Fiction: special features

The Langfords are a perfectly happy family. Louisa and Kip, happily married for nearly 40 years, have raised their children and are now just settling into a new phase of life where they'll have more time for themselves. Everything seems perfect. But then, one Boxing Day after a lovely family Chri...

What does it mean to remember? Joined at birth, then pulled apart, Selina and Zora's relationship is marked by a pattern of closeness and separation. Growing up in 50s' and 60s' London under the shadow of Enoch Powell, they are instinctively dependent on each other, and yet Zora yearns for her ow...

In the UK, someone is reported missing every 90 seconds. Just gone. Vanished. In the blink of an eye. DCS Kat Frank knows all about loss. A widowed single mother, Kat is a cop who trusts her instincts. Picked to lead a pilot programme that has her paired with AIDE (Artificial Intelligence Detecti...

In the UK, someone is reported missing every 90 seconds. Just gone. Vanished. In the blink of an eye. DCS Kat Frank knows all about loss. A widowed single mother, Kat is a cop who trusts her instincts. Picked to lead a pilot programme that has her paired with AIDE (Artificial Intelligence Detecti...

For sisters Etta, Jessie, and Celie Fry, the Great War and the hardships of the years that followed have taken a heavy toll. Determined to leave her painful past behind her, Etta heads to the bright lights of Hollywood whilst Jessie, determined to train as a doctor and use her skills to help othe...

Miro and Misa live in a sleepy fishing town nestled in the shadow of an ancient castle. Miro collects rare books; Misa is a budding photographer. The day they meet, they uncover a secret. As Miro and Misa begin to investigate, they begin to find that their questions put them on the wrong side of ...

Venice. 1704. In this city of glittering splendour, desperation and destitution are never far away. At the Ospedale della Pieta, abandoned orphan girls are posted every day through a tiny gap in the wall. Anna Maria is just one of the three hundred girls growing up within the Pieta's walls - but ...

It is a wild night in the middle of December, and GP Enya is crouched over a teenage boy, performing CPR in the rain. She found him on a mountain road near Dublin, the victim of a hit-and-run. The boy survives, but Enya's life splinters in two. Trapped in an ill-fated marriage, the night of the s...

Everyone wanted her life. But who took it? It was Hannah who found April's body ten years ago. It was Hannah who didn't question what she saw that day. Did her testimony put an innocent man in prison? She needs to know the truth. Even if it means questioning her own friends. Even if it means putt...

Everyone wanted her life. But who took it? It was Hannah who found April's body ten years ago. It was Hannah who didn't question what she saw that day. Did her testimony put an innocent man in prison? She needs to know the truth. Even if it means questioning her own friends. Even if it means putt...