THE BIRTHDAY PRESENT (X Rated)

THE BLOOD DOCTOR

Martin Nanther knew that his great-grandfather was an expert in blood, and as Queen Victoria's favoured physician he was interested in the royal disease of haemophilia. But reading his essays and diaries, Martin suspects that Henry was less than candid about his life and his work. What was he trying to conceal?

THE BRIMSTONE WEDDING

Young care assistant in a nursing home listens to a gracious dignified woman reveal the secrets of her past and finds that her own marital secrets are not dissimilar.

THE CHIMNEY SWEEPER'S BOY

When the novelist Gerald Candless died, his daughter decided to write a memoir, but even his identity appeared to be untrue. Who was he and why had he concealed his real idenitity?

A FATAL INVERSION

A group of young people camp in the grounds of Wyvis Hall in the long hot summer of 1976. Ten years later the bodies of a woman and child are found in the Hall’s animal cemetery.

GALLOWGLASS

Sandor is excellent at story-telling, and Little Joe is ready to listen. The power of the educated over the simple is horribly clear in this disturbing and unusual relationship. As Sandor's motivation becomes clear, the darkness surrounding him is too much for them both - and for the beautiful ex-model sequestered in her Suffolk mansion by an obsessive husband.

THE HOUSE OF STAIRS

When Lizzie spots her old friend Bell from a London taxi she jumps out and goes after her, despite what has passed between them. The women rekindle their friendship with terrifying results.

KING SOLOMON'S CARPET

Jarvis Stringer lives in a house which was once a school overlooking the Jubilee Line. He is compiling a history of London’s underground and lets out rooms in his house to a band of misfits.