The war doesn't seem real to Rosemarie until the Germans suddenly invade her country of Holland, and she finds herself hauled off to a Nazi concentration camp.

    On a night of wild storms, two lonely creatures escape from captivity.One of the creatures is a boy, Smiler, wrongly convicted of stealing, the other a cheetah, Yarra, leaving the Longleat Wild Life Park to have her cubs in privacy.Both are in danger from the outside world and each other, but somehow their lives become inextricably bound up as they fight for survival on the edge of Salisbury Plain.The Runaways is the first book in Victor Canning's classic children's trilogy, which continues in Flight of the Grey Goose.‘Victor Canning is one of the world’s finest story-tellers’ Good Housekeeping

    'Whoever finds the gold of the Guadalupes must die.'So ran the old Indian saying, but, whatever the danger, Arizona Slim wanted to solve the mystery of his own origins, and if he found the gold too, so much the better.

    But when a net woven of love, intrigue and loyalty closes around him, neither his lineage nor his spirit can keep him from the grim fate decreed for traitors. His mind and body stretched beyond endurance, he wills himself away-and awakens to the gentle voices of another time. Its people, whom he learns to love, cannot imagine the agony of the rack, the fierce battles of man and monster, or the magic that is Stephen's daily fare. Although it is among them that he finds comfort, his own century keeps calling him back to face the increasingly terrible consequences of his noble silence-until a climactic moment of violence shatters the chains of time forever!

    Emily is torn between wanting to be a member of the elite Clique-Claque Club and wanting to be friends with a girl disapproved of by the club's members.