Meet two women with two totally different approaches to the festive season. First there’s Beth – it’s only September and already she has performance anxiety, not surprising when she has...

What happens when you meet Mr Right, then find out that someone’s got there first? Do you: a) bury your feelings and try to move on? Or b) fail miserably to bury your feelings and repeatedly act...

A happily married woman commits suicide for no apparent reason; a young man tries to break some important news to the beautiful girl he had hoped to marry; a con girl plays the same bold game too...

Clare Hanrahan has nothing left to lose the day she stumbles into Lew Earnshaw's arms. Her family is gone and her own life hangs by a thread after a desperate season seeking work. By the time Lew...

Nestled in the heart of the Cotswolds, Thrush Green is normally a peaceful place. But as autumn turns to winter, feelings are running high in the village. Miss Fogerty, a respected teacher at the...

When Julia was eight, she was asked to be a bridesmaid at her beautiful cousin Iris's wedding. Her mother saw this as a chore - expensive, inconvenient - but Julia was thrilled. When the time...

Pavel Ivanchenko's life begins in poverty and violence, but he is destined to become one of the richest men in the world: one of the post-Glasnost Oligarchs. He starts his business life trading...

It is the late 1960s, and for Persephone Plover, the daughter of distant and absent parents, her innocent days of childhood are long past. Now she must deal with an adult world.

The marriage of Sylvie and Gowry McCulloch was not made in heaven and has gone through difficult times. Settled now in Dublin, they have a daughter, Maeve, whom they both love dearly.

Two weeks before her wedding Stevie Jonson has got the jitters. Is she finally growing up, or compromising horribly? In love or in denial? Yes, there are good reasons to get married. Babies, or at...

This is the story of two boyhood friends: Jonathan, lonely and introspective; and Bobby, hip and inarticulate. When Bobby moves in with Jonathan and his roommate, Clare – a veteran of New York...

On Wednesday 10 April 1912, RMS Titanic left Southampton on her maiden voyage to New York. Four days later, half an hour before midnight, she struck an iceberg. By 2am the last lifeboat had rowed...

Where do we come from? Where do we belong? For David and Nathalie, this need to know is more urgent than for most people because they are adopted. Born to different mothers, brought up by the same...

Ruth and her three small children eagerly await the return of their father who has taken his fishing boat for a refit at a boatyard in the north of Scotland. But in the middle of the night, as the...

The attractive town of Caxley became prosperous through its connection with the wool trade, and on market day it is a hive of activity as the townspeople and neighbouring villagers from Fairacre,...