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It is a wild night in the middle of December, and GP Enya is crouched over a teenage boy, performing CPR in the rain. She found him on a mountain road near Dublin, the victim of a hit-and-run. The boy survives, but Enya's life splinters in two. Trapped in an ill-fated marriage, the night of the s...

From the tingling excitement of a new relationship to the challenges - and humour - of online dating, from workplace racism to isolation and loneliness, Niah and her friends are there for each other. They're young, they're smart, and they're part of a tight friendship group determined to make the...

Growing up in deeply conservative Saudi Arabia, Suad Aldarra felt stifled. The daughter of Syrian parents, she railed against the extreme strictures placed on women in Saudi society at the time and the rising prejudice her family faced as migrants. When the opportunity arose to study software eng...

Annabel loves her sisters. But when their mother decides to sell her leafy London home and divide her time - and the money - between her three daughters, their bond is tested. Strident Clarissa wants to restore her ramshackle farm. Glamorous Ginnie, her stately country pile. Only Annabel is quest...

It is 1939 and thw war in Europe has begun. On a freighter, somewhere in the Mediterranean, a man returning to England is being followed by German agents intent upon his death.

A car hurtles down the driveway of a luxury villa in Switzerland. The driver is a young woman, Lucia Bernardi. Inside the house, police find the body of her lover on the bedroom floor. The dead man - Ahmed Fathir Arbil - was an Iraqi refugee, who has been tortured and killed. Lucia vanishes into ...

The Tan brothers need to dispose profitably of an abandoned terrorist arms cache, but they need an accomplice, an ignorant frontman. American tourist Greg Nilson is about to receive a one-way ticket to the dangerous world of gun-running.

When Kenton travels to Nuremberg to investigate a story about Nazi officials, he inadvertently finds himself on a train bound for Austria. Stranded with no money, Kenton jumps at the chance to earn a fee helping a refugee smuggle securities across the border. Yet he soon discovers that the docume...

The peaceful village of Willowbrook seems to be the ideal place for a new lease of life - at least according to Nell's husband, Barney. With an empty nest and coming towards retirement, he's persuaded her to try country living. Their cottage even has an annexe that's perfect for Barney's widowed ...

Genevieve has secrets that no one knows. In Rome she can be whoever she wants to be. Her neighbours aren't nosy; her Italian is passable; the shopkeepers and restaurant owners now see her as a local, and they let her be. It's exactly what she wants. However, one morning she returns to her apartme...