Biographer Margaret Lea travels to the isolated rural mansion of the famous writer Vida Winter, who asks her to write her biography. Although initially she is reluctant, as Vida is known for constantly distorting the facts of her life, Margaret soon becomes fascinated with the story of a dark childhood, a disturbing tale that leads her to finally confront the traumas of her own past.
A small-time Belfast thief, Gerry Conlon, is wrongly convicted of an IRA bombing in London, along wi...
The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with ...
When a son and mother move to Seattle in hopes for a better life, the mother meets a seemingly polit...
Set in the frozen steppes of Mongolia, a young nomad is confronted with his destiny after animals fa...
Cynical British journalist Fowler falls in love with a young Vietnamese woman but is dismayed when a...
Upon moving into the run-down Spiderwick Estate with their mother, twin brothers Jared and Simon Gra...
An awkward, telekinetic teenage girl's lonely life is dominated by relentless bullying at school and...
Ruthless silver miner, turned oil prospector, Daniel Plainview, moves to oil-rich California. Using ...
Seasoned adventurer and treasure hunter Dirk Pitt, a former Navy SEAL, sets out for the African dese...
Young Augusten Burroughs absorbs experiences that could make for a shocking memoir: the son of an al...
Professor of language and philosophy Dominic Matei is struck by lightning and ages backwards from 7...
After being brutally murdered, 14-year-old Susie Salmon watches from heaven over her grief-stricken ...
In Colombia just after the Great War, an old man falls from a ladder; dying, he professes great love...
In 1896, three survivors of a whaling ship-wreck in the Canadian Arctic are saved and adopted by an ...
From the heights of notoriety to the depths of depravity, John Forbes Nash Jr. experiences it all. A...
When disillusioned Swedish knight Antonius Block returns home from the Crusades to find his country ...
A supernatural tale set on death row in a Southern prison, where gentle giant John Coffey possesses ...
A petty criminal fakes insanity to serve his sentence in a mental ward rather than prison. He soon f...
In early-1970s Las Vegas, Sam "Ace" Rothstein gets tapped by his bosses to head the Tangiers Casino....