A historical novel, drawing from records of actual events and people to chronicle the realities of World War I in France and Belgium as experienced by ordinary soldiers and the generals who plotted battle strategy.
Seeking some excitement in her life, Kitty Fane embarks on an adulterous affair with the handsome Charles Townsend, but when her husband finds out he forces her to accompany him to a cholera epidemic in China.
Ted Mundy, former student radical and Cold War spy for the British, is living a quiet life as co-principal of an English-language school and tour guide in Germany when he is contacted by an old friend and colleague who tries to persuade Ted to accept a too-good-to-be-true offer from a mysterious philanthropist who is putting up $500,000 to turn the school into a vehicle for promoting international peace and understanding in the post-9/11 world.
Catherine Carreg longs to escape her monotonous life in Wales, and, with the help of her friend Deio, runs away to London, where she volunteers as a nurse and is thrown into a living nightmare amid the chaos of war.
Personal shopper Becky Bloomwood's life reaches the peak of perfection when her entrepreneurial boyfriend Luke proposes, but the couple sees trouble looming on the horizon when both their mothers try to seize control of the wedding plans.
Becky Bloomwood, a television financial expert in Britain and an out-of-control shopaholic, finds a whole new world of stores open to her when she moves to New York with her boyfriend, but her inability to check her spending puts her job and relationship at risk.
Presents the script of 1975 drama about Elesin, the chief horseman of the king of a Nigerian village who loses the respect of the villagers when he fails to take steps to follow his dead ruler into the afterlife.
