By day Minerva is an ordinary child but her nights are spent on adventures in the Shadow Kingdom with her friends who exist only there, the Owl, DJ

The scattered leaves of autumn covering the ground on a bright September day, one of the hottest on record so long as the sun is up, the air

No mere domestic appliance graced with mobility and a dustpan and brush or egg whisk, Charles is much more than a robot, he is the gentleman’s gentlebot, a

It’s another day of sunshine and dusty chores in the trailer park in Coombs County, California, teenager Alex Rogan living with his mother Jane and younger brother Louis

The future is always built on the uncertain ground of the present; when the Marvel Cinematic Universe was launched in 2008 with Iron Man, starring Robert Downey Jr,

She is the photographer, seeking the perfect representation of the image she has imagined and now seeks to capture in the lens of her camera, wordlessly manipulating her

Criss-crossing the continents, the railway network changed the shape of the world in the mid-nineteenth century, allowing swift, convenient and relatively inexpensive mass transit to distant locations; a

It is an annual family tradition approached with dismay and disdain, the gathering of the twisted branches of the poorly trimmed Remington family tree for the joint birthday

It was a strange invitation from a man known to be an eccentric though personally unknown to each of his guests, millionaire Frederick Loren hosting an overnight party

The house, white against the snow, the almost-birthday girl with yellow ribbons in her hair, running downstairs and outside in her red jacket to see who the stranger