Joyce Carey

Secret People -- A shocking history of leprosy, told by the victims who live in the last remaining leprosy sanatorium in Carville, Louisiana

Brief Encounter -- Dave is a man who did not get where he wanted in life and now works in a nine to five job he hates but it pays a reasonable wage so to coin a phrase 'he grins and bears it'. One day while he is going through his regular routine and making his journey t

Based on Noel Coward's classic film of a chance meeting, this is a story of innocence and unexpected love. Anna and Dr. Alec Harvey meet by chance and their casual friendship turns into a tormenting relationship. Realising the danger to her marriage, Anna avoids Alec who is unhappy in his own marriage, and pursues Anna with increasing intensity. Unable to resist his charm, Anna accepts Alec's invitation to a rendezvous in a friend's apartment. When the friend unexpectedly returns, Anna is overwhelmed with shame - her fantasy dream has become a nightmare of deceit.

Inclement weather forces a group of wealthy passengers, including a duchess, a movie mogul, and an Australian entrepreneur, to spend the night in the V.I.P. lounge of the London airport. As they get acquainted, they confront their various problems. Oscar-winner Elizabeth Taylor ("Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?") stars in this insightful drama as an American wife about to leave her husband, Richard Burton ("The Spy Who Came in from the Cold," "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"), for her lover, Louis Jordan ("Gigi"). Also starring Oscar-winner Maggie Smith ("A Room with a View," "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie"), Oscar-winner Orson Welles ("Citizen Kane," "Touch of Evil"), and Rod Taylor ("The Birds," "The Time Machine"). Margaret Rutherford received an Oscar for her supporting role as the troubled Duchess of Brighton.