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London, 1927. Frederick Rowlands, an injured war veteran, works as a switchboard operator in the city. After being blinded by shrapnel in the First World War, Fred had to adapt and quickly develop his other senses to survive in the bustling city post-war. When Fred comes into contact with elegant...

One missing girl. Five bodies. Time is running out. When nineteen-year-old university student Emma goes missing, Detective Inspector Gareth Gravel is called in. But what is a simple missing person case soon turns into something much darker as Gravel's inquiries lead him to the graves of five youn...

November 1942. Even during wartime, the glitz and glamour of the ballroom shines through at Christmas and Blackpool is determined to celebrate against all odds. After all, the show must go on. Pearl should be enjoying newlywed bliss, but her beloved Bernie has been called up for duty. Will dancin...

The Copper Plough is at the heart of village life for the residents of Heritage Cove, and never more so than at Christmas, when the tree glows in the alcove and the smell of mulled wine carries out onto the street. So when new owners for the beloved pub arrive and decide to shake things up, not e...

February 1918. Detective Inspector Harvey Marmion and Detective Sergeant Joe Keedy are pulled from their beds to attend a sinister siege involving three burglars where one policeman has already been shot dead. Attempts at talking the men in the house into surrender are met with stony silence so t...

1916. East London. When 16-year-old Clover Cooper's mother, Iris, calls her home from work one day, the last thing Clover expects is to find that her mother has given birth to another baby. After all, Clover's unpleasant father, Sidney, has been in France for longer than nine months. Banned from ...

Be careful who you trust. The Mailer family are oblivious to the terrible danger that enters their lives when seven-year-old Anthony is referred to the child guidance service by the family GP following the breakdown of his parents' marriage. Fifty-eight year old Dr David Galbraith, a sadistic, pr...

John Pearce faces a court martial, but will a cowardly chief witness stand up to questioning? With the matter unresolved, HMS Hazard is put under the command of Horatio Nelson. In London, the government denies prize money for the cargo of silver Pearce took off the Santa Leocadia, claiming it as ...

Cara and Millsy have broken up - sort of. After years of being everyone's favourite couple, always up for a party and having fun wherever they go, things have fizzled out. But when they realise they have a whole calendar of events and celebrations with friends and family coming up, Cara and Mills...

Fanny McBride was a large, cheerful, indomitable Tyneside widow with a large, cheerful family. When she reached her 50s, she began to feel, for the first time in her life, a little lonely. Being a woman of resource, Fanny took on a job at the local 'Ladies', which was to prove to be a stimulating...

Blackpool, 1922. Martha and Trisha may have escaped poverty, but their fortunes have yet to turn. Blissfully happy on her wedding day, Trisha's new fairy-tale romance soon darkens as her husband, Walter, keeps her at arms length. Between his secrecy, and her mother-in-law's coldness , Trisha feel...

When Jez Cardew's boat is found drifting empty on the Atlantic Ocean, DI Ben Kitto and his fellow lifeboat crew members immediately fear the worst. After an extensive search yields no results, the team are forced to retreat to dry land as darkness sets in. But Kitto can't let it go. Why would Jez...

Dr Gideon Fell investigates the murder of Howard Brooke, who was killed at a time when no one could have approached him unobserved.

With his landmark series 'In Our Time', Melvyn Bragg introduced an audience of over 2 million to big ideas across the realms of science, religion, culture, history and philosophy. Now, in 'A History of Ideas', he looks at the fundamental concepts that underpin our world, and the great thinkers wh...

Imagine for a moment, your husband leaves you. Then through a bizarre twist of events, you find yourself working with the girl he's left you for - and even worse, she's pregnant. Louisa's not really up to any more complicated relationships. Right now, she doesn't need them. She has good friends. ...

Wanted: experienced writer to record the history of one house and its family. Bed and board provided, the successful applicant must love Christmas. Elle is rudderless, jobless and she's soon to be homeless. When she spies an advert that looks like it could answer all her problems she's devastated...

'Kemp' brings the medieval world vividly to life, and introduces the reader to a new hero. Martin Kemp is fighting for survival, for his friends, for the love of a woman and for the right to be recognised as any man's equal.

Spring, AD 777. Sigurd Hring, new King of the Svear, is summoning all the greatest warriors of the North to his banner, promising them riches and glory. He invites Bjarki Bloodhand, the famous berserkr who can summon the fury of a wild bear in battle, to swear an oath of fealty to him. But Bjarki...

Q wants a simpler and safer life. His work as a quantum cryptographer for the government has led him to believe a crisis is imminent for civilisation, and he's looking for somewhere to ride out what's ahead. He buys a ruined farmhouse in Cornwall and begins to build his own self-sufficient haven....

As the men fight and the war rages, there are some new arrivals on the farm. Cambridgeshire - 1942. As a new year begins and the war continues, young Artie Talbot feels trapped. In his heart he longs to fight, like his two brothers, for his king and country but is duty tied to Blackberry Farm. As...