In 1989 the people of Eastern Europe rose up and finally put an end to over forty years of subservience to their communist masters? However, the aftermath of those revolutions often brought to light tales of unimaginable poverty, degradation and suffering - heart-breaking tales that led thousands of people in Britain to feel sufficiently moved by what they saw on their television screens to do more than just give a little money to salve their consciences, often organising and manning up convoys of huge great trucks to head across the Continent bearing food, clothing and medicines. Based on a...

-We've been quite crafty: we tried finding out who won that massive lottery pay-out the other week, but the Editor got cold feet...- Jill chuckled to herself, thereby not noticing an eye pop open before hastily closing again as she turned to address him once more, sighing -... I say good luck to the guy, whoever he is. I just wish he'd share out a few of his millions with me - -M-m-m-more lemonade?- Paul burbled self-consciously, offering her a swig of the next best thing. ******* Take one bumbling railway booking clerk. Take one 22 million -rollover- Lottery prize. Put the two together and...

France 1954: two officers - one a dashing professional soldier and aristocrat, and one a low-born reservist - celebrate the rekindling of a curious friendship that was once fashioned in the crucible of war. Seven years later, and that friendship has unravelled amidst the bitterness and recrimination of another brutal war that is now tearing France apart. This is the story of that friendship; a story where moments of heroism and idealism alternate with moments when raw and unthinking passion sweeps all before it; a story of love, betrayal and of a woman scorned; the story of a friendship that...

During the darkest days of the Second World War, Eileen Kimberley - a pretty teenage girl from the backstreets of Birmingham - makes her bid to escape a claustrophobic home life by enlisting in Britain's Women's Auxiliary Air Force. What follows proves to be not just the adventure of a lifetime, playing her part in her country's desperate war in the skies over Germany; but also a painful voyage of self-discovery in which a tragic past impels a steely determination to seek out that special someone with whom this gifted young woman can share her crazy dreams.