Buckinghams

When Juliet Buckingham, aged 15, who dearly wants to be an actress, and her long-suffering little brother, Simon, meet Charles Renislau, who is an accomplished violinist, friendships are quickly formed. Throw in a couple of sinister villains and a cycling holiday swiftly becomes an adventure. Subsequent books feature more holidays and more adventures but the same villains keep popping up in different guises. As in the Lone Pine books, the locations are real and Malcolm Saville encourages his readers to visit them. The last two books are set abroad.