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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...

At nine years old, Frankie Presto is sent to America in the bottom of a boat. His only possession is an old guitar and six precious strings. But Frankie's talent is unique, and his amazing journey weaves him through the musical landscape of the 20th century, from classical to jazz to rock and rol...

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...

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...

When Annette Clifford returns to her childhood home on the edge of Morecambe Bay, she despairs: the long-empty house is crumbling, undermined by two voracious sycamores. What she doesn't realise is that she's not alone: her arrival has woken the spirits of her parents, who anxiously watch over he...

Current status: Friendships - fantastic. Family - getting better. Career - promotion on the cards. Romance - seriously delayed! Sade Sadipo is ready to meet 'the one' and finally fulfil the Nigerian Dream. So far God hasn't performed that little miracle quite yet, but it'll happen this year for s...

In a small town in Sweden, it appears to be an ordinary day. But look more closely, and you'll see a mysterious masked figure approaching a bank. Two hours later, chaos has descended. A bungled attempted robbery has developed into a hostage situation - and the offender is refusing to communicate ...