Tells the story of Charlie Bucket and his Golden Ticket, and Willy Wonka and his chocolate factory.

When an exotic stranger, Vianne Rocher, arrives in the French village of Lansquenet and opens a chocolate boutique directly opposite the church, Father Reynaud identifies her as a serious danger to his flock. War is declared as the priest denounces the newcomer's wares as instruments of murder.

Set in occupied wartime France, this is the story of a successful woman whose carefully constructed and hidden past threatens to be exposed by her profiteering nephew.

A new year has just begun, and for the staff and boys of the school, a wind of unwelcome change is blowing. Suits, paperwork and Information Technology rule the world and Roy Straitley, Latin master, eccentric, and veteran of St Oswald's, is reluctantly contemplating retirement. But beneath the little rivalries, a darker undercurrent stirs.

A wonderfully inventive and entertaining journey through time and the history of chocolate!

Joseph and Harriet Blackstone emigrate from Norfolk to New Zealand in search of new beginnings and prosperity. But the harsh land near Christchurch where they settle threatens to destroy them almost before they begin. When Joseph finds gold in the creek he is seized by an obsession with the voluptuous riches awaiting him deep in the earth.