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Arriving at school, she notices that something is very different as she walks into her classroom. She is standing in a Victorian schoolroom, just like the ones in her history textbook. Arabella discovers that the discipline in Victorian times is very different than it is today.

Arabella Twigg is a very ordinary girl living with her extraordinary family. She loves her Gran, whilst trying to avoid her brother, Tom, who is always trying to get her into trouble. Her life is quite boring until weird things begin to happen to her.

The Stewart family clashes with the shady Weiss family at a local rugby match. However, matters get out of hand and Jim Stewart’s police complaint is mysteriously dismissed through high level influencers. This prompts Jim to investigate the background of the Weiss family and he discovers that Johannes Weiss and his shady partner, Dr. Elise Murthen, operate a Swiss clinic where 25 rich patients died under suspicious circumstances.

Arabella Twigg is a very ordinary girl, living in an extremely peculiar family. She is the sort of girl that no-one notices but somehow strange things begin to happen to her.

Arabella Twigg is a very ordinary girl–the sort of girl no-one really notices. She lives with her peculiar family and her horrid brother, Tom. Strange things happen to her when Mrs.Osborne, her teacher, gives her homework. She has to find out all she can about the Aztecs.

Arabella Twigg is a very ordinary girl living with her extraordinary family. She loves her Gran, but tries to avoid her brother, Tom, who is always trying to get her into trouble.

Summonsed to the sleepy village of Hingemont, Imogen slowly unravels the secrets that led to the untimely death of her grandmother. Relationships are strained and mysteries abound as suspicion falls on some innocent and incredulous locals.

Arabella’s life was boring until strange things began to happen to her. One day, she is out eating pizza and then suddenly she finds herself with her brother, Tom, in the middle of the Great Siege of Malta in 1565 when the Knights of St. John showed great courage and fortitude in fighting off an invasion from the Turkish Empire. Will they join Grandmaster Valette in battle?

One minute, she is home with her family, and the next, Arabella and Tom find themselves sailing in a fleet with Christopher Columbus, exploring the Americas. When the ship they are on runs aground and begins to sink, will they be able to escape?

One day, when Arabella looks for some clothes in the cupboard under the stairs, she finds Stuart Whynniard in hiding, who tells her that his father's house is rented out to a group of Englishmen who are planning to blow up the Houses of Parliament. The lead conspirator is Guido (Guy) Fawkes, who has the dangerous job of lighting the fuses to the gunpowder.

Arabella’s life was boring until strange things began to happen to her. One day, she is caravaning with her family in Whitby, England and visits the Captain Cook Memorial Museum, when suddenly she and her brother find themselves actually on board the Endeavour with Captain Cook and his eighty seafaring crew, on the open seas sailing to Tahiti. Will they every make it back from this perilous journey, especially when the ship hits a reef and takes on water?

Arabella Twigg is studying history at school and her homework is to find out all she can about King George the Third. So she and Tom go to the local library, but as soon as they get inside, they find themselves in the King’s palace. Arabella and Tom are presented to the King and Queen and meet some of the children. However, the King is doing odd things and people are wondering if he is mad?

Life was quite boring for Arabella until odd things began to happen to her. Her mother suggested a day out to Stratford-upon-Avon to visit Shakespeare’s birthplace, because they were both studying Shakespeare plays at school. Suddenly, Arabella and Tom were transported back in time and met William Shakespeare himself when visiting the old Globe Theatre. They had no idea how that happened or how they would get back home.

The moment the SAM 7 missile left its launch tube, the political solution to end the Rhodesian bush war faltered. After thirteen long years, the brutal bush war had escalated as the protagonists crystallised their opposing beliefs drawing the country and its people towards the precipice of despair. Compassion, decency and sentimentality had no place there. The innocent civilians caught in the middle were the true victims.

What has the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and the supposed hoaxed Moon landings have in common? Is there a connection between the infamous Watergate scandal and the supposed Aurora super aircraft project? Project Ares is America's most secret project, beyond even the security of the Manhattan Project that developed the first atomic bomb.

A Season for Killing is told from the perspective of Daniel Ryan, a corporal in Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army of Virginia in 1864 during the American Civil War, as the brutal campaign in the spring and summer of that year unfolds.

A guide to the art of journaling—and a meditation on the central questions of life—by the bestselling author of Between Two Kingdoms, with contributions from Hanif Abdurraqib, Jon Batiste, Salman Rushdie, Gloria Steinem, George Saunders, and many more “The Book of Alchemy proves on every...

Victorian adventure writer Henry Rider Haggard is most famous for his novel King Solomon’s Mines, which launched the ‘Lost World’ genre of SF, featuring the discovery of long-forgotten or legendary civilizations. His follow-up, She, was also hugely successful, and has been hailed as ‘one of the great classics of fantasy fiction’. The radio dramatisations of both tales are collected here, with casts including Tim McInnerny, Adjoa Andoh, Finlay Robertson, Oliver Chris and Mia Soteriou.

In this audiobook adventure, the authors of the #1 New York Times bestseller What Is God Like? invite children to learn about the Bible—what it tells us about God and what God says about us! Children have been wondering about the Bible for centuries. What do all these long-ago stories have to...

Calisto and Fawkes are drawn to each other for the first time, again, as they travel from when to when to take on a threat to all they hold dear in this lyrical and playful fantasy from award-winning author A. R. Capetta. Anyone who has hiked through time knows the town of Pocket. It’s the...