Every now and then there comes a really special novel: one that has been eagerly anticipated for a very long time. Well, this quarter Oakhill Audio Books is publishing such a book: Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch. Coming over a decade since her last (and only her second) book, its first-person narrative is seen through the eyes of a teenage boy who recounts his fatal link with the painting of the book title. Stephen King called it "an extraordinary work of fiction" and he's certainly not wrong.

Another big-name author represented on the Oakhill list is Martin Cruz Smith with another of his Ardanky Renko novels, Tatiana. Set in Russia it revolves around the death of a female journalist whose tape recordings unleash a tide of hidden truths and falsehoods from within government ranks.

Among this quarter's children's offerings is The Revenge of the Ballybogs by Siobhan Rowden, a riotous follow-up to The Curse of the Bogle's Beard, which features Granny Hogflesh's disgusting pickles and bogle family secrets. Then in Marcus Sedgwick's Elf Girl and Raven Boy series, the pair leave their Fright Forest and venture to the Monster Mountains with Rat where they find wizard who wants to turn them to stone. Perhaps it wasn't such a good idea after all!

For the first quarter of 2014 the number of Oakhill Audio Books published each month continues to be nine adult titles and four children's titles – but from April this will increase to twelve adult titles, meaning that we can bring you even more first-rate titles and a wider range from which to select.