Jan Francis

When Dawn Buckle is chosen as a child spy for the British spying organization, S.H.H. (Strictly Hush Hush) she is naturally thrilled. People tend not to notice her and when they do she is easily forgotten. Dawn is chosen to go on a top secret mission when she is noticed for the first time in her life.

Someone is trying to lure the unwary onto treacherous rocks on the coast by flashing lights from the old tower on stormy nights, but why? The Famous Five investigate!

The Famous Five are on holiday in horse-drawn caravans - and they have discovered a ruined castle nearby. However, the castle isn't empty - the Famous Five have seen a desperate face at the tower window. Who is hiding in the castle?

Wrongly accused of theft and exiled from a religious community many years before, the embittered weaver Silas Marner lives alone in Raveloe, living only for work and his precious hoard of money. But when his money is stolen and an orphaned child finds her way into his house, Silas is given the chance to transform his life. His fate, and that of the little girl he adopts, is entwined with Godfrey Cass, son of the village Squire, who, like Silas, is trapped by his past. Silas Marner, George Eliot's favourite of her novels, combines humour, rich symbolism and pointed social criticism to create an unsentimental but affectionate portrait of rural life.

Two tiger cubs are captured from the jungle and are taken to Rome. One becomes Princess Aurelia's pampered pet, but the other has to perform in Caesar's bloodthirsty circus. The princess hates her father's cruel sport, but keeps quiet because no-one dares criticise the almighty Caesar!

Joe couldn't have imagined what the short holiday with his mother would turn into. He becomes involved in the world of witchcraft, where the kind, innocent witches of Britain are facing a wicked foe. Can Joe help to put an end to the plot?