James Wilby

In 1970 a retarded young man, Harold Stamp, was convicted of murdering his grandmother. The evidence was flimsy, and after three years of protesting his innocence, he committed suicide. Thirty years later an anthropologist recognises the terrible miscarriage of justice, but is he courageous enough to re-investigate? X rated, contains graphic violence.

Christopher Wood, a beautiful young Englishman, decided to be the greatest painter the world had seen. He went to Paris in 1921. By day he studied, by night he attended the parties of the beau monde. He knew Picasso, worked for Diaghilev and was a friend of Cocteau. In the last months of his 29-year life, he fought a ravening opium addiction to succeed in claiming a place in history of English painting. Richard Hilary, confident, handsome and unprincipled, flew Spitfires in the Battle of Britain before being shot down and horribly burned. He underwent several operations by the legendary plastic surgeon, A H McIndoe.

His account of his experiences, The Last Enemy, made him famous, but not happy. He begged to be allowed to return to flying, and died mysteriously in a night training operation, aged 23. Jeremy Wolfenden was born in 1936, the son of Jack, later Lord Wolfenden. Charming, generous and witty, he was the cleverest Englishman of his generation, but left All Souls to become a hack reporter. At the height of the Cold War, he was sent to Moscow where his louche private life made him the plaything of the intelligence services. A terrifying sequence of events ended in Washington where he died at the age of 31.

Set in the 1930s, a powerful story of love and conscience which begins when a mysterious young woman takes up a post at the Hotel du Lion D'Or.

Russia, 1915. At the age of 16, Georgy Jachmenev steps in front of an assassin's bullet intended for the heart of a senior member of the Russian Imperial Family. He is instantly proclaimed a hero. Before the week is out, his life as the son of a peasant farmer is changed forever when he is escorted to St Petersburg to take up his new position - as bodyguard to Alexei Romanov, the only son of Tsar Nicholas II. Sixty five years later, visiting his wife Zoya as she lies dying in a London hospital, memories of the life they have lived together flood his mind.

Their marriage, while tender, has been marked by tragedy, the loss of loved ones, and experiences of exile that neither can forget.

In this tale of plots, and counter-plots, Englishman Rudolph Rassendyl finds himself involved in the affairs of Ruritania when the soon to be crowned king is abducted and held in the Castle of Zenda.

February 15th 2003. A successful, happily married neurosurgeon, Henry Perowne is drawn into a confrontation with Baxter, a small-time thug, following a minor motor vehicle accident on the way to his regular squash game. The encounter has savage consequences when Baxter, believing that the doctor has humiliated him, visits the Perowne home that evening during a family reunion. X rated, contains offensive language and explicit sex.