A 16th-century peasant becomes transfixed by a statue of the Virgin Mary, and petitions to be walled into a cell attached to the church as a religious hermit.

Two terminally ill patients in a hospital yearn for relief from their predicament. With little or no friends, they form an uneasy alliance and plot an escape for one last…

When wistful introvert Alan Furnace meets quick-witted bombshell Beatrice, he has no idea of her secret life as “B. Monkey” — the top thief-for-hire in London’s criminal underworld. Charmed by…