North Atlantic Ocean 1942. Fifteen-year-old Connie is leaving war-torn England for the safer shores ..

Dear Mr Bigelow is an enchanting collection of weekly letters written between 1949 and 1961 from an ..

Simla 1922 and the summer capital of the British Raj is fizzing with the energy of the Jazz Age. Sim..

Winter in South Dakota. Blowing snow icy roads a tired driver. A bus crashes and is stranded in a ga..

In June 1940 ten-year-old Pam Hobbs took the long journey from her council home in Leigh-on-Sea to f..

Polly living in grinding poverty loses her mother in childbirth and finds herself alone on the stree..

The events of 9/11 changed Jack Reacher’s drifter lifestyle. In addition to his folding toothbrush..

Suicide bombers are easy to spot. They give out all kinds of tell-tale signs. Mostly because they’..

Reacher orders coffee in a foam cup not china - that way he can move on at a moment’s notice. He o..

Two small towns in Colorado: Hope and Despair. Between them: nothing but twelve miles of empty road...

Jennifer Worth was just 22 when she volunteered to spend her early years of midwifery training in th..

In the 1950s Jennifer Worth was a district midwife in East London. She worked with an order of nursi..

Written nearly 50 years ago Barbara Cartland's Etiquette Handbook conjures up a time when addressing..

When the ex-Queen Nicoletta of Hirtenstein Gregory's redoubtable grandmother summons him to Rome he ..

Young Mikey Quinn scavenging on the streets of Hull is thrown into prison for stealing a rabbit from..