Ezekiel "Easy" Porterhouse Rawlins is an unlicensed private investigator turned hard-boiled detective always willing to do what...

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

Julian Fellowes' Belgravia is the story of a secret. A secret that unravels behind the porticoed doors of London's grandest...

'For a while he watched the butterflies which still swooped and fluttered in this little glade, impervious to the bombs that had...

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...

Two Friends
Wynn and Jack have been best friends since their first day of college, brought together by their shared love of the...

Within the Tokyo underworld there is an industry which exists to break up marriages. It is known today as wakaresaseya - agents...

'For a while he watched the butterflies which still swooped and fluttered in this little glade, impervious to the bombs that had...

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

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

A portrait painted in blood. A valley shrouded in secrecy. A woman fighting for her life.
'The Sleeping Nymph': a work of art of...

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...

In 2011, the peace of the Syrian city of Homs is disturbed by protests and shelling. A young girl, Nour, is forced to flee across...

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

Jakop is a lonely man.

Divorced from his wife, with no friends apart from his constant companion Pelle, he spends his life...

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...

How far would you go to belong?

Fourteen-year-old Linda lives with her parents in an ex-commune beside a lake in the...

The classic novel of the London Blitz, Darkness Falls from the Air captures the chaos, absurdity and ultimately the tragedy of...

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...

A New York summer so hot the air is turning yellow.

Kate, a young woman newly arrived from London, is determined to become the...

A man revisits the university campus where he lost his first love, aware now of what he couldn't understand then. A daughter...

Cadiz, 1811. While the city is under from the marauding French army, an even greater menace is lurking within the city walls: a...

Abandoned by the retreating Spanish army during the Peninsular War, the gun is an eighteen pounder bronze cannon, thirteen feet...

Ed Hartlepool has been living in self-imposed exile for five years, but with a settlement regarding his inheritance looming, he...