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When Ann Waite discovers a shipwreck in Algoa Bay she is stunned to find survivors: a scarred sailor and a little boy. As the man walks away into the distance alone, Ann is left to raise the young child, Harry, in place of the baby she tragically lost at sea. Disaster and hardship befall Ann and Harry, and desperation drives them into the path of the mysterious shipwrecked man once more. Ralph Courtney has recently escaped Robben Island with two fellow prisoners and is destined to seek his fortune at Nativity Bay, the fabled place about which his father told him stories.

Washington, DC, 1950. Everyone keeps to themselves at Briarwood House, a down-at-the-heels all-female boardinghouse in the heart of the nation’s capital where secrets hide behind white picket fences. But when the lovely, mysterious widow Grace March moves into the attic room, she draws her oddball collection of neighbors into unlikely friendship.

London, 1945: Four adolescent orphans with a dark wartime history are squatting in a vacant Belgravia mansion—the owners having fled London under heavy Luftwaffe bombing. Soon after a demobilized British soldier, ill and reeling from his experiences overseas, takes shelter with the group, Maisie Dobbs visits the mansion on behalf of the owners. Maisie is deeply puzzled by the children's reticence. Their stories are evasive and, more mysteriously, they appear to possess self-defense skills one might expect of trained adults in wartime.

Young playwright Melina Green has just written a new work inspired by the life of her Elizabethan ancestor Emilia Bassano. But seeing it performed is unlikely, in a theater world where the playing field isn’t level for women. As Melina wonders if she dares risk failure again, her best friend takes the decision out of her hands and submits the play to a festival under a male pseudonym.

Celebration is in the air at Wrexford and Charlotte's country estate as they host the nuptials of their friends, Christopher Sheffield and Lady Cordelia Mansfield. The festivities are interrupted when the local authorities arrive with news that a murdered man has been discovered at the bridge over King's Crossing. Lady Cordelia is horrified when the victim is identified as Jasper Milton, her childhood friend and a brilliant engineer who is rumored to have discovered a revolutionary technological innovation in bridge design.

Late spring, 1936. As Kitty Underhay steps onto the sun-drenched station platform in Nice, on orders from Whitehall to track down a missing man, she hopes there will still be time to lie by the pool, preferably with a cocktail in hand. But when she and her husband Matt take a brief evening stroll, instead of finding a perfect croissant, they stumble across a body. Kitty and Matt quickly realise it is Fred Bennett, the man from Whitehall they were hoping to find. Had he simply drunk too much fabulous French wine, or is something fishy going on in this seaside city?

Charlotte’s success on the RMS Provence has afforded her a certain measure of time and assurance. Taking advantage of that, she has been busy, plotting to prise the man her sister loves from Moriarty’s iron grip. Disruption, however, comes from an unexpected quarter. Lord Bancroft Ashburton, disgraced and imprisoned as a result of Charlotte’s prior investigations, nevertheless manages to press Charlotte into service: Underwood, his most loyal henchman, is missing and Lord Bancroft wants Charlotte to find Underwood, dead or alive.

Tuyen is an aspiring artist and the daughter of Vietnamese parents who've never recovered from losing one of their children while in the rush to flee Vietnam in the 1970s. She rejects her immigrant family's hard-won lifestyle, and instead lives in a rundown apartment with friends—each of whom is grappling with their own familial complexities and heartache. By turns thrilling and heartbreaking, Tuyen's lost brother—who has since become a criminal in the Thai underworld—journeys to Toronto to find his long-lost family.

With the announcement of World War Two and a change that sends shockwaves through her family, Kehinde is forced to put aside her dreams of writing and become the third wife of Mr Ogunjobi. Kehinde makes her peace by selling snacks at a small market. When she gets the chance to assist the leader of the Lagos Women’s Market Association, fighting for the rights the British are trying to take away, Kehinde finally feels useful again. But if her husband finds out he’ll abandon her.

Kansas, 1896. After a tornado destroys the Gale family farm, eleven-year-old Dorothy goes missing. As the days pass, the Gales are increasingly terrified the worst has happened. But when the girl turns up unharmed four days later, the townsfolk breathe a sigh of relief. That is, until Dorothy herself relates her account of the events that took place during her disappearance. In vivid detail, Dorothy describes a fantastical land and its magical inhabitants: a scarecrow, a tin man, a cowardly lion, a wizard, a witch.

Across the lives of three generations of women, London can be a harsh and beautiful place. Yet, chance friendships hold people together, when the world feels like it is falling apart.

Captured by pirates and brought to the west coast of Africa, young British seaman Andrew Battell longs for his home in 17th Century England. His only hope of returning is to work hard and be awarded freedom by his Portuguese captors—a freedom he is consistently denied. As he is moved further and further inland, away from the coast and any hope of a boat back to England, Battell’s dreams of freedom begin to dwindle. Finally, taking matters into his own hands, he escapes and takes sanctuary among the Jaqqas, a tribe of cannibalistic warriors lead by the sinister Lord of Darkness.

Across the sea in England, Thomas Peach lives in quiet retirement. Some call him a magician, others a madman. But when his friend the poetess Arabella Farthingay falls prey to a sinister seducer, Mr Peach's fading powers are called on once more. He follows her to France - and into a world where reason contends with terror, brotherhood with bloodshed, and the last remnants of faith with the oldest enemy of them all...

London 1940: Um ihre elfjährige Tochter vor Luftangriffen zu schützen, beschließen die Thompsons schweren Herzens, Beatrix für ungewisse Zeit zu einer Gastfamilie in die USA zu schicken. Nach der langen Schiffspassage trifft Bea wütend und verängstigt in Boston ein, aber schon bald fühlt sie sich bei den Gregorys zu Hause, während ihre Erinnerungen an das Leben in England langsam verblassen. Mit ihren Gasteltern und deren Söhnen William und Gerald teilt Bea nicht nur ihren neuen Alltag, sondern verbringt auch unvergessliche Sommer im Ferienhaus der Familie in Maine.

Former chief investigator Jan Kalisz lives a dangerous double life, forced to work with the occupiers as he gathers information for the fledgling Polish resistance. Even his family cannot be told his true allegiance. When the niece of a Wehrmacht general is found terribly mutilated, Jan links the murder to other killings that are of less interest to his new overlords. Soon, he finds himself on the trail of a psychopathic killer known as The Artist. But, shunned as a Nazi collaborator, can he solve the case before another innocent girl is taken?

A shameful act of drunken impetuousness results in Michael Henchard losing his wife and daughter in an auction. This evil deed remains secret for years, during which time Henchard climbs the social ladder from working as a roving hay-trusser to becoming the upstanding Mayor of Casterbridge.

Western Australia, 1909. William Watson's beloved father is set on an expedition to the northwest to map water sources in the Pilbara. Invited along as an assistant, fifteen-year-old William embarks on the outback journey of a lifetime. At sea and on land, William will forge lasting friendships with his fellow travellers, and transform his relationship with his father as together they face the darkness in some men's hearts - including that of the cruel and vengeful Sergeant Jardine.

Werther in Westfalen, 1933: Josephine, die jüngste Tochter von Anton und Anna Leyen, hat die Liebe zu Süßigkeiten geerbt und arbeitet in der Zuckerwarenfabrik ihrer Familie. Als sie den jungen Manfred kennen lernt, verliebt sie sich Hals über Kopf. Durch eine Idee von Manfred kreiert Josephine ein neues Bonbon, das einzeln verpackt und immer gleich groß ist – die ersten Markenbonbons sind erfunden. Die beiden heiraten, aber ihre Liebe wird auf eine harte Probe gestellt, als die Nationalsozialisten an die Macht kommen und Manfred, der jüdischer Herkunft ist, Repressalien ausgesetzt ist.

Träume, Liebe und der Erfindergeist einer Frau. Ostwestfalen, 1896: Katharina träumt von einem unbeschwerten Leben in der Stadt, denn als Tochter eines Landwirts weiß sie, was die täglichen Arbeiten auf dem Hof und für die Familie einer Frau abverlangen. Dann verliebt sie sich in den technikbegeisterten Carl, der mit ihrer Hilfe eine Milchzentrifuge entwickelt. Katharina erkennt als Erste, welches Potenzial in der Idee steckt. Doch Katharina und Carl müssen für ihr Glück und für den Erfolg ihres kleinen Betriebs kämpfen.

Für Liebe und Freiheit wagten sie alles - das Schicksal einer Familie im geteilten Deutschland. Berlin 1961: Die Schrecken des Zweiten Weltkriegs sind Vergangenheit, und die Hauptstadt blüht wieder auf. Die 19-jährige Gesine aus Berlin-Mitte und der Westberliner Student Peter sind frisch verliebt, aber ihnen bleiben nur wenige Monate, bevor der Bau der Mauer der Beziehung ein jähes Ende bereitet. Gesine ist verzweifelt. Ihre alleinerziehende Mutter Lotte versteht den Schmerz ihrer Tochter und versucht, Gesine und ihrer Schwester Sonja trotz der schwierigen Situation in Ostberlin ein gutes Leben zu ermöglichen.