How far would you go for love: a white lie, a small deceit, full-scale fraud...

When Charlotte Briggs' husband Ed is sent down...

Oxfordshire, 1947. Exhausted by the war and nursing a tragic secret, Kit Smallwood throws herself into helping her godmother...

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

In Washington DC, a homeless man dies in the arms of Commander Gray Pierce clutching a bloody coin in his hand - an ancient...

One forbidden night...

It's 1814 and nineteen-year-old Eliza Melrose, daughter of a printing magnate, is about to be launched...

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

London, 1946.

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

The start of something new...

When Kate is faced with an 'empty nest' when her youngest daughter, Ella, leaves for university,...

Some places you won't find on any maps. Others, are only on maps…

Nell Young hasn't spoken to her father, the world-respected...

For Floriana, it is the place where the love of her life is getting married to another woman. And she's been invited to the...

Can she deliver the hope they need?

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

Hannah is twenty-eight when the worst happens.

Her first instinct? To call her mum.

The problem is, her mum having an...

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...

Underbelly
[n.] singular
The soft underside or abdomen of a mammal.
An area vulnerable to attack.
A dark, hidden part of...

Love happens when you least expect it...

Assunta has given up on love. She might run her little trattoria in the most romantic...

The smallest things can make the biggest difference...

Veronica Beecham's cottage is the neatest house on Mapleberry Lane. A...

An enchanting mystery kept hidden for hundreds of years…

1700s

Rowan Caswell leaves her village to work at the home of an...

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...

It's the spring of 1968, the sun shines down on an America on the brink of civil war. Martin Luther King preaches in vain for...

Summer at Fairacre charmingly recounts this bright, bustling season and the problems and possibilities that unfold against the...

'People in Fairacre simply won't stand for their children being uprooted, and carted away in buses like so many - er, so...

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...

Dulcie Ballantyne knows that creative writers' groups attract an unlikely mix of people, so when she starts up Hidden Talents,...

It's almost Christmas. But for Ali, the season of good cheer is the anniversary of her baby's death. As she stands at her son's...

Hilary had always thought she'd lived a charmed life. With a caring husband, David and two lively children, she took an active...

Charlotte Lawrence, widowed at thirty-four, decides to return to all things pre-Peter, and that means moving back to the Cheshire...