In January 2014 I was informed that I had cancer. However Quicksand is not a book about death and de..

Limehouse 1880: Dancing girls are going missing from “Paradise” - the criminal manor run with ru..

Penelope Devereux is a legendary beauty in the court of Elizabeth but it's not just her looks which ..

1554: Lady Jane Grey is executed by her cousin Queen Mary. Now Lady Jane's younger sisters Katherine..

Rich in atmosphere and period detail and told through the eyes of Katherine Parr and her young maid ..

Calcutta 1837. The East India Company rules India - or most of it; and its most notorious and celebr..

Imagine a helpless pregnant 16-year-old who's just been yanked from the serenity of her home and sho..

At just 18 Lucrezia Borgia the alluring daughter of the Pope has already had her life touched by dis..

In a castle in the mountains outside Rome Lucrezia Borgia is born into history's most notorious fami..

Susan Frobisher and Julie Wickham are turning 60. On the surface Susan has it all - a lovely house a..

Malaya 1955. Lydia Cartwright returns from visiting a sick friend to an empty house. The servants ar..

Nineteen-year-old Gwendolyn Hooper steps off a steamer in Ceylon eager to join her new husband. But ..

Welcome to the party pull up a chair take your ease and join Tom king of the Cattle Market bank bran..

Holly Swift has just landed the job of her dreams: events co-ordinator at Wickham Hall the beautiful..

A takeaway TV and tea with two sugars is about as exciting as it gets for thirty-something Sophie St..