Saira Todd

A hard man in a hard world, Michael has a secret. Haunted by a tormented past and childhood betrayal, when violence erupts in his home the whole family fights to stop their world from crumbling. Michael goes on the run with Jamie, his young son, and his wife, Stephanie, finds her own painful childhood history repeating itself.

Одна из величайших писательниц XX века, остроумный мыслитель и проницательный философ Айрис Мёрдок оставила яркий след в современной литературе и заслужила восторженные отклики маститых литераторов и рядовых читателей. Однако самую правдивую летопись творчества и бытия Айрис Мёрдок составил ее муж, профессор Джон Бэйли, описав в своих книгах более 40 лет их супружеской жизни, начиная со знакомства с юной оксфордской преподавательницей Айрис и заканчивая мучительной борьбой кавалерственной дамы Айрис с жестокой болезнью Альцгеймера, лишившей одаренную романистку возможности творить и жить.

In 2020, DCI Billy O'Connell is tasked with tackling an armed suspect who takes a group of Russian immigrants hostage in a lift after blaming the immigrant population for an outbreak of tuberculosis that killed most of his family

Life for shy, romantic civil servant Leslie Bliss would be pure bliss if only he could get together with Julia, the new love of his life. Saffron and Gee appea rto be having a few problems on that score in the flat upstairs. Should all his hopes come to nothing, there's always his beloved Mastermind to fall back on.

A surreal and nightmarish selection of short stories derived from the cult collection DIRTY FAXES, refracted through the neurosis of a middle-aged writer.

Upon her father's death, a woman comes into emotional and psychological conflict with her young lover, her overbearing sister and her alcoholic stepmother.

The McAllister family house is the setting for Gerry and Ellie's grapples with work, children and how to get the bathroom fixed. Both have reached the stage where reason cannot be heard above the ticking clock of experience and ambition. When temptation comes, how will they react?

Adaptation of the Barbara Vine (aka Ruth Rendell) novel. After Adam inherits a country house from his great uncle, he and his friend Rufus decide to spend the summer there instead of abroad. An odd assortment of 'house guests' turns up through different means and it's an uneasy mix at best. A decade afterwards, the bodies of a young woman and an infant are discovered in the woods behind the house. As the police investigate, they naturally look to Adam as former owner of the house, and what happened all those years before starts to catch up with him.