This 1952 science fiction novel follows the Stone family in their voyage around the Solar System, where they encounter Martian pets, the complexities of interplanetary economics, a spreading disease and space ‘townies’ over 150 years old. This classic novel is an ode to family, as well as to Space in all her glory and peril. Suitable for all ages.
With a record five-and-a-half million listeners and thirty years as BBC Radio 2's top presenter, Sir Jimmy Young left the BBC at Christmas 2002. It was a controversial departure behind which lies a story he is only now prepared to reveal. In an extraordinary career which first brought him fame ...