5-10 year olds

8-15 year olds

anyone young at heart

Getta Jetta or The Girl Who Fired a Trebuchet

Rosemary Whyte, now in her late twenties, wants to go and live for a while in India. She lost her parents in a car crash. She became an alcoholic. She was raped and attempted suicide. Things have to change. Rosie's desperate to get out of England to find the only man who can help put her life back on track - an Indian guru she met shortly after leaving college.

The problem is: she has no money. Rosie has recently worked for the Special Branch - the police arm of MI5 - so when MI6 offer a free flight to India if she will carry out a mission for them, she jumps at the chance. But they lie to her. The flight isn't to India - it's to somewhere far more dangerous . . .

A trebuchet is a huge medieval catapult. Before the advent of gunpowder, these were used in sieges to throw fireballs, plague-ridden corpses or just plain boulders over high city walls.

At one point in this saga, Rosemary is told: "If that band of thieves and army deserters manage to cross the gorge, they'll slaughter us men . . . but you, Miss Whyte . . ." He shook his head

The Park Lane Bank Robbery

Underneath London the Victorians tunnelled out not only sewers and drains but also a vast network of hydraulic tunnels. The LONDON HYDRAULIC POWER COMPANY (1883-1977) built 5 pumping stations in which steam engines pressurised Thames River water to 700 pounds per square inch. This water was pumped into a network of 180 miles (290 km) of tunnels to power over 8000 machines all over London, including Tower Bridge, cranes at the docks and most of the lifts in London’s hotels. These tunnels are still there today. Banks take note . . .

Raphael Bonner Engel hate’s banks. Indirectly they killed his father. And now they’re slowly strangling him into ruin. He wants to fight back.His fiancé, a library archivist, researches the little known Victorian tunnel systems under London. She locates one which passes close to the vault of an old-established bank in Park Lane. Game on!

Hide and Drink

Rosemary's an alcoholic and as if to celebrate victory, the Devil has The IRA mortar-bomb 10, Downing Street. Fortunately no one is killed or injured but MI5, desperate to make arrests, initiates a new computer-based campaign designed to locate IRA personnel and collaborators in England. Rosemary is an alcoholic and at a rehab group therapy meeting she bumps into an old flame, Irishman Jack Malloy, just as he is targeted by the computer. When surveillance reports on Jack’s new girl friend, MI5 attempt to blackmail Rosemary into spying on him. She has to sign the Official Secret's Act and is threatened with prison if she turns traitor to her country. It's all too much. Rosie returns to her whisky and the final battle with ethanol begins

The Journey

Having lost her beloved parents in a car crash, a depressed Rosemary Whyte prays to see and speak to them again. In response, the ghost of a young Irish boy appears (in a dream?) and tells her: “To do that, ye must go on a journey.” She agrees to go.

But someone else has had an equally vivid experience. Her aunt warns: 'I tell you I saw you in my dream as clear as I see you now, slowly walking down a path lower and lower into some dark evil place shrouded in vile yellow mist with horrible devilish creatures around you. I scream and scream at you. I try to warn you, but you don’t hear or not want to hear. You go on with a silly stupid smile on your face.'

All for Anna

Rosemary Whyte, now in her twenties, loses her parents in a car crash which, after an out-of-body experience, almost kills her too. She is at a dangerously low ebb, both physically and mentally, and her family and friends persuade her to take a long holiday in Spain to convalesce.

There she gets involved with two men – an American country music singer and a Spanish artist. She also befriends the family of housemaid Maria and is bewitched by its youngest member – Anna.

But on a family picnic in the mountains, while Rosie is helping to look after the little girl, the three-year-old tumbles down a ravine and damages her spine. Little Anna is paralysed and cannot move her legs . . . the doctors say nothing can be be done . . . and it’s all Rosie’s fault.

Relax and think of Africa

Rosemary's father, who runs a charity helping African children, tells her that he is desperate for money to finish a pipeline bringing water from the mountains to a drought-stricken region of the continent. Thousands of lives will be lost if it is not completed. So Rosie enters a dance competition to win a huge cash prize. However others want that money and are prepared to cheat to get it.

Family Life

Fresh out of university and deserted by her long-term boyfriend a miserable Rosemary ponders, as many have before her, what to do with her life. She receives help from some unlikely sources: a 'mute' motorbike courier; her ex-Sunday School teacher; a moody poet; and a guru, Mr D from Delhi.

College Stars

An inside look into the dirty side of British university politics PLUS Rosie’s first term at college. Although she enjoys the discos, the dinners, the drama club and the dishy dates, unlike some of her friends she tries hard to keep up with the coursework. However, battling with her mother about moving from Hall of Residence into a flat with her friends, an amusing but insistent boyfriend and rowdy parties with the rugby crowd are distracting.

The Body in the Billiard Room

After finishing school and gaining her place at uni’, Rosie spends the summer vacation solving a murder. It’s the good old Sherlock Holmes body in a sealed room mystery all over again. The room is in a mock castle. Rosie and her family are present at a dinner party when it happens. All the guests hear the killing shot. Since the windows and fireplace are sealed and undamaged, and the key is turned in the lock of the door from the inside, the police call the death suicide. But neither Rosie nor the dead man's wife believe it . . .