Avril Elgar

Oscar Wilde is a married playwright who has occasionally indulged his weakness for male suitors. Af…

In 1977, after a fourteen year dry spell, the novelist Barbara Pym was nominated for a Booker Award…

A young woman vanishes on a visit to an island with her husband and child, only to turn up decades…

Miss Howard's exhibition of water-colours at the Green Salon falters but then takes off. The season…

Spend some time in the company of the guests at 'Wentworth' - all taking the waters except for the…

Actress Jane Wilkinson wants a divorce, but her husband, Lord Edgware, refuses. She convinces Hercu…

Biography of Russian physicist & dissident Andrei Sakharov focuses on his first acts in his civil r…

A housewife struggles to come to terms with her husband's imminent retirement. She finds solace in…

An affair between a literary agent and his best friend's wife, unfolding in reverse-chronological o…

Winnie is a mentally handicapped woman who lives with her elderly mother (Cora) and aunt (Ida). The…

"When you get to a man in the case, they're like as a row of pins - For the colonel's lady an' Judy…

A French detective in London reconstructs the life of a man lying in hospital with severe injuries…