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..

August 1944: Over a thousand Japanese soldiers attempt to break out of a prisoner of war compound ne..

London 1941: A woman is found wandering and injured after an air raid. She remembers nothing of who ..

Valentina Yershova?s position in the Romanovs? Imperial Russian Ballet is the only thing keeping her..

1840. Twenty three years after the death of her famous sister Jane Cassandra Austen returns to the v..

As a young girl Ofelia stood frozen as her mother threw herself on her father's funeral pyre. Such i..

Elo?se Caussade idolises her brother Andr? and when he leaves to become an Intelligence Officer in P..

1939: Young Lily Shepherd boards an ocean liner in Essex bound for Australia. She is ready to start ..

The Fourth Shore: the sliver of fertile land along the Tripoli coast the 'lost' territory Mussolini ..

High above the Mediterranean on the French Riviera stands a beautiful pink stucco villa. Once a play..

London 1944. Clara Button is no ordinary librarian. While the world remains at war in East London Cl..

Oscar Hammerstein is asked to write the lyrics to a musical based on the life of Maria von Trapp: a ..

At age 14 Princess Salome knows she will soon be ready for marriage - one that will satisfy the ambi..

Paris 1789. The Oberst Factory which crafts exquisite wallpaper for the most fashionable French home..