Only Tania can help her friend Madelaine who is not able to rest despite being dead these last 300 years. But what does Madelaine mean by 'look in my cup'? When Tania glances inside the silver cup is empty. Is there more than one way to look in a cup? Ghosts, messages, revenge - there's more than one king of haunting.

Something is wrong with Cheshunt. Nathanial feels it the moment he arrives. It is not the model neighbourhood it appears to be - strange things happen, despite the curfew. And soon Nathanial learns that his presence is no accident. As the dark calls its own, so does the light draw its champions, and Nathanial finds he must confront phantoms from his own past in his battle to stop the Gathering and its creator....

Fourteen year-old Lucy lives in Glasgow with her mother, half-brother Reuben and Reuben's father, David, but she has never forgotten the memory of her poet father, her died saving her as a baby from a terrible fire. Not only does his spirit influence Lucy's literary achievements in being chosen to represent her school in a poetry competition, but history repeats itself when Lucy rescues a crotchety neighbour who has accidentally electrocuted himself.

A live animal leaping out of a video game? Unbelievable. And yet there it is in Macka's lap: soft and smelly,alert and terrified, like a real animal, glowing with strange energy, like a hologram. Uncomfortably real, uniquely challenging, the wildgame invades Macka's life in a way she never expected. Can she protect this creature from its enemies? Can she take it back into the game? Back to its natural habitat? If she enters the game can she get out alive?

Camped out in the Maine woods, the Hardy boys get a real jolt when they glimpse Joe's old girlfriend, Iola Morton. Can it really be the same girl who was killed by a terrorist bomb? Frantically searching for her, Frank and Joe are trapped in the lair of the most diabolical team of scientists ever assembled.

When Frank and Joe are invited to join their Uncle Hugh for lunch, the main course turns out to be a bizarre kidnap plot. After a violent scuffle, Uncle Hugh is whisked away, and the boys suddenly find themselves in deep trouble with a government espionage team.

Jerry Renault, freshman, honest and straightforward, is singled out as a potential non-conformist by Archie Costello, leader of the Vigils. For this high school Mafia, public victimisation is the name of the game and absolute control is gained by humiliating fellow students into conformity through initiation tests devised by corrupt Archie. When one of the masters enlists the help of the Vigils in a fund-raising event, it becomes terrifyingly clear that Jerry hasn't a chance.

The Alpha Box came to Asha when she was in despair and so too was Joss whom she met under the Dark Arches that day. Asha is beautiful, remote; living with her aunts, Asha is cut off from her parents to whom she could never be perfect enough, Whilst Joss has been forced to move homes by what he sees as his mother's selfish whim. Asha, Joss and the Alpha box become inextricably linked. Is the box malevolent? Is it haunted?

Home that year for sixteen year old Janet was a ten-by-ten shed without heat, water or electricity, to be shared with Aunt who dared to think a lone woman could farm successfully where even strong men had failed. Then there were the animals - the Afghan Rug who was a kind of cow, Bob the horse who declined to pull the plough, and Wamba the duck who was a dwarf. To say nothing of the neighbours, like the Pig Boy and Mr Deems and the alarming Fenmortons. It was a year of flood, fire, gales, loss and gain, and a great deal of growing up.....

Lucy has her life all planned out - perfect job at 21, engaged to ideal man at 26, married at 27 and a half, building ideal home at 28 (fully equipped with a stereo surround sound wide screen TV and a comfortable, yet stylish, couch), birth of perfect daughter at 30. What does not fit into her neatly organised life is a mother with a bombshell, an ex-best friend with an unfortunate liking for low-life boyfriends, a series of badly dressed, metallic eyeshadowed teachers and a (very) friendly boy next door