Queen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim.

A Welsh journalist breaks the news in the western media of the famine in Ukraine in the early 1930s.

Four children (the Swallows) on holiday in the Lake District sail on their own to an island and start a war with rival children (the Amazons). In the meantime, a mysterious man on a houseboat accuses them of a crime they did not comm

An American journalism student in London scoops a big story, and begins an affair with an aristocrat as the incident unfurls.

A female theatre dresser creates a stir and sparks a revolution in seventeenth century London theatre by playing Desdemona in Othello. But what will become of the male actor she once worked for and eventually replaced?

Sally's parents' marriage breaks up when her father undergoes a mid-life crisis and impulsively weds a prostitute. Meanwhile, Sally's own marriage also begins to disintegrate.

In order to save their bankrupt school, a group of troublesome girls stage a robbery with a group of geniuses on their backs

A British writer struggles to fit in at a high-profile magazine in New York City.