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Zoom back to 1778 where Matt and Emily encounter giant whales, a potlatch celebration, and the explorer Captain James Cook.

Jack and his sisters go to the beach with the Ferguson family.

Marion is determinedly ordinary. She likes her work, her broody flat-mate and sober fiance Peter. But she reckons without an inner self that wants something more.

In the cold white land at the top of the world there lived an enchanter and his daughter.

An orphan who is left on the sea ice by a group of cruel hunters is adopted by a polar bear elder.

In the time before animals were as they are today, Wolf spent his days admiring all the other animals.

Mary-Anna Clutterworth and Sandra Sutton are bitter enemies, until they have to spend an afternoon in town together and get lost.

In the terrible days that follow the Assyrian attack on the Jewish people, Benjamin, grandson of the prophet Isaiah, sets off with other refugees including Adad, a young blind soldier.

An innocent girl comes to stay at Jamaica Inn and is caught up in the nightmare world of cutthroats, smugglers and the misty moors at night.

A magical train ride on Christmas Eve takes a boy to the North Pole to receive a special gift from Santa Claus.

Something terrible has happened at the Soviet nuclear plant at Sokolskoye. To avoid absolute catastrophe, Western technology is needed, but not sanctioned.

Kieran borrows his Gran's anti-boredom machine. All of a sudden he can "fast forward" his own life when he gets impatient.

Life in the fifteen streets was tough, a struggle for survival, but John fought grimly for the world they were rarely allowed to glimpse.

From separate catastrophes two rural families flee to the city and find themselves sharing a house where they begin their lives again from scratch.

One Thursday, just before lunchtime, Annet Beck goes out to mail a letter and doesn't return. After five days she returns insisting she has been gone for only two hours.