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In a cave on the wild side of St James's Park live two ragged children; young Nick and his nine-year-old sister Jubilee. Once they had a father, but now they are alone - and Nick knows it is his responsibility to find Jubilee a husband. But who would want to marry a girl who can neither cook nor sew, read nor write

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On the night that Piggots Comet will appear over Brighton, the town plan to honour it with music and dancing. Unfortunately, as Mary does not care for Bostock, Harris is forced to apply his powerful mind to the problems of courtship and love.

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'When you take out the heart of gold, you must put something back in its place. Otherwise our princess would die.'

Giorgio, a poor student, sets out on a journey to win the heart of Princess Charlotte of Oberweselberg. Giorgio must bring her the princess's golden heart.

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Mr Corbett is a cruel employer and his young apprentice Benjamin can't help but wish he were dead. Sure enough, Mr Corbett meets an untimely death, but the tables turn on the terrified apprentice who finds himself cursed with the ghost of the man he hated most in the world .

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Life in eighteenth-century London was hard and especially so for the city's apprentices. For seven long years they struggled for their livelihoods among the fetid houses and sinister quays of old London. This title follows them round the year, through the dark, cold winter nights to midsummer in the city, The lamplighter, and the pawnbroker.

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Set in the streets of London, the story follows the hopes and aspirations of young Tim and his pet monkey, Pistol, as they use their wits to get money out of rich folk. Their apparent success is brought to a halt one disasterous foggy evening , and Tim and Pistol are led off to Newgate Gaol . . .

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The Confidence Man follows 14-year-old Hans Ruppert and a band of Protestants as they leave their home town and seek peace and freedom from Persecution in the New World. To Hans he is a fascinating figure, but to the others he is a swindler, likely to abandon them at any moment.

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Secrets whispered up a chimney, a golden locket with a broken chain, murder in the streets of London and suddenly young Barnacle is plunged into a terrifying mystery. The December Rose is a thrilling tale of deceit, espionage and murder set in the teeming, colourful Victorian London.

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'Him what's born on the chime . Before long, the old ship's carpenter's dire prophecy comes true, for in the locksmith's workroom he meets a phantom with an empty sleeve.

Tense and atmospheric, this is a gripping thriller about ghosts, a wall of hands, envy, dishonesty and finally murder!

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A bargain of a lifetime - seven years off the end of his life in exchange for a fortune now!

By day, Mr Fast was a solicitors clerk, drawing up strangle-tight agreements and contracts.

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Across the continents of the ancient world wandered the Storyteller, enchanting all who heard him with his wondrous tales of the gods. And interwoven with his journey is the story of Heracles a magnificent story with all the intense drama and high tragedy of the Greek Myths.

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Eastward in Clerkenwell lies the Mulberry Pleasure Garden: six acres of leafy walks, colonnades and pavillions. In this bosky setting parade a variety of characters of awesome granduer, innocence and evil - and all are subject to a ring of blackmail terror.

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Two boys, Lewis and Richard, travel to paris in 1789 for very different reasons, and find their ideals challenged in the events of the French Revolution and the September massacre.

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One stormy December night some time in the eighteenth century, a coach came thundering down the long hill outside of Dorking on its usual journey into London.

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Harris thinks up harebrained schemes and Bostock gets in trouble for them.

When Harris puts his baby sister Adelaide in the words to see if she will be adopted by a fox, little do they realize that they are starting a chain of events that will be remembered in their little seaside town as the Strange Affair of Adelaide Harris.

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Leon Garfield and Edward Blishen retells some of the most famous Greek myths in this classic of children's literature. This is the epic history of the Greek Gods told from their violent beginnings to the creation of man.

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Discover timeless favourites from The Jungle Book and Alices Adventures in Wonderland to modern classics such as The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.

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Contains twelve Shakespeare plays in narrative form. This book presents an introduction to Shakespeare for the young.

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London street urchin Smith is 12 years old, and an experienced pick-pocket. One day on Ludgate Hill, he robbed an old gentleman, and one minute later watched him silently murdered by two men, who chased him for the document he had stolen but could not understand.

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'As far as the eye can see, scarlet men are marching . . . All that was left was himself and his drum, and a few shady nightwalkers - cowards who came crawling from the ditches and knaves who scoured the dead for wealth .