Some secrets can haunt a whole lifetime. In the riverside town of Bedford, four students can hear the haunting voice of a woman singing. The beautiful melody is coming from their neighbour - a reclusive creature who never opens the door to anyone or leaves her home in daylight. They have no way of knowing that the woman next door, Madeleine Delaney is driven by a dangerous memory that for over twenty years has controlled her meagre existence ? Madeleine?s...

15th July 1988. Emma and Dexter meet for the first time on the night of their graduation. Tomorrow they must go their separate ways. So where will they be on this one day next year? And the year after that? And every year that follows?

In the spring of her final year, Madeleine Hanna has enrolled in a semiotics course 'to see what all the fuss is about'. She falls in love with Leonard Bankhead - charismatic loner and college Darwinist - who introduces her to the ecstasies of immediate experience. Then Mitchell Grammaticus resurfaces, and wants her to be his wife.

NOW A MAJOR TELEVISION SERIES STARRING NATALIE DORMER (GAME OF THRONES) AND YAEL STONE (ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK). Everyone agreed that the day was just right for the picnic to Hanging Rock - a shimmering summer morning warm and still, with cicadas shrilling ? St Valentine?s Day, in the midst of the hot summer of 1900, a party of schoolgirls went on a picnic to Hanging Rock. Some were never to return ? An Australian classic, the disappearance of three...

The year is 1985 and Brian has just started his first term at university, armed with the obligatory CND membership and a complete set of Kate Bush albums. But he also has a dark secret - a burning ambition to appear on University Challenge and now, finally, it seems the dream is about to become reality.

Summer 1970. A long, hot summer. In a castle in Italy, half a dozen young lives are afloat on the sea of change, trapped inside the history of the sexual revolution.

In mid-December, Cambridgeshire is blanketed with snow. Detective Sergeant Manon Bradshaw tries to sleep after yet another soul-destroying Internet date - the low murmuring of her police radio her only solace. Over the airwaves come reports of a missing woman - door ajar, keys and phone left behind, a spatter of blood on the kitchen floor. Manon knows the first seventy-two hours are critical: you find her, or you look for a body. And as soon as she...

Elle Evans seems to have finally tamed hotter-than-hot bad boy Noah Flynn, but now they're facing a new challenge. Noah's 3,000 miles away at Harvard, which means they're officially a long-distance couple - and it's tough. After all, there's only so much texts and calls can satisfy - and when Elle sees a post which suggests Noah's getting friendly with another girl, she's devastated. On top of that, it's hard to ignore the new boy at school. He's...

In his 60s John took early retirement, gave up journalism, and decided it was time to fulfil a life-long ambition to get himself an education. Here, John describes the reactions of his wife, and the interactions of his fellow scholars, when, instead of becoming an old age pensioner, he became a student.