Showing results by publisher "Oakhill Publishing Ltd" in Literature & Fiction

The rural idyll of life in a remote Welsh valley has turned sour for the Cordiners. For David, life in the local police force is deathly dull after the exhilaration of working for the Met. For Tessa, the hostility of the local community is a daily torment. Then a young nurse is found dead at a nearby beauty spot, her corpse strewn with wild flowers in some sick ceremony.

It looks like Mr Cheng has finally lost his mind! So when everything starts to spiral out of control, it's not long before Jonathon and the Fang Gang have to get involved. Enjoy more fiendishly funny stories from Jonathon the Fang Gang and the grisly neighbours of Goolish.

Delilah Darling - Queen Delilah from the Land of Far, Far Away - is desperate to play the part of the gingerbread man in the school play. So when horrible Charlotte Griggs gets the part instead, Delilah is cross. But soon she discovers that there's lots of fun to be had playing the big, bad fox. And beside, in the Land of Far, Far Away, things always have happy endings....

A powerfully romantic novel about a son's attempt to understand his mother's past leads him to a tragic love affair and the heroic story of the assassination of a high ranking Nazi by the Czech resistance.

The narrator, the American born son of Czech immigrants living in New York, grows up in an atmosphere haunted by fragments of the past. As an adult he travels to Prague to uncover secrets.

When the chance to escape the dull life of his orphanage comes, Yanis seizes it. But what does he really know about his new master, or his mission in the frozen, secretive East?

Vienna 1770: Baron Wolfgang von Kempelen unveils an amazing invention, The Mechanical Turk, an unbeatable chess playing automaton. Hailed as the greatest innovation of the century, the chess machine is really a brilliant illusion, secretly operated from inside by the Italian dwarf Tibor. But when a beautiful and seductive countess dies mysteriously in the presence of the automaton, the machine and its inventor become the target of espionage, persecution, and intrigue.

1917 and the First World War is casting a dark shadow over the Harvey family. With one brother dead and Tristan serving at the front, young Ben is desperate to serve, despite his engagement to Emilia. But a dreadful eye injury forces him to stay at the family farm with his brother Alec, a man with secrets of his own.

Christy Naylor's life is wrenched apart when her mother dies and her father's crazed reaction is to gamble. He wins a fish farm in a game of poker and uproots them from their suburban lives, to live on a couple of watery fields. Unsettled and unsure of himself, Christy is 17, suffocating and suffering.

A one-time aspiring author has seen his life take a tumble down the ladder of literary aspirations. Reluctantly, he finds a badly paid job as a reader of other peoples sitcoms. Then, suddenly, there's new hope: Hollywood, fame, money, and women are all within his eager grasp. He just has to do something awful. And get away with it!

The funeral of Ciara's beloved husband, Niall, is marred by the discovery of a hidden photograph, and someone at the wake wants revenge. That someone knows Ciara's shameful secret and wants to make her pay for a lifetime of happiness and good fortune. But how far will this mysterious person go to make her pay for something that happened 30 years ago?