Now a major ITV drama series, Mr Selfridge is a tale of Edwardian excess and the rise and fall of maverick retailer Harry Gordon Selfridge. In 1909 London's first dedicated department store opened...

Set on the dazzlingly beautiful French Riviera in the turbulent 1920s. Dick and Nicole Diver arrive in fashionable France – handsome, rich, glamorous and enormous fun. Their dinners are...

In 1956, Dell Parsons' family came to a stop in Great Falls, Montana. His father, Bev, was a talkative, plank-shouldered man, an airman from Alabama with an optimistic and easy-scheming nature....

After the brutal death of his father when he was a teenager, Frederick Thomas fled the stifling racism of the American South and headed for New York City, where he worked as a valet and trained as...

It is 1972. Neil Countryman is from the public high school in north Seattle. He slumps at his desk all day and gets high in the park at lunchtime. John William Barry is from a private academy for...

Frank Bascombe has a younger girlfriend and a job as a sportswriter. To many men of his age, thirty-eight, this would be a cause for optimism, yet Frank feels the pull of his inner despair and...

As the North reels under a series of unexpected defeats during the dark first years of the American Civil War, one man leaves behind his family to aid the Union cause. His experience will utterly...