Tim Vicary

The job was too good. There had to be a problem....

When a large plane is hijacked, the Prime Minister looks at the list of passengers and suddenly becomes very, very frightened....

England and Scotland in the 1500s. Two famous queens: Mary, the Catholic Queen of Scots, and Elizabeth I, the Protestant Queen of England....

A beautiful young Indian girl, and a brave Englishman. Black eyes, and blue eyes....

Ellen Shore’s family is an ordinary American family, and Ellen is six years old when her brother Al is born....

All they could hear was the wind, and the waves crashing on to the rocks....

He is not beautiful. His mother does not want him, children run away from him. People laugh at him, and call him "The Elephant Man"....

Sarah Harland is 19, and she is in prison. At the airport, they find heroin in her bag....

"Every day someone steals money from people near the shops. We must stop this," says Dan, a police officer....

Madu, a young African, is captured by the English slave-trader Sir John Hawkins. Tom Oakley is a young sailor in charge of the slaves. At first, the two boys hate each other....

Kathryn Walters is faced with this dreadful decision when her daughter, Shelley, is found dead in her boyfriend's flat....

Sarah Newby, who left school at 15, and was living as a teenage single parent on an inner-city estate, has worked her way up to begin a career as a criminal barrister....

It is night in the South Seas near Tahiti, and the ship HMS Bounty has begun the long voyage home to England. But the sailors on the ship are angry....