In Edinburgh a detective listens to a confession; in Orkney an old man lives with the ghosts of his past. In the Outer Hebrides some travellers learn a lesson; in Glasglow a young woman steals a me…
It is the year 2522, and the planet Earth is dying. The artificial Ozone Layer is only 300 years old., but it is breaking up fast. Now the sun is burning down on Earth with a white fire. There is …
On a beautiful summer evening in the quiet town of Marlow, a young woman is walking home from church. She passes a man who is looking at the engine of his car. He turns round, smiles at her ... and…
Sara Crewe is a very rich little girl. She first comes to England when she is seven, and her father takes her to Miss Minchin's school in London. Then he goes back to his work in India. Sara is ver…
Little Mary Lennox is a bad-tempered, disagreeable child. When her parents die in India, she is sent back to England to live with her uncle in a big, lonely, old house. There is nothing to do all d…
Horse racing is the sport of kings, perhaps because racehorses are very expensive animals. But when they win races, they can make a lot of money too - money for the owners, for the trainers, and fo…
In the jungle of Southern India the Seeonee Wolf-pack has a new cub. He is not a wolf - he is Mowgli, a human child, but he knows nothing of the world of men. He lives and hunts with his brothers t…
Oh, how delightful it is to fall in love for the first time! How exciting to go to your first dance when you are a girl of eighteen! But, life can also be hard and cruel, if you are young and inexp…
Marilla Cuthbert and her brother Matthew want to adopt an orphan , to help farm at Green Gables. They ask for a boy but they get Anne, who has red hair and freckles, and who talks and talks and tal…
'I often walked along the shore, and one day I saw something in the sand. I went over to look at it more carefully ... It was a footprint - the footprint of a man.' In 1659 Robinson Crusoe was shi…