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Boxing Day. A dead body has been found in the chemistry department of Queen's University in West Lon..

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It is winter in London in the early 1950s: John Davies confesses to strangling his wife and baby dau..

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After a bike crash in a foggy Edinburgh, troubled young actor Robert Lewis wakes to find that life h..

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Mr Darcy and Elizabeth now have two children Miranda and Edward. Miranda is a model daughter well at..

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1939. Warsaw Poland. Pilot Jan Grabowski receives orders that take him to the heart of the escalatin..

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An exciting new collection of responses to the Revolution, by some of Russia's greatest writers of t..

Along a blacked-out wartime street a girl is scurrying a basket on one arm. As sirens begin and bomb..

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Iceland 1934: Two boys playing see something they shouldn't have. The consequences will haunt them a..

Kate Shugak is determined to convict the odious Louis Deem who has been arrested and tried for sever..

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