Stephen Bone

The reputation of the Academy for the Daughters of Respectable Monarchs has, of course, always been of the highest order... then suddenly Signor Doloro de Lara— a Professor of Magic—puts in an unwelcome appearance, and the enchanting little world is turned upside down.

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In Victorian London, Louisa Leyton works her way up from servant to renowned cook to proprietress of the upper-class Bentinck Hotel in Duke Street, St James's.

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At an end-of-term school play, Ozzie and his band join in with a hard rock contribution. However, this leads to the unexpected fame of the schoolboy rock group, and they find that there is a darker down-side to fame and being successful music stars.

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An alien spaceship lands on earth, and its inhabitant decides to help a trio of children prevent their village being destroyed to make way for a new motorway.

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The plot revolves around Mary, a girl sent to spend the summer with her aunt and uncle in a coastal English town while her mother is away in Africa. Feeling alienated, she befriends a young boy who turns out to be the son of an African diplomat who has been kidnapped. The children work together to keep him hidden and safe.

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An anthology of short plays shown on BBC Television between 1965 and 1973, used in part at least as a training ground for new writers, on account of its short length, and which therefore attracted many writers who later became well known.

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