The Roman Empire's hold on the province of Britannia is fragile. The tribes implacably opposed to Ro..

Declutterer Ellen Curtis has been working to bring order into the life of Cedric Waites a recluse in..

Persimmon 'Simmy' Brown's wedding day to Christopher Henderson has arrived on a glorious summer's da..

London 1896. Madame Tussauds opens to find one of its nightwatchmen decapitated and his colleague no..

December 1917. Ada Hobbes has cleaned for Dr Tindall for many years and begins this frosty morning l..

Spring 1934. Elena Standish a young English photographer who works for British Intelligence is visit..

1935. At 36 Bella Porter is dependent on her abusive cousin Thomas acting as his unpaid servant. But..

August 1940. On the streets of London locals watch with growing concern as German fighter planes pla..

Forty years ago Steven Smith found a copy of a famous children's book its margins full of strange ma..

Thea Osborne agrees to do a second spell of house-sitting for Lucy Sinclair in her new home in North..

September 1940 is finally drawing to a close. With London having endured the Blitz for nearly a mont..

When an old television rival Deirdre Shaw is found dead at the Cotswolds manor house where she was c..

A.D. 57. Battle-scarred veterans of the Roman army Tribune Cato and Centurion Macro return to Rome. ..

November 1940. Darkness descends and another anxious night begins for those tasked with guarding the..

Lancashire 1930s. When her mother dies leaving her an old sewing box and a clue to her father's iden..