Rowan's been acting strange (well, OK, more strange than usual). One minute she's crying over who-knows-what, and the next she's tripping into the house with all this new stuff (which has to come...

Emmaline has always understood that, as the eldest of four daughters, she must marry, but it seems that no proposals are going to come her way. Until, at a crowded ball, Julius makes his way to...

It is 1601 and Queen Elizabeth I is dying. Will Marsden lives in Marsden Manor in the north of England. Will is training to be a knight and listens avidly to the true tales of adventure and...

Ellen's mother dreams of making a perfect home for everyone in the heart of the Suffolk countryside. Her father is preoccupied with mysterious troubles of his own. So when the swans fly over the...

Albert Platt is a rotten man. Bred in the rough parts of Brooklyn, he made his name as a killer and has built a fortune from gambling, loan sharking, and the other pastimes of a standard thug. His...

Foolishly, the British and Irish governments have chosen the tactless and impatient Baroness Troutbeck to chair a conference on Anglo-Irish cultural sensitivities. She instantly press-gangs her...

Identical twins Lily and Rose Flowers aren't from a rich family, but they lead a comfortable life in 192s Rotherhithe with their mum and dad. The twins are the apple of their parents' eye, and...

With his devoted Dr Watson, Sherlock Holmes grapples with treachery, intrigue and evil, including the diabolical Professor Moriarty...In 'Silver Blaze', the favourite for the Wessex Cup has...

Three vivid and entertaining short stories about teenagers, from Carnegie Medal-winning author Jan Mark.

In 'Frankie’s Hat', it’s Frankie’s seventeenth birthday. Finding herself...

The TARDIS materialises on board a dark and silent spaceship. As the Doctor, Susan, Ian and Barbara penetrate the craft's eerie gloom they come across what appears to be the bodies of two dead...

It is in regrettable circumstances that beautiful Judith Taverner and her brother Peregrine first encounter Julian St John Audley. The man, they both agree, is an insufferably arrogant dandy....

Panic seizes the country when three children are seized by a gang of kidnapping aunts. But far away, on a mysterious island, the children soon realize their strange captors are not like normal...

The distant world of Russalka has no land, only the raging sea. No clear skies, only storm clouds. Beneath the waves, the people live in pressurised environments and take what they need from the...

Sarah Fortune is bored to death - but few know, and less would guess, how the beautiful and successful redheaded solicitor escapes the stultifying tedium of her career. Since the death of her...

On a rain-swept night on the Sussex Downs in the uneasy peace between the wars, Peter Moran stopped his car to give a lift to a man. His unexpected passenger turned out to be an old wartime...