Summer 1643. England is at war with itself. King Charles I has fled London his negotiations with Par..

Spring 1648. When Thomas Hill a bookseller living in rural Hampshire publishes a political pamphlet ..

Spring 1661. After years of civil war followed by Cromwell?s joyless rule England awaits the coronat..

Lieutenant Douglas Lindsay is amongst just a handful of men picked up when his ship is torpedoed. U..

Shetland Detective Jimmy Perez knows it will be a difficult homecoming when he returns to Fair Isle...

When DI Vera Stanhope finds the body of a woman in the sauna room of her local gym she wonders brief..

DI Vera Stanhope is not one to make friends easily but she has more tolerance for her hippy neighbou..

1945. War is over and people are celebrating but in the small town of Rivenshaw in Lancashire Judith..

In the wake of World War Two the whole country is desperate for houses with very little money availa..

Germany 1939: Christa Sommer boards the Kindertransport unsure that she'll ever see her parents agai..

Leah Turner's father has been killed in an accident at the laundry and it falls to her to become sol..

Lancashire 1931. When Finn Carlisle loses his wife and unborn child he spends a few years travelling..

Lancashire 1932. Widower Harry Makepeace lives in Manchester with his sickly daughter Cathie scrimpi..

Lancashire 1934. When Tam Crawford is unexpectedly bequeathed some money he can finally realise his ..

Jo Melling has arrived in Birch End from Australia. She's not intending to stay long but after track..