Books published by publisher Richard Marman

They're the cookies that bite back! OK, Gretel, Dad says we need to move out and get a job. Don't look at me that way. Hey, we can do it together. It'll be fun. Yes. I know we have no skills. Well, you know how all those long-haul cookie delivery drivers left on their routes and never came back? It's perfect. Guaranteed employment. People need their sweets. What? Danger? Nah, we'll be fine. Hansel and Gretel are two long-haul truckers, a brother and sister team, whose work order is simple: Deliver a truckload of cookies cross-country to an old witch in the forest. They stop to pick up their load and notice something isn't right. Pastries shouldn't be bleeding and screaming and trying to escape their boxes. Once upon a time, in an orphanage, lived a rather ugly child. Picked on mercilessly by her peers until one by one the orphans went missing. Now an old witch with a cookie addiction, she sits alone in her mansion made of sweets, waiting for her delivery of baked goods with the one special ingredient in them. Will Hansel and Gretel make their delivery on time? Will they make it out alive? Will Hansel finally admit that Gretel is the better driver? Indulge your appetite and feast your eyes on this new twist on an age-old tale. Note: This series does not need to be heard in alphabetical order. Mix and match! Trade with friends!

Aliens. Armageddon. President Mel Gibson? America is in trouble, dudes. The country is in ruins after the president walls it up, sealing it like a giant prison. The rich get richer and the poor starve to death in the streets. Enter the Invaders, a secret society led by a charismatic and flawlessly handsome dude named Dave. Their mission: Destroy the forces in D.C. and take back the U.S.A.! Starlet Richter is your typical transgender American woman. After years of watching the place fall apart, she's gonna do something about it. Eric Tisdsale is Starlet's long-lost love. He's making a pretty mundane living as a pool shark, until one phone call changes everything. Will they save each other? Themselves? The world? How about when they discover the president is not actually human, and there may be more of his kind hiding among us? "The worst thing you'll hear all year!" raves the general population. "Fake News!" cries D.T. DAVE! is a science fiction comedy that features fast-paced action, pie-throwing clowns, nudists, and lots and lots of aliens. Equal parts Hitchhiker's Guide and Coen Brothers, buy this audiobook now and laugh your way through the apocalypse!

Three tales so awful, they'll make you want to wash your mind out with soap. "The best thing I've read since the Farmer's Almanac!" (Unreliable source) Snow White and the mini golf course? Frankenstein meets Soylent Green? An avid reader trapped in an Edgar Allan Poe nightmare? These stories aren't normal. Listen today and hear why listeners are calling it, "Ludicrous. Hilarious. Almost life-changing. Almost." Like a stew, where you don't know what's in it, you don't know why you're eating it, but you can't stop. You'll even ask for thirds. Note: This series does not need to be heard in alphabetical order. Mix and match! Trade with friends!

Like Poe on nitrous oxide. Have you ever wanted to escape? Ever wished you were a character in a story? Be careful what you wish for. I wanted that once, too. And now here I am. And it sucks. How did I get here? What did I do to deserve this? Trapped in the nightmarish world of Edgar Allan Poe - sort of. Why are these tales so much worse than the originals? Why is everyone I meet so annoying? And what's the deal with their wonky eyeballs? E is for Eyeball is what happens when you put works of public domain into the hands of an incompetent lunatic. Horrific. Hilarious. Ridiculous. You'll laugh till your eyes pop out. "A real mustn't listen." -Every Critic Ever Get your copy today! These audiobooks do not need to be heard in alphabetical order. Mix and match! Trade with friends!

Three tales so twisted, they'll make you question your own sanity. "The best thing I've listened to since sliced bread!" -Name withheld Goldilocks and the Mob. Hansel and Gretel and the Cannibal Cookies. Adam and Eve and their madcap romp through the Garden of Eden. These aren't your childhood fairy tales. Pick up your copy today and see why listeners are calling it outlandish. Hysterical. On the brink of lunacy. A big ol' word-buffet of the familiar and the surreal. You'll be asking for seconds. Note: This series does not need to be heard in alphabetical order. Mix and match! Trade with friends!

"'Listen! Can't you hear him cryingnow? Can't you see the ghost?'"CONTENTSCHAP. I. A NEW PUPIL.II. THERE'S A CONSCIENCE.III. TWO LONE, LORN YOUNG WOMEN.IV. IN THE DEAD OF NIGHT.V. A REPRESENTATIVE OF LAW AND ORDER.VI. THE LONG ARM OF COINCIDENCE.VII. BRUCE GRAHAM'S FIRST CLIENT.VIII. MADGE ... AND THE PANEL.IX. THE THING WHICH WAS HIDDEN.X. MADGE FINDS HERSELF IN AN AWKWARD SITUATION.XI. UNDER THE SPELL.XII. TOM OSSINGTON's LAWYER.XIII. AN INTERRUPTED TREASURE HUNT.XIV. THE CAUSE OF THE INTERRUPTION.XV. THE COMPANION OF HIS SOLITUDE.XVI. TWO VISITORS.XVII. THE KEY TO THE PUZZLE.XVIII. MADGE APPLIES MORE STRENGTH.XIX. THE WOMAN AND THE MAN.XX. THE FORTUNE.CHAPTER IA NEW PUPILThe first of the series of curious happenings, which led to such a surprising and, indeed, extraordinary denouement, occurred on the twelfth of October. It was a Monday; about four-thirty in the afternoon. Madge Brodie was alone in the house. The weather was dull, a suspicion of mist was in the air, already the day was drawing in.Madge was writing away with might and main, hard at work on one of those MSS. with which she took such peculiar pains; and with which the editors for whom they were destined took so little. If they would only take a little more--enough to read them through, say--Madge felt sure they would not be so continually returned. Her pen went tearing away at a gallop--it had reached the last few lines--they were finished. She turned to glance at the clock which was on the mantelshelf behind her."Gracious!--I had no idea it was so late. Ella will be home in an hour, and there is nothing in the place for her to eat!"She caught up the sheets of paper, fastened them together at the corner, crammed them into an envelope, scribbled a note, crammed it in after them, addressed the envelope, closed it, jumped up to get her hat, just as there came a rat-tat-tat at the hall-door knocker."Now, who's that? I wonder if it is that Miss Brice come for her lesson after all--three hours late. It will be like her if it is--but she sha'n't have it now. We'll see if she shall."She caught up her hat from the couch, perched it on her head, pushed a pin through the crown."If she sees that I am just going out, I should think that even she will hardly venture to ask me to give her a lesson three hours after the time which she herself appointed."As she spoke she was crossing the little passage towards the front door.

The 4th book in the McAlister Line: After recovering from injuries suffered at Dien Bien Phu, Danny is straight back into action in Saigon via Taipei.The 17th Parallel has just been created with the communists to the North. But South Vietnam is awash spies and agents from the CIA, MI6 and other secret service types from the West, but especially Russian, Chinese and with North Vietnamese infiltrators, all vying to fill the, soon to be, power vacuum currently being created by the French who are starting to pull out of Indochina.Still flying for CAT airlines, commonly referred to as the most shot-at airline in the world, Monty and Angela join him as they plunge headlong into another non-stop, breathtaking odyssey which spreads across five continents, landing in one desperate scrape after another. Finally all three make heart-breaking decisions which ultimately define their true allegiance.

For lovers of the Action and Adventure genre but equally for young adults (YA) - the 5th book in the McAlister Line takes us back in time and explores the American branch of the McAlister line.Set against the panoramic backdrop of New Mexico, Sonora, Arizona and California in 1867, Jubal Quinn is desperate. He is a black trooper in the newly formed 10th Cavalry accused of murdering a white man. Behind bars and doomed to hang, his only chance is to escape from the stockade with the help of Billy Songbird, a wayward, half-breed, Kiowa teenager. Hot on their heels is Lieutenant Sam McAlister, a man whose devotion to duty has turned to obsession. Blasting a trail of blood headlong through the Southwest, not even the love of a beautiful Mexican girl can deter Sam. The chase can only end when either he or Jubal Quinn is dead.

On his seventeenth birthday, New South Wales farm boy, Callan McAlister joins the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) and is swept away to war.His first taste of blood comes from an unexpected enemy in the Sinai Desert, before being shipped to Gallipoli. Callan receives a shock while convalescing in peaceful, idyllic Ireland during the Easter of 1916. But the Western Front awaits all before his nineteenth birthday.Callan falls in love with a lovely English beauty, Ivy Brown, but their path to happiness is neither easy nor pre-ordained. A lowly Australian private soldier is viewed with doubt and disapproval by Ivys aristocratic family not to mention Callans chances of surviving the brutality of the Great War.An offer to join the fledgling Royal Flying Corps (RFC) may be Callans chance to escape the endless mud-filled trenches, infested with rats, lice, trench fever and foot-rot, and tormented by German machine-gunners and artillery bombardments.But, with minimal training, an RFC pilots life expectancy is tenuous at best. Ivy also experiences her baptism of fire as an ambulance driver for the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY).Callan and Ivys struggle reaches its startling climax in an air race to the far reaches of the British Empire where law and justice are the domain of the most powerful and those ruthless enough to go to any lengths to achieve their desires.If you read only one book set against WWI during its centenary anniversary, make it McAlister and the Great War. This novel, ranging across a truly global canvas, explores many fascinating and thrilling historical incidents that occurred during the tragic conflict.