In Washington, two Supreme Court judges are murdered and only the young and beautiful law student Darby Shaw knows why.

`When we are happy, we are always good,` says Lord Henry, `but when we are good, we are not always happy.

The President is dead! A man is running in the night. He is afraid and needs to rest.

The President is dead! A man is running in the night. He is afraid and needs to rest. But there are people behind him -

'We must leave for Zenda at once, to find the King!' cried Sapt. 'If we're caught, we'll all be killed!' So Rudolf Rassendyll and Sapt gallop through the night to find the King of Ruritania.

'High above them, Lora and Clyde heard a sound their world had not heard for centuries - the thin scream of a starship coming in from outer space, leaving a long white tail like smoke across the clear blue sky.

`I turned on the light, but there was nobody there. Then I saw something in the corner that made my blood turn cold. Scudder was lying on his back.

D'Artagnan wants to become a King's musketeer. But before he can have the job he must meet many challenges and prove that he is a strong and brave fighter.

Everybody knows about the United States of America. You can see its films, hear its music, and eat its food just about everywhere in the world.

'The people on this island don't like archaeologists,' the woman on the ferry says. You only want to study the 4,500 year-old Irish megalithic stones but ...

Dorothy lives in Kansas, USA, but one day a cyclone blows her and her house to a strange country called Oz. There, Dorothy makes friends with the Scarecrow,

`I like work. I find it interesting . . . I can sit and look at it for hours.`

With ideas like this, perhaps it is not a good idea to spend a holiday taking a boat trip up the River Thames.

On a quiet sea, the biggest ship in the world is waiting. There is no noise from the engines. Up in the night sky there are hundreds of stars.

'At home we started with an innocent life. Walking home from village dances across pale wet fields, looking at birds on the moonlit lake,

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.

'I am a vampire killer . . . and now I need help,' says Professor Fletcher to Colin. Colin needs a job and he needs money - but do vampires exist or is the professor crazy? 

Mr James Conway wants to make money. He wants to build new houses and shops - and he wants to build them on an old graveyard, on the island of Haiti.