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

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

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

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

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

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

Cambridge 1944. Bill Anderson is a restless young fighter pilot who finds himself grounded for a wee..

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

Jersey 1943. Once a warm and neighbourly community now German soldiers patrol the cobbled streets im..

Glasgow 1846. Rumours of improper behaviour spread like wildfire on the respectable Blythswood Squar..

Oscar Hammerstein is asked to write the lyrics to a musical based on the life of Maria von Trapp: a ..

England 1450s. Queen Margaret knows she must protect the crown - and her son Prince Edward's claim t..

A retelling of one of literature's great novels Oliver Twist from the point of view of Nancy one of ..

Things change; we have to recognise that; the world will not stay still. What we must hope is that t..

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