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BEL CANTO

A poor country is hosting an international gathering to promote international trade. This is stormed by kidnappers and a lengthy siege ensues during which two couples fall in love, turning an horrific imprisonment into an unexpected heaven on earth. Orange/Baileys Prize.

COMMONWEALTH

It is 1964: Bert Cousins shows up at Franny Keating's christening uninvited. When Bert kisses his host's wife, Beverley, he sets in motion the joining of two families. In 1988, Franny Keating, now 24, never dreams that the consequences of this encounter will extend into the lives of her scattered siblings and parents.

THE DUTCH HOUSE

Danny Conroy grows up in the Dutch House, a lavish mansion. Though his father is distant and his mother is absent, Danny has his beloved sister Maeve. The siblings grow and change as life plays out under the watchful eyes of the house's former owners, in the frames of their oil paintings. Then one day their father brings Andrea home. Though they cannot know it, her arrival to the Dutch House sows the seed of the defining loss of Danny and Maeve's lives.