There's an old Cornish saying: 'Save a stranger from the sea, he'll turn your enemy...'

When her reclusive grandmother...

You can't escape your past. At least that's what the residents of Turnham Malpas would say…

While clearing out the rectory's...

'Someone had made a perfect job of creating a place in which to hide a notebook . . . there was no address, only a date:...

Nora's world has been turned upside-down. Escaping heart-break in London, she returns to her childhood home in Dublin where her...

Pisa, May 1364.

Sir William Gold is looking forward to a lucrative career as a hired sword in the endless warring between...

September, 1356. Poitiers. The greatest knights of the age were ready to give battle.

On the English side Edward, the Black...

Eileen is worried about the growing distance between herself and her RAF husband since he was seriously injured. Why does Nick...

1944. It is spring, late morning, when Flora's life changes for ever. She is standing on a platform in the Swiss mountains,...

To many he was a god. To others he was a monster. The truth is even more extraordinary.

As a boy, Alexander dreamed of...

Bath, 1821.

Rachel Crofton escapes her unhappy employment as a governess by marrying a self-made businessman. But her new life...

1880

Witches Adelaide Thom and Eleanor St Clair have opened a tea shop in Manhattan specialising in cures, palmistry and...

The latest book in the Burracombe series, Celebrations in Burracombe draws together many threads of life in the little Devonshire...

As a boy, William Bellman commits one small cruel act that appears to have unforeseen and terrible consequences. The killing of a...

Things are heating up in the village of Turnham Malpas. Now comfortably settled in the Big House, Johnny and Alice Templeton are...

The villagers of Turnham Malpas are in for a shock. With Sir Ralph now dead, his fortune and title go to newcomer, Johnny...

When Harry Dickenson arrives in Turnham Malpas, the warm welcome he receives convinces him to stay. Handsome and charming, Harry...

Jason Bourne takes a mission to rescue his only friend in the CIA, Martin Lindros, who disappeared in Africa while tracking...

Liverpool 1915. Martha Rossi lives in a tenement with her husband and their five children. Despite working all the hours she can,...

Personal tragedy has left Dave Robicheaux close to the edge. Battling against his old addiction to alcohol and haunted nightly by...

Maggie Storm promises herself that she will stand up for herself more. She spends her days cleaning houses for people who often...

Gangland was a man’s world – but the women knew different

London, 1946.

Alice Diamond, the Queen of the Forty Thieves,...

Can she deliver the hope they need?

London is putting itself back together and twenty-five-year-old Millie is at the forefront...

Can you ever really find the one after 'the one'?

Some people spend their whole lives trying to find the one. But Natalie had...

On the cusp of World War II, a young mother is faced with an impossible choice. Vera is a Russian Jewish emigre to France, newly...

Sometimes it's easy to fall between the cracks...

At 3.04 p.m. on a hot, sticky day in June, Bess finds out she's...

Thrush Green is buzzing with gossip, which everyone is keen to share with two ex-schoolteachers, who have returned to visit their...

When Miss Read took early retirement, she anticipated days of relaxation and calm. She couldn't have been more wrong! Instead she...

Charles Henstock, vicar of Thrush Green is living in his new vicarage after the old one burned down. In its place, eight...

Charles Henstock, rector of Thrush Green, has difficulty living up to his predecessor when he moves to the parish of Lulling. He...

Ellen has been living on her own in a picturesque if damp cottage in Cheshire since her husband abandoned her to go and live with...