Adult catalogue (Jan - Mar `16)

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Adult catalogue (Jan - Mar `16)
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Acclaim for House of Dreams
‘A compelling and delightful read’
– Santa Montefiore
Acclaim for Trust
‘Blissfully funny and blisteringly
honest. I loved it’ – Caroline Quentin
Acclaim for Bones in the Nest
‘Exciting, pacey, vivid and humane.
Read it’ – Lesley Glaister
Acclaim for The 50/50 Killer
‘A terrific thriller that is cerebral,
pacy, intelligent and compelling’
– Huddersfield Daily Examiner
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Dear Librarian
A New Year brings with it a brand new selection of 36 outstanding Oakhill
unabridged Audio Books to suit every taste.
a woman has to face up to her secrets, and other people’s deadly ones in The
Turning Tide by Brooke Magnanti.
Much has been written in recent years about the secret work done at Bletchley
Park, but in The Bletchley Girls Tessa Dunlop focusses for the first time on
the women who worked there, drawing on her interviews with 15 surviving
‘secret keepers’.
People grow to love their houses; one such home is put in danger by the
profligate behaviour of its owner in Veronica Henry’s Honeycote. The family
in Fanny Blake’s House of Dreams have reservations about revisiting the
house in southern Spain where they grew up, while in Larkswood by Valerie
Mendes a golden Victorian childhood is shattered by disaster. Natalie
Livingstone tells the story of a real-life house and the women responsible
for its scandalous reputation in The Mistresses of Cliveden:Three Centuries of
Scandal, Power and Intrigue in an English Stately Home.
Anyone looking for cracking crime novel need look no further! Champion jockey
A. P. McCoy puts his inside knowledge to good use in his latest thriller set in
the world of racing, Narrowing the Field. DI Jackman faces a race against time
following the abduction of a Chinese student after a row with her boyfriend
in Before It’s Too Late by Jane Isaac. A picnic in Finsbury Park leads to death in
another investigation for reporter Rex Tracey in M. H. Baylis’s The Tottenham
Outrage. A young police officer finds himself investigating a murderer who kidnaps
couples, torturing them, but leaving only one to survive the night in Steve
Mosby’s The 50/50 Killer, while The Chasebridge Killer brings fear to the heart of
Doncaster in Bones in the Nest by Helen Cadbury. An unlikely pairing – a rich,
female DCI and a DS from the wrong side of town – find themselves working
together to find out who’s killing South London’s villains in Welcome to Meantime
by Murray Davies.
Obsession turns to tragedy in Fergus McNeill’s Cut Out; Ruth Dugdall poses
the question of what you do when a child who has murdered is released in
Humber Boy B; a killer who can’t recognise faces stalks the streets of Philadelphia
in Richard Montinari’s Shutter Man; and Barbara Nadel’s Turkish Inspector
Ikmen finds himself knee-deep in corruption when he heads for a policing
conference in Detroit in Dead of Night. In Amsterdam a Council employee
dealing with funerals for the unknown dead finds something worries him about
an ‘accidental’ drowning of a Moroccan in Britta Bolt’s Lonely Graves, while the
hijackers who have placed on bomb on board a flight bound for the US from
Stockholm are demanding that Sweden goes back on its decision to deport a
Moroccan in Kristina Ohlsson’s Hostage.
A toxicologist finds himself caught up in a night of killing and absinthe in
Jonathan Moore’s The Poison Artist; a self-destructive German photographer is
accused of murder in The Girl Who Wasn’t There by Ferdinand von Schirach.
When a German agent goes missing in 1941, MI6 and US Intelligence call on
the skills of Sergeant Troy of Scotland Yard in John Lawton’s Riptide. And in
Anne Perry’s Blood on the Water, set at a time when the Suez Canal is nearly
built, Commander William Monk of the River Police doubts that the Egyptian
convicted of causing an explosion on a Thames pleasure boat is actually guilty.
In Her by Harriet Lane two women from different worlds meet. One
thinks they’ve not met before – but the other knows differently with chilling
consequences. When a young boy goes missing the nation blames his mother,
but are they right to do so asks Gilly Macmillan in Burnt Paper Sky. One bad
decision destroys years of happiness in Mike Bullen’s Trust and in Bright Stars
by Sophie Duffy a man wonders if he’s ready to face a University reunion likely
to bring back memories of a tragic night years ago. After 20 years of happiness
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Two women hope to relive the days of their youth by reviving a place they
stayed on the island of Paros in Vanessa Greene’s The Beachside Guest House
and conversely in Emma Hannigan’s The Heart of Winter a family home has
been transformed into a venue hosting weddings and the like. An Irish lodge is
full of memories for a young woman leaving behind the London smart set of
the ‘30s in Kate Beaufoy’s Another Heartbeat in the House. Sent to live in her
aunt’s boarding house, the heroine of The Orphan by Maggie Hope has to
decide whether to marry just to escape her unhappy surroundings.
Historical fiction is always a popular category and this quarter there’s plenty
for enthusiasts to enjoy. Simon Scarrow embarks on a new series of books
featuring two of history’s most prominent figures in Young Bloods:The Wellington
and Napoleon Quartet, Book 1: 1769-1795. Nick Brown continues his series
about the Roman Empire in The Imperial Banner: Agent of Rome 2. Fast forward
several hundred years and Stewart Binns The Shadow of War: 1914 is the first
book in a series entitled The Great War which follows the fate of five families
through the ensuing conflict.
The word ‘iconic’ is a much over-used term, but it is one that is justified in the
case of the aeroplane which captured the hearts of a nation. Jonathan Glancey
recounts its history in Concorde:The Rise and Fall of the Supersonic Airliner.
For those with a taste for the supernatural a group of commuters and tube
workers in the underground survive a fiery apocalypse and escape through a
door to another world in Simon Morden’s Down Station. Equally disturbing is
The Raven’s Head, a story of alchemy and human sacrifice by Karen Maitland.
To find out more about these first-rate titles and to take a close look
at our wide-ranging unabridged Audio Book backlist, do please visit our
environmentally-friendly on-line catalogue to see just how good a selection we
have on offer. A quick reminder that all 36 new titles are now available in MP3
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JANUARY 2016 AUDIO BOOKS AVAILABLE ON CD
UK, CANADA & NEW ZEALAND • MARCH 2016 AUSTRALIA
FANNY BLAKE
House of Dreams
Read by Sherry Baines
In the hilltop villa with its spectacular views, Lucy anxiously awaits the arrival of her
brother and sister. They’re coming to say farewell to Casa de Sueños, the house in the
mountains of southern Spain where they grew up. Her sister Jo dreads the prospect of this
time with her family, fulfilling their late mother’s last instructions that they celebrate her
birthday together. Tom, their brother, is filled with dread, wanting nothing more than for
their stay to go without a hitch. Then a beautiful face from his past appears at the villa …
About the author
Fanny Blake was a publisher for many years, before becoming a freelance journalist and
writer. She has written a number of novels, including With a Friend Like You which is also
available from Oakhill. She is also Books Editor of Woman & Home magazine.
Acclaim for House of Dreams
‘A compelling and delightful read’ – Santa Montefiore
11 CDs • OCD 1016 • 978-1-78433-650-9
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 1016 • 978-1-78433-686-8 • Playing time: 12hrs 57mins
NICK BROWN
MIKE BULLEN
The Imperial Banner:
Agent of Rome 2
Trust
HELEN CADBURY
Read by Mark Meadows
Bones in the Nest
Read by Jonathan Keeble
The Roman Emperor Aurelian
has defeated Queen Zenobia
and crushed the Palmyran revolt.
Faridun’s Banner, hallowed battle
standard of the Persian Empire,
has fallen into Roman hands
and is to be returned to the Persians as part of a
historic peace treaty. But on the eve of the signing
the banner goes missing. Recalled to Syria, imperial
agent Cassius Corbulo is charged with recovering
the flag. Accompanied by his faithful servant Simo
and ex-gladiator bodyguard Indavara, Cassius must
journey across the dangerous wastes of Syria to
the equally perilous streets of Antioch.
About the author
Nick Brown grew up in Norfolk and later studied
history at the University of Sussex. Having taught
in England and Poland he now lives in Norwich. The
first volume in Agent of Rome series, The Siege, is
also available from Oakhill.
Greg and Amanda are happy.
They’ve been together 13 years
and have two young daughters.
They’re very much in love. Dan
and Sarah aren’t so fortunate.
Their marriage is going through the
motions and they’re just staying together for the sake
of their son.When one bad decision sends a happy
couple into turmoil and turns an unhappy couple
into love’s young dream, there’s only one thing that
can keep everything from falling apart: trust.
About the author
Mike Bullen is best known as the creator/writer
of the BAFTA award-winning series Cold Feet. His
other TV shows include Life Begins and Sunburn. He
conceived his BBC World Service documentary
series Stormclouds Over The Himalayas as a way to
be paid to go travelling; it won a Sony Gold Award.
Trust is his first novel.
Acclaim for Trust
‘Blissfully funny and blisteringly honest. I loved it’
– Caroline Quentin
The Chasebridge Killer is out;
racial tension is rising and the
mutilated body of a young Muslim
man is found in the stairwell of a
tower block in Doncaster. As he
gets drawn into the case, Sean
Denton’s family life and his police job become
dangerously entwined. Meanwhile a young woman
is trying to piece her life back together, but
someone is out there; someone who will never let
her forget what she’s done.
About the author
Helen Cadbury is a York based writer whose
debut novel, To Catch a Rabbit, was joint winner of
the Northern Crime Award, and is also available
from Oakhill. Helen was born in the Midlands and
brought up in Birmingham and Oldham, Lancashire.
She writes fiction, poetry and plays.
Acclaim for Bones in the Nest
‘Exciting, pacey, vivid and humane. Read it’
– Lesley Glaister
13 CDs • OCD 1017 • 978-1-78433-651-6
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 1017 • 978-1-78433-687-5
Playing time:16hrs 8mins
9 CDs • OCD 1018 • 978-1-78433-652-3
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 1018 • 978-1-78433-688-2
Playing time: 11hrs 13mins
7 CDs • OCD 1019 • 978-1-78433-653-0
1 MP3 CD • OMP 1019 • 978-1-78433-689-9
Playing time: 8hrs 28mins
Read by Nigel Peever
This audio book contains strong language and/or explicit scenes.
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JANUARY 2016 AUDIO BOOKS AVAILABLE ON CD
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SOPHIE DUFFY
Bright Stars
Read by Angus King
Cameron Spark’s life is falling apart. He is separated from his wife and has moved in with
his widowed dad. Then he receives a letter. It is from Christie. Twenty-five years earlier,
the shy Cameron attended University where he made three unlikely friends: Christie, the
rich Canadian, Tommo, the wannabe rock star and Bex, the Feminist activist. In a whirlwind
of alcohol and music, Cameron feels as though he’s finally living. Until a horrific accident
shatters their friendship and alters their futures forever. Christie’s letter offers them a
reunion after all these years. But has enough time passed to recover from the events of
that tragic night?
About the author
Sophie Duffy won the 2010 Luke Bitmead Award for The Generation Game which is also
available from Oakhill, inspired by her childhood growing up in a sweet shop in Torquay.
Acclaim for Sophie Duffy
‘ ... she writes with warmth, lovely earthy detail’ – The Daily Mail
8 CDs • OCD 1020 • 978-1-78433-654-7
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 1020 • 978-1-78433-690-5 • Playing time: 9hrs 16mins
TESSA DUNLOP
The Bletchley Girls (NF)
Read by Anna Bentinck
VERONICA HENRY
HARRIET LANE
Honeycote
Read by Rachel Atkins
Her
Read by Julie Maisey
The Bletchley Girls weaves together
the lives of 15 women who were all
selected to work in Britain’s most
secret organisation – Bletchley
Park. It is their story, told in their
voices.Tessa Dunlop met and
talked to these fascinating female secret-keepers and
captures their extraordinary journeys into an adult
world of war, secrecy, love and loss.Through the
voices of the women themselves, this is a portrait of
life at Bletchley Park beyond the celebrated codebreakers, it’s the story of the girls behind Britain’s
ability to consistently out-smart the enemy.
About the author
Award winning broadcaster and historian Tessa
Dunlop has presented documentaries for BBC TV
including Thames Shipwrecks, Coast and Inside Out,
as well as for Radio 4 and the BBC World Service.
Acclaim for The Bletchley Girls
‘By spending time with these fascinating women,
Tessa Dunlop captures their extraordinary stories
of life at Bletchley Park’ – Daily Telegraph
The Liddiards have a wonderful
life at Honeycote House: endless
guests, parties and family fun.
But unbeknownst to his wife
Lucy, Mickey Liddiard has some
secrets. He’s going to make
changes, though. 1) Give his mistress the boot.
Tricky. 2) Get the family business back on its feet.
Trickier, as Mickey’s had his fingers in the till. 3)
Give up the booze. Trickiest. He owes it to Lucy
and the children. But it’s going to take more than
willpower, especially when there’s more than one
person with their eye on the brewery. And his
house. And his wife …
About the author
Veronica Henry worked as a scriptwriter for
The Archers, Heartbeat and Holby City among others,
before turning to fiction. She won the 2014 RNA
Novel of the Year Award for A Night on the Orient
Express, which is available from Oakhill.
Acclaim for Honeycote
‘ ... full of glamour and intrigue’ – Novelicious
Two women; two different worlds.
Emma is a struggling mother who
has put everything on hold. Nina
is sophisticated and independent
– entirely in control. When the
pair meet, Nina generously draws
Emma into her life. But this isn’t the first time the
women’s paths have crossed. Nina remembers
Emma and she remembers what Emma did. But
what exactly does Nina want from her? And how
far will she go in pursuit of it?
About the author
Before the publication of her debut novel Alys,
Always, also available from Oakhill, Harriet Lane
wrote for the Guardian, the Observer, Vogue and
Tatler. She lives in north London with her husband
and two children.
Acclaim for Her
‘ … a violence-free psychological thriller in which
the victim doesn’t even know there is a threat’
– Sunday Times
10 CDs • OCD 1021 • 978-1-78433-655-4
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 1021 • 978-1-78433-691-2
Playing time: 12hrs 18mins
11 CDs • OCD 1022 • 978-1-78433-656-1
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 1022 • 978-1-78433-692-9
Playing time: 13hrs 10mins
7 CDs • OCD 1023 • 978-1-78433-657-8
1 MP3 CD • OMP 1023 • 978-1-78433-693-6
Playing time: 8hrs 28mins
This audio book contains strong language and/or explicit scenes.
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GILLY MACMILLAN
Burnt Paper Sky
Read by Penelope Rawlins
& Dugald Bruce-Lockhart
Rachel Jenner turned her back for a moment. Now her eight-year-old son Ben is missing.
But what really happened that fateful afternoon? Caught between her personal tragedy
and a public who have turned against her, there is nobody left who Rachel can trust. But
can the nation trust Rachel? The clock is ticking to find Ben alive. Whose side are you on?
About the author
Gilly Macmillan grew up in Swindon and also lived in Northern California in her late
teens. She studied History of Art at Bristol University and then at the Courtauld Institute of
Art. She worked at The Burlington Magazine and the Hayward Gallery before starting a family.
Since then she’s worked as a part-time lecturer in A Level Photography and a full-time mum.
Acclaim for Burnt Paper Sky
‘ … an absolute firecracker of a thriller that convinces and captivates from the word go.
A must read’ – Sunday Mirror
10 CDs • OCD 1024 • 978-1-78433-658-5
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 1024 • 978-1-78433-694-3 • Playing time: 12hrs 2mins
KRISTINA OHLSSON
Hostage
ANNE PERRY
Read by Maggie Mash
Blood on the Water
Read by Jonathan Oliver
FERDINAND VON SCHIRACH
The Girl Who Wasn’t There
Read by Cameron Stewart
Shortly after a crowded New
York-bound flight takes off from
Stockholm, a bomb threat is
found on board. Anonymous
hijackers demand that the
Swedish government revoke
its decision to deport a Moroccan man. If their
demands are not met, the plane will explode
if it attempts to land. The US and Swedish
governments must choose between negotiating
with terrorists or pursuing the deportation
of a possibly innocent man. Fredrika Bergman
returns to liaise between Police Superintendent
Alex Recht and the abrasive Eden Lundell of the
Security Service’s counter-terrorism unit. They
soon realise that the plot behind the hijacking is
far more complex than anyone thought ...
About the author
Kristina Ohlsson is a political scientist and until
recently held the position of Counter-Terrorism
Officer at OSCE. Her novels Unwanted, Silenced
and The Disappeared are also available from Oakhill.
Commander William Monk: in
search of justice, he will not stop
until he has found the truth. It
is a time of progress, with the
Empire’s interests expanding and
the contentious new Suez Canal
nearing completion. Many people stand to gain –
and to lose – as the world rapidly changes. When a
Thames pleasure boat is blown up with the loss of
many lives, an Egyptian man is quickly sentenced to
hang for the crime. But William Monk, head of the
River Police, discovers the evidence was flawed. If
justice itself has been tainted, exposing the true
culprit will be far more dangerous ...
About the author
Anne Perry is a New York Times bestselling author
noted for her memorable characters, historical
accuracy and exploration of social and ethical issues.
Her two series, one featuring Thomas Pitt and
one featuring William Monk, have been published
in multiple languages. Her previous William Monk
novel Blind Justice is also available from Oakhill.
Sebastian von Eschburg, scion of
a wealthy, self-destructive family,
survived his disastrous childhood
to become a celebrated artist. He
casts a provocative shadow over
the Berlin scene; his disturbing
photographs and installations show that truth and
reality are two distinct things. When Sebastian is
accused of murdering a young woman, seasoned
lawyer Konrad Biegler agrees to represent him
– and hopes to help himself in the process. But
Biegler soon learns that nothing about the case, or
the suspect, is what it appears.
About the author
Ferdinand von Schirach works in Berlin and is
one of Germany’s most prominent defence lawyers.
His short story collection Crime and Guilt and novel
The Collini Case were instant bestsellers.
Acclaim for The Girl Who Wasn’t There
‘This is a sophisticated novel about a man
whose emotional detachment is as chilly as it is
destructive’ – Sunday Times
12 CDs • OCD 1025 • 978-1-78433-659-2
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 1025 • 978-1-78433-695-0
Playing time: 14hrs 8mins
11 CDs • OCD 1026 • 978-1-78433-660-8
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 1026 • 978-1-78433-696-7
Playing time: 12hrs 40mins
5 CDs • OCD 1027 • 978-1-78433-661-5
1 MP3 CD • OMP 1027 • 978-1-78433-697-4
Playing time: 5hrs 24mins
This audio book contains strong language and/or explicit scenes.
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M. H. BAYLIS
The Tottenham Outrage
Read by David Thorpe
A family of Hasidic Jews dies suddenly while picnicking in Finsbury Park, and the finger is
quickly pointed at a gang of Islamist youths. Too quickly, thinks local reporter Rex Tracey.
Rex starts to investigate. But when his long-time colleague and friend is also accused
of murder, the sleuthing journalist with a fondness for Polish lager and dry one-liners is
catapulted out of his depth, into a disturbing world of religious fanaticism, false prophets
and century-old secrets.
About the author
Matthew Baylis also writes as M. H. Baylis. He studied anthropology and intended to
become a world authority on cults and messianic movements. He became a storyliner on
EastEnders instead and also wrote Cambodia’s first film-noir thriller. The first Rex Tracey
novel, A Death at the Palace, is also available from Oakhill.
Acclaim for The Tottenham Outrage
‘M. H. Baylis is on to a winning combination with his Rex Tracey mysteries’ – Independent
9 CDs • OCD 1028 • 978-1-78433-662-2
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 1028 • 978-1-78433-698-1 • Playing time: 10hrs 50mins
KATE BEAUFOY
JONATHAN GLANCEY
Another Heartbeat in
the House
Concorde: The Rise and Fall of the
Supersonic Airliner (NF)
Read by Niamh Cusack
Read by Andrew Cullum
When Edie Chadwick travels to
Ireland to close up her uncle’s
lodge, it’s as much to escape the
guilt she’s carrying as to break
loose from the smart set of 1930s
London. The old house is full
of memories – not just her own, but those of a
woman whose story has been left to gather dust
in a chest in the attic ... Eliza Drury. As she turns
the pages of the handwritten manuscript, Edie
uncovers secrets she could never have imagined ...
About the author
Kate Beaufoy has published a dozen novels as
Kate Thompson including The Blue Hour which was
shortlisted for the RNA award. Liberty Silk, her first
historical novel, is also available from Oakhill.
Acclaim for Another Heartbeat in the House
‘A compelling, atmospheric story … about two
feisty, independent heroines who will steal your
heart’ – Cathy Kelly, author
In Concorde, Jonathan Glancey
tells the story of this magnificent
and hugely popular aircraft
anew, taking the reader from
the moment Captain Chuck
Yeager first broke the sound
barrier in 1947 through to the last commercial
flight of the supersonic airliner in 2003. It is a tale
of national rivalries, technological leaps, daring
prototypes, tightrope politics, and a dream of a
Dan Dare future never quite realised. Jonathan
Glancey traces the development of Concorde not
just through existing material and archives, but
through interviews with those who lived with the
supersonic project from its inception.
About the author
Jonathan Glancey is the former architecture
and design correspondent of the Guardian and
Independent. His books include Harrier, Giants of
Steam, the bestselling Spitfire:The Biography, The Story
of Architecture and The Train: An Illustrated History.
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VANESSA GREENE
The Beachside Guest House
Read by Victoria Fox
When Rosa and Bee get together
in the run-up to Bee’s wedding,
they reminisce about the holiday
they took together as teenagers
to the beautiful Greek island
of Paros. They remember the
sandy coves and the guest house in the converted
windmill where they stayed with their friend
Iona. As memories of that holiday resurface, they
are forced to confront the turns their lives have
taken – and the guilt they feel about letting Iona
slip away from them. When they learn that the
windmill guest house is going bust they form a
plan: why not go back to the island and take it
over themselves? And so begins a life-changing
journey – because it turns out that reliving their
teenage dreams isn’t that easy ...
About the author
Vanessa Greene grew up in north London.
Her first novel, The Vintage Teacup Club, was
published to rave reader reviews and is also
available from Oakhill.
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EMMA HANNIGAN
The Heart of Winter
Read by Grainne Gillis
Holly Craig’s family have lived happily in Huntersbrook for generations but when times
grow hard, even she must admit defeat and sell off their once-successful stables. The
three Craig children, Lainey, Joey, and Pippa find themselves locked in a fight to keep their
beloved Huntersbrook; dare they transform it into one of Ireland’s most sought after
countryside venues? Renovation work is well underway when life rears its ugly head and
everything stops in its tracks. The Craig family is forced to reassess what matters and
although they no longer live at Huntersbrook, can the house work its magic even so ...
and lead them into the light once more?
About the author
Emma Hannigan is the author of nine bestselling novels including Driving Home for
Christmas and The Summer Guest (both available from Oakhill) and a bestselling memoir
Talk to the Headscarf which charted her journey through cancer.
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JANE ISAAC
VALERIE MENDES
Before It’s Too Late
Read by Tim Bruce & Cathy Sabberton
Following an argument with her
British boyfriend, Chinese student
Min Li is abducted whilst walking
the dark streets of picturesque
Stratford-upon-Avon alone.
Trapped in a dark pit, Min is at the
mercy of her captor. Detective
Inspector Will Jackman is tasked
with solving the case and in his
search for answers discovers that
the truth is buried deeper than
he ever expected. But, as another student vanishes
and Min grows ever weaker, time is running out.
About the author
Jane Isaac studied creative writing with The
Writers Bureau and the London School of
Journalism. She was runner up Writer of the Year
2013 with The Writers Bureau. Her short story,
Perilous Truths, was selected from over 200 entries
to appear in Bridge House Publishing’s Crime After
Crime anthology. Her first novel The Truth Will Out
is also available from Oakhill.
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RICHARD MONTANARI
Larkswood
Read by Katie Scarfe
Shutter Man
Read by William Hope
Larkswood House is home to
the Hamilton children – Edward,
Cynthia and Harriet – who enjoy
the freedom and excitement of
privilege. But in the summer of
1898 disaster strikes the family,
leaving it cruelly divided. More than 40 years
later, on the eve of the Second World War, Louisa
Hamilton is sent to Larkswood to recuperate
from an illness. But as Louisa begins to fall under
the spell of Larkswood, she realises it holds the
key to the mystery that shattered her family two
generations before. Will she find the courage to
unravel the dark secrets of the past?
About the author
Valerie Mendes started her working life as a
journalist, before moving into book publishing
where she worked with Oxford University Press,
Penguin Books and Elsevier among others.
Acclaim for Larkswood
‘An enjoyable family saga with tones of a darker
Downtown Abbey’ – We Love This Book
The Farren family has been a
plague upon Philadelphia’s most
dangerous neighbourhood, the
Devil’s Pocket, for generations.
There, row after row of
tumbledown houses hide dark
secrets – none darker than Billy, the youngest
Farren. Afflicted by a syndrome that means he can’t
recognise faces, Billy must use photographs to
identify his family – and his victims. And when your
life has bled away, he takes a final, gruesome picture
for his wall. But what is the meaning of the horrific
ritual Billy enacts with every murder? And is there
any connection to a childhood event Detective
Kevin Byrne has buried so well it’s hidden even
from his former partner Jessica Balzano?
About the author
Richard Montanari was born in Cleveland. After
university, he travelled Europe extensively and lived
in London. Returning to the US, he worked as a
freelance writer for the Chicago Tribune, the Detroit
Free Press, the Seattle Times, and many others.
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JONATHAN MOORE
The Poison Artist
Read by Tim Flavin
Dr Caleb Maddox is a crack San Francisco toxicologist leading a ground-breaking study
of the human pain threshold based on minute analysis of chemical markers. He has also
just broken up with his artist girlfriend after she discovered a shocking family secret in his
past. Seeking solace, Caleb finds a saloon called House of Shields where he is mesmerised
by a beautiful woman dressed like a 1940s movie star. The enigmatic Emmeline shares
a pouring of absinthe with him and vanishes. As he pursues her through the night-time
city, he becomes entangled in a serial murder investigation that has the police stymied
until Caleb’s analysis of the chemical markers in their bodies reveals that each one was
tortured to death. Also present are some of the key components of absinthe ...
About the author
Jonathan Moore and his wife live in Hawaii. When he’s not writing, or fixing his boat,
Jonathan is an attorney.
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STEVE MOSBY
The 50/50 Killer
Read by Gareth Armstrong
BARBARA NADEL
SIMON SCARROW
An Inspector Ikmen Mystery
Napoleon Quartet, Book 1: 1769-1795
Dead of Night:
Young Bloods: The Wellington and
Mark Nelson is a young police
officer, newly assigned to the
team of John Mercer – a highlydecorated detective, and author
of a bestselling true crime book.
When a man is found burned to
death, the evidence points the 50/50 Killer who
targets young couples, subjecting them to a single
night of torture. Only one ever survives until
dawn. Then a tortured young man walks into a
police station, his memory in tatters. He knows
he’s escaped from the woods where his girlfriend
is being held captive. But the team know that by
fleeing, he has sealed his girlfriend’s fate ...
About the author
Steve Mosby lives and works in Leeds. He is the
author of The Third Person,The Cutting Crew, Cry for
Help, Still Bleeding and Black Flowers.
Acclaim for The 50/50 Killer
‘A terrific thriller that is cerebral, pacy, intelligent
and compelling’ – Huddersfield Daily Examiner
Read by Sean Barrett
Read by Jonathan Keeble
Inspectors Cetin Ikmen and
Mehmet Suleyman from Istanbul
are sent to a policing conference
in Detroit, but little can prepare
them for the corruption that lies
at its heart. When Ezekiel Goins,
an elderly man of Turkish descent approaches
them to crack the long-unsolved murder of his
son, a quiet trip takes a far more sinister turn.
As they delve deeper into the case, the pair find
themselves immersed in a terrifying world of intergang drug war and racial prejudice that puts them
in mortal danger ...
About the author
Trained as an actress, Barbara Nadel used to
work in mental health services. She received the
Crime Writers’ Association Silver Dagger for her
novel Deadly Web.
Arthur Wesley (the future Duke
of Wellington) was born and
bred to be a leader. With a firm
belief that the nation must be led
by a king, the red-coated British
officer heads for battle against the
French Republic, to restore the fallen monarchy.
Napoleon Bonaparte joins the French military on
the eve of the Revolution. He believes leadership
is won by merit, not by noble birth. When anarchy
explodes in Paris he’s thrust into the revolutionary
army poised to march against Britain. As two
mighty Empires embark on a bloody duel, Wesley
and Bonaparte prepare to face a sworn enemy,
unaware that the fate of Europe will one day lie in
their hands...
About the author
Simon Scarrow is the Sunday Times No. 1
bestselling author of the Roman adventure novels
in the Eagle series.
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STEWART BINNS
The Shadow of War: 1914 (The Great War series, Book 1)
Read by Richard Burnip
June 1914. The beginning of another long, prosperous summer for Britain. But beneath
the clear skies, the chill wind of social discontent swirls around this sceptred isle. Shots
ring out in a distant European land – the assassination of a foreign aristocrat. From that
moment the entire world is propelled into a conflict unlike any seen before. This is the
story of five British communities, their circumstances very different, but who will all
share in the tragedy that is to come.
About the author
Stewart Binns began his professional life as an academic. His subsequent work at the
BBC has won him many awards for his documentaries. His previous Making of England
series Crusade, Conquest, Anarchy and Lionheart is available from Oakhill.
Acclaim for The Shadow of War
‘Anyone with even a vague interest in Britain and the Great War should read The Shadow
of War’ – Celia Sandys, granddaughter of Winston Churchill
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BRITTA BOLT
Lonely Graves
(Pieter Posthumus Book 1)
Read by Andrew Cullum
A suicide. A drowned man.
A sudden death. In Amsterdam,
there’s a council department
known affectionately as the
Lonely Funerals team which
arranges burials for the
abandoned or unknown dead. Pieter Posthumus
hasn’t been doing the job long, but he’s
determined to do it well. So when something
doesn’t seem quite right about a Moroccan
immigrant’s ‘accidental’ drowning, Posthumus
starts digging. His quest for justice will lead him
down some dangerous paths ...
About the author
Britta Bolt was ‘born’ in January 2010 when
former lawyer Britta Böhler felt the urge to turn
her past experience into a novel. Rodney Bolt
was at home dreaming of doing the same. Soon
afterwards, they teamed up to write a crime series
set in their beloved adopted city Amsterdam.
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MURRAY DAVIES
RUTH DUGDALL
Welcome to Meantime
Read by Peter Wickham
Humber Boy B
Read by Penny McDonald
DCI Patsy Chalke. Beautiful,
rich, Oxford-educated. Owns
a riverside penthouse, drives a
red Mercedes convertible. DS
Bobby Leyden. The bruiser from
the notorious Ferrier estate.
Lives on take-away Chinese and cans of 1664.
Drives a Ford. They are Chalke and Cheese, but
when a gruesome string of murders rocks the
royal borough of Greenwich, the pair must work
together to find out who is killing South London’s
villains. And why. Only one thing’s certain. In
Meantime nothing is what it seems to be.
About the author
During his career as a national newspaper
reporter, Murray Davies covered most of the
major British crime stories and headline court
cases of the past 30 years. He died in 2014.
A child is killed after falling from
the Humber Bridge. Two young
brothers are found guilty and sent
to prison. Upon their release they
are granted anonymity. Probation
officer Cate Austin is responsible
for Humber Boy B’s reintegration into society.
But the general public’s anger is steadily growing,
and those around her wonder if he deserves to
keep the secret of his identity. Cate’s loyalty is
challenged when she begins to discover the truth
of the crime. Is a child capable of premeditated
murder? Or is there a greater evil at play?
About the author
Ruth Dugdall was a social worker, a probation
officer and has worked with children convicted of
murder. Her novel The Woman Before Me, which
won the Debut Dagger in 2005, and The Sacrificial
Man are both available from Oakhill.
Acclaim for Humber Boy B
‘This superbly written, distressing story explores
the background to the final dreadful act’ – The Sun
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MAGGIE HOPE
Orphan Girl
Read by Claire Jones
Lorinda is only a child when tragedy deprives her of her true family and, sent to live with
her aunt in her boarding house, she grows up desperately craving affection. And although
she finds friendship – and even love – in the boarding house, she finally sees a chance to
escape her drab surroundings and unkind family. But is a marriage of convenience better
than a love that’s true?
About the author
Maggie Hope was born and raised in County Durham. She worked as a nurse for
many years before giving up her career to raise her family. He books A Wartime Nurse,
A Daughter’s Duty, A Daughter’s Gift, A Mother’s Gift, A Nurse’s Duty,The Servant Girl and Like
Mother, Like Daughter are all available from Oakhill.
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JOHN LAWTON
NATALIE LIVINGSTONE
Riptide
Read by Lewis Hancock
Spring 1941: After 10 years spying
for the Americans, Wolfgang Stahl
disappears during a Berlin air raid.
The Germans think he’s dead.
The British know he’s not. But
where is he? MI6 convince US
Intelligence that Stahl will head for London, and so
Captain Cal Cormack, a shy American ‘aristocrat’,
is teamed with Chief Inspector Stilton, fat, 50, and
convivial, and between them they scour London.
But then things start to go terribly wrong and,
ditched by MI6 and disowned by his embassy, Cal
is introduced to his one last hope – Sergeant Troy
of Scotland Yard.
About the author
John Lawton has spent the last 10 years making
television programme and editing volumes of H.
G. Wells’ work. He is the author of the DetectiveSergeant Troy series of crime novels. His novels
A Lily of the Field, A Little White Death, Black Out, Blue
Rondo, Second Violin, Sweet Sunday and Then We Take
Berlin are all available from Oakhill.
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The Mistresses of Cliveden:
Three Centuries of Scandal, Power and
Intrigue in an English Stately Home (NF)
BROOKE MAGNANTI
The Turning Tide
Read by Joan Walker
From its dawn in the 1660s to its
twilight in the 1960s, Cliveden was
an emblem of elite misbehaviour
and intrigue. Conceived by the
Duke of Buckingham as a retreat
for his scandalous affair with
Anna-Maria, Countess of Shrewsbury, the house
later served as the backdrop for the Profumo Affair.
In the 300 years between, the house was occupied
by a dynasty of remarkable women each of whom
left their mark on this great house.
About the author
Natalie Livingstone began her career as a
feature writer at the Daily Express and now
contributes to Tatler, Harper’s Bazaar, US Vogue, Elle,
The Times and the Mail on Sunday.
Acclaim for The Mistresses of Cliveden
‘Wide-ranging and deliciously enjoyable’
– Juliet Nicholson,The Telegraph
Erykah Macdonald has a nice
life, but on her 20th wedding
anniversary, she’s about to cross a
line. Several hundred miles away in
the shallow waters of a Hebridean
island, a body is found. This is no
accidental death. Erykah’s lived with secrets most
of her life. The trouble is, there are far worse
secrets than her own about to emerge. And a net
is tightening. Those that find themselves caught are
willing to kill to get out with reputations intact.
Erykah must work out what she’s capable of if she’s
going to keep her head above water ...
About the author
Dr Brooke Magnanti studied Genetic
Epidemiology and did her doctoral studies with
the Department of Forensic Pathology at the
University of Sheffield. In 2009 it was revealed
that she is an ex-call girl and author of the
bestselling Belle de Jour series of memoirs, which
were adapted into the ITV series Secret Diary of
a Call Girl.
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KAREN MAITLAND
The Raven’s Head
Read by David Thorpe
Vincent is an apprentice librarian who stumbles upon a secret powerful enough to
destroy his master. With the foolish arrogance of youth, he attempts blackmail but the
attempt fails and Vincent finds himself on the run and in possession of an intricately
carved silver raven’s head. Any attempt to sell the head fails ... until Vincent tries to palm
it off on the intimidating Lord Sylvain – unbeknown to Vincent, a powerful Alchemist
with an all-consuming quest. Once more Vincent’s life is in danger because Sylvain and
his neighbours, the menacing White Canons, consider him a predestined sacrifice in their
shocking experiment.
About the author
Karen Maitland is the author of Company of Liars,The Owl Killers,The Gallows Curse,The
Falcons of Fire and Ice (all of which are available from Oakhill),The White Room and The
Vanishing Witch.
Acclaim for The Raven’s Head
‘An atmospheric and dark story’ – The Times
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A. P. McCOY
FERGUS McNEILL
Narrowing the Field
Cut Out
Everything seems to be going
right for brilliant young jockey
Duncan Claymore. A career on
the up, a beautiful wife, and all the
trappings of wealth. But Duncan
is haunted by the death of one
of his arch-rivals. As Duncan struggles to keep
his focus on the job, Michelle O’Brien – a friend
and talented fellow jockey – is killed. Duncan
knows this was no tragic accident and will stop at
nothing to avenge Michelle’s death. With Duncan’s
seemingly perfect world starting to fall apart, can
he balance his desire for victory on the field with
his desire to see justice served?
About the author
A. P. McCoy is a record-breaking Northern
Irish horse-racing jockey whose wins include
the Cheltenham Gold Cup, Champion Hurdle,
Queen Mother Champion Chase, King George VI
Chase and the 2010 Grand National. McCoy was
named BBC Sports Personality of the Year in 2010,
becoming the first jockey to win the award.
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Photo © Charlie Carter
Read by Daniel Weyman
SIMON MORDEN
Read by Mike Rogers
Down Station
Read by Thomas Judd
Nigel never meant for it to
happen. At first, he just wanted
to be Matt’s friend. But when he
discovers he can hear what is
going on in the flat below him, his
fascination with his new neighbour
drifts into obsession. Rearranging his furniture
to recreate the layout of the rooms downstairs.
Buying the same clothes, going through Matt’s
post, his things. Becoming Matt without him ever
knowing. And it would have been all right, if Matt
hadn’t brought the girl home. When things spiral
out of control, Detective Inspector Harland has to
unravel the disturbing truth ...
About the author
Fergus McNeill is the author of Eye Contact
and Knife Edge, both of which are available from
Oakhill. As well as writing crime novels, he has
been creating computer games since the early
eighties, writing his first interactive fiction titles
while still at school.
A group of commuters and tube
workers witness a fiery apocalypse
overtaking London. They make
their escape through a service
tunnel. Reaching a door they step
through … and find themselves on
a shore backed by cliffs and rolling grassland. The
way back is blocked. Heading inland they meet a
man wearing a wolf’s cloak with wolves by his side.
He has heard of a place called London – other
people have arrived down the ages – all escaping
from a London that is burning. None of them have
returned. Except one – who travels between the
two worlds at will. The group begin a quest to find
this one survivor; the one who holds the key to
their return and to the safety of London.
About the author
Simon Morden has won the Philip K. Dick Award
and been a judge on the Arthur C. Clarke Award.
He has also been an editor at Focus magazine.
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The Spy who Changed the World (NF)
Call the Vet: Farmers, Dramas and Disasters –
My First Year as a Country Vet (NF)
Read by Nigel Peever
Read by Anna Baatz
When fresh-faced, newly-qualified vet Anna arrives in the seemingly sleepy Dorset village
of Ebbourne, little does she know that this tiny rural community is about to change her
life. Straight in at the deep end, Anna faces two tricky calvings, an emergency call-out to a
frightened mare, lots of mad cats (and mad cat women) and one enormous dog with an
injured leg and a threatening bark. Spirited and determined, Anna quickly finds her feet and
falls in love with rural life, including Ebbourne’s eccentric characters and their animals.
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Warsaw Boy: A Memoir of a Wartime Childhood (NF)
Read by Tim Bruce
The world first heard of Klaus Fuchs, the head of theoretical physics at the British
Research Establishment at Harwell, in February 1950 when he appeared at the Old Bailey,
accused of passing secrets to the Soviet Union. For over 60 years disinformation and lies
surrounded the story of Klaus Fuchs as the Governments of Britain, the United States
and Russia tried to cover up the truth about his treachery. In this revealing account,
Mike Rossiter unravels the truth about his clandestine meetings, deadly secrets, family
entanglements and illicit love affairs, all set against the tumultuous years from the rise of
Hitler to the start of the Cold War.
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ANDY SEED
All Teachers Bright and Beautiful (NF)
Read by David Fleeshman
Poland suffered terribly under the Nazis. By the end of the war six million had been killed.
On 1 August 1944 Andrew Borowiec, a 15-year-old volunteer in the Resistance, lobbed a grenade
from a Warsaw apartment block onto some German soldiers below – he felt he had come of
age. Over that summer Andrew faced danger at every moment.Wounded the day after his 16th
birthday, he was captured as he lay in a makeshift cellar hospital. Here he learned a lesson: there
were decent Germans as well as bad.This is an extraordinary tale of survival and defiance.
Andy Seed is beginning his fifth year teaching at Cragthwaite Primary in the Yorkshire Dales,
and as always a new term is full of surprises. There’s a beautiful, but not terribly bright,
student on placement from the local teacher training college, and a particularly pushy
parent with a fine line in complaining. At home in Applesett, things aren’t all rosy either.
Barbara is forced to take a job to help pay the mortgage, which means finding someone to
look after Tom and Reuben. When two old friends move into the village it looks like the
problem has been solved, but it soon transpires that rural life is not for everyone.
11 CDs • OCD 909 • 978-1-78433-273-0
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 909 • 978-1-78433-329-4 • Playing time: 13hrs 20mins
10 CDs • OCD 965 • 978-1-78433-473-4
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 965 • 978-1-78433-508-3 • Playing time: 11hrs 49mins
LAURA THOMPSON
DEBORAH CADBURY
Princes at War: The British Royal Family’s Private Battle in the
Second World War (NF)
Read by Cameron Stewart
King George V predicted that his son, Edward VIII, would destroy himself within a year
of succeeding to the throne. In December 1936 he was proved right, and the world’s
press revealed the king was abandoning his throne to marry Wallis Simpson. A life spent
in the shadow of his charismatic elder brother left the new king, George VI, magnificently
unprepared for the demands of ruling the kingdom and empire. Drawing on personal
accounts from the royal archives, Deborah Cadbury uncovers the very private conflict
between George VI and his older brother.
12 CDs • OCD 981 • 978-1-78433-556-4
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 981 • 978-1-78433-592-2 • Playing time: 13hrs 57mins
DOROTHEA CREWDSON
Dorothea’s War: A First World War Nurse Tells Her Story (NF)
Edited by Richard Crewdson
Read by Julia Barrie & Richard Burnip
In April 1915, Dorothea Crewdson, a newly-trained Red Cross nurse, received instructions
to leave for Le Tréport in northern France. Filled with excitement, Dorothea began writing a
diary. She would go on to witness and record some of the worst tragedy of the First World
War, though somehow always maintaining her optimism, curiosity and high spirits throughout.
Nearly a 100 years on, what shines out from these extraordinarily evocative diaries is a
courageous, spirited, compassionate young woman.
A Different Class of Murder (NF)
Read by Anna Bentinck
On 7 November 1974, a nanny named Sandra Rivett was bludgeoned to death in a
Belgravia basement. A second woman,Veronica, Countess of Lucan, was also attacked.
The man named in court as perpetrator of these crimes, Richard John Bingham, 7th Earl
of Lucan, disappeared in the early hours of the following morning. The case, solved in the
eyes of the law, has retained its fascination ever since. Laura Thompson narrates the story
that led up to that cataclysmic event, and draws on her considerable forensic skills to reexamine the possible truths behind one of postwar Britain’s most notorious murders.
13 CDs • OCD 955 • 978-1-78433-463-5
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 955 • 978-1-78433-498-7 • Playing time: 15hrs 58mins
A. N. WILSON
The Book of the People: How to Read the Bible (NF)
Read by Gareth Armstrong
A. N. Wilson has been thinking about the Bible, and reading it, since he read theology for
a year at university. Martin Luther King was ‘reading the Bible’ when he started the Civil
Rights movement. When Michelangelo painted the fresco cycles in the Sistine Chapel,
he was ‘reading the Bible’. In The Book of the People A. N. Wilson explores how readers
and thinkers have approached the Bible, and how it might be read today. Charting his
own relationship with the Bible over a lifetime of writing, Wilson argues that it remains
relevant even in a largely secular society, as a philosophical work, a work of literature and
a cultural touchstone.
5 CDs • OCD 1014 • 978-1-78433-588-5
1 MP3 CD • OMP 1014 • 978-1-78433-624-0 • Playing time: 5hrs 25mins
13 CDs • OCD 936 • 978-1-78433-385-0
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 936 • 978-1-78433-420-8 • Playing time: 15hrs 15mins
WENDY MOORE
Wedlock: How Georgian Britain’s Worst Husband Met His Match (NF)
Read by Rachel Atkins
Mary Eleanor Bowes was one of Britain’s richest young heiresses. She married the Count
of Strathmore who died young so Mary became engaged to George Gray. Then in swooped
Andrew Robinson Stoney. Mary was bowled over and married him within the week. Stoney
was broke, and his pursuit of the wealthy Countess a calculated ploy. Once married to
Mary, he embarked on years of ill treatment. But after many years, a servant helped Mary
to escape and she began a high-profile divorce case that was the scandal of the day ...
11 CDs • OCD 999 • 978-1-78433-572-4
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 999 • 978-1-78433-608-0 • Playing time: 13hrs 34mins
FICTION
BERNHARD AICHNER
Woman of the Dead
Read by Victoria Fox
How far would you go to avenge the one you love? Blum has a secret buried deep in her
past. She thought she’d left the past behind. But then Mark, the man she loves, dies. His
death looks like a hit-and-run. It isn’t a hit-and-run. Mark has been killed by the men he was
investigating. And then, suddenly, Blum rediscovers what she’s capable of.
8 CDs • OCD 932 • 978-1-78433-381-2
1 MP3 CD • OMP 932 • 978-1-78433-416-1 • Playing time: 1hrs 1min
ANWYN MOYLE
LAURA ANDERSEN
Read by Gillian Jephcott
Read by Fiona Paul
Her Ladyship’s Girl: A Maid’s Life in London (NF)
Anwyn Moyle was born at the end of the First World War in a Welsh mining village. At 16,
she went to London to be a scullery maid, and later became a lady’s maid where she was
expected to cover up her mistress’s affairs. Her time there ended when she was caught
with a young aristocrat in her room. However, she found her niche in the working-class
atmosphere of the capital city’s pubs and in her diary she richly evokes London between
the wars and during the Blitz.
The Boleyn Deceit
William Tudor, now King Henry IX, sits alone on the throne. But England must still contend
with those who doubt his legitimacy. To diffuse tensions and appease the Catholics, William
is betrothed to a young princess from France, but still he has eyes only for his childhood
friend Minuette, which sends court tongues wagging and assassins plotting. In a court of
secrets, which lies have the power to change history forever?
9 CDs • OCD 896 • 978-1-78433-282-2
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 896 • 978-1-78433-302-7 • Playing time: 11hrs 9mins
7 CDs • OCD 928 • 978-1-78433-377-5
1 MP3 CD • OMP 928 • 978-1-78433-412-3 • Playing time: 8hrs 38mins
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IAIN BROOME
Read by Sally Armstrong
Read by Tim Bruce
The Special Dead
A is for Angelica
Mark Howitt expects a fun, no-strings night of passion with Leila. But when he wakes up
in the early hours of the morning, he is horrified to stumble upon his former bed partner
dead and suspended from the ceiling, alongside 27 Barbie dolls. Rhona Macleod’s forensic
investigation of the scene reveals the cord used to hang Leila to be a cingulum, an artefact
used in the practise of Wicca, and sketches hidden in nine of the dolls suggest the dolls are
linked with nine men. As the investigation continues, it looks increasingly likely that other
wiccan witches will be targeted too ...
9 CDs • OCD 1004 • 978-1-78433-578-6
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 1004 • 978-1-78433-614-1 • Playing time: 11hrs
Gordon Kingdom struggles with the fate of his seriously-ill wife while patiently observing
and methodically recording the lives of those around him: his neighbours. He has files
on them all, including Don Donald (best friend and petty thief), Annie Carnaffan (lives
next door, throws footballs over the fence), and Benny (the boy who paints with his eyes
closed). Then there’s Angelica, the new girl (42) on the street, with her multi-coloured
toenails and her filthy temper. It’s when she arrives that Gordon’s world of half-truths
really begins to unravel.
6 CDs • OCD 968 • 978-1-78433-475-8
1 MP3 CD • OMP 968 • 978-1-78433-510-6 • Playing time: 6hrs 53mins
M. H. BAYLIS
MICHEL BUSSI
Read by David Thorpe
Read by Daniel Philpott
A Death at the Palace
After the Crash
Reporter Rex Tracey has just recovered from his affair with Lithuanian artist Milda
Majauskas when she disappears. He’s got other concerns, not least an anti-immigration
group spreading hate across his beloved Tottenham and a string of attacks on young
women at the local beauty spot, Alexandra Palace. But when Rex himself becomes a
suspect, he is forced to seek answers. But the truth behind Milda s fate evades him until the
final twist, when Rex, and the last people to see her, must all account for their guilt.
9 CDs • OCD 980 • 978-1-78433-554-0
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 980 • 978-1-78433-590-8 • Playing time: 10hrs 43mins
On the night of 22 December 1980, a plane crashes on the Franco-Swiss border killing 168
out of its 169 passengers. The miraculous survivor is a three-month-old girl. Two families,
one rich, the other poor, claim her, sparking an investigation lasting almost two decades.
Is she Lyse-Rose or Emilie? Having failed to discover the truth, private detective Credule
Grand-Duc plans to shoot himself, but not before placing details of his investigation in the
girl’s hands. But, as he sits at his desk about to pull the trigger, he uncovers a secret that
changes everything ...
10 CDs • OCD 920 • 978-1-78433-369-0
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 920 • 978-1-78433-404-8 • Playing time: 12hrs 12mins
PARKER BILAL
The Burning Gates: A Makana Investigation
M. G. CALLAHAN
Private Investigator Makana has a new client: the powerful art dealer Aram Kasabian.
Kasabian wants him to track down a priceless painting that went missing from Baghdad
during the US invasion. The art world is a far cry from the shady streets and dirty alleyways
of the Cairo that Makana knows, but he discovers that this side of the city has its own dark
underbelly. Before long, he finds himself caught between dangerous enemies on a trail that
leads him into the darkness of war and which threatens to send the new life he has built
for himself up in flames.
Read by Laurel Lefkow
Searching for Grace Kelly
Read by David Thorpe
10 CDs • OCD 944 • 978-1-78433-452-9
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 944 • 978-1-78433-487-1 • Playing time: 12hrs 24mins
For a small-town girl with big dreams in 1955, there is no address more desirable than
New York’s Barbizon Hotel – the place where Grace Kelly first lived in the big city. Laura
is an aristocratic beauty who arrives with a magazine internship and dreams of becoming a
writer. Dolly is a hopeless romantic working the secretarial pool and looking to be swept
off her feet.Vivian is a British bombshell who yearns to make it as a singer while working as
a cigarette girl. Filled with glamour, this novel follows the lives of three women as they are
lured into the exhilarating, dazzling world of New York City.
7 CDs • OCD 910 • 978-1-78433-359-1
1 MP3 CD • OMP 910 • 978-1-78433-394-2 • Playing time: 8hrs 48mins
HARRY BINGHAM
This Thing of Darkness
ANDREA CAMILLERI
Read by Siriol Jenkins
Angelica’s Smile
A marine engineer who tumbles off a cliff path on a windy night. A burglary where
everything taken was returned by the thief. The suicide of a man in love with life. An
accident, a mystery, an unexplained tragedy. And nothing at all to connect them. Until, that
is, Detective Constable Fiona Griffiths starts to wonder if all three incidents are not quite
what they seem. It could just be her imagination. But something tells her there are invisible
threads linking the crimes, and as she investigates further, she starts to see the outlines of
a conspiracy so unlikely and on such a vast scale, that it takes her breath away. And that’s
when they come for her.
Read by Daniel Philpott
When members of Vigata’s elite are targeted in a series of perfectly executed burglaries,
Inspector Montalbano reluctantly takes the case. It isn’t long too before Montalbano finds
himself taken with one of the victims, the captivatingly beautiful young Angelica. But as the
detective’s attraction grows, a series of strange, anonymous letters claiming responsibility
for the thefts begin to arrive. With the allure of Angelica beginning to consume him and
his relationship with Livia under threat, Montalbano must focus his mind to solve this
perplexing investigation before events spiral out of all control.
12 CDs • OCD 1005 • 978-1-78433-579-3
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 1005 • 978-1-78433-615-8 • Playing time: 14hrs 31mins
5 CDs • OCD 911 • 978-1-78433-360-7
1 MP3 CD • OMP 911 • 978-1-78433-395-9 • Playing time: 5hrs 14mins
STEWART BINNS
ANDREA CAMLLERI
Read by Richard Burnip
Read by Daniel Philpott
Lionheart
Hunting Season
King Henry II reigns over a vast empire, but he is aging, and his ambitious sons are restless.
Henry’s third son, Richard of Aquitaine, is developing a fearsome reputation as a ruthless
warrior and he earns the name Richard Lionheart for his bravery and brutality on the
battlefield. After the death of his brothers, Richard’s impatience to take the throne leads
him to form an alliance with France. And so, Richard begins his bloody quest to return the
Holy Land to Christian rule.
Sicily, 1880. When a stranger arrives in Vigàta, the town’s inhabitants immediately become
unsettled. It seems the young man, Fofo, is the son of a local peasant legendary for his
home-grown medicines; a man who was murdered many years before. Fofo opens his
own pharmacy in Vigàta and his remedies are sought by many. But he soon finds himself
entangled with Don Filippo, a philandering marchese, and his family. It won’t be long before
death visits Vigàta, and the town and its most noble family will never be the same again ...
12 CDs • OCD 908 • 978-1-78433-358-4
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 908 • 978-1-78433-393-5 • Playing time: 14hrs 50mins
4 CDs • OCD 945 • 978-1-78433- 453-6
1 MP3 CD • OMP 945 • 978-1-78433-488-8 • Playing time: 4hrs 11mins
DIANA BRETHERICK
CAMILLA CEDER
Read by Daniel Philpott
Read by Jonathan Keeble
The Devil’s Daughters
Babylon
1888. When young Scottish scientist James Murray receives a letter from Sofia Esposito,
he cannot refuse her cry for help. Sofia’s 15-year-old cousin has vanished but the police
are unwilling to investigate. Accompanied by his younger sister Lucy, Murray returns to
the city of Turin where he was once apprenticed to the criminologist, Cesare Lombroso.
Here Murray uncovers a series of mysterious disappearances of young women. When the
body of one of the girls turns up bearing evidence of a satanic ritual, Murray begins to slot
together the pieces of the puzzle. But as two more bodies are discovered, fear grips the
city and a desperate hunt begins to find a truly terrifying killer.
11 CDs • OCD 992 • 978-1-78433-555-7
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 992 • 978-1-78433-591-5 • Playing time: 13hrs 16mins
Inspector Christian Tell and his team are called to the scene of a double murder. University
lecturer Anne-Marie Karpov lies dead in her home, alongside her student and lover,
Henrik. The crime appears straightforward: Henrik’s girlfriend Rebecca, a woman in therapy
for her violent jealousy, had been spotted outside Karpov’s flat, and her fingerprints are
found on the door. But when it emerges that artefacts raided from Iraqi museums were
found among Henrik’s possessions the truth behind Anne-Marie and Henrik’s past
begins to emerge ...
9 CDs • OCD 933 • 978-1-78433-382-9
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 933 • 978-1-78433-417-8 • Playing time: 11hrs 11mins
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JOHN CONNOR
Read by Charlotte Strevens
Read by Victoria Fox
The Song of the Nightingale
The Ice House
Winter, 1211. Former abbess Helewise moves back to her cell near Hawkenlye Abbey to
help the needy, putting a strain on her relationship with Sir Josse D’Acquin, who is called
to examine the bodies of three men, one of whom bears a complicated symbol carved
into his chest: a symbol that signifies vengeance. Meanwhile, far from home, Sir Josse’s son
Ninian has become involved in the cause of the doomed Cathar people, soon to be swept
up in a fight that they cannot hope to win.
8 CDs • OCD 921 • 978-1-78433-370-6
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 921 • 978-1-78433-405-5 • Playing time: 9hrs 42mins
ROSIE CLARKE
Carl Bowman is a killer. An assassin for hire whose latest assignment is to take out a
10-year-old girl. He doesn’t know why someone wants her dead. But with the girl in his
sights, Carl can’t bring himself to pull the trigger. Instead he goes on the run, taking her with
him. In a small village in Southern Spain, Julia Martin’s life is falling apart. Her husband and
his mistress have been killed in an explosion and her daughter, Rebecca, has disappeared.
Julia has been fleeing the secrets of her past and it seems they’ve finally caught up with her.
To get her daughter back, Julia must confront a truth she’s spent years running from ...
8 CDs • OCD 957 • 978-1-78433-465-9
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 957 • 978-1-78433-500-7 • Playing time: 9hrs 15mins
Emma
ADAM CREED
All she has is her reputation ... When Emma Robinson discovers she is carrying Paul
Greenslade’s child, there are harsh consequences after he disappears rather than marry a
common shop-girl. Forced by her tyrannical father to marry Richard Gillows, Emma learns
quickly that a jealous husband is a violent one. How can Emma escape the ties that bind
her, to build a life for herself and her child?
Read by Jonathan Oliver
Kill and Tell
Read by Helena Coates
8 CDs • OCD 912 • 978-1-78433-361-4
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 912 • 978-1-78433-396-6 • Playing time: 9hrs 20mins
A reformed Sicilian criminal, Carmelo Trapani, has been kidnapped and his search for the
aged Carmelo leads Staffe all the way back to a terrible act at the Battle of Cable Street.
Meanwhile, Staffe’s own loyal servant,, DS Pulford, is in Pentonville awaiting trial for the
murder of Jadus Golding, the very man who attempted to murder Staffe, leaving wounds
from which Staffe is still recovering and it suits some in the hierarchy to see Pulford go
down. Can Staffe save Carmelo without leaving Pulford to the political vultures?
8 CDs • OCD 946 • 978-1-78433-454-3
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 946 • 978-1-78433-489-5 • Playing time: 10hrs
ROSIE CLARKE
Emma’s War
SARA CROWE
Read by Helena Coates
Newly married to the caring RAF pilot Jonathan Reece, Emma thinks that life couldn’t
be better. But her happiness is short-lived: within months, Jon’s plane is shot down over
France and he is declared missing, presumed dead. Alone and with two children to care for,
Emma’s first thought is how to support her family. But when she makes a new friend in the
American businessman Jack Harvey, she is faced with a difficult decision. Should she take a
last chance at happiness?
8 CDs • OCD 982 • 978-1-78433-557-1
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 982 • 978-1-78433-593-9 • Playing time: 9hrs 37mins
Campari for Breakfast
Read by the author
Life is full of terrible things. In 1987, Sue Bowl’s world changes for ever. Her mother dies,
leaving her feeling like she’s lost a vital part of herself. And then her father shacks up with
an awful man-eater called Ivana. But Sue’s mother always told her to make the most of
what she’s got – and what she’s got is a love of writing and some eccentric relatives. So Sue
moves to her Aunt Coral’s crumbling ancestral home, where she fully intends to write a
book ... and perhaps drink Campari for breakfast.
8 CDs • OCD 935 • 978-1-78433-384-3
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 935 • 978-1-78433-419-2 • Playing time: 9hrs 3mins
RORY CLEMENTS
Holy Spy
CHRIS CULVER
Read by Peter Wickham
In London’s smoky taverns, a conspiracy is brewing: a group of wealthy young Catholic
dissidents plot to assassinate Elizabeth, free Mary Queen of Scots – and open England to
Spanish invasion. But the conspirators have been infiltrated by Sir Francis Walsingham’s top
intelligencer, John Shakespeare. Shakespeare, however, is torn: the woman he loves stands
accused of murder. In a desperate race against time he must save her from the noose and
the realm from treachery.
11 CDs • OCD 956 • 978-1-78433-464-2
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 956 • 978-1-78433-499-4 • Playing time: 13hrs 22mins
HARLAN COBEN
By Any Means
Read by John Chancer
At the end of a particularly gruelling summer day, Ash Rashid is heading home to his wife
and kids when he discovers a pair of bodies, shot execution style, in the front seat of a
crashed vehicle. As the first officer on the scene, Ash finds himself and his department 20
minutes behind a killer in a race where every second counts. With two victims down and a
third unaccounted for, the clock is ticking and Ash must find the killer before he strikes again.
10 CDs • OCD 969 • 978-1-78433-476-5
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 969• 978-1-78433-511-3 • Playing time: 12hrs 9mins
The Stranger
BEA DAVENPORT
The Stranger appears out of nowhere. His identity is unknown. His motives are unclear.
His information is undeniable. Then he whispers a few words in your ear and disappears,
leaving you picking up the pieces of your shattered world. Adam Price has a lot to lose: all
the trappings of the American Dream. Then he runs into the Stranger. When he learns a
devastating secret about his wife, Corrine, he confronts her, and the mirage of perfection
disappears. Soon Adam finds himself tangled in something far darker than even Corrine’s
deception, and realises that if he doesn’t make exactly the right moves, the conspiracy he’s
stumbled into will not only ruin lives – it will end them.
Read by Alexandra Whitworth
In Too Deep
Read by Eric Meyers
9 CDs • OCD 922 • 978-1-78433-371-3
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 922 • 978-1-78433-406-2 • Playing time: 10hrs 18mins
JULIE COHEN
Five years ago Maura fled life in Dowerby and took on a new identity, desperately trying to
piece her life back together. But then a reporter tracks her down, and persuades her to tell
her story, putting her own life in danger once again. Layer upon layer of violence and deceit
make up the full picture for Maura to see and the reporter to reveal. Hidden secrets are
uncovered that have been left to settle, for far too long. But in life some things can’t be left
unsaid, and eventually the truth will out. Whatever the consequences.
6 CDs • OCD 923 • 978-1-78433-372-0
1 MP3 CD • OMP 923 • 978-1-78433-407-9 • Playing time: 7hrs 27mins
BEA DAVENPORT
This Little Piggy
Where Love Lies
Read by Alexandra Whitworth
Read by Sally Armstrong
Lately, Felicity just can’t shake a shadow of uncertainty. Her husband Quinn is the kindest
person she knows and loves her peculiarities more than Felicity feels she deserves.
But suddenly it’s as if she doesn’t quite belong. Then Felicity experiences something
extraordinary: a scent of perfume in the air which evokes memories of a man Felicity hasn’t
seen for 10 years also. Overwhelmed and bewildered by her emotions, Felicity tries to
resist sinking blissfully into the past. But what if something truly isn’t as it should be?
It’s the summer of 1984 and there is a sense of unease on the troubled Sweetmeadows
estate. The residents are in shock after the suspicious death of a baby. Journalist Clare
Jackson follows the story as police bungle the inquiry and struggle to contain the escalating
violence. Haunted by a personal trauma, Clare is shadowed by nine-year-old Amy, a bright
but neglected little girl who seems to know more about the incident than she’s letting on.
As the days go on and the killer is not found, Clare ignores warnings not to get too close
to her stories and, in doing so, puts her own life in jeopardy.
8 CDs • OCD 934 • 978-1-78433-383-6
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 934 • 978-1-78433-418-5 • Playing time: 9hrs 44mins
7 CDs • OCD 1006 • 978-1-78433-580-9
1 MP3 CD • OMP 1006 • 978-1-78433-616-5 • Playing time: 8hrs 34mins
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CONOR FITZGERALD
Read by David Thorpe
Read by Saul Reichlin
The First Thing You See
Bitter Remedy
Arthur Dreyfuss is a young mechanic at a garage in the little community of Long, France.
He has a small flat and leads a simple life. So, imagine his surprise when he opens his door
one evening to find a distraught Hollywood starlet standing before him. But although
feigning an American accent, this woman is not all that she seems. For her name is actually
Jeanine Foucamprez – and her story is very different from the glamorous life of a star.
Arthur is not all he seems, either; a lover of poetry with a darker past than one might
imagine, he has learnt to see beauty in the mundane.
Commissario Alec Blume, on health leave, has retreated from Rome to central Italy. At
the Villa Romanelli he enrols on a natural remedies course conducted by a young woman
named Silvana. But far from recuperating, a feverish Blume becomes isolated and sluggish
with sickness. Increasingly ill-at-ease in the stifling environment, the dark history of the
crumbling villa and its once-magnificent gardens draws him in. And when a Romanian girl
who works for Silvana’s fiancé Niki asks for his help, Blume is dragged into the shadowy
case of a missing girl, and the horrors of the garden’s malign beauty.
5 CDs • OCD 993 • 978-1-78433-566-3
1 MP3 CD • OMP 993 • 978-1-78433-602-8 • Playing time: 5hrs 10mins
8 CDs • OCD 970 • 978-1-78433-522-9
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 970 • 978-1-78433-523-6 • Playing time: 9hrs 55mins
BARBARA DELINSKY
MAGGIE FORD
Read by Laurel Lefkow
Read by Kate Lee
Blueprints
Call Nurse Jenny
Jamie MacAfee’s life is almost perfect. She’s sure she loves her fiancée and she certainly
adores her job, working as an architect on their family home renovation show. Meanwhile,
her mother Caroline has built up her confidence after a painful divorce, working closely
alongside her daughter as the very successful host of Gut It! But when the TV network
plan to replace Caroline with Jamie as the show’s host, Caroline is left feeling horribly
betrayed – and old in the eyes of the world. Then tragedy strikes, leaving Jamie guardian to
her orphaned step-brother and fiancée to a man who doesn’t want the child.
12 CDs • OCD 983 • 978-1-78433-558-8
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 983 • 978-1-78433-594-6 • Playing time: 13hrs 48mins
DAVID DOWNING
Jenny has been in love with the handsome and successful Matthew Ward since she was 16,
only she was too shy to make her feelings known. When Matthew joins the army Jenny is
also determined to do her bit for the war effort and becomes a nurse. Her newfound skills
give her fresh confidence. However, when they meet again will he be the same man she
once loved?
11 CDs • OCD 926 • 978-1-78433-375-1
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 926 • 978-1-78433-410-9 • Playing time: 13hrs 30mins
MAGGIE FORD
A Woman’s Place
Read by Kate Lee
The Red Eagles
Read by Jeff Harding
1945. The Red Army tears through Europe towards Berlin, exacting vengeance, while the
British and the Americans close in from the west.Victory over Hitler seems certain. But
inside the Kremlin, Stalin worries about a new enemy. When the war is over, how will the
Soviet Union protect itself against the American behemoth? Meanwhile, Hitler knows he
needs a miracle to avoid a humiliating defeat. For both, the atom bomb is the answer ...
7 CDs • OCD 924 • 978-1-78433-373-7
1 MP3 CD • OMP 924 • 978-1-78433-408-6 • Playing time: 8hrs 1min
Eveline’s father believes a woman’s place is in the home. But when she is accidentally caught
up in a suffragette march, it changes her life forever. She finds friendships, and even the
possibility of love too in the form of the gentlemanly Laurence Jones-Fairbrook. But will
she be forced to choose between her family and friends., between duty and love?
12 CDs • OCD 958 • 978-1-78433-466-6
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 958 • 978-1-78433-501-4 • Playing time: 14hrs 10mins
MAGGIE FORD
The Factory Girl
Read by Kate Lee
RUTH DUGDALL
The Sacrificial Man
Read by Penny McDonald
When Probation Officer Cate Austin is given her new assignment, she faces the highestprofile case of her career. Alice Mariani is charged with assisted suicide and Cate must
recommend a sentence. Alice insists her story is one of misinterpreted love, forcing
those around her to analyse their own lives. Who is to decide what is normal and when
does loyalty turn to obsession? Investigating the loophole that lies between murder and
euthanasia, Cate must now meet the woman who agreed to comply with her lover’s final
request. Shocking revelations expose bitter truths that can no longer be ignored.
8 CDs • OCD 913 • 978-1-78433-362-1
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 913 • 978-1-78433-397-3 • Playing time: 9hrs 30mins
HELENA FAIRFAX
A Way from Heart to Heart
Read by Helen Longworth
A knock at the door shatters Kate Hemingway’s life when she’s informed of her husband
Stuart’s death in Afghanistan. She struggles to care for their young son George with only
Stuart’s aloof best friend Paul as emotional support. Piece by fragile piece, she tries to
rebuild her life, realising Paul and her son have formed an unlikely bond. When Paul agrees
to accompany Kate and a group of disadvantaged teenagers on a trip to the Yorkshire
moors, he finally reveals something he’s kept secret for years. Kate’s own scarred heart
begins to open up. But can she risk her son’s happiness as well as her own?
7 CDs • OCD 1007 • 978-1-78433-581-6
1 MP3 • OMP 1007 • 978-1-78433-617-2 • Playing time: 8hrs 22mins
MELANIE FINN
Shame
Read by Penelope Rawlins
Redemption is a foreign country – or so Pilgrim Jones hopes as she looks up at a
departures board and takes the first flight. She is running away; from her failed marriage
and from the carnage she has caused in a small Swiss village. Pilgrim alights on the edge
of Africa. Over confessions and strong gin, she is lured into a world of mercenaries and
philanthropists, delusional heroes and witchdoctors in polyester suits. Here, in a land
where fireflies light the sky, anything – even redemption – seems possible.
Geraldine Glover. A machinist at Rubins clothing factory in the East End, she dreams of a
more glamorous life. When she meets Tony Hanford, the young and handsome proprietor
of a small jeweller’s shop in Bond Street, Geraldine is propelled into a new world – but it
comes at a heavy price ...
12 CDs • OCD 994 • 978-1-78433-567-0
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 994 • 978-1-78433-603-5 • Playing time: 14hrs 34mins
VANESSA GREENE
The Seafront Tea Rooms
Read by Fiona Paul
Charismatic journalist Charlotte is on a mission to track down Britain’s best tea rooms.
She knows she’s found something special in the Seafront Tea Rooms but is it a secret she
should share? Kathryn, a single mother whose only sanctuary is the ‘Seafront’, convinces
Charlie to keep the place out of her article by agreeing to join her on her search. Together
with another regular, Seraphine, a culture-shocked French au pair with a passion for pastrymaking, they travel around the country discovering quaint hideaways and hidden gems.
But what none of them expect is for their journey to surprise them with discoveries of a
different kind ...
8 CDs • OCD 947 • 978-1-78433- 455-0
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 947 • 978-1-78433-490-1 • Playing time: 9hrs 2mins
BEAR GRYLLS
Ghost Flight
Read by Rupert Degas
Haunted by his wife and son’s brutal abduction and murder, ex-soldier Will Jaeger runs
to the ends of the earth to hide. But even there he is found, and compelled to undertake
one last mission: to lead an expedition into the remote Amazon jungle. At its heart lies
a mystery WWII warplane, one that harbours a secret so explosive that it may tear the
world asunder. Terrifying forces are hell-bent on keeping the warplane forever hidden.
Unwittingly, Will Jaeger is going in against them. But he senses that the air wreck also
harbours the answer he so longs to uncover: the identity of his wife and son’s murderers.
12 CDs • OCD 959 • 978-1-78433-467-3
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 959 • 978-1-78433-502-1 • Playing time: 13hrs 58mins
9 CDs • OCD 925 • 978-1-78433-374-4
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 925 • 978-1-78433-409-3 • Playing time: 10hrs 19mins
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VERONICA HENRY
Read by Laurel Lefkow
Read by Penelope Rawlins
The Nightingale
The Birthday Party
In the quiet village of Carriveau,Vianne Mauriac says goodbye to her husband, Antoine, as
he heads for the Front. She doesn’t believe that the Nazis will invade France, but invade
they do. When a German captain requisitions Vianne’s home, she and her daughter must
live with the enemy or lose everything.Vianne’s sister, Isabelle, is a rebellious 18-year-old
girl. She meets Gäetan, a partisan who believes the French can fight the Nazis from within
France. But when he betrays her, Isabelle joins the Resistance and never looks back, risking
her life time and again to save others. A heartbreakingly beautiful novel that celebrates the
resilience of the human spirit and the durability of women. It is a novel for everyone, a
novel for a lifetime.
13 CDs • OCD 1008 • 978-1-78433-582-3
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 1008 • 978-1-78433-618-9 • Playing time: 15hrs 32mins
Secrets, rivalry, glamour – it’s time for the party of the year ... Delilah has lived out her
tempestuous marriage to hell-raiser Raf in the glare of the media spotlight. Now planning a
milestone birthday, she has more on her mind than invitations. Raf has been offered a part
in a movie he can’t refuse. But will he succumb to the temptations he’s struggled to resist
for the last 10 years? Delilah’s three daughters are building careers of their own, only too
aware that the press are waiting for them to slip up. For the Rafferty girls might look like
angels, but they are only human ...
11 CDs • OCD 962 • 978-1-78433-470-3
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 962 • 978-1-78433-505-2 • Playing time: 13hrs 5mins
VERONICA HENRY
Wild Oats
EMMA HANNIGAN
Read by Penelope Rawlins
The Summer Guest
Read by Gráinne Gillis
Lexie and her husband Sam have put their heart and soul into renovating No. 3 Cashel
Square. Lexie’s mother thinks it’s high time they had a baby, but Lexie’s art gallery is
thriving and her headstrong niece Amelie has practically moved in. Then a mysterious
stranger knocks on the door. Kathleen Williams has come from America, longing to see the
house where she was born over 60 years ago. Kathleen’s visit is tinged with sadness but
she finds comfort and laughter with Lexie and Amelie. Soon the three women are sharing
their hearts, tears and secrets ...
10 CDs • OCD 914 • 978-1-78433-363-8
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 914 • 978-1-78433-398-0 • Playing time: 11hrs 38mins
Jamie Wilding’s return home is not quite going to plan. A lot has changed in the picturesque
village of Upper Faviell since she left after the death of her mother. Her father is broke and
behaving like a teenager. Her best friend’s marriage is slowly falling apart. And the man she
lost her heart to years ago is trying to buy her beloved family home. As Jamie attempts
to fix the mess, she is forced to confront a long-standing family feud before she can finally
listen to her own heart.
12 CDs • OCD 915 • 978-1-78433-364-5
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 915 • 978-1-78433-399-7 • Playing time: 15hrs 8mins
EVA HOLLAND
The Daughter’s Secret
Read by Rachel Atkins
OLIVER HARRIS
Deep Shelter
Read by Toby Longworth
London is steaming under a summer of filthy heat and sudden storms – and Detective
Nick Belsey, of Hampstead CID, is trying to stay out of trouble. But then somebody sets
him a riddle. How does a man walk into a dead-end alley and never come out? How does
he disappear? And then reappear – to snatch a girl, to dump a body beneath a London
skyscraper, to send Belsey a package of human hair. The answer lies underground, where
the secrets degenerating beneath the city’s sickly glitter are about to see the light of day.
8 CDs • OCD 937 • 978-1-78433-386-7
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 937 • 978-1-78433-421-5 • Playing time: 9hrs 48mins
When Rosalind’s 15-year-old daughter, Stephanie, ran away with her teacher, this ordinary
family became something it had never asked to be. Their lives held up to scrutiny in the
centre of a major police investigation, the Simms were headline news while Stephanie was
missing with a man who was risking everything. Now, six years on, Ros takes a call that
will change their lives all over again. He’s going to be released from prison.Years too early.
In 11days’ time. As Temperley’s release creeps ever closer, Ros is forced to confront the
events that led them here, back to a place she thought she’d left behind, to questions she
didn’t want to answer. Why did she do it? Where does the blame lie? What happens next?
9 CDs • OCD 971 • 978-1-78433-477-2
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 971 • 978-1-78433-512-0 • Playing time: 10hrs 9mins
SJI HOLLIDAY
PAMELA HARTSHORNE
Black Wood
The Edge of Dark
Read by Jenny Dunbar
Read by Christine Mackie
Jane believes in keeping her promises, but a deathbed vow sets her on a path of deceit
and joy that takes her from the secrets of Holmwood House in York to London’s Mincing
Lane. Getting what you want comes at a price. For the child that she longed for, promised
to love and keep safe, turns out to be a dark spirit indeed. Over four centuries later, Roz
Acclam remembers nothing of the fire that killed her family – or of the brother who set it.
Trying on a beautiful Elizabethan necklace found in the newly-restored Holmwood House
triggers disturbing memories of the past – but the past Roz remembers is not her own ...
11 CDs • OCD 961 • 978-1-78433-469-7
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 961 • 978-1-78433-504-5 • Playing time: 12hrs 40mins
Something happened to Claire and Jo in Black Wood: something that left Claire paralysed
and Jo with deep mental scars. But with Claire suffering memory loss, nobody believes Jo’s
story. Twenty-three years later, a familiar face walks into the bookshop where Jo works,
dredging up painful memories and rekindling her desire for vengeance. Meanwhile, Sergeant
Davie Gray is investigating a man who is attacking women near the village of Banktoun. But
what is the connection between Jo’s visitor and the masked man? To catch the assailant,
and to give Jo her long-awaited justice, Gray must unravel a web of past secrets, broken
friendship and tainted love. But can he crack the case before Jo finds herself with blood on
her hands?
7 CDs • OCD 960 • 978-1-78433-468-0
1 MP3 CD • OMP 960 • 978-1-78433-503-8 • Playing time: 8hrs 33mins
PAMELA HARTSHORNE
The Memory of Midnight
MAGGIE HOPE
In Elizabethan York, young Nell Appleby is trapped in a chest, and a horror of the dark dogs
her for the rest of her life. Wed to the sadistic Ralph Maskewe, Nell must find joy where
she can, until her childhood sweetheart offers her escape to the New World. Four and a
half centuries later, Tess moves to York, eager to start a new life, away from her overbearing
husband. But time in York has a way of shifting strangely, and memories of a past that is not
her own begin to surface ...
Read by Claire Jones
A Nurse’s Duty
Read by Helen Longworth
11 CDs • OCD 939 • 978-1-78433-387-4
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 939 • 978-1-78433-422-2 • Playing time: 13hrs 34mins
Following a disastrous marriage to a miner, Karen has devoted herself to a nursing career.
Rising to the challenge of caring for the wounded soldiers returning home from the Great
War, she has resigned herself to putting her vocation before any hope of a romantic life.
However, she finds herself drawn to handsome, troubled Patrick Murphy. But Patrick is also
a Catholic priest. Dare Karen risk scandal and her position by falling for the one man she
cannot have?
14 CDs • OCD 972 • 978-1-78433-478-9
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 972 • 978-1-78433-513-7 • Playing time: 16hrs 38mins
VERONICA HENRY
High Tide
MAGGIE HOPE
Kate has only planned a flying visit to clear out the family home after the death of her
mother. When she finds an anonymous letter, she is drawn back into her own past. Single
dad Sam is juggling his deli and two lively teenagers, so romance is the last thing on his
mind. Then Cupid fires an unexpected arrow. Nathan Fisher is happy running picnic
cruises on the river, but kissing the widow of the richest man in Pennfleet has disastrous
consequences.Vanessa knows what she has done is unseemly for a widow, but it’s the most
fun she’s had for years. Must she always be on her best behaviour?
Read by Claire Jones
A Mother’s Gift
Read by Anna Bentinck
8 CDs • OCD 995 • 978-1-78433-568-7
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 995 • 978-1-78433-604-2 • Playing time: 9hrs 43mins
Taken in by her grandparents to ease the pressure on her family, Katie Benfield knows she’s
one of the lucky ones and she dreams of pursuing a nursing career. Despite many hardships,
Katie achieves her goal, but tragedy strikes when her grandfather and her childhood
sweetheart are killed in a mining accident. Distraught, Katie succumbs to the advances of
the married owner of the mine, Matthew Hamilton. Thrown out by her grandmother, her
reputation and career in tatters, Katie faces a home for unmarried mothers. Then Matthew
Hamilton offers her a way to keep her baby, but only if she becomes his mistress ...
9 CDs • OCD 939 • 978-1-78433-388-1
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 915 • 978-1-78433-423-9 • Playing time: 10hrs 16mins
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JANE ISAAC
Read by Claire Jones
Read by Cathy Sabberton
A Wartime Nurse
The Truth Will Out
Against the odds, miner’s daughter Theda Wearmouth succeeds in gaining a nursing place
at Newcastle Hospital. By the time war breaks out, she is newly qualified and working in a
children’s ward, a role she adores. She also finds herself being courted by a young soldier.
Only Theda’s dreams of becoming Mrs Alan Price are shattered when he is killed in action
before he can make good on his promise to marry her. Broken-hearted, Theda finds herself
re-assigned to a special unit of the hospital dealing with German prisoners of war. Her duty
is clear. But will she be able to cope with nursing the very men her fiancé died fighting?
10 CDs • OCD 1009 • 978-1-78433-583-0
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 1009 • 978-1-78433-606-619-6 • Playing time: 11hrs 32mins
ALEX HOURSTON
Eva is horrified when she witnesses an attack on her best friend. She calls an ambulance
and flees, fearing for her safety. DCI Helen Lavery leads the investigation into the murder.
Slowly, the pieces of the puzzle start to come together. But as Helen inches towards
solving the case, her past becomes caught up in her present. Someone is after them both.
Someone who will stop at nothing to get what they want. Can Helen escape her own
demons as well as helping Eva to escape hers?
8 CDs • OCD 900 • 978-1-78433-286-0
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 900 • 978-1-78433-306-5 • Playing time: 8hrs 57mins
KATHERINE JOHN
By Any Name
In My House
Read by Wayne Forester
Read by Julia Franklin
Maggie lives a life of careful routines and measured pleasures. But everything changes when,
walking through Gatwick a few days shy of her 58th birthday, a young woman approaches
her and whispers a single word: ‘Help’. Maggie responds, and in that moment saves a
stranger, earning Anja her freedom and ensuring the arrest of a brutal trafficker. But when
the story gets picked up by the papers, Margaret is panicked by the publicity, as well as the
strange phone calls she begins to receive. Meanwhile Anja makes contact. She wants to
thank her rescuer, but quickly insinuates herself into Maggie’s life. As her relationship with
Anja intensifies, Maggie begins to reveal, in increments, what it is she has been hiding.
8 CDs • OCD 984 • 978-1-78433-559-5
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 984 • 978-1-78433-595-3 • Playing time: 8hrs 52mins
LINDA HUBER
A bloodstained man runs half naked down a motorway at night. Cornered by police,
admitted to a psychiatric ward suffering from trauma-induced amnesia, all he can recall is a
detailed knowledge of sophisticated weaponry. When two armed soldiers guarding his room
are murdered and Dr Elizabeth Santer, the psychiatrist assigned to his case, is abducted at
gunpoint a desperate hunt begins for a dangerous killer. Terrorist? Murderer? Kidnapper?
Thief? Whatever he is, it is to Brecon he drags Elizabeth Santer with the security forces in
all-out pursuit. Is Elizabeth in the hands of a homicidal terrorist or an innocent pawn?
8 CDs • OCD 997 • 978-1-78433-570-0
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 997 • 978-1-78433-606-6 • Playing time: 9hrs 19mins
PHILIP KAZAN
The Painter of Souls
Read by Daniel Philpott
The Cold Cold Sea
Read by Kate Lee
When three-year-old Olivia disappears, her mother Maggie refuses to leave the cottage,
staring out at the turbulent sea and praying it didn’t claim her daughter’s life. Another
mother watches proudly as her daughter starts school. Jennifer has loved Hailey for five
years, but the child is suddenly moody, and there’s a niggling worry that Jennifer cannot
shake off. Time is running out for Maggie, and also for Jennifer and Hailey. No one can
underestimate a mother’s love for her child, and no one can predict the lengths one will go
to, to protect her family.
7 CDs • OCD 927 • 978-1-78433-376-8
1 MP3 CD • OMP 927 • 978-1-78433-411-6 • Playing time: 8hrs 7mins
LINDA HUBER
Beauty can be a gift ... or a wicked temptation. So it is for Filippo Lippi, growing up in
Renaissance Florence. He has a talent - not only can he see the beauty in everything, he can
capture it, paint it. But while beauty can seduce you, and art can transport you – it cannot
always feed you or protect you. To survive, Filippo di Tommaso Lippi, street urchin, forger,
drinker, seducer of nuns must become Fra Filippo Lippi – Carmelite friar, man of God.Yet
at the same time he is Lippo Lippi, creator of some the most radiantly beautiful paintings,
Botticelli’s teacher, Medici’s confidante. So who is he really – lover, believer, father, teacher,
artist? Which man? Which life? Is anything true except the paintings?
8 CDs • OCD 973 • 978-1-78433-479-6
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 973 • 978-1-78433-514-4 • Playing time: 9hrs 2mins
CATHY KELLY
Between Sisters
The Paradise Trees
Read by Caroline Lennon
Read by Meriel Scholfield
When Alicia Bryson returns to her estranged father’s home in a tiny Yorkshire village, she
feels burdened by his illness. Her hometown brings back memories of a miserable and
violent childhood, and Alicia worries that her young daughter Jenny’s summer will be filled
with a similar sense of unhappiness. The town is exactly as she remembered it, the people,
the buildings, even the woods. But her arrival has not gone unnoticed. There is someone
watching her every move. Someone who has a plan of his own. Someone who will not stop
until the people he loves most can rest together, in paradise.
Cassie has spent her married life doing everything right – making sure her children have the
perfect life, being a devoted wife and a dutiful daughter-in-law. She’s certain she wouldn’t
change anything, until temptation comes her way. Her sister Coco believes men complicate
things and she’s got enough to contend with looking after her staff. Watching over them
is grandmother Pearl, with her chickens and a secret lover. But something is keeping her
awake at night. Was she right to do what she did all those years ago? And then there’s Elsa,
the polished face of daytime TV, who’s battled demons in the past. Now Elsa faces one final
battle – but this one will require more bravery than anything that’s come before.
7 CDs • OCD 996 • 978-1-78433-569-4
1 MP3 CD • OMP 996 • 978-1-78433-605-9 • Playing time: 8hrs 12mins
13 CDs • OCD 985 • 978-1-78433-560-1
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 985 • 978-1-78433-596-0 • Playing time: 14hrs 20mins
M. K. HUME
CHRISTOBEL KENT
Death of an Empire: Prophecy, Book 2
The Crooked House
Read by Andrew Cullum
Merlin’s epic quest continues as he journeys in search of his father. Myrddion Emrys of
Segontium is the product of a brutal rape, but when King Vortigern hints at his father’s
identity, Myrddion embarks on a journey to Constantinople. It is a voyage that is to turn the
young healer into a man of great renown. Serving under General Flavius Aetius at the Battle
of the Catalaunian Plains, Myrddion saves the lives of thousands of warriors. But a deadlier
conflict between Emperor Valentinian of the West and Senator Petronius Maximus is still to
come and Myrddion must use all his strength to carry out his work in an evil world.
Read by Rachel Atkins
Alison is as close to anonymous as she can get; hers is a life lived under the radar. But once
Alison was Esme Grace, a teenager who lived in a dilapidated house on the edge of a bleak
estuary. Then one night a terrible thing happened in the crooked house, a nightmare of
violence from which only Alison emerged and from which she has been running ever since.
Only when she meets Paul Bartlett does Alison realise that if she’s to have any chance of
happiness, she has to return to her old life and confront the darkness that has pursued her
ever since and uncover the truth of what happened that terrible night.
14 CDs • OCD 948 • 978-1-78433-456-7
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 948 • 978-1-78433-491-8 • Playing time: 17hrs 30mins
JOHN IRONMONGER
9 CDs • OCD 917 • 978-1-78433-366-9
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 917 • 978-1-78433-401-7 • Playing time: 11hrs 4mins
LIZA KLAUSSMANN
Not Forgetting the Whale
Villa America
Read by David Thorpe
When a young man washes up, naked, on the sands of St Piran in Cornwall, he is rescued
by the villagers who take this lost soul into their midst. But what they don’t know is that
Joe Haak has fled the City of London fearing a worldwide collapse of civilisation, a collapse
forecast by Cassie, a computer program he designed. But is the end of the world really
nigh? Can Joe convince the village to seal itself off from the outside world? And what of the
whale that lurks in the bay?
11 CDs • OCD 916 • 978-1-78433-365-2
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 916 • 978-1-78433-400-0 • Playing time: 13hrs 26mins
Read by Laurel Lefkow
Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Pablo Picasso, Cole and Linda Porter, Ernest Hemingway, John
Dos Passos – all are summer guests of Gerald and Sara Murphy.Visionary, misunderstood,
and from vastly different backgrounds, the Murphys met and married young, and set forth
to create a beautiful world. They alight on Villa America: their coastal oasis of artistic genius,
debauched parties, impeccable style and flamboyant imagination. But before long, a stranger
enters into their relationship, and their marriage must accommodate an intensity that
neither had foreseen. When tragedy strikes, their friends reach out to them, but the golden
bowl is shattered, and neither Gerald nor Sara will ever be the same.
11 CDs • OCD 963 • 978-1-78433-471-0
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 963 • 978-1-78433-506-9 • Playing time: 12hrs 55mins
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MALCOLM MACKAY
Read by Julia Franklin
Read by Angus King
A Wartime Family
The Sudden Arrival of Violence
Having left her abusive husband for very good reasons, Mary Anne Randall finds herself
judged harshly by her neighbours, especially after she has the courage to risk a second
chance at happiness. with the only man she has ever loved away fighting, Mary Anne is less
concerned by her tarnished reputation than with keeping her children safe, as the bombs
fall on Bristol – all too close to home.
9 CDs • OCD 949 • 978-1-78433-457-4
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 949 • 978-1-78433-492-5 • Playing time: 10hrs 52mins
It begins with two deaths: a money-man and a grass. Deaths that offer a unique opportunity
to a man like Calum MacLean. A man who has finally had enough of killing. Meanwhile two
of Glasgow’s biggest criminal organisations are at quiet, deadly war with one another. And
as Detective Michael Fisher knows, the biggest – and bloodiest – manoeuvres are yet to
come ... The stunning conclusion to Malcolm Mackay’s lauded Glasgow Trilogy.
8 CDs • OCD 940 • 978-1-78433-389-8
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 940 • 978-1-78433-424-6 • Playing time: 9hrs 36mins
HARRIET LANE
BECKY MASTERMAN
Read by Clare Corbett
Read by Kate Harper
Alys, Always
Fear the Darkness
Frances is a thirty-something lowly sub-editor, but her routine, colourless existence is
disrupted one winter evening when she happens upon the aftermath of a car crash and
hears the last words of the driver, Alys Kyte. When Alys’s family makes contact in an
attempt to find closure, Frances is given a tantalising glimpse of a very different world: one
of privilege and possibility. The relationships she builds with the Kytes will have an impact
on her own life as Frances dares to wonder whether she might now become a player in
her own right ...
6 CDs • OCD 986 • 978-1-78433-561-8
1 MP3 CD • OMP 986 • 978-1-78433-597-7 • Playing time: 7hrs 24mins
Ex-FBI agent Brigid Quinn is ready to build a new life in Tucson with a husband and some
nice quiet work as a private investigator. But then her sister-in-law dies and Brigid takes
in her 17-year-old niece, Gemma Kate. There has always been something unsettling about
Gemma-Kate, but then she starts taking an unhealthy interest in dissecting the local
wildlife. Brigid’s house isn’t the sanctuary it used to be, and new dangers seem to lurk
everywhere. Brigid starts to wonder if there is anyone she can trust, or if the devil has
simply moved closer to home.
9 CDs • OCD 918 • 978-1-78433-367-6
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 918 • 978-1-78433-402-4 • Playing time: 9hrs 21mins
OWEN LAUKKANEN
DANE McCASLIN
Read by Jeff Harding
Read by Anne Wittman
Kill Fee
Murder at the Miramar
On a beautiful Saturday in downtown Saint Paul, Minnesota, state investigator Kirk Stevens
and FBI special agent Carla Windermere, witness the assassination of one of the state’s
wealthiest men. The shooter is a young man, utterly unremarkable … except for the dead
look in his eyes. The events of that sunny springtime day will lead Stevens and Windermere
to a flourishing 21st century enterprise: a high-tech murder-for-hire social media website.
But just who has the dead-eyed shooter targeted next … and who’s choosing his victims?
With the dreaded Family Reunion looming over her head – and a broken heart to boot –
Augusta Josephine Burnette takes matters in hand and leaves her hometown for a job in a
seaside resort. The setting is elegance incarnate, but the atmosphere says something else
entirely. With her innate sense of adventure (and just plain nosiness), AJ sets out to unravel
exactly what – and who – the Miramar Resort is hiding. AJ begins to think that time spent
with her crazy family might not be as lethal as the time spent at the Miramar ...
10 CDs • OCD 987 • 978-1-78433-562-5
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 987 • 978-1-78433-598-4 • Playing time: 12hrs 30mins
6 CDs • OCD 998 • 978-1-78433-571-7
1 MP3 CD • OMP 998 • 978-1-78433-607-3 • Playing time: 6hrs 58mins
JOHN LAWTON
ANDY McDERMOTT
Read by Lewis Hancock
Read by Nigel Carrington
Black Out
Kingdom of Darkness
As the Luftwaffe make their last desperate assault on the city, Londoners take to the
shelters once again and eagerly await the signal for D-Day. In the East End children lead
police to a charred, dismembered corpse buried in a bombsite. The victim is German and
it soon becomes clear that this is no ordinary murder. For Russian emigré DetectiveSergeant Troy it is the start of a manhunt which will lead him into a world of military
intelligence and corruption in high places; a manhunt in which Troy is both the hunter and
the hunted.
10 CDs • OCD 901 • 978-1-78433-287-7
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 901 • 978-1-78433-307-2 • Playing time: 12hrs 36mins
1943 – Occupied Greece. The SS unit’s mission was simple: round up Jews for the
concentration camps. But they find a far greater bounty – a hidden shrine to Alexander
the Great and an urn filled with water possessing mysterious qualities. The Nazis take the
treasure in the name of Hitler and disappear. Present Day – Los Angeles. Archaeologist
Nina Wilde and her husband Eddie Chase are sought out by a man, desperate to warn her
about a raid on Alexander’s newly-discovered tomb. But before he can explain more, he is
assassinated by a wanted Nazi war criminal who has barely aged in 70 years. As Nina and
Eddie search for answers, they discover that the most evil regime in history is threatening
to rise again ...
13 CDs • OCD 975 • 978-1-78433-481-9
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 975 • 978-1-78433-516-8 • Playing time: 15hrs 27mins
JOHN LAWTON
Sweet Sunday
CLAIRE McGOWAN
Read by Lewis Hancock
Turner Raines is Mr Heartbreak. Everybody leaves him. They walk out, they run away ...
they die. When his oldest friend Mel Kissing dies with an ice pick through his skull, Raines
picks up the thread and sets out to ask ‘who?’ and ‘why?’ But this is America in 1969 and
one death is just a drop in the ocean. The Vietnam War is ripping the country to pieces, the
Woodstock Festival is in full swing and Norman Mailer is standing as candidate for Mayor
of New York. Against this backdrop, Raines’ questions take him back to the childhood home
he left in Texas, back to the battered remains of his youth, and as his memory unravels,
America unravels with it.
10 CDs • OCD 974 • 978-1-78433-480-2
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 974 • 978-1-78433-515-1 • Playing time: 11hrs 34mins
The Dead Ground
Read by Gráinne Gillis
Forensic psychologist Paula Maguire, already wrestling with the hardest decision of her
life, is forced to put her own problems on hold when she’s asked to help find a baby
taken from a local hospital. Then the brutal, ritualistic murder of a woman found lying on
a remote stone circle indicates a connection to the kidnapping and Paula knows that they
will have to move fast if they are to find the person responsible. Then another child is
taken and a pregnant woman goes missing ...
9 CDs • OCD 951 • 978-1-78433-459-8
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 951 • 978-1-78433-494-9 • Playing time: 10hrs 50mins
COLIN MacINTYRE
ALISON MERCER
Read by Angus King
read by Penny McDonald
The Letters of Ivor Punch
After I Left You
Imagine an island, a place separated from the mainland by choppy seas. A place of myths
and faith, where a Headless Horseman is said to stalk the woods but where the kirk is
always full. Imagine a community which held its own against Darwin but which can’t hold
on to its own. Prepare to meet a pioneering female travel writer, two fatherless boys, and a
man who, quite simply, fell from the sky. And, at the centre of it all, the figure who links the
past to the present – the irrepressible, unforgettable former Sergeant Punch. Ivor Punch
will not be taking his secrets to the grave.
8 CDs • OCD 950 • 978-1-78433-458-1
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 950 • 978-1-78433-493-2 • Playing time: 8hrs 56mins
Anna hasn’t been back to Oxford since her last summer at university. She tries not to think
about her time there, or the tightly-knit group of friends she once thought would be hers
forever. She has almost forgotten the sting of betrayal, the secret she carries around, the
last night she spent with them all. Then a chance meeting on a rainy day in London brings
her past tumbling back into her present ... Can Anna finally face up to the memories of that
summer and the people she left behind?
9 CDs • OCD 952 • CD ISBN 978-1-78433-460-4
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 952 • 978-1-78433-495-6 • Playing time: 10hrs 25mins
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SHEILA O’FLANAGAN
Read by Jennifer Woodward
Read by Caroline Lennon
Pretty Is
Caroline’s Sister
Lois and Carly-May are just 12 years old when they’re abducted and imprisoned for two
months. That summer they form a bond which will never be broken ... Decades later,
they have built new lives for themselves. Lois, a professor of literature, is shaken when
an obsessive student reminds her of her kidnapper, a man she saw shoot himself 20
years before. To process her past, she begins to write. In LA, Carly-May is clinging to the
remnants of her career as an actress. When she reads a shockingly-familiar screenplay, she
takes a role she knows is based on events from her own life. Increasingly haunted by the
experience that shaped both their lives, Lois and Carly-May are drawn together once more.
9 CDs • OCD 976 • 978-1-78433-482-6
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 976 • 978-1-78433-517-5 • Playing time: 10hrs 31mins
STEVE MOSBY
To her younger sister, Tessa, Caroline O’Shaughnessy has everything – great looks, easy
charm, and the distinctly desirable Damien Woods. But for Caroline, things don’t feel
quite so rosy. She’d dreamed about moving in with Damien, but not about having his child,
just yet. And though he did the honourable thing when she told him she was pregnant, it
obviously wasn’t what he wanted either. And as both of them struggle to make the best of
a bad job, neither are prepared for the impact a moment of drunken indiscretion will have
not just on their lives but on Tessa’s too ...
16 CDs • OCD 1011 • 978-1-78433-585-4
3 MP3 CDs • OMP 1011 • 978-1-78433-621-9 • Playing time: 19hrs 9mins
SHEILA O’FLANAGAN
Things We Never Say
Dark Room
Read by Caroline Lennon
Read by David Thorpe
For DI Andrew Hicks, solving a murder is logical: your first suspicions are usually right. So
when the brutally beaten body of a young woman is found, his attention focuses closely on
the ex-boyfriend. But then more bodies start appearing, all beaten beyond recognition, and
there is no connection between any of the victims. Because this is a new type of killer, one
who revels in chaos. To survive, Hicks must face not only a serial killer with no discernible
motive, but the hidden darkness of his own past.
Abbey Andersen’s life in San Francisco is in serious danger of hitting a rut. She’s pretty
sure it doesn’t get worse than being dumped by post-it note, and her current job is
hardly the best outlet for her creative talents. Meanwhile in Ireland Fred Fitzpatrick is
finding it impossible to keep his grown-up children and their families on side, and they’re a
demanding lot at the best of times. But when Fred asks solicitor Ryan Gilligan to contact
Abbey about a long-buried family secret, things start to change dramatically. And not
everyone affected is happy about it ...
9 CDs • OCD 902 • 978-1-78433-288-4
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 902 • 978-1-78433-308-9 • Playing time: 10hrs 45mins
12 CDs • OCD 964 • 978-1-78433-472-7
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 964 • 978-1-78433-507-6 • Playing time: 14hrs 10mins
STEVE MOSBY
KRISTINA OHLSSON
Read by Gareth Armstrong
Read by Maggie Mash
I Know Who Did It
Silenced
Charlie Matheson died two years ago. So how is a woman bearing a startling resemblance
to her claiming to be back from the dead? Detective Mark Nelson is called in to hear her
terrifying account of what she’s been through in the afterlife. Every year Detective David
Groves receives a birthday card for his son – even though he buried him years ago. His son’s
murder took everything from him, apart from his belief in the law, even though the killers
were never found. This year, though, the card bears a different message: I know who did it.
8 CDs • OCD 988 • 978-1-78433-483-3
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 988 • 978-1-78433-518-2 • Playing time: 9hrs 17mins
Fifteen years ago, a teenage girl is assaulted and raped as she picks flowers. Cut to the
present, and a man is killed in a hit and run. He has no identification, he is not reported
missing nor wanted by the police. At the same time, a priest and his wife are found dead
in an apparent suicide. Fredrika Bergman, along with Alex Recht’s federal investigation unit,
is assigned to the seemingly-unconnected cases. The investigations lead to a clandestine
people-smuggling network. As the police uncover the shocking hypocrisy behind the
network, they find a trail that runs back to the 1980s, to a crime that went unreported, but
whose consequences will reach further than anyone ever expected.
11 CDs • OCD 977 • 978-1-78433-484-0
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 977 • 978-1-78433-519-9 • Playing time: 13hrs 19mins
REBECCA MUDDIMAN
Gone
KRISTINA OHLSSON
Read by Tim Bruce
Eleven years ago, troubled teenager Emma Thorley went missing. The police assumed she
was a runaway. But now a body has been found in woods near Blyth. DI Michael Gardner
knows he didn’t take Emma’s disappearance seriously enough back then, and is determined
to make up for it now. But when he and DS Nicola Freeman start to reinvestigate, they
discover that nothing is as simple as it seems. As news of the discovery travels, the past will
come back to haunt all those involved. Because there are consequences when good people
do bad things, and some secrets cannot stay buried for ever ...
8 CDs • OCD 941 • 978-1-78433-390-4
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 941 • 978-1-78433-425-3 • Playing time: 9hrs 29mins
The Disappeared
Read by Maggie Mash
The body of a young woman is found buried in a forest glade in a Swedish suburb. Alex
Recht and his team in the Stockholm Police soon identify the body as that of missing
student, Rebecca Trolle, but as excavation continues, they soon find that someone has
been returning to the same spot to bury their victims year after year. Investigative Analyst
Fredrika Bergman is assigned the task of delving into Rebecca’s private life. But little does
she know that her enquiries are about to uncover evidence that will put her actions under
scrutiny from Internal Affairs, and will throw her private life into turmoil.
13 CDs • OCD 890 • 978-1-78433-277-8
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 890 • 978-1-78433-297-6 • Playing time: 16hrs
ANDREW NICOLL
The Secret Life and Curious Death of Miss Jean Milne
Read by Angus King
A hundred years ago, the true story of the brutal murder of Miss Jean Milne in a small
seaside town captured the imagination of the whole country. A wealthy spinster who lived
alone in a crumbling mansion, Miss Milne appeared to be the very model of respectability.
But, behind the facade, Miss Milne was living a secret life. Why was this quiet spinster tied
up in her own home, tortured and brutally murdered? Now, using newly-released evidence
from police files, eye-witness testimony hidden for a century and long-forgotten newspaper
reports from the scene, Andrew Nicoll has brought the case back from the dead to reveal
the secrets of the little town where Jean Milne was murdered.
9 CDs • OCD 1010 • 978-1-78433-584-7
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 1010 • 978-1-78433-620-2 • Playing time: 10hrs 30mins
SHEILA O’FLANAGAN
NEIL OLIVER
Master of Shadows
Read by the author
In 15th-century Constantinople, Prince Constantine saves the life of a broken-hearted girl.
But the price of his valour is high. John Grant is a young man on the edge of the world. His
unique abilities carry him from his home in Scotland to the heart of the Byzantine Empire
in search of a girl and the chance to fulfil a death-bed promise. Lena has remained hidden
from the men who have been searching for her for many years. When she’s hunted down,
at last she knows what she must do. As the Siege of Constantinople reaches its climax,
each must make a choice between head and heart, duty and destiny.
11 CDs • OCD 1000 • 978-1-78433-573-1
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 1000 • 978-1-78433-609-7 • Playing time: 13hrs 45mins
Better Together
ANN O’LOUGHLIN
When high-flying journalist Sheridan Gray loses her job, her boyfriend and her flat, she
knows she must make a new start. But how will she adjust to local reporting? Meanwhile,
home-loving Nina Fallon’s life is shattered when the exploits of her actor husband become
national news. When Sheridan moves into Nina’s guesthouse, she realises Nina holds the
key to a story that will make her name as a reporter again. But as she gets closer to the
truth, Sheridan risks jeopardising her relationship with the man she has come to love. Is
she better off going it alone?
Read by Gráinne Gillis
The Ballroom Café
Read by Caroline Lennon
11 CDs • OCD 903• 978-1-78433-290-7
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 903 • 978-1-78433-310-2 • Playing time: 13hrs 52mins
Sisters Ella and Roberta O’Callaghan live in separate wings of their crumbling Irish
mansion. They haven’t spoken for decades, torn apart by a dark family secret from their
past, and only communicate through the terse notes they leave for each other in the
hallway. Debbie, an American, is searching for her birth mother, hoping to discover who
she really is and what happened to her mother. With the bank threatening, Ella tries to
save the family home by opening a café in the ballroom much to Roberta’s disgust. And
when Debbie offers to help out in the café, the war between the sisters intensifies. But
then Debbie begins to unravel the truth ...
7 CDs • OCD 978 • 978-1-78433-485-7
1 MP3 CD • OMP 978 • 978-1-78433-520-5 • Playing time: 8hrs 23mins
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KATE RHODES
Read by Saul Reichlin
Read by Charlotte Strevens
Gallows Hill
The Winter Foundlings
A dog scavenging in an illegal building site digs up a bone. A human bone. She drags it back
to where her mistress lies dead in an abandoned shed, but there are hundreds more.
Skeletons which have lain undisturbed for centuries beneath Gallows Hill, where Cape
Town’s notorious gibbets once stood. Investigative profiler Dr Clare Hart is called in by
Captain Riedwaan Faizal of the SAPS Gang Unit and soon discovers that a deadly, more
recent secret lies hidden among these long-buried bones. Who was the woman in the green
silk dress? Who wanted her dead? Who buried her body among these ancient graves?
9 CDs • OCD 1001 • 978-1-78433-574-8
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 1001 • 978-1-78433-610-3 • Playing time: 10hrs 10mins
Four girls have disappeared in North London. Three are already dead. Britain’s most prolific
child killer, Louis Kinsella, has been locked up in Northwood high-security hospital for over
a decade. Now more innocents are being slaughtered, and they all have a connection to his
earlier crimes. Psychologist Alice Quentin will do anything to help save a child – even if it
means forming a relationship with a charismatic, ruthless murderer. But Kinsella is slow to
give away his secrets, and time is running out ...
8 CDs • OCD 892 • 978-1-78433-279-2
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 892 • 978-1-78433-299-0 • Playing time: 9hrs 55mins
LUCY RIBCHESTER
R. S. PATEMAN
The Hourglass Factory
The Prophecy of Bees
Read by Lucy Scott
Read by Penelope Rawlins
Moving to Stagcote Manor was meant to be a fresh start for Lindy and her teenage
daughter Izzy. A chance at a new life in the country after things went so wrong in London.
But for Izzy it is a prison sentence. There’s something about the house that she can’t quite
put her finger on. As Izzy begins to explore the manor and the village beyond its walls, she
discovers the locals have a lot of bizarre superstitions and beliefs. Many of them related to
the manor ... and those who live there.
The suffragette movement is reaching fever pitch but for Frankie George, getting by in the
cut-throat world of Fleet Street newspapers is hard enough. Sent to interview trapeze
artist Ebony Diamond, Frankie finds herself fascinated by the tightly laced acrobat and
follows her to a Mayfair corset shop that hides more than one dark secret. Then Ebony
disappears in the middle of a performance, and Frankie is drawn into a world of tricks,
society columnists, corset fetishists, suffragettes and circus freaks. How did Ebony vanish
and who was she afraid of?
10 CDs • OCD 891 • 978-1-78433-278-5
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 891 • 978-1-78433-298-3 • Playing time: 11hrs 38mins
11 CDs • OCD 930 • 978-1-78433-379-9
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 930 • 978-1-78433-414-7 • Playing time: 12hrs 35mins
NICKY PELLEGRINO
I. D. ROBERTS
Read by Jane McDowell
Read by Andrew Cullum
One Summer in Venice
Kingdom Lock
Addolorata Martinelli knows she should be happy. She has everything she thought she
wanted – her own business, a husband, a child. So why does she feel as if something is
missing? Then when her restaurant, Little Italy, is slated by a reviewer, she realises that she’s
lost the one thing she thought she could always count on, her love of food. So Addolorata
heads to Venice for a summer alone, aiming to find the 10 things that make her happy ...
8 CDs • OCD 953 • 978-1-78433-461-1
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 953 • 978-1-78433-496-3 • Playing time: 9hrs 56mins
It is 1914 and while battles rage across Europe, three empires fight for dominance in the
Middle East. In the midst of the chaos is Kingdom Lock. Working for the British Intelligence
Service, Lock is sent to Persia by the Australian Infantry Force. His mission: to prevent a
German spy from inciting rebellion among the Muslim tribes and from seizing control of
the oilfields. But before then, having recently rescued Amy Townshend, the daughter of a
British officer, he now finds that he must save her from the clutches of death once more.
It’s a task that seems destined to fail ...
10 CDs • OCD 931 • 978-1-78433-380-5
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 931 • 978-1-78433-415-4 • Playing time: 11hrs 21mins
NICKY PELLEGRINO
Recipe for Life
LISA RYAN
Read by Jane McDowell
A recipe for life should be a simple thing: love and happiness, family, friends and a little
food … But life is rarely straightforward. Alice wants to make the most of life – after all,
she knows how fragile it can be – and knows she never feels more alive than when she’s
cooking. Babetta has spent a lifetime tending the garden of her tiny house on the Italian
coast, supplying food to feed a family now grown and gone. One summer these two
women are brought together in a crumbling Mediterranean villa, with the shared language
of food. There, under the heat of the Italian sun, or the shade of the pomegranate tree,
secrets will be spoken, fears and hopes shared. But life’s lessons are not learned easily.
8 CDs • OCD 1012 • 978-1-78433-586-1
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 1012 • 978-1-78433-622-6 • Playing time: 9hrs 16mins
The Swan Lake
Read by Amy Creighton
When Astarte Weaver finds her boyfriend and best friend in her bed, she returns to
County Clare in Ireland, a place that holds happy childhood memories, and buys a ruined
cottage in an area that the locals call “the Swan Lake.” Trying to rebuild her home – and her
life – with the help of local builder Flynn, Astarte gradually becomes part of the tightly-knit
local community. But when tragedy hits the small village, Astarte discovers that the only
way to heal the sorrow of the present is to come to terms with the events of the past.
8 CDs • OCD 1002 • 978-1-78433-575-5
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 1002 • 978-1-78433-611-0 • Playing time: 9hrs 36mins
NICKY PELLEGRINO
ROBERT RYAN
Read by Harriet Carmichael
Read by Richard Burnip
The Villa Girls
A Study in Murder
Four young women decide that wherever they are in the world they’ll meet every few
years for a holiday together in a hidden little villa somewhere sunny. Rosie seems to be the
one whose life is touched the most by her villa days. For it’s there that she meets Enzo, the
son of an olive oil dynasty in southern Italy. Rosie and Enzo have a holiday romance that
seems set to become something more serious until she discovers he is not entirely what
he seems.
8 CDs • OCD 904 • 978-1-78433-291-4
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 904 • 978-1-78433-311-9 • Playing time: 9hrs 13mins
The year is 1917 and Doctor John Watson is prisoner in a notorious POW camp.
With the Allied blockade of Germany, food is perilously short, and when a new prisoner
is murdered, all assume he was killed for his Red Cross parcel. But Watson isn’t so sure.
A creeping feeling of unease tells him there is more to this than meets the eye. And when
an escape plot is apparently uncovered in his hut, he knows he has touched a nerve and he
must escape before he is silenced for good. All he needs is some long-distance help from
his old friend Sherlock Holmes ...
11 CDs • OCD 942 • 978-1-78433-391-1
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 942 • 978-1-78433-426-0 • Playing time: 13hrs 34mins
ANDREW PYPER
The Damned
ZOË SHARP
Danny Orchard wrote a bestselling memoir about his near-death experience in a fire that
claimed the life of his twin sister, Ashleigh, but despite the resulting fame he’s never been
able to enjoy his second chance at life. Ash won’t let him. In life, Danny’s charming twin
had been a budding psychopath who terrorised her family – and death hasn’t changed her
wicked ways. Ash has haunted Danny for 20 years and now, just when he’s met the love of
his life, she wants more than ever to punish him for being alive – so she sets her sights on
Danny’s new wife and stepson.
Read by Lewis Hancock
The Blood Whisperer
Read by Adam Sims
7 CDs • OCD 929 • 978-1-78433-378-2
1 MP3 CD • OMP 929 • 978-1-78433-413-0 • Playing time: 8hrs 22mins
The uncanny abilities of London crime-scene specialist Kelly Jacks to coax evidence from
the most unpromising of crime scenes once earned her the nickname of The Blood
Whisperer. Then six years Kelly woke next to the butchered body of a man, the knife in
her hands and no memory of what happened. Now released after serving her sentence for
involuntary manslaughter, she gets a job at a crime-scene cleaning firm. But when she asks
questions about a suicide somebody doesn’t want answered she finds herself fleeing from
the police, Russian thugs and a local gangster. Now street-smart and wary, can she use
everything she’s learned inside to evade capture, stay alive and clear her name?
11 CDs • OCD 989 • 978-1-78433-564-9
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 989 • 978-1-78433-600-4 • Playing time: 13hrs 39mins
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JIM THOMPSON
Read by Tom Clarke-Hill
Read by Tim Flavin
The Future for Curious People
The Killer Inside Me
Meet Evelyn and Godfrey. Evelyn is breaking up with her boyfriend as she’s seen their
dismal future together at Dr Chin’s office: the life they may have when they are both many
years older, singing ‘Happy Birthday’ to a Chihuahua and arguing about cheese. She hopes
for more. Meanwhile, Godfrey is proposing to his girlfriend, Madge – who’s not quite willing
to take that leap. She wants to see their future together first ... just to be sure they’re
meant for one another. Then, one day, Evelyn and Godfrey meet – and from that moment
their lives become entwined.
7 CDs • OCD 905 • 978-1-78433-267-9
1 MP3 CD • OMP 905 • 978-1-78433-323-2 • Playing time: 8hrs 3mins
DAN SMITH
Deputy Sheriff Lou Ford is a pillar of the community in his small Texas town – patient
and thoughtful. Some people think he’s a little slow and boring but that’s the worst they
say about him. But then nobody knows about what Lou calls his ‘sickness’. It nearly got
him put away when he was younger, but his adopted brother took the rap for that. Now
the sickness that has been lying dormant for a while is about to surface again – and the
consequences are brutal and devastating.
6 CDs • OCD 1013 • 978-1-78433-587-8
1 MP3 CD • OMP 1013 • 978-1-78433-623-3 • Playing time: 6hrs 20mins
SOPHIA TOBIN
The Silversmith’s Wife
The Child Thief
Read by Christine Mackie
Read by Nigel Carrington
From out of the whiteness, a dark figure comes ... December, 1930, Ukraine. After the
horrors of war, Luka wants a quiet life with his family. But everything changes the day a
stranger arrives, pulling a sled bearing a terrible cargo: the bodies of two children. And then
a little girl vanishes. Luka is the only man with the skills to find the stolen child. And though
his toughest enemy is the man he tracks through the harsh winter landscape, his strongest
bond is a promise to his family back home ...
10 CDs • OCD 954 • 978-1-78433-462-8
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 9548 • 978-1-78433-497-0 • Playing time: 11hrs 31mins
1792. It’s winter in Berkeley Square and the night-watchman comes across the body of
silversmith Pierre Renard, his throat cut and his valuables missing. It could be common
theft, but as news of the murder spreads, it soon becomes clear that Renard had more
than a few enemies. At the centre of this web is Mary, the silversmith’s wife. Ostensibly
theirs was an excellent pairing, but behind closed doors their relationship was a dark and
at times sadistic one. Mary is haunted by her past and near-mad with guilt. Will she attain
the redemption she seeks and what does she need redemption for?
9 CDs • OCD 919 • 978-1-78433-368-3
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 919 • 978-1-78433-403-1 • Playing time: 11hrs 4mins
MARTIN STEPHEN
SOPHIA TOBIN
Read by Peter Wickham
Read by Christine Mackie
The Coming of the King: Henry Gresham and James I
Queen Elizabeth I is dying, and the King of England’s oldest and bitterest enemy, Scotland,
is poised to take the throne. With all her old allies and advisors dead, she turns to the only
man she can trust: Henry Gresham. Gresham finds himself unwillingly dragged into the
political manoeuvring that will decide England’s next ruler. Involved in the race to be the
first to tell James VI of Scotland that Elizabeth has chosen him as her successor, Gresham
faces savage attacks on his home and those he loves, imprisonment, attempts to destroy
not only him but the College he loves in Cambridge.
9 CDs • OCD 893 • 978-1-78433-280-8
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 893 • 978-1-78433-300-3 • Playing time: 10hrs 37mins
LAUREN ST JOHN
The Widow’s Confession
Broadstairs, Kent, 1851. Once a sleepy fishing village, now a select sea-bathing resort, this
is a place where people come to take the air, and where they come to hide. Delphine and
her cousin Julia have come to the seaside with a secret, one they have been running from
for years. But this is a place with its own secrets, and a dark past. And when the body
of a young girl is found washed up on the beach, a mysterious message scrawled on the
sand beside her, the past returns to haunt Broadstairs and its inhabitants. As the incomers
are drawn into the mystery and each others’ lives, they realise they cannot escape what
happened here years before.
8 CDs • OCD 991 • 978-1-78433-576-2
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 991 • 978-1-78433-612-7 • Playing time: 9hrs 37mins
The Obituary Writer
GILES WATERFIELD
Nick Donaghue, a handsome young obituary writer for The Times, leads a charmed
existence until he is caught up in one of Britain’s worst ever train crashes. When he
survives unscathed, his friends and colleagues consider him the luckiest man alive. Only
Nick knows the truth – that he is tormented by horrific nightmares. When they start to
appear grimly prescient, his meticulously-constructed urban life is derailed. Escaping to the
wilds of Cornwall strikes him as the answer. But when his nightmares return, they threaten
his fragile new world.
Read by Charlotte Strevens
The Iron Necklace
Read by Joe Coen
9 CDs • OCD 871 • 978-1-78433-079-8
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 871 • 978-1-78433-221-1 • Playing time: 10hrs 7mins
The wedding of Thomas, an idealistic German architect, and Irene, an English artist, brings
together the Curtius and Benson families. But their peace is soon shattered by the
outbreak of war in Europe. While Irene struggles to survive in a country where she is the
enemy, her sister Sophia faces the war as a nurse on the Western Front. For their brother
Mark, diplomatic service sees him moving between London, Washington and Copenhagen,
all the while struggling to confront his own identity. Against a backdrop of war and its
aftermath relationships are tested, sacrifices are made and Irene and her siblings strive to
find their place in an evolving world.
11 CDs • OCD 1003 • 978-1-78433-577-9
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 1003 • 978-1-78433-613-4 • Playing time: 12hrs 34mins
ROMA TEARNE
The Last Pier
KATHERINE WEBB
Read by Catherine Harvey
Despite the dark clouds of war looming on the horizon, 13-year-old Cecily’s head is full
of first love, ice cream and sibling rivalry. She looks constantly to her impossibly beautiful
elder sister, Rose, with a mixture of envy and admiration. Desperately curious about Rose’s
secrets, and those of all the adults around her, Cecily eavesdrops at every opportunity that
summer: with dire consequences. For Cecily’s actions one fateful night at the outbreak of
the Second World War will ultimately tear her family apart and echo across the generations.
It is not until many years later that a grown-up Cecily can return to her childhood home
and unravel the remaining family secrets. And finally lay some ghosts to rest.
10 CDs • OCD 990 • 978-1-78433-565-6
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 990 • 978-1-78433-601-1 • Playing time: 11hrs 19mins
The Night Falling
Read by Anna Bentinck
Puglia, 1921. Leandro Cardetta emigrated to America to make his fortune and has returned
a rich man. Now Leandro has money enough to hire renowned English architect, Boyd
Kingsley, to renovate a crumbling palazzo and host Boyd’s teenage son and his wife, Clare.
Ether, Leonard’s nephew, a Great War veteran, has sworn to identify his fiancee’s killer, and
take his revenge. He is too proud to go to his uncle for charity, but when he injures himself
one day, he has no choice. Meeting Clare there will change everything – and in the most
violent way. During the fierce summer of 1921 hearts will be broken, blood will be spilt and
the hardest of life’s lessons will be learnt as shadows fall.
14 CDs • OCD 894 • 978-1-78433-281-5
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 894 • 978-1-78433-301-0 • Playing time: 16hrs 46mins
DAVID THOMPSON
Beyond this Horizon
DAVID WHITEHOUSE
Read by Nigel Peever
Tat, is the first of his family to leave the Upper Eden Valley in Cumbria. He is clever, excels
at rugby and has a fine singing voice. From Appleby Grammar School he gains a place at
University College London. Tat mixes with art students from The Slade School, and an
exciting relationship develops with Jane Cranshaw, a beautiful upper class painting student.
They fall in love but he is unaware that Jane conceals a dark secret which fatally flaws their
relationship. When their idyll is torn apart by a succession of emotional hammer blows,
Tat and his best friend, Olly Sinclair, are engulfed in a whirlwind of turmoil and confusion.
Unexpectedly, Tat’s magnificent singing voice proves to be his salvation.
13 CDs • OCD 847 • 978-1-78433-012-5
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 847 • 978-1-78433-197-9 • Playing time: 15hrs 52mins
Mobile Library
Read by Joe Coen
Twelve-year-old Bobby Nusku catalogues traces of his mother’s life and waits for her
to return home. Bobby thinks that he’s been left to face the world alone until he meets
lonely single mother Val and her daughter Rosa. They spend a magical summer together,
discovering the books in the mobile library where Val works as a cleaner. But as the
summer draws to a close, Bobby finds himself in trouble and Val is in danger of losing her
job. There’s only one thing to do – and so they take to the road in the mobile library.
6 CDs • OCD 943 • 978-1-78433-392-8
1 MP3 CD • OMP 943 • 978-1-78433-427-7 • Playing time: 7hrs 12mins
This audio book contains strong language and/or explicit scenes.
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TOM WOOD
Read by David Thorpe
Read by Daniel Philpott
R. I. P.
The Darkest Day
Retired bank manager George Pearmain is, apparently, dead. According to the behaviour
of everyone around him, it seems he is no more. Not only that, but his mother has also
passed away – and on the eve of her 99th year. Not only that, it could be that they were
both murdered. Apart from that, he feels fine. As George’s family gather for the 99th
birthday celebration that never was, he hovers around, watching and listening, entirely
unseen and makes all sorts of discoveries about himself, his wife Esmerelda and his
supposedly happy family ...
10 CDs • OCD 966 • 978-1-78433-289-1
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 966 • 978-1-78433-309-6 • Playing time: 11hrs 27mins
While carrying out a hit on a terrorist financier,Victor finds himself the target of an
assassin who proves to be just as deadly as he is. Never one to let such a thing go,Victor
sets about hunting down his attacker and those who sent her. She is Raven – a freelance
assassin with a dark past and hidden agenda. Does she really want him dead, or does
someone else want them to kill each other? With the stakes growing higher by the minute,
Victor and Raven must decide who is friend and who is foe before a deadly terrorist plot
threatens to consume the city and them along with it.
8 CDs • OCD 1015 • 978-1-78433-589-2
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 1015 • 978-1-78433-625-7 • Playing time: 9hrs 14mins
ROBERT WILTON
TOM WOOD
Read by Daniel Philpott
Read by Daniel Philpott
The Spider of Sarajevo
The Game
Summer 1914: Europe is on the brink. As Britain’s enemies grow stronger, the ComptrollerGeneral must confront the man with whom he has struggled for a generation – a man
he knows only as the Spider. In a desperate gamble, he sends four agents out across the
continent, on a mission they do not understand ... The future of British intelligence – of
the British Empire – is in their hands. Not all of them will return. Unique and resourceful,
hunted and deceived, they have embarked on a journey that will climax in the town of
Sarajevo on the 28th of June 1914.
13 CDs • OCD 859 • 978-1-78433-067-5
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 859 • 978-1-78433-209-9 • Playing time: 15hrs 20mins
Victor is the perfect killer. He has no past. He will stop at nothing. And he can find you
anywhere. In sweltering Algiers, ultra-efficient hitman Victor executes a fellow assassin. But
when the CIA comes calling,Victor must pose as his victim to identify the dead man’s next
target, a mission that takes him across Europe to the bloody streets of Rome. Working
alongside a group of vicious mercenaries,Victor faces an impossible choice: to do what’s
right, or to sacrifice the only thing he cares about ... his life.
10 CDs • OCD 906• 978-1-78433-292-1
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 906 • 978-1-78433-312-6 • Playing time: 12hrs 3mins
SUSAN ELLIOT WRIGHT
TOM WOOD
The Secrets We Left Behind
Better Off Dead
Read by Janice McKenzie
Read by Daniel Philpott
A hitman must be anonymous, amoral – and alone.Victor is the face in the crowd you don’t
see, a perfect assassin with nothing to live for. But when an old friend turns to him for help,
he finds he can’t refuse. For once his objective isn’t to kill, but to protect. Hunted through
the streets of London by ruthless enemies,Victor needs to be more than just a bodyguard
... but his every move leads danger closer to the very person he’s vowed to defend.
10 CDs • OCD 967 • 978-1-78433-474-1
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 967 • 978-1-78433-509-0 • Playing time: 12hrs 6mins
She has built a good life: a husband who adores her, a daughter she is fiercely proud of, a
home with warmth and love at its heart. But things were not always so good, and the truth
is that she has done things she can never admit. Then one evening a phone call comes out
of the blue. Scott knows who she really is and what she has done. Now he is dying and he
gives her an ultimatum: either she tells the truth, or he will.
8 CDs • OCD 907 • 978-1-78433-293-8
2 MP3 CDs • OMP 907 • 978-1-78433-313-3 • Playing time: 10hrs
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