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A British-Bengali graduate has two weeks to tell his father the truth about how his brother died, and about the same illness in himself. But he's broke, the youth charity the brothers built is losing its home, and the podcaster paying his rent is recruiting the boy he mentors.

The world's only superintelligence is owned by a committee. The woman who runs it has to spend it on famines, plagues and power grids, fast enough to stay ahead of the governments waiting to take it back.

Kali, 21 and British-Bengali, can command shadow when rain touches her skin, and refuses to. When the woman who burned her village, and once loved her mother, surfaces in the next town, Kali must choose: claim the goddess inside her, or lose the only family she has left. A thriller on the surface, a Bengali ghost story underneath.

Seven friends reunite at a countryside mansion for the getaway they've owed each other for years, posting every gorgeous, chaotic minute. What none of them will say out loud is who's missing: the friend they left on seen the night he died.

During thirteen days of mourning for his grandfather, the London-raised heir to an Indian dam dynasty strikes a bargain with a hereditary bard: one chapter a night of the epic his family claims descent from, while the family's dam counts down to drowning a valley.

When a London forensic scientist and her musician brother return to the Sundarbans to bury their mother, a ritual killing exposes a land grab and the orbit of a delta priestess who knew their mother better than they ever did. A folk-horror drama about the limits of empirical method, inherited grief, and what walks back across the world with you when you leave.

To pay for her dying grandmother's care, a London voice designer sells the old woman's songs to the company she works for. When its AI sings the one song her grandmother refused to give, she destroys the archive, losing her job and the care money, and asks to be taught the song instead.

In a climate-drowned Cornwall, a blind British-Indian analyst senses a deep-ocean catastrophe no instrument can detect. Taught to read the water by an elderly Tamil woman, she must broadcast a warning no one has authorised, knowing protection and exposure will be the same act.

Over one day and one night in a bronze-age hall, a king who believes he can out-think a rigged game loses his empire move by move. His final wager is his wife. Dragged before the silent elders, she turns the hall into a courtroom.

San Francisco, 2028. A day from running out of money, a biosurveillance founder detects a pathogen nobody can identify. Proving it is real means giving away the one thing a defence buyer wants to own: the design she inherited from her late mother.

A British-Bengali man about to become a father has spent months talking every night to an AI he built to sound like his mother. Then his mother arrives from Dhaka for the birth, picks up his earphones, and hears herself say the one thing she has never said to him.

Three friends spend one summer day crossing London: the Heath, a cemetery, a station platform, a lake. One of them keeps slipping out of the day, into a snow no one else can see.

The new boy at an elite British boarding school bought his belonging with a secret: he filmed the viral video that set his school at war with the estate below. When the violence comes home, an elephant-headed god with a broken tusk asks him what his witnessing is for.

Three days before she emigrates to California, a British-Asian engineer is pulled back to the Welsh coast to fix the tidal-power unit she walked away from, with the spring tide coming in.

Cinematic portraits of the scientists and engineers building deep tech: the doubt, the setbacks and the stubbornness before the breakthrough.

In the only country founded on the right to speak its language, a generation of Bangladeshis are teaching machines to understand Bangla, and discovering that the machines will repeat, in their language, the words they refuse to say in English.