Virginia McKenna

Joy Adamson and her husband, Kenya game warden George Adamson, raise Elsa, a lion cub. When Elsa approaches maturity, Joy determines she must re-educate Elsa to living in the wild so that the lionesscan return to a free life.

During World War II, Violette Szabo embarks on espionage missions in occupied France.

A zoo-born lion cub purchased one Christmas at a department store grows so large that its owners decide to set free it into the wilds of east Africa.

When the financial crisis empties their accounts, a group of pensioners seizes the opportunity to replenish their funds through a bank-robbing spree.

After a chance meeting reunites a pair of childhood sweethearts after sixty years, they wonder if they have time to right the mistakes of the past.

A widow takes her son to a beach house on the sea's edge to grieve. But someone else is in the place grieving a loss, and she’s not ready to leave.

Based on a true story from the creator of The Snowman, Ethel & Ernest is a humorous and heartfelt tribute to an ordinary couple and an extraordinary generation.