A Town Like Alice A group of women and children are force marched around the jungles of Malaya in World War Two.
	The Far Pavilions An unconventional upbringing for a British boy in India brings both advantages and problems later in life...
	Out of Africa A Danish lady moves to British East Africa to start a new life...
	Heat and Dust An English woman looking into her family's historical links with India finds more than she bargains for...
	Chinese Box In the final days of British rule in Hong Kong, a journalist and a Chinese woman's ambiguous relationship mirrors the Imperial relationship...
	The River Set in the interwar years in India. Three young lady's lives are turned upside down with the arrival of a handsome war veteran in town. It is based on Rumer Godden's autobiographical novel set alongside the River Ganges.
	The Home and the World (Ghare-Baire) Set in 1907 Bengal, an Indian man's enthusiasm for British culture and way of doing things encourages his wife to emerge from seclusion. However, a revolutionary friend of her husband pulls her further than she had ever expected to go.

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