An old farmer offers a stranded traveller the use of his tools, in return for the traveller's assurance that he will repair his cherished motorcycle, and stay away from his daughter. The arrival of the daughter, however, complicates the traveller's ability to keep both promises.
Verity's Summer is a contemporary-set coming of age drama. The story of a young woman's journey from the security of childhood to the compromises of adulthood and moral ambiguities of love. It is also an intimate portrayal of a family coming to terms with the traumas and violence of distant war that are brought back home.
In a world in which Great Britain has become a fascist state, a masked vigilante known only as “V” conducts guerrilla warfare against the oppressive British government. When V rescues a young woman from the secret police, he finds in her an ally with whom he can continue his fight to free the people of Britain.
The past catches up with a ruthlessly ambitious boxing promoter.
University lecturer Neil Tannahill is drawn into a sinister conspiracy involving secretly-stored Soviet nuclear waste at a remote British nuclear facility after receiving an enigmatic note from legendary atomic scientist and one-time former head of "Doomwatch" (the infamous Scientific watchdog group of the seventies), Dr Spencer Quist.
Angie, an illustrator, is focused on a new assignment - a graphic novel of magical realism. She uses her work to escape the reality of her fractious marriage to Edward, whose behaviour has become erratic under pressure from his failing business. Unexpectedly, Angie's estranged mother dies. Inflamed by her death, Angie's sister, Molly, makes an explosive revelation about the sisters' family past, conjuring up memories of a childhood trauma that torment Angie's mind and invade her illustrations. Her real and fictional worlds ominously fuse and come alive in the nightmarish woods of her horrific childhood. It's up to her creative mind to release her from her damning past.