Terry Deary's Victorian Tales explore the fascinating world of the Victorians, including many of the incredible achievements and breakthroughs that took place, through the eyes of children who could have lived at the time. 'The Sea Monsters' features a dangerous race between two giant steam ships, the Sirius and the Great Western. Which steam-driven sea monster will get to New York first? In 'The Twisted Tunnels', the building of the London Underground Railway comes at a terrible cost for Jenny and her grandfather. In 'Terror on the Train', Charles Dickens is involved in a train crash, and fights heroically to save lives and rescue the handwritten manuscript of Our Mutual Friend. Finally, 'The Fabulous Flyer' tells the story of Henri Giffard, who has invented an incredible new machine – a steam-driven airship. Now he's determined to make mankind's first ever powered flight.