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1809. After his heroic actions during the retreat to Corunna, Captain Sir Thomas Kydd is the toast of London society. Here he...

November 1807. Captain Sir Thomas Kydd must sail to Lisbon to aid the Portuguese Royal Family's evacuation in the face of...

Mr Chipping is a quiet, unassuming teacher at Brookfield Grammar School - a wholly conventional schoolteacher who never veers...

Scotland,1893. Nineteen-year-old Evelyn Ballantyre, the daughter of a wealthy landowner, has rarely strayed from her family's...

Alex Fox knows there are lots of thing she should be. She should be the perfect wife to her chronically ill husband Sam, and the...

1627. In a notorious historical event, pirates raided the coast of Iceland and abducted 400 people into slavery in Algiers. Among...

When the meaning of 'home' is complicated, we strive for a sense of connection.

Yet sometimes being alone feels like the...

Bernadette knows what she wants.

Tim is perfect, and she's always had a feeling that something is about to happen between...

That was the start of it. A terrible business altogether. Oh, it was all kept off the news, for the sake of the talks and the...

Lose yourself again in the heady, mythical expanse of the Vorrh.

In the tradition of China Mieville, Michael Moorcock and...

Alva Smith, her Southern family destitute after the Civil War, marries into one of America's great Gilded Age dynasties: the...

At 9 am on 31st December a man gets onto the packed escalator of a metro station and fires a silenced machine gun through a paper...

After saving the Empire's richest province from a foreign army, Marcus and the men who protect him have been in hiding. Their...

After saving the emperor's life in Rome, Marcus and his comrades have been sent across the sea to the wealthy, corrupt Greek...

With his compelling Centurions trilogy complete, Anthony Riches returns to his bestselling Empire sequence of novels with his...

A British cabinet minister is gunned down on a London street by an IRA assassin. In the wake of national outcry, the authorities...

Agu is just a boy when war arrives at his village. His mother and sister are rescued by the UN, while he and his father remain to...

Veteran BBC reporter William Carver is in Cairo, bang in the middle of the Arab Spring. 'The only story in the world' according...

Kabul, Afghanistan.

In a brilliantly plotted contemporary thriller with echoes of Graham Greene and John le Carre, William...

Father Frank Docherty has had his run-ins with the church authorities: in the early 1970s, he was expelled from the Sydney...

On the island of St Helena in the south Atlantic ocean, Napoleon spends his last years in exile. It is a hotbed of gossip and...

The murder was meant as a punishment - but what sin could justify the method?

The only person who might have answers is the...

Ephram Jennings has never forgotten the beautiful girl with the long braids running through the piney woods of Liberty, their...

When war is declared, Mary North leaves finishing school unfinished, goes straight to the War Office, and signs up.

Tom Shaw...

The Words In My Hand is the re-imagined true story of Helena Jans, a Dutch maid in 17th-century Amsterdam, who works for Mr...

In a moment of nerve-shredding suspense that will affect many thousands of lives, a handful of men and women converge on a barren...

It is 1860 in Bilsden, the Lancashire mill town, and Frederick Hallam is dying. But first he makes secret plans to smooth the...

In 1858 Annie Hallam has at last found complete happiness. She has three healthy babies and adores her husband Frederick. After...

It's 1848 and preparations are underway for Annie Gibson's wedding to Bilsden's wealthy millwoner, Frederick Hallam. But not...

Germany 1939, and Christa Sommer boards the Kindertransport, unsure that she'll ever see her beloved mother and father...