Tony Kytes is a favourite with the girls but he’s not terribly clever. If you meet an old girlfriend and she asks for a ride home in your wagon, do you say yes? And then if you meet the girl you …
Hank Morgan is a happy young man in Connecticut, USA in 1879 until one day someone runs into his office and shouts, 'Come quickly, Boss! Two men are fighting!' After this, something very strange ha…
'I can drive a truck,' says Kim on her first day at work in the office. When Kim's passenger Andy finds something strange under the truck things get dangerous very dangerous.
The empty centre of Australia. The sun is hot and there are not many people. And when Bill meets a man, alone, standing on an empty road a long way from anywhere, he is surprised and worried. And …
The Cat steals things from houses in Hollywood. He steals from movie stars and nobody can stop him. Or can they? Natalie is a movie star. Nathan is her stand-in. Nathan does all Natalie's stunts i…
Every day people come to Mason's store - old people, young people, men and women. From his office, and in the store, Mark watches them. And when they leave the store, he forgets them. Then one d…
Cedric Errol is seven years old. He lives with his mother in a little house in New York. They don't have much money, but mother and son are very good friends. Cedric is a kind, friendly little boy,…
Come with us to London - a city as old as the Romans, and as new as the twenty-first century. There are places to go - from Oxford Street to Westminster Abbey, from Shakespeare's Globe Theatre to W…
'How can Mr Frank be angry nor?' thinks Mike happily. His film is good and he is the only cameramen on the volcano. Now he can go home. But then he finds Jenny and she is dying. Rocks start to move…
Sherlock Holmes is the greatest detective of them all. He sits in his room, and smokes his pipe. He listens, and watches, and thinks. He listens to the steps coming up the stairs; he watches the do…
Everyone knows Shakespeare's famous love story - Romeo and Juliet are in love, but their families are enemies so their love cannot be. But this exciting retelling puts Romeo and Juliet in a dark a…
'He's great, Vera,' said Angie. When Viktor Sarav takes a job at Ballantine's, Angie and her brother Don - the young owners of the New York fashion company - are pleased. But Angie and Don's parent…
Sara has exams to study for, but too much is going on! A girl from her school is dead, her boyfriend Luke is being strange and her friend Carlie is keeping secrets. Is it all connected? Sara Tries…
Conan goes to the great, empty city of Alkmeenon. He wants to steal the Jewels of Gwahlur - but so does his enemy, Zargeba. In the city, Conan meets Muriela, who is clever and good at acting. With …
Jemma is very excited when she joins an expedition to the island of Kamora. She hopes to learn about doing scientific research, and to find a very rare bird of paradise. She is happy to meet the fa…
'You said that you wanted danger, didn't you?' says McArdle, the editor of the Daily Gazette. And he sends his young reporter, Malone, on a strange journey into South America with the famous Profes…
The woman in white first appears at night on a lonely heath near London and is next seen at a grave-side in Cumberland. Who is she? Where has she come from, and what is her history? She seems alone…
'Curtis Colt didn't kill that liquor store woman, and that's a fact. It's not right that he should have to ride the lightning - that's what prisoners call dying in the electric chair. Curtis doesn…
When Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley leave school, their feet are set on very different paths. Kind, foolish Amelia returns to her comfortable home and wealthy family, to await a suitable marriage, w…
A mysterious incident at the Marabar Caves, involving Adela Quested, newly arrived from England, and the charming Dr Aziz, an Indian doctor, leads to a drama that divides the British and Indian com…