1840. Twenty three years after the death of her famous sister Jane Cassandra Austen returns to the v..

Cornwall 1902. Edith Fairchild deserted by her feckless husband Benedict eight years before has esta..

Cornwall 1914. Edith Fairchild's good-for-nothing husband Benedict deserted her when their children ..

Eddie and Eva meet on the eve of the Second World War. Eddie only wants to be a flyer to find escape..

High above the Mediterranean on the French Riviera stands a beautiful pink stucco villa. Once a play..

Struggling to make ends meet Mary Anne Randall is offered no help by her drunk and abusive husband. ..

England 1903. Giles the new Earl of Stainton is struggling to bring his family's estate back to orde..

While her milliner mother Rosamund is abroad in Paris twelve-year-old Vinnie Fyfe is left behind in ..

Tuscany 1945. As the war in Europe ends American Red Cross nurse Diana Bolsena finds herself separat..

Bloomsbury Books has resisted change for a hundred years run by men and guided by the general manage..

Eastern Britain 60 CE. Once proud and free the Iceni tribe now pay tribute to the Romans and are rul..

England 1605. Twelve-year-old Tom must save his father from being hanged. He falls in with a mysteri..

It's 1940 and Britain is on the brink of invasion. Londoner George has been sent to live in the coun..

During the First World War as men were sent to fight women and girls took their place in munitions f..

1942. Nisha's Malayan home has been destroyed by war. She and her mother Amma flee to her father's a..