reign of terror which was temporarily stopped almost 15 years beforehand. Harry is again at the Dursleys, where the events of the previous month continue to weigh on his mind, although not as much as the impending visit from his Headmaster, Albus Dumbledore. Given their last meeting, Harry is understandably confused as to why the old wizard would want to visit him at home. Rowling opens with a chapter she had wanted to use for the first book, of The Philosopher's Stone-Lord Voldemort has been creating chaos in the Wizard and Muggle communities alike, the war is in full swing and the Wizarding community now lives in fear. The press have been questioning the events at the Ministry which led to the admission of Voldemort's return, and of course Harry's name is mentioned a number of times. Harry's got his problems, but his anxiety is nothing compared to Hermione's when the OWL results are delivered. There's a new Defence Against The Dark Arts teacher, an assortment of new characters and creatures, and startling revelations about past characters and events. [+]Gone is the rage-filled Harry of The Order of the Phoenix-he's not being kept in the dark any more, his unjustified Quidditch ban has been lifted and he has matured considerably in his short time out of school. Half-Blood Prince follows Harry into the world of late-teens, and his realisation that nobody is infallible has made his growth that much easier. Accepting his destiny, Harry continues to behave as teenagers do, enjoying his time with his friends, developing his relationships outside of his usual circle, and learning more about how he must, eventually, do what he is destined to do. J. K. Rowling delivers another fantastic tale which will have the readers gasping for more, capturing the characters perfectly and continuing a tale which readers will enjoy over and over again. -Ziggy Morbi.
Publication date: 2007-12-31
RRP: £10.99
Price: £7.69
Review Return of the Daleks (Doctor Who) / Big Finish Productions Ltd:
Creator: Full Cast
Edition: Reissue
Publication date: 2007-11-05
RRP: £39.98
Price: £24.99
Review The Subtle Knife: Complete & Unabridged (Cover to Cover) / Cover to Cover Cassettes Ltd:At the end of The Northern Lights, Lyra Silvertongue watched in fear and fascination as her father, Lord Asriel, created a bridge between worlds. Lyra and her daemon Pantalaimon are now lost in an alternate universe where they meet Will Parry, a fugitive from a third universe. Will has found a small window between Cittagazze-where children roam unchecked, but invisible Specters suck the spirit out of adults-and his Oxford, which, with its Burger Kings and cars, is frighteningly different from the Oxford Lyra knows. Will's father, an explorer, disappeared years ago, but some odd characters have started asking questions about him. Will has managed to accidentally kill one of them and is wanted by the police. Armed with the Subtle Knife, a tool that cuts any material (including that which separates universes) and Lyra's alethiometer, the children set out to find John Parry, with adults of various stripes in desperate pursuit. Lyra's finest qualities are her courage and her quick mind. She finds she must use them constantly-not to put too fine a point on it, she must lie and steal to keep herself and Will out of danger. However, she must also know when to tell the truth and when to trust. She does not yet know-though her friends the witches do, and so does the reader-what a huge part she will have in the upcoming battle between Good and Evil. [+](Age 9 and over) - -Amazon. com.
Creator: Ian McKellen
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2008-06-02
RRP: £14.99
Price: £7.00
Review Outcast (CD) (Chronicles of Ancient Darkness) / Orion:
Creator: Will Thorp
Publication date: 2008-03-03
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.71
Review "Doctor Who": Forever Autumn (Dr Who) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
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Creator: Michael York
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2002-10-21
RRP: £14.99
Price: £6.20
Review The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Unabridged Audio CD Set) [AUDIOBOOK] / Collins Audio:
Creator: David Tennant
Publication date: 2006-07-03
RRP: £9.99
Price: £3.99
Review "Doctor Who", the Resurrection Casket (Dr Who) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Creator: Ian McKellen
Publication date: 2006-09-07
RRP: £14.99
Price: £2.41
Review Soul Eater (CD) (Chronicles of Ancient Darkness) / Orion:
Publication date: 2002-10-07
RRP: £29.99
Price: £20.43
Review The Hobbit: BBC Radio Full-cast Dramatisation (BBC Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Creator: Full Cast
Publication date: 2007-11-05
RRP: £59.99
Price: £38.58
Review The Amber Spyglass: Complete & Unabridged (Cover to Cover): Film Tie-In, Unabridged / Cover to Cover Cassettes Ltd 97818554912:Philip Pullman brings The Amber Spyglass to the spellbinding "His Dark Materials" sequence, which dazzles everyone who reads it, children and adults alike. After the original Northern Lights, he kept up the quality in The Subtle Knife, the second title in the trilogy. Now he brings the series to an extraordinary conclusion. Will and Lyra, the two children at the heart of the books, have become separated amidst great dangers. Can they find each other, and their friends? Then complete their mysterious quest before it's too late? The great rebellion against the dark powers that hold Lyra's world, and many others, in thrall is nearing its climax. She and Will have crucial parts to play, but they don't know what it is that they must do, and terrible powers are hunting them down. The pace of the book is compelling, the writing powerful. Pullman's plotting is intricate and cunning, surprising the reader again and again. Perhaps what is most striking of all, however, is the depth of the characterisation. Lord Asriel, Mrs Coulter, Iorek Byrnison the king of the armoured bears, a host of minor characters, most of all Will and Lyra themselves: the book is a library of beautifully drawn, remarkably convincing characters walking in worlds of marvels. [+]In this volume the cosmic dimensions of the story become more prominent, as a great conflict across many universes comes to a head-how well the narrative sustains such immensely weighty resonances is a question critics may well disagree on. The author's beliefs also come more into the open, and with them a polemic anti-religious theme that will please some readers and alienate others. Philip Pullman's writing commands immense respect; more than that, it is raising the profile of the best children's books among adults, as demanding critics of all ages fall in love with this remarkable trilogy. -David Pickering.
Creator: Celia Imrie
Publication date: 2001-11-05
RRP: £15.99
Price: £12.25
Review The Box of Delights: BBC Radio 4 Full-cast Dramatisation (BBC Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Creator: Ian McKellen
Publication date: 2004-09-16
RRP: £16.99
Price: £8.67
Review Wolf Brother (CD): Chronicles of Ancient Darkness Book 1 (Chronicles of Ancient Darkness) / Orion:From extensive research about how the people of Northern Europe may have lived more than six thousand years ago, Michelle Paver has fashioned a remarkable debut novel for children. Wolf Brother, the first instalment of her six-book Chronicles of Ancient Darkness sequence, takes its readers back in time to an atmospheric world of snow, hunter-gatherers, tribes, clans, mountains, forests, bears and unearthly superstitions. For humans then, life was hard and Paver's narrative taps wonderfully into all the sensations they must have experienced living amidst such an unforgiving landscape. The book begins dramatically with the death of Torak's father, the mage, Fa, from mortal wounds inflicted by a giant, possessed bear. Fa's dying words bind Torak to a quest to find the mythical Mountain of the World Spirit. Only there will Torak find the strength needed to defeat the demonic creature and killer of men. Having lived apart from other Clans, and burdened by such an impossible task, Torak is bereft by the death of his only companion in life and struggles to survive in the harsh conditions he now finds himself in. Then, instead of killing an orphaned wolf cub for food, Torak spares the tiny animal and together they travel north. Torak gains a further companion for his arduous journey in the form of Renn, a headstrong and feisty girl of his own age whose Clan Torak inadvertently has an altercation with. Renn believes Torak to be The Listener-a prophesised being who will save the world-and together they escape from danger… into a different sort of peril. [+]Paver's novel is strong on detail and the authenticity of her settings is breathtaking. She cleverly weaves a fantastical, but believable, layer onto her narrative that enriches her story and makes it all the more readable. (Age 10 and over) -John McLay.
Creator: Kellie Bright
Edition: Abridged edition
Publication date: 2006-02-02
RRP: £15.99
Price: £8.89
Review The Magicians' Guild (Black Magician Trilogy) / Time Warner AudioBooks:
Creator: Tony Robinson
Publication date: 2004-10-08
RRP: £14.99
Price: £7.82
Review Mort / Corgi Audio:
Authors
- Tony Robinson
- Terry Pratchett
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £14.99
Price: £7.81
Review Guards! Guards! (Discworld) / Corgi Audio:
Creator: Peter Jones
Edition: collectors ed
Publication date: 2001-10-01
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £49.98
Price: £23.60
Review The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Collector's Edition (CD Box Set) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
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