Synopsis... Emma wakes up one morning to an apocalyptic world. The cozy existence she shares with her grandmother, an eccentric retired actress known to all as Madam, has been shattered: there's no post, no telephone, no radio - and an American warship sits in the harbor.  As the two women piece together clues about the 'friendly' military occupation on their doorstep, family, friends and neighbours gather round to protect their ... View the Post

Synopsis... As a young guide for Sunshine Tours, Armino Fabbio leads a pleasant, if humdrum life -- until he becomes circumstantially involved in the murder of an old peasant woman in Rome. The woman, he gradually comes to realise, was his family's beloved servant many years ago, in his native town of Ruffano. He returns to his birthplace, and once there, finds it is haunted by the phantom of his brother, Aldo, shot down in flames in ... View the Post

Synopsis The world of the glass-blowers has its own traditions, it's own language - and its own rules. 'If you marry into glass' Pierre Labbe warns his daughter, 'you will say goodbye to everything familiar, and enter a closed world'. But crashing into this world comes the violence and terror of the French Revolution, against which the family struggles to survive. Years later, Sophie Duval reveals to her long-lost nephew the tragic story of ... View the Post

Synopsis Dick Young is lent a house in Cornwall by his friend Professor Magnus Lane. During his stay he agrees to serve as a guinea pig for a new drug that Magnus has discovered in his scientific research. When Dick samples Magnus's potion, he finds himself doing the impossible: traveling through time while staying in place, thrown all the way back into Medieval Cornwall. The concoction wear off after several hours, but its effects are ... View the Post

Synopsis... Eighteen year-old Honor Harris is looking forward to spending the rest of her life with the man she loves, however when a tragedy occurs on the eve of her wedding, the marriage never takes place. Fifteen years later, as England is divided by a civil war that pits neighbour against neighbour, Honor is sent to stay at Menabilly where she encounters her lost love, Richard Grenvile. Despite her efforts to stay away from Richard, ... View the Post

Synopsis Lady Dona St. Columb, a spoiled aristocrat, has become bored with her life in London society so she takes her children to Navron, her husband's country home in Cornwall. When Dona arrives she finds the house in a rundown state with only one servant, William, in attendance, and Dona forms an unlikely acquaintance with the mysterious man who soon becomes her ally. While Dona tries to shun visits from her neighbours, she soon learns they ... View the Post