New People at the HolliesWhen a woman wants to hide her past, what better way to do it than to open a respectable privte home for old people in a small country town? Here, in an atmosphere of tension and suspicion, it soon becomes clear that the past is not so easily forgotten. For one of the residents also has a past as a police officer.

These three brilliant screenplays are uniquely accessible cameos of modern fiction as they move from the reassuring naturalism of our most familiar medium to the harrowing ambiguities of McEwan's uncompromising vision of reality

sinister cults and disturbing secret lives

The Duke of Dullitch is in distress - several reports are coming in that the city is beginning to be over-run by a plague of rats

but always I could feel the vibration of these women existing in the wider world

Death and Mr Pickwick is one of them

Unknown to the electorate

and secretly she too spies on him

or has Gaby declared cyberwar on the US

Peter Spiegelman's percolating prose has you scrambling to piece the puzzle together and then

the question for Thomas and Sophie is whether or not he should be the one to speak out

Where does he come from

Captured by the Turks