Sidney Day
London Born

Born and raised in 'a street where there was so much villainry Born going on . . . that at night the police would only come down in twos', Sidney Day grew up in grinding poverty. Now ninety-three, he remembers everyday life in a world of pub brawls; of horse and cart journeys; of courting couples in Parliament Hill Fields; of public baths and washpots; of bread and dripping round the range. He goes on to tell of the Second World War and his determination to survive for his family -'the only thing that ever counted'.

Arthur Conan Doyle
The Sign Of The Four

The great detective's melancholy mood is lifted by the arrival of attractive Mary Morstan at 221B, Baker Street. Mary's father vanished ten years ago. Four years later she began to receive annually a large lustrous pearl. Now she has had an intriguing invitation to meet her unknown benefactor and urges Holmes and Watson to accompany her.The duo are confronted with a case that includes a wronged woman, a wooden-legged ruffian, hidden treasure and a love affair.

When Howard and Julia Lament secretly adopt Will, a baby switched at birth in a bizarre hospital debacle, it marks the beginning of a journey that takes them from Rhodesia to the Middle East, Britain to the New Jersey suburbs-for no matter where the Laments set up home, the grass always seems greener on the other side of the ocean. As the Laments discover that living somewhere doesn't necessarily mean belonging there. Will grows up struggling with his sense of identity in the shadow of his anarchic twin brothers. Yet when disillusion and mishap threaten to tear his family apart, it is Will who fights to hold them together.