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Four strangers on a train. An unlikely introduction 'Actually, I'm a murderer.' Set in the north-east of England in the seventies, the lives of four people are thrown into turmoil when sharing a carriage with an unremarkable little man with round glasses, on the night train back to Newcastle. By ...

Queenscliff, Victoria, 1951. It's a cold Monday morning. Midwinter. A deserted beach. No swimmers in sight. And there on the sand, a neat pile of clothes. Almost like a coded message waiting to be deciphered. Detective Sergeant Stephen Minter, an Austrian-born Cockney Jew, always destined to be a...

One chance encounter can define a lifetime. Erica and Laure meet on the steps of the Sacré-Cœur in Paris, 1978. Erica is a student, relishing her first summer abroad before beginning university at home in England. Laure is studying for her PhD at the Sorbonne, drinking and smoking far too much, a...

Few cricketers understand the rollercoaster of emotions that come with being part of an Ashes series quite like Steven Finn. Whilst he made over 120 appearances for his country, taking over 250 wickets, it was his battles with Australia that defined his career. Aged just 21, he played a key role ...

It's the summer of 1985 and the residents of Delmont Close are preparing a neighbourhood barbecue to watch the biggest music event in history: Live Aid. A day like no other that will end having reached millions and changed the lives of all who attend. House-proud Lydia Gordon, whose idols are Pri...

Blood never lies ... Detective Chief Inspector Ryan is living a nightmare. As one of the country's foremost murder detectives, Ryan is only able to face the worst of humanity and step into the darkest minds because, every night, he returns home to the loving arms of his wife, Anna. When he receiv...

From the jungles of the trading floor to the casinos of Las Vegas, 'The Big Short', Michael Lewis's bestseller, tells the story of the misfits, renegades and visionaries who saw that the biggest credit bubble of all time was about to burst, bet against the banking system - and made a killing.

A brilliantly realised evocation of the thoughts and voices of Captain Scott and the four men with him, who suffered extraordinary hardships before finally dying during their 1912 attempt to be the first to reach the South Pole.

Sydney, 1871. Twenty-five-year-old widow Tatty Crowe is the owner of busy undertaking firm Crowe Funerals. Life and business are good - until Tatty notices how many women are dying after illicit abortions. After a terrible tragedy close to home, she vows to expose the culprit. And then there are ...

London, Christmas 1999. The world is on edge. With the new millennium just days away, fears of the Millennium Bug are spiralling - warnings of computer failures, market crashes, even global catastrophe. But fifty miles east, on the frozen Blackwater Island, a different kind of mystery unfolds. A ...

DSI William Lorimer never expected that the next time he'd visit the Isle of Mull - where he and his wife, Maggie, have often wandered its windswept coasts and picturesque lochs - it would be for the funeral of an old friend. Mary Grant's sudden heart attack was a shock to the small community on ...

Did Henry VIII really plan to have Anne Boleyn's beloved dog thrown out the window? Was Elizabeth I secretly a man? Who were the Grey sisters, and why is theirs one of the saddest Tudor stories of all? From Henry VII to Elizabeth I, Bloody, Brilliant Tudors answers all these questions and more. C...

After a class of children falls mysteriously ill and their teacher dies from eating poisoned sausage rolls, suspicion falls on mill owner Louise Wilkins. And when Georgina's beloved spaniel Bert eats the same contaminated food, the case becomes deeply personal. Working with her aristocratic frien...

Driving through the Lake District in a fierce winter storm, forensic anthropologist David Hunter is forced to seek shelter at a remote village in the Cumbrian Mountains. But a one-night stopover becomes something very different after a gruesome discovery in the depths of the local forest. With co...

Freda and Brenda spend their days working in an Italian-run wine bottling factory and their nights in a dismal bedsit. Little wonder, then, that the works outing offers such promise to Freda, and such terror for Brenda.

It is 1964 and fun-loving Rita has her dream job, working as a nanny for a huge popstar and his family. At first it seems great fun. The house is always full of glamorous people and parties, but soon she begins to worry for the children, who are neglected and crave stability. As if this wasn't en...

May 1943. The tide of war has turned at last, with an Allied victory looking increasingly certain, but all is not well for the residents of Silverdale. Newlyweds Bobby and Charlie find themselves back in civilian life after Charlie is given a medical discharge from the RAF. But the village of Sil...

216 BC. As Hannibal continues his quest to defeat the Romans, he gathers an army of followers. Hungry for vengeance, hungry for blood, the Carthaginians cross the Alps, gearing to face their enemy - and their fate. But when the Romans begin a coy game of hide-and-seek, the only place for the two ...

Girls Together magazine agony-aunt 'Mrs Friendly-wise', aka Katinka Jones, finds herself at a loose end in Swansea, and decides to pay a surprise visit to one of the magazine's regular correspondents, 'Amista'. But reaching the address - a strange house perched atop a mountain which matches all o...

Annie and Alice love their life working at the Beach Hotel together and each is thrilled to have finally found a sweetheart. Yet the path of true love never did run smooth and they soon find themselves facing conflict and strife. Could love come between them and the bond they share? Meanwhile, as...