IBIZA, THE EIGHTIES. At the dawn of the techno and ecstasy era a lonely teenager sees her world going into a tailspin. Marianne, born on the island to a hippie mother and a drug dealing father, is trying to keep the pieces of her life together while one of her parents is in prison in Liverpool and the other is chasing her spiritual endeavours.When an officer from the notorious Guardia Civil offers her a ride and shelter, Marianne becomes deeply fascinated by him. Embarking on a vodka and drug...

Mary wants to know what love is. After having been in a marriage without passion, she tries to get love from men who have nothing to offer her. Then she meets Richard. He tells her about his view on life and then everything changes. She talks to Richard once a month, to discuss matters as the circle of captivity, nonduality, concepts and how ‘to Richard’. Gradually, she realises that everything has changed and that she herself has also changed. In her search for love she is often desperat...

Fresh out of a relationship, Brooks finds himself overcome by insecurity towards the women he meets. After a while he coincidentally comes across a very special person who might just be what he needed in this depressed state of drinking and smoking. For Brooks it seems difficult to embrace this newly found connection. Realising he may have made a big mistake, Brooks desperately tries to cling on to the idea of fixing this before it might be too late. His buddy Lex keeps him on the right track...

For Ezzie, life has always been like folding a thousand paper cranes: if one studies diligently, perseveres through the greatest of adversities (i.e. Blythe), and contributes to the greater scheme, all will be well in the end.

Blythe, on the other hand, would quickly get bored, crumple the paper up into a ball, declare it to be a planet stuck in a decaying orbit around a supermassive black hole and start whooshing it around your head in an ever-decreasing circle until it inevitably smashes ...

Sam Collins is sent to a small bookshop in the heart of London for a college project, where he meets the young and beautiful Amy. She's willing to help him with his choice of book, but what else will she bring to him? Meanwhile, Sam's father keeps popping up in his life--something he is not excited about.

Follow Sam through one of the most exciting but also hardest years of his life as he tries to find his place in the world.

"A Tale of Two Cities" is a novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. The story revolves around the lives of two men, Charles Darnay and Sydney Carton, who are physically alike but lead vastly different lives. Charles is a French aristocrat who chooses to live in England and becomes embroiled in the revolution, while Sydney is a dissipated lawyer who is drawn to Charles' wife, Lucie Manette.

The novel begins with the famous opening lines, "It ...

"The Third Circle" is a short story written by Frank Norris. It tells the story of a young couple, Isabel and Harney, who are struggling to make ends meet in San Francisco. Harney is a clerk in a law firm and Isabel is a dressmaker. They dream of a better life and plan to marry as soon as they can afford it.

One day, Harney meets a wealthy and influential man named Trant, who invites him to join a secret society called "The Third Circle". The society is made up of wealthy and powerful men who...

Sixties. Netherlands. An artists commune in an old castle.

The children live a completely enclosed life of their own, never leaving the estate, without television, radio or newspapers. Hanny, the gardener and Trude, the cook take care and teach them chores in the kitchen and work in the garden. Dries and the immense library are their teachers in basic skills and art at their own little school.

Trude’s son Budi, beautiful, highly gifted, classic soprano and inexhaustible, grows up uninhibite...

Banned and vindicated, condemned and lauded, Lady Chatterley's Lover is D.H. Lawrence's seminal novel of illicit passion and forbidden desire. Lady Constance Chatterley feels trapped in her sexless marriage to the Sir Clifford.

Paralysed in the First World War, Sir Clifford is unable to fulfil his wife emotionally or physically, and encourages her instead to have a liaison with a man of their own class. But Connie is attracted instead to Oliver Mellors, her husband's gamekeeper, with whom she...

Widely acclaimed since publication, John Fowles' most beloved novel is the ultimate epic historical romance. Charles Smithson, a respectable engaged man, meets Sarah Woodruff as she stands on the Cobb at Lyme Regis, staring out to sea.