Patrick Malahide

Eager to make her way in the world, hairdresser Joy Miller gets her chance when she's sent to a modern once-upon-a-time land called Slovetzia to tutor the three children of gruff, widowed dictator Boris Pochenko.

Inspector Roderick Alleyn is a Scotland Yard detective whose aristocratic breeding gives him access to the elite and their crimes.

The British Home Secretary dies after an operation for abdominal pains, but his wife insists he's been murdered. When Alleyn investigates her claim, he finds a great many things at the nursing home are not as they should be. He also finds a great many suspects, including a surgeon with a grievance, a nurse crossed in love, a betrayed wife, and a bewildering array of political enemies.

Troy has a commission to paint a birthday portrait of the famous actor Sir Henry Ancred at his country estate, Ancreton Manor. She finds the volatile Sir Henry agitated and ill, surrounded by his eccentric and equally dramatic family. A sudden, suspicious death at the manor leads Troy to call in Alleyn to investigate. He finds a tale of anonymous letters and bitter arguments over the dead man's will, lending credence to Troy's suspicions.

Pitted against his most chilling adversary yet, Luther is haunted by past ghosts and hellbent on revenge as the Serious Crime Unit faces its most challenging psychological duel to date. There is no question he will come close to the edge, but will he finally go over?

This sequel to the award-winning film The Gathering Storm offers an intimate look at the making of a nation's hero, when Churchill was at his most commanding and effective. It shows how his prowess as a great wartime leader ultimately undermined his political career and threatened his marriage.

Five centuries ago, a mural was created in a country church in the north of England, and then hidden under layers of white paint. Looking at it again will be a distraction, the Reverend Mr. Keach tells World War I veteran Tom Birken, who will spend a month in the country restoring the mural. Another veteran, James Moon, is looking for the grave of an ancestor of the patroness of the church who fought in the Crusades. The rector's wife, Alice, comes...

Upon discovery of the Nazi plan to arrest the Jews in Denmark at midnight on the eve of Rosh Hashanah, the Koster family risks their own lives to save their Jewish countrymen.

Tells the story of the the amateur soldiers made up of servants, grooms and gardeners from Sandringham, the King's Norfolk estate and how they vanished after marching into battle against the Turks in Gallipoli in 1915, never to be heard from again.

In the provincial town of Middlemarch, Dorothea Brooke develops an instant connection with a man that she meets on her honeymoon, while Doctor Lydgate falls in love with a troubled and privileged woman. As Dorothea and Lydgate are drawn into the lives and intrigues of Middlemarch, the seeds are sown for an epic tale of passion and disillusionment.