Tells the amazing story of how George & Ingeborg Woodcock, while travelling in northern India in 1961, encountered many of the Tibetan refugees who had recently fled over the mountain passes. Appalled by the condition of the children, the Woodcocks vowed to help. This was the genesis for the Tibetan Refugee Aid Society (TRAS). ...

In 1976 the missing heir to the enormous Tichbourne fortune, Sir Roger, is reported as being in Australia, & his brother Alfred sets out to investigate, accompanied by black manservant Andrew Bogle (John Kani). When Alfred dies of drink on arrival, the family deny Andrew the funds necessary to return, & so he advertizes for the missing heir. Butcher Thomas Castro (Robert Pugh), responds, & on the way back to England Andrew instructs him on the etiquette & deportment skills he will require in order to convince. However, although Lady Tichbourne accepts the claimant as her own, influential lords Arundell (Charles Gray) & Seymour (James Villiers) see that he is an imposter, & embark on a lengthy campaign to have him stripped of his new-found wealth & status & imprisoned for fraud. ...

A memoir of a very unconventional childhood, this work tells a tale of the fading innocence of childhood that is miles ahead of the competition. In the early Seventies, Dave Bennun's family transplanted themselves from Swindon to the wilds of Kenya. For Dave, Kenya was bemusingly new. In Kenya, the childhood memoir takes on a surreal tone. ...

A bomb set in one of New York's busiest places is discovered before it explodes. But relief turns to terror when the police realise it is just a warning of greater devastation to come. The city calls on Detective Michael Bennett, pulling him away from a seaside vacation with his ten adopted children & their beloved nanny, Mary Catherine. ...