After World War Two England was on her knees so the call went out to the British Empire for voluntee..

1940. Cora Mayhew came to Paris to search for her birth mother and stayed to work for the resistance..

Elisabetta a feisty beauty who dreams of becoming a novelist Marco the brash and athletic son of pro..

London 1938. Bookseller Gertie Bingham is facing difficult times having just lost her beloved husban..

Naples 1943. Luisa Giordano has faced many losses: her mother to a deadly illness the man she loved ..

England 1903. Giles the Earl of Stainton has fled from his stifling duties to resume his research in..

Consecrated at birth as a royal goddess Cleopatra learns early on that to rule means to fight. Polit..

'Truly extraordinary books are rare and this is one of them' - Roddy Doyle'His [Dominic Hofman] perf..

John Pearce faces a court martial but will a cowardly chief witness stand up to questioning? With th..

Spring AD 777. Sigurd Hring new King of the Svear is summoning all the greatest warriors of the Nort..

York 1988. Dr Tom Frith is beginning his first term as a tutor at the University of Eboracum. After ..

Berlin 1948. World War II has ended and there is supposed to be peace but Russian troops have closed..

Buckingham Palace 1951. The nation is on the road to recovery after World War Two. And so is Milly H..

AD 60. Britannia is in turmoil. The rebel leader Boudica has tasted victory against a force of tough..

21-year-old Alix is studying in Paris far away from Sasha her Serbian father and Leonora her English..