All over Athens the cocks were crowing, the sky was turning from dark-blue to oyster-grey, and the city was waking to one of its great events, the annual festival in the vast open-air theatre.  Meer

A story set in Ancient Greece. When news reaches Athens that Persianships are about to invade Greece, Philip knows that his uncle andgrandmother are in great danger.  Meer

'It is a strange and terrible thing to listen to one's own funeral service.  Meer

Fleeing from the evil Sir Philip Morton, Peter Brownrigg finds himself on the wrong side of the law. On the run to London he meets Kit and the two decide to stick together.  Meer

On a journey to Rome, he meets Tessa and Pietro, two young revolutionaries, and soon he sneaks away from his classics lessons to join the Student Corps, and embarks on an expedition with a hero wearing a black-plumed hat - General Garibaldi himself.  Meer

Begins with a hold-up by highwaymen of a coach that numbers among its passengers one Samuel Pepys, Secretary to the Office of Lord High Admiral of England, and accordingly a man who holds a high responsibility for the nation's naval defences.  Meer