James Holland

A penniless middle-aged spinster scrapes by giving piano lessons in the Dublin of the 1950s. She makes a sad last bid for love with a fellow resident of her rundown boarding house, who imagines she has the money to bankroll the business he hopes to open.

Marlene is the owner of a nostalgic cafe on the border of Canada and the USA. Filled with quirky and charming characters, life at the cafe is exciting, entertaining and sometimes chaotic.

Derek Blore, MP, enjoys both a happy successful political career and a sideline in the suburbs. When his two political lives become confused, with an added Russian complication, he finds a national scandal engulfing him.

A gang of boys who run their money raising 'business' - on strictly free market lines - is threatened by the arrival of another group. - A socialistic group, headed by a black girl!

A recently-deposed Central American dictator re-locates to a small town in Northern Manitoba and starts a new repressive regime.