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Title: Tales from My Table

Subtitle: Food for Thought

Author: Ann Tudor

Narrator: Ann Tudor

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 13 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-26-08

Publisher: Listen & Live Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Tales From My Table is a collection of 12 true stories about food. Bittersweet, funny, and thought-provoking, the stories illustrate the way in which food influences our lives. We learn about relationships, and life, and the thrill of eating what you love to eat and cooking what you love to cook. Imagine Ann Lamott and Garrison Keillor meeting under a full moon for a midnight snack.

©2005 Ann Tudor; (P)2008 Listen & Live Audio, Inc.

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Title: Roman's Journey

Author: Roman Halter

Narrator: Bill Wallis

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs

Language: English

Release date: 05-21-08

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

This is a story of impossible misfortune and improbable good luck - the compelling and uplifting account of the boy who made it out of the ghetto, survived Auschwitz and Stutthof, and endured the Dresden bombing before escaping to England.

©2007 Roman Halter;

Critic Reviews:

"Halter is honest and sensitive." (The Observer)

Members Reviews:

A Really Good Listen

This is a book that stays with you for a long time afterwards.

Despite the subject matter it is not an entirly sad book, but it is very moving. When you listen to it, you are there with him all the way.

I listened to this on a beach holiday in Asia, but I still felt the cold of war time Europe. The narration is perfect, and I would reccommend this as a really good listen.

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Title: Pilgrim State

Author: Jacqueline Walker

Narrator: Jacqueline Walker, Anjoa Andoh, Gareth Armstrong, Sandra Duncan, Sandra James-Young

Format: Abridged

Length: 2 hrs and 15 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-15-08

Publisher: Hodder Headline Limited

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

In the haunting opening pages, set in Pilgrim State mental facility in New York State in 1951, Dorothy has been forcibly sectioned and is battling to keep her children and her sanity. She will struggle all her life to retain both. Dorothy and her children return to Jamaica before finally making a home in post-Windrush London in the early 60s.

They face prejudice and loss but are bound by incredible love and their unique sense of family. This will prove to be Dorothy's greatest gift.

Stories like Pilgrim State don't come along very often. When they do, you recognise you have something very special. And when a voice is this strong and original, you stop to listen.

Pilgrim State celebrates place, the life-affirming nature of family, and the bonds between mothers and daughters that can never be broken. The story is haunting and powerful, and speaks for generations of women, resonating long after the story ends. Jacqueline Walker has done her mother proud.

Members Reviews:

So close to home

I stumbled across this book whilst doing research for a book I plan to write. The author Jacqueline Walker is two weeks younger than me. The most amazing thing about this book is that Jacqueline stayed at Stonefield Reception Centre, Blackheath, London and we may well have been there at the same time! Her brother Teddy also stayed at the Pagoda Gardens home for boys which is where I stayed as well! The book is abosrbing and very well written and worthy of recommendation to others. I probably got more from the book because of the authors childhood experiences which mirrored mine in and around Greenwich and Blackheath,London.

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Title: Miracles Of Life

Author: J G Ballard

Narrator: Tim Pigott-Smith

Format: Abridged

Length: 3 hrs and 21 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-26-08

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Miracles of Life opens and closes in Shanghai, the city where J. G.Ballard was born, and where he spent the most of the Second World War interned with his family in a Japanese concentration camp.

©2008 J G Ballard; (P)2008 HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, London UK

Critic Reviews:

"A particular delight of this lyrical autobiography lies in spotting the landscapes and events that appear subtly reconfigured in Ballard's fiction." (Observer, Critics' Picks for 2008)

"The long-awaited memoirs of one of the most interesting British writers." (Sunday Times, Picks for 2008)

"Unobtrusively well-written...and fascinating." (Literary Review)

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Title: Aim High

Author: Tanni Grey-Thompson

Narrator: Katie Lock

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 36 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-14-08

Publisher: Whole Story Audiobooks

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Aim High reveals what has motivated Dame Tanni Grey Thompson, the UK's leading wheelchair athlete, through the highs and lows of her outstanding career. Her triumphs, which include winning 16 medals, 11 of which are gold, countless European titles, six London Marathons and over 30 world records, have catapulted this Welsh wheelchair athlete firmly into the public consciousness.

©2004 Tanni Grey-Thompson; (P)2007 W.F. Howes Ltd.

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Title: Twelve Cities

Subtitle: A Memoir

Author: Roy Jenkins

Narrator: Simon Russell Beale

Format: Abridged

Length: 3 hrs and 1 min

Language: English

Release date: 01-24-08

Publisher: Pan Macmillan Publishers Ltd.

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Jenkins includes three British cities: Cardiff, which was the metropolis of his Monmouthshire childhood; Birmingham, which he represented in Parliament for 27 years; and Glasgow, which aroused in him an enthusiasm far transcending politics. Further afield there is Paris; Brussels, where he lived for four years as president of the European Commission; Bonn; Berlin, surveyed from its pre-war splendour through to its architectural resurgence of the 1990s; Naples; and Barcelona. From Lord Jenkins's over a hundred visits to North America, there emerge highly personal recollections of New York and a more objective view of Chicago. Dublin, so near to home and yet so distant, makes up the dozen.

Twelve Cities is a fascinating and sparkling collection from one of our very finest writers.

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Title: Full Disclosure

Author: Andrew Neil

Narrator: Andrew Neil

Format: Abridged

Length: 2 hrs and 54 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-12-07

Publisher: Pan Macmillan Publishers Ltd.

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

In Full Disclosure, Andrew Neil covers the main political events of those years from a unique perspective, revealing the stories behind the headlines and telling of his battles with the Royal Family, the Thatcher and Major governments, and the British Establishment. He reflects too on his life as a bachelor, including the last word on Pamela Bordes.

Not only a revealing behind-the-scenes portrait of the most influential broadsheet in Britain, Full Disclosure is also a powerful story of our times.

Members Reviews:

Andrew Neil - thought provoking as always

I'm a big fan of Andrew Neil, love his quick witted intelligentsia and mature journalistic style. He actually reads this himself and unlike when I watch him on 'This Week' there was not a whiff of the blue nun to be smelt whilst listening to his book. A very good audiobook if you like Andrew Neil.

Enjoyed the book

Very very good honest book def worth a listen,, nice as narrator is Andrew Neil

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Title: More Time for Politics

Subtitle: Diaries 2001-2007

Author: Tony Benn

Narrator: Tony Benn

Format: Abridged

Length: 4 hrs and 43 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-07-07

Publisher: Random House AudioBooks

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

Commenting on the demise of the New Labour project, from the re-election of Tony Blair in 2001 to the ultimate foreign policy disasters of Afghanistan and Iraq, he gives other prescient accounts of the government's by-passing of Cabinet, parliament, and the party, of the "war on terror", the debate about Islam, globalisation, and the changes in British society.

Although he is no longer in power or in parliament, Tony Benn remains a figure of enormous respect whose direct views, honestly expressed, have often awakened the national conscience. His latest diaries, human and challenging in turn, are enthralling.

Members Reviews:

An incredible social document from an impassioned socialist

Tony Benn takes his time beyond the House of Commons to campaign for peace, engage the public, and to rediscover the big themes and challenges of our age. He is at all times human, witty and focussed on justice. It is also the first time his family and friendships are discussed in detail, which is heartwarming. We also learn of his love of Pizza.

Great.

Would you listen to More Time for Politics again? Why?

Yes I would. Because it is honest, and there is something existential about it.

Who was your favorite character and why?

Tony Benn

What about Tony Benns performance did you like?

His voice is great. And also you can feel the passion for humanity.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

Yes, but I would recommend that you savour it.

Any additional comments?

BUY BUY BUY

Benn, a true British political giant

Tony Benn is one of the greatest politicians of our time and his diaries reflect the man from a political, social and personal perspective. A moving, often funny insight into his life in politics. One of the great parliamentarians and chronicler of recent historical and political events, simply a joy to listen to.

Weak

Expecting an insightful view into left-wing politics post-New Labour 1997 and the diaries include details of an easter egg hunt, his cups of tea and everything else that is so descriptive and just "nice". Not what I expected. Certainly the Campbell diaries were much more analytical.

Tony Benn strikes again

If your a fan of Tony Benn you'll love this expose of life after the House of Commons.

Family, politics and wise self reflection is all there.

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Title: The Railway Man

Author: Eric Lomax

Narrator: John McCarthy

Format: Abridged

Length: 2 hrs and 49 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-26-07

Publisher: Random House AudioBooks

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

A naive young man, a railway enthusiast and radio buff, was caught up in the fall of the British Empire at Singapore in 1942. He was put to work on the "Railway of Death": the Japanese line from Thailand to Burma. Exhaustively and brutally tortured by the Japanese for making a crude radio, Lomax was emotionally ruined by his experiences. Almost 50 years after the war, however, his life was changed by the discovery that his interrogator, the Japanese interpretor, was still alive. Their reconciliation is the culmination of this extraordinary story.

© Eric Lomax; (P) Random House

Critic Reviews:

"His graceful and restrained account of how the two men eventually became 'blood-brothers' after Lomax granted Takeshi full forgiveness is deeply moving." (Publishers Weekly)

Members Reviews:

the Railway Man is an awesome story of Resilience

the Railway Man is an awesome story of Resilience , forgiveness and what it means to be human. I had heard about this book during a sermon a few weeks ago. Normally I do not read anything that even has violence in it, but the way the pastor described the story I had to read it. It is the story on and English POW is a Japanese Prison camp during the 2nd world war. I recommend this book and it will restore your faith in God's love and forgiveness and humanity.

Awe-inspiring!

I at first did not think this would be a book I would enjoy. It was recommended by someone who was touched by it, and was given such rave reviews I felt obligated to try it. I am a middle aged white woman from America. What could I understand about the war from this man's perspective? However, at the conclusion, I find myself in tears. I am moved at the descriptions of war and suffering, including the PTSD that Mr. lorax suffered from. He points out that we all have our sufferings, and while they might not be equal, they can be just as damaging to each of us. His journey to recovery is inspiring and amazing, and I find my heart warmed that he found closure for one of his internal demons. He is an articulate writer and was quite able to take his readers on a little journey through what he had been through.

brilliant book

This book reads like a great novel but when you realise it is a true story written by a man not avowedly social or outgoing, it is a masterpiece of communication. It is an autobiography that is a page turner - a very rare thing. It conveys messages about where people fit in society, or try to fit in. Messages of the madness of war and the lengths people will go to under those conditions and ultimately messages of reconciliation. I think in modern times, Mr Lomax would have been diagnosed with autism and when you consider the traits of autism and the huge suffering that being a prisoner of war would impose on that condition, it is astonishing that he survived to be such a courageous and insightful man. I have not seen the recent film but if you are interested in this story of suffering, courage and reconciliation, I would advise reading the book rather than seeing the film, which seems to focus on a love affair that is barely mentioned in the book. I think the film has taken this story in a completely different direction to sell it in box offices.

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Title: Littlejohn's Britain

Author: Richard Littlejohn

Narrator: Andrew Woodall

Format: Abridged

Length: 2 hrs and 53 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-25-07

Publisher: Random House AudioBooks

Ratings: 2.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

In Littlejohn's Britain Littlejohn takes aim at the Blair years, lampooning New Labour with polemic, pastiche, parody, satire, and savage social commentary.

His cast of characters, including Two Jags, the Wicked Witch, Captain Hook, and the Mad Mullah of the Traffic Taliban have become part of the fabric of the nation.

Littlejohn ridicules the country Britain has become over the past 10 years: the barmy bureaucracy, the surveillance state, the petty interference in our lives, the suffocating regulations, policeman and judges who think they're part of the social services, and the insanities of the 'elf 'n' safety industry, which have created such idiocies as forcing revellers celebrating Guy Fawkes Night to watch a bonfire on a big screen.

Littlejohn has a bloodhound's nose for cant, hypocrisy, and lunacy, and an unparalleled talent for pouring scorn on the arrogance of the powerful - while making his readers roar with laughter.

It's all here, in hilarious detail.