Creator: Adrian Dunbar
Publication date: 2006-04-06
RRP: £13.00
Price: £7.34
Review Artemis Fowl and the Opal Deception / Puffin Audiobooks:
Authors
- Brian Sibley
- J.R.R. Tolkien
Publication date: 2002-01-07
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £9.00
Price: £6.79
Review Tales from the Perilous Realm: "Farmer Giles of Ham", "Smith of Wootton Major", "The Adventures of Tom Bombadil", "Leaf by Niggle" (BBC Radio Collection) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Publication date: 2008-10-09
RRP: £14.99
Price: £10.49
Review Carpe Jugulum (Discworld Novel) / Corgi Audio:Carpe Jugulum is the 23rd Discworld novel, and with it this durable series continues its juggernaut procession onwards. Pratchett is an author who inspires such devotions that his fans will fall on the novel with cries of joy. Non-fans, perhaps, will want to know what all the fuss is about; and that's something difficult to put into a few words. The best thing to do for those completely new to Pratchett is to sample him for themselves, and this novel is as good a place to start as any. But fans have a more precise question. They know that Discworld novels come in one of two varieties: the quite good, and the brilliant. So, for instance, where Hogfather and Maskerade were quite good, Feet of Clay and Jingo were brilliant. While true fans wouldn't want to do without the former, they absolutely live for the latter. And with Carpe Jugulum Pratchett has hit jackpot again. This novel is one of the brilliant ones. [+]The plot is a version of an earlier Discworld novel, Lords and Ladies, with the predatory elves of that novel being replaced here by suave and deadly vampires, and the tiny kingdom of Lancre being defended by its witches. But plot is the least of Pratchett's appeal, and Carpe Jugulum is loaded with marvellous characters (not least the witches themselves, about whom we learn a deal more here), comic touches and scenes of genius, and even some of the renowned down-to-earth Pratchett wisdom (here about the inner ethical conflicts we all face, and the wrongness of treating people as things). Pratchett's vampires are elegant Bela Lugosi types, and they come up against an unlikely but engaging alliance of witches, blue-skinned pixies like Rob Roy Smurfs, a doubting priest with a boil on his face and a magical house-sized Phoenix in a seamless, completely absorbing and feel-good-about-the-universe mixture. Highly recommended. -Adam Roberts.
Creator: Paul McGann
Publication date: 2008-03-31
RRP: £10.99
Price: £6.06
Review Brave New Town (Doctor Who: The New Eighth Doctor Adventures) / Big Finish Productions Ltd:
Publication date: 2006-04-18
RRP: £15.99
Price: £9.90
Review Batman, Knightfall (BBC Audio) / Various Artists:
Publication date: 2008-02-04
RRP: £12.99
Price: £5.80
Review "Torchwood": Everyone Says Hello (Torchwood) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Publication date: 2008-10-20
RRP: £350.00
Price: £227.50
Review Harry Potter - The Complete Story: Collected Audio Edition (Harry Potter) / Bloomsbury Publishing PLC:
Creator: Tony Robinson
Publication date: 2005-08-02
RRP: £14.99
Price: £8.55
Review Lords and Ladies / Corgi Audio:
Publication date: 2008-01-07
RRP: £12.99
Price: £6.56
Review A Fall of Moondust (Classic Radio Sci-Fi) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Creator: Tony Robinson
Publication date: 2007-04-05
RRP: £12.99
Price: £7.34
Review Diggers (Nomes Trilogy) / Random House Children's Books:
Publication date: 2008-01-31
RRP: £10.99
Price: £6.07
Review Doctor Who - Dead London 2.1 CD (Big Finish Adventures) / Big Finish Productions Ltd:
Publication date: 2008-10-09
RRP: £14.99
Price: £10.49
Review The Fifth Elephant (Discworld Novel) / Corgi Audio:Terry Pratchett has a seemingly endless capacity for generating inventively comic novels about the Discworld and its inhabitants but there is in the hearts of most of his admirers a particular place for those novels which feature the hard-bitten captain of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch Samuel Vimes. Sent as ambassador to the Northern principality of Uberwald where they mine gold, and iron and fat, but never silver, he is caught up in an uneasy truce between dwarfs, werewolves and vampires, in the theft of the Scone of Stone (a particularly important piece of dwarf bread) and in the old werewolf custom of giving humans a short start in the hunt and then cheating. Pratchett is always at his best when the comedy is mixed with a real sense of jeopardy that even favourite characters might be hurt if there was a good joke in it. As always the most unlikely things crop up as the subjects of gags-Chekhov, grand opera, the Caine Mutiny-and as always there are remorselessly funny gags about the inevitability of story: "They say that the fifth elephant came screaming and trumpeting through the atmosphere of the young world all those years ago and landed hard enough to split continents and raise mountains. No one actually saw it land, which raised the interesting philosophical question: when millions of tons of angry elephant come spinning through the sky, and there is no one to hear it, does it-philosophically speaking-make a noise? As for the dwarfs, whose legend it is, and who mine a lot deeper than other people, they say that there is a grain of truth in it". All this, the usual guest appearances and Gaspode the Wonder Dog. [+]- Roz Kaveney.
Creator: Tony Robinson
Publication date: 2005-08-02
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £14.99
Price: £9.43
Review Witches Abroad / Corgi Audio:
Creator: Reggie Yates
Publication date: 2007-07-02
RRP: £9.99
Price: £5.19
Review "Doctor Who", Sting of the Zygons (Dr Who) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Creator: John Barrowman
Publication date: 2007-04-02
RRP: £15.99
Price: £7.40
Review "Torchwood": Another Life (Torchwood) / BBC Audiobooks Ltd:
Creator: Full Cast
Edition: Reissue
Publication date: 2007-11-05
RRP: £39.98
Price: £23.99
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: Tony Robinson
Publication date: 2006-10-23
Dewey code: 813
RRP: £14.99
Price: £8.55
Review Eric (Discworld) / Corgi Audio:
Creator: Tony Robinson
Publication date: 2007-04-05
RRP: £12.99
Price: £7.21
Review Truckers (Nomes Trilogy) / Random House Children's Books:The nomes are tiny little people who, up until now, lived happily beneath the floorboards of Arnold Bros (est 1905) department store. But their tiny, comfortable little world is shattered when they discover that the store is to be demolished and they have to find away of getting to The Outside-a mystical place they never really believed in until a small tribe of Outsiders, led by the intrepid Masklin, infiltrated Arnold Bros (est 1905). The only escape route is via one of the huge trucks that Humans use to deliver goods-but first the nomes all have to be educated by the Sationari, and to do that the bickering between departments simply has to stop. The plot, the characters, and the sheer delicious irony of Pratchett's writing help to make this off- beat and absolutely hilarious fantasy adventure story into an absolute classic that has to be read to be believed. -Susan Harrison.
Publication date: 2005-08-04
RRP: £18.99
Price: £10.12
Review Eragon (Inheritance Cycle) / Random House Children's Books:
Creator: Ian McKellen
Publication date: 2006-09-07
RRP: £14.99
Price: £3.94
Review Soul Eater (CD) (Chronicles of Ancient Darkness) / Orion:
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Artemis Fowl and the Opal Deception, Tales from the Perilous Realm: "Farmer Giles of Ham", "Smith of Wootton Major", "The Adventures of Tom Bombadil", "Leaf by Niggle" (BBC Radio Collection), Carpe Jugulum (Discworld Novel), Brave New Town (Doctor Who: The New Eighth Doctor Adventures), Batman, Knightfall (BBC Audio), "Torchwood": Everyone Says Hello (Torchwood), Harry Potter - The Complete Story: Collected Audio Edition (Harry Potter), Lords and Ladies, A Fall of Moondust (Classic Radio Sci-Fi), Diggers (Nomes Trilogy), Doctor Who - Dead London 2.1 CD (Big Finish Adventures), The Fifth Elephant (Discworld Novel), Witches Abroad, "Doctor Who", Sting of the Zygons (Dr Who), "Torchwood": Another Life (Torchwood), The Subtle Knife: Complete & Unabridged (Cover to Cover), Eric (Discworld), Truckers (Nomes Trilogy), Eragon (Inheritance Cycle), Soul Eater (CD) (Chronicles of Ancient Darkness) |
