1939. Seventeen-year-old Nora Jennings has spent her life secure in the certainty of a bright happy ..

1941. With the men away fighting animal-lover Hettie Quin is made Belfast Zoo's first ever female zo..

Shortly before Bel's marriage to Ellis Brownlee her friend Louise Armstrong goes house hunting for t..

August 1797. When Mary Wollstonecraft's labour begins everything appears normal and she anticipates ..

1901. When the Earl of Stainton dies in a tragic hunting accident Giles the eldest son of the noble ..

Italy 1921. Yacobo Levi an intellectual dreamer works in the family bookshop. Angelo Ghione a contad..

As Hitler's grip on power tightens preparations are being made for the Berlin Olympics. Leni Riefens..

When Kit and Red set foot on French soil during the Normandy landings they know they have to rely on..

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

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

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

When Englishwoman Frances McDonald sets up home in a remote South African hamlet she is regarded wit..

England 1238. Raised at the court of King Henry III as a chamber lady to the queen young Joanna of S..

1931. Fifteen-year-old Kate witnesses her mother Millicent push a stranger from a station platform i..

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