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The Bobton-Trent seniors certainly know how to make the most of their extravagant wealth - socialising, doing things, buying things and generally being more than a little bit...irresponsible.... Luckily for them, their son, Hubert Horatio, is an exceptionally intelligent, talented and sensible child. Unluckily for Hubert, this tends to mean that a lot of his spare time is spent steering his rather unruly set of grown-ups out of trouble.

Hubert Horatio is quite possibly the most responsible and clever child you will ever meet. This is the very fishy tale of how an ordinary day became the death-defying rescue of Hubert Horatio. And who did the rescuing? Why, Hubert, of course.... 

John Wilson (acclaimed arts and culture reporter and journalist, and presenter of Front Row, Newsnight Review and Pick of the Week) meets up with a variety of public figures from such diverse fields as food, mathematics, politics, writing and music, and takes them back to the influential schools, teachers and early workplaces they may have forgotten, but which have not forgotten them. 

James Bond, Hercule Poirot, Sherlock Holmes - gähn! So gut wie die ist Ruby schon lange. Findet sie selbst. Ruby ist intelligent, clever, auf gar keinen Fall auf den Mund gefallen und erst dreizehn Jahre alt. Und Ruby braucht ihre messerscharfe Logik und genaue Beobachtungsgabe, denn jemand hat ihre Familie ausgeraubt und ihre Haushälterin entführt - ein Fall für Ruby Redfort!