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'Because a life lived in fear is equal to no life at all'

This is the uncompromising vision of Jehnny Beth and Johnny Hostile....

Los Angeles - a city of scheming Malibu actresses, ruthless gang members, virulent inequality and washed-out police.
Roaming the...

Cissie is a stand-up comedienne and national darling.
Helena is the toast of Broadway.
Maggie is an extremely beautiful but...

Leyli Maal is a beautiful Malian woman, mother of three, living in a tiny apartment on the outskirts of Marseille.

Her quiet...

On a hot day in late June, a young girl kneels outside a convent, then falls on her face. When the nuns take her in, they name...

When March Briscoe returns to East Texas two years after he was caught having an affair with his brother's wife, the Briscoe...

In the streets of Rome, Vicki Wilson's lovers keep turning up dead.

Vittoria, as she's known in Italy, is a small-time...

Magda is a former scientist with a bad temper and a sharp tongue, living alone in a huge house by the sea and getting through...

Naomi's job is locating missing children, but she cannot find her own sister, lost for 20 years. She has no picture, no name,...

Who is Claire's Father?

A privileged man, surrounded by devoted friends and a family he adores?

Or the deranged killer who...

When Katharine is found dead at the foot of her stairs, it is the mystery of her life that consumes her daughter, Laura. The...

When Nora takes the train from London to visit her sister in the Oxfordshire countryside, she expects to find her waiting at the...

In a sleepy English village in 1944, Annabel and her son Daniel live in the shadow of war. With her husband away, an increasingly...

One April day in Augustown, Jamaica. Ma Taffy, old and blind, sits in her usual spot on the veranda. No matter how the world...

Salma, happily married, tries every day to fit into life in Britain. When her first love contacts her, she is tempted to risk it...

If you could choose just sixteen moments to define your entire life, what would they be?
Cass Wheeler has seen it all - from the...

1812. Arriving back in England after his successes in the Adriatic, Captain Sir Thomas Kydd is bestowed with honours. In London...

Stratford, 1943.

World War Two is still raging across Europe. But for the Lavender Girls, the workers at the Yardley cosmetics...

Stratford, 1939.

Britain may be at war, but on the home front keeping up morale and keeping up appearances go hand in hand....

Childhood friends Asghar and Zahra were born into the same British Muslim community in west London. But they grow up into very...

The setting: Europe. A continent overrun by tourism, where tapas-crawlers cross paths with machine-gun-wielding cops, graffiti...

A murdered woman. A missing child. And a father intent on revenge.

On a cold day in Reykjavik, a baby goes missing from her...

It began with a comet. They called it Cain, a wandering star that passed by Earth, illuminating the night with a swampy green...

It might have been the end of days. Instead it was the beginning of something shockingly new.

They called the comet Cain,...

Not since Edgar Allan Poe and the Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita has there been such a masterly tale of feline...

A moving, funny, heartwarming tale of love and friendship, for anyone who loved The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, The Keeper...

Stupendo the dog has died. But that's just the beginning of his story.

To love and protect. The code of the good dog is clear....

A girl grows up in the north-east of England amid scarcity, precarity and a toxic culture of bodily shame,certain that she must...

You're at home with your family.
You think you're safe.
You're wrong...

Ava's life is the kind other people envy: loving...

Germany, 1907
Aristocrat Frieda von Richthofen has rashly married English professor Ernest Weekley. Visiting her sisters in...