When writer’s block derails the literary dreams of Olly Pickering, he has to move in with his friend Murray after losing all his money. Things start to look up when…

A group of Irish noblemen kidnap girls in order to marry into their fortune and avoid becoming priests or soldiers.

Two con artists hire an unwitting medical-school student as a secretary for their latest scam.

Eight years ago, Gavin, the artistic son of a Scots-Italian ice-cream dynasty, turned his back on Glasgow and moved south to London to make his name illustrating children’s books. Now,…