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March 1944, West London: it’s been five months since Verity Clement fled home for a life on Britain’s canals and she could never...

War lands them in the same boat. Can they pull together?

October 1943, West London
Nineteen-year-old Polly Holmes is leaving...

East Kent, 1876

With doting parents and siblings she adores, sixteen-year-old Rose Cheevers leads a contented life at Willow...

East Kent, 1830. Catherine Rook takes her peaceful life for granted. Her days are spent at the village school and lending a hand...

Liverpool, 1940: There comes a moment in every child’s life when they must learn to stand on their own two feet.

For...

Sunderland, 1941
As the world war continues the shipyard girls face hardships at home, but work and friendship give them...

1941: it takes strength to work on the docks, but the war demands all hands on deck and the women are doing their best to fill...

Sunderland, 1940, and the women go to the shipyards to do their bit for the war effort.

Polly never dreamed she would be able...

1941: the S.S. Benbecula is already old when she is turned into an armed merchant cruiser,.

Yet even she is needed to protect...

Memories are short on HMS Royston - they have to be.

As mother ship to a battered, war-torn bunch of MTBs she must carry out...

Twenty-five years ago, HMS Terrapin was part of a crack hunter-killer group in the Battle of the Atlantic. Now she is working out...

The Allies are poised for the invasion of Italy.

Yet the Germans hold a vital card: a floating dock - the only one in the...

'An enthralling adventure story, honest and powerful. The Wars of the Roses are imagined here with energy, with ferocity, with...

Effie Grey has fallen on hard times since the death of her husband. Forced to live on a narrowboat owned by her tyrannical...

East London, 1865

Eighteen-year-old Irene Angel lives with her parents in a tiny room above the shop where her mother ekes out...

When Hetty Huggins made a promise to her dying mother that she would look after her younger sister and brothers, little did she...

Despite living by the side of the Thames, with its noise, disease and dirt, eighteen-year-old Rosina May has wanted for little in...

The enthralling saga set in turn-of-the-twentieth-century London from the Sunday Times bestselling author.

Gifted with a...

The Thames carried him away from her, but would it bring him home...?

Twelve-year-old Eliza Bragg has known little in life but...

'I aint always going to be poor, I made me mind up to that.'

Dismissed from her position as housemaid under a cloud of...

A powerful saga set in turn-of-the-twentieth-century London from the Sunday Times bestselling author.

For Ruby and Rosetta...

Iron Curtain. A Love StoryTwo worlds on the brink of change in a love story doomed to disaster

Milena is a Red Princess living...

What if your son was the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll?

From the moment she first holds him, Gladys Presley loves her son Elvis...

‘A masterly work of profound research and reflection, objective and humane’ Hugh Trevor-Roper, Sunday Telegraph

What would...

The epic new novel from the bestselling author of Birdsong

'Wistful, yearning and wise' Elizabeth Day

1914: Aspiring...

Summer, 1967. As London shimmers in a heat haze and swoons to the sound of Sergeant Pepper, a mystery film – Eureka – is being...

Freya Wyley meets Nancy Holdaway amid the wild celebrations of VE Day, the prelude to a devoted and competitive...

1815: The war is over but for the inmates at Dartmoor Prison, peace - like home - is still a long way away.

On the eve of the...

What do you do next, after you’ve changed the world?

It is 1928. Matilda Simpkin, rooting through a cupboard, comes across a...

Some three thousand years ago, in a time before history, the warriors of Greece journeyed to the ends of the earth in the...