January 1804. Anne Sharpe arrives at Godmersham Park in Kent to take up the position of governess. A..

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 ..

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

Ireland 1160. Aoife MacMurchada is just 14 years old when her father Diarmit King of Leinster is bru..

When Esther Thorel the wife of a Huguenot silk-weaver rescues Sara Kemp from a brothel the two women..

The Scottish Borders1888. A poacher is shot dead on the Ballantyre estate and stable hand James Doug..

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..

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..