Faith, an avid traveller all around the world, finds her dreams come true when she is presented with a new magical suitcase that is bigger inside than out and can hold all her possessions while never getting any heavier to carry.

A Traveller in Time

Hermione comes across H.G.Well's time machine and uses it to find out what it was like at Henry VIII's Tudor Court at Hampton Palace, where she was paying a visit. However, there is one rule that all time travellers must obey, whether HG Wells, Hermione or Mark Twain. Time travellers aren't supposed to meddle with known historical facts, so her efforts to stop him executing Anne Boleyn were bound to fail. 

The Magic Pudding

A would-be young wizard follows his grandmother's 'magic' recipe, only to find the result is his favourite pudding.  He decides to become a  food scientist to learn about the way ingredients interact. 

Peter's Room

Mum had been in hospital, & now she tried to get back to normal. Peter was the youngest of her adult children, & now he had a whole room to himself for a while, apart from a roll-top desk Mum had originally left there, to store old records that she now needed. But to reach this desk was quite the archaeological expedition, and the reason for this handy hints book about the best way to declutter a particularly messy room.

Mist over Athelney

An unexplained weather phenomenon causes a seemingly unending fog over the small town of Athelney without affecting the surrounding area, leading dozens of meteorologists to arrive in the usually-quiet town to try to determine the cause.

_The Lord of the Rings_

The updated but ongoing case compiled against some thieves who stole jewellery from the Paris Louvre. These items which had belonged to the Empress Eugenie, consisted of tiaras, necklaces, earrings and yes, rings. The suspected dastardly "ringleader" of the gang was therefore dubbed "The Lord of the Rings". Suspects have been arrested already, but the reporter in charge of the case is an expert in writing up many highly similar cases of missing jewellery in the past. For copies of his previous works, do "ring" the listed numbers of booksellers like Dymocks, Booktopia, Amazon, or Barnes & Noble amongst others.  

The Lord of the Flies

The infamous leader of the theft "ring" that stole the jewels has been arrested, and has revealed his motive in exchange for a lesser sentence. It quickly becomes apparent that his goals were much more sinister than simply making a profit from selling the jewels. Rather, he sought world domination through a swarm of flies which he intended to genetically modify to be irresistibly drawn to one particular Ring from the collection. By moving this one ring, he could rule over his swarm, finding them wherever they were, bringing them wherever he put the ring, and binding them to do his bidding (although only in near darkness, as they could not see the ring well when there was too much ambient light).

The Silmarillion

The saga of a fabulous gemstone with legendary & even celestial origins & fought over by at least four empires along the famed Silk Road connecting India & China with far-off kingdoms in the West. Like the famed Koh-i-Noor diamond, which once belonged to Babur, the founder of the Turco-Mongol Mughal Empire, before the Sultan of Delhi was robbed of it to be set into Iran's Peacock throne, it was said to bring a violent death to any man who wore it in his turban, crown or helmet. Unlike the Koh-i-Noor diamond, set into the Queen Mother's crown & on show at the Tower of London, the Silmarillion has long since vanished. 

Baghdad burns: Fall of the Abbasids