1836. As the world stands on the cusp of a new Victorian era the liberated Clarissa FitzRoy travels ..

Bloomsbury Books has resisted change for a hundred years run by men and guided by the general manage..

Olivia Hanbury is widowed in the middle of WWI and reluctantly goes back to live with her parents. I..

During WWI Greyladies is requisitioned by the government as a POW internment centre. Harriet is now ..

Hampshire 1900. With the sudden death of her father the life of 15-year-old Harriet Benson changes f..

Wellington 1942. Lorna's older brothers are fighting overseas and as the war in the Pacific rages on..

1939. Europe is on the brink of change and in the fear and chaos of pre-war Italy a painting disappe..

From humble beginnings and a narrow escape from death in childhood William Marshall steadily rises t..

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

Five young Ayrtons all grew up at Amberwell playing in the gardens and preparing themselves to ventu..

Mrs Abbott is flustered at the thought of putting up a lady from the Red Cross but is happily surpri..

1966: Standing on the rugged Cornish coast Hallows Abbey can be a lonely place for the boys boardin..

Marriage to her publisher Arthur Abbott has done nothing to stop Barbara Buncle from involving herse..

Virginia 1749. Rosanna Waters is more comfortable catching grasshoppers for fishing bait than helpin..

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