Wally and Noodles are back to the business of scientific innovation--and fun. In London, they meet a young pickpocket named Dobbin who works for a mysterious criminal called the Tick-Tock Man. Soon they are racing through secret tunnels in a bid to help Dobbin's little sister. Can the brave boy-scientist and his loyal sidekick find the one person who can save her before it's too late? History and technology collide in this humorous series brimming with mad science.

James Stark is an unconventional private banker in Switzerland, looking for and getting some financial and sexual satisfaction, hopping from one hotspot and one bed to another. Philosophical satisfaction looks as far off as ever though. Until, on a timeout in South East Asia, he gets hit with a shot of salvation. He meets Lisa Meier, a lawyer from New York. Freewheeling, egotistical, self-obsessed private banker meets self-obsessed career girl with attitude. Holiday love affairs though, as we know, mostly melt on first contact with reality.

A few months later, fate intervenes when...

Frank, lucid and modern, this is a fresh portrait of Thomas Gainsborough, the most sensuous artist of the eighteenth century.