High above the Mediterranean on the French Riviera stands a beautiful pink stucco villa. Once a play..
Gallipoli 1916. Lovat Scout soldier Donald Peter Gillies lies in hospital blinded by the Turks. Ther..
From what is it they flee?' He took a while to reply. By the time he spoke the men had gone inside. ..
After joining the Lovat Scouts at the outbreak of the Second World War Donald Angus Gillies is sent ..
Liverpool 1940. There comes a moment in every child’s life when they must learn to stand on their ..
When Esther Thorel the wife of a Huguenot silk-weaver rescues Sara Kemp from a brothel the two women..
In 1887 Isabel Bilton is the eldest of three daughters of a middle-class family. Escaping the countr..
Rome AD 41. Caligula has been assassinated and the Praetorian Guard have proclaimed Claudius Emperor..
Rome AD 68. Vespasian is tasked with the impossible: should he quell the revolt in Judaea as the emp..
Eloïse Caussade idolises her brother André and when he leaves to become an Intelligence Officer in..
Valentina Yershova’s position in the Romanovs’ Imperial Russian Ballet is the only thing keeping..
Rome AD 63. Vespasian has been ordered to a far-flung empire in Africa to free two hundred Roman cit..
Ardnish 1944. On his deathbed Donald John Gillies sends for a priest to hear his last confession. Wa..
1840. Twenty three years after the death of her famous sister Jane Cassandra Austen returns to the v..
1864: Suddenly left as the head of the family Kitty McKenzie must find her inner strength to keep he..