Ireland, 1845. When a deadly fungus destroys potato crops throughout northern Europe, the most impoverished Irish population, whose main source of food is precisely the potato, suffers a cruel famine that will cause more than a million deaths and, in the following ten years, the mass exodus of more than two million people.

Several years after leaving the orphanage, to which her father never returned for her, Gabrielle Cha...

Jamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all...

The true story of Joe Simpson and Simon Yates' disastrous and nearly-fatal mountain climb of 6,344m ...

At the strong insistence of his father, Ushimatsu Segawa conceals his origins from a “buraku” area o...

Set against the conditions leading up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, French docto...

Set in the 16th century, this is a story about Ukraine's Cossack warriors and their campaign to defe...

Jean-Dominique Bauby, editor-in-chief of French fashion bible Elle magazine, has a devastating strok...

Bored with the limited and tedious nature of provincial life in 19th-century France, the fierce and ...

Joanne Kilbourn, ex-detective turned university lecturer, is still haunted by the unsolved murder of...

In the 19th century, an expert marine biologist is hired by the government to determine what's sinki...

This Lost World is a splendid BBC TV dramatisation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famous adventure stor...

An ailing barrister is thrust back into the courtroom in what becomes one of the most unusual and ev...

Aging Major Palgrave, an idiosyncratic but charming mystery writer, reveals to Miss Jane Marple that...

During a murder hunt game at a country house, to which Hercule Poirot is invited as an "expert", a r...

Young, pretty and innocent, Fanny Hill has lost her parents and must find her way in life amidst the...

The story about the men who made the world of technology what it is today, their struggles during co...

Bathsheba Everdine, a willful, flirtatious, young woman, unexpectedly inherits a large farm and beco...

The dramatised story of the Irish civil rights protest march on January 30 1972 which ended in a mas...

To avenge her defeat and with the help of the Cardinal's army leader Rochefort, the treacherous Mila...