There are many reasons to bake: to feed; to create; to impress; to nourish; to define ourselves; and, sometimes, it has to be...

Set during the Jacobite Risings of 1715 and 1745, this is the story of Charles Radcliffe, a brave and devoted follower of the...

In the wake of World War Two, the whole country is desperate for houses, with very little money available to rebuild. In the town...

1945 - the war in Europe is over. It should be a time of utter joy and celebration.

Most women can't wait for their men to...

1358. Oswald de Lacy, Lord Somershill, is in Venice, awaiting a pilgrim galley to the Holy Land. While the city is under siege...

1807. Captain Sir Thomas Kydd's famous sea action aboard Tyger has snatched his reputation from ignominy. He is the hero of the...

America spins into chaos as the last remnants of political consensus break apart. Against a background of environmental disaster...

'It's a small village is Barton-in-the-Dale, Mrs Stirling,' said the shopkeeper. 'You ought to know that by now. Nothing can be...

How far would you go to realise your dreams?

It's everyone's dream: to leave behind the rat-race of the working world and...

It is the dawn of a new world.

Henry Tudor has vanquished Richard III and claimed the throne of England, taking possession of...

1483: A secret war is born...

Jack Wynter is trapped in sun-baked Seville, sent there by his father with a locked box he's...

London, 1728. A young, well-dressed man is driven through streets of jeering onlookers to the gallows at Tyburn. They call him a...

After years of fighting in the desert sun - and secretly working for peace with the Brethren - Will Campbell returns to find his...

When tragedy strikes the small mountain village of Fogas in the French Pyrenees, the residents must once more rally round to...

It's summertime in the French Pyrenees and the mountain commune of Fogas is en fete. But Christian Dupuy has no time for the...

The village of Much Hemlock has always been a right-wing stronghold. British. Solid. Traditional.

Then they move in. They're...

Through thick mist and a cold east wind, Lavinia returns to Scotland. Up at the big house Mrs Farquhar is dying. Seeing Lachlan...

On the last day of her mother's life, Rebecca learns she has a family in Cornwall, and sets out to find the grandfather and...

Zoe and Max Baxter spent ten years trying to get pregnant, until the heartbreak of their failure finally broke their marriage...

The countryside of England and Wales in the Dark Ages forms an almost tangible background to this wonderfully and powerfully...

The Tungrians have no sooner returned to Rome than they find themselves tasked with a very different mission to their desperate...

The eighth book in the Empire sequence takes Centurion Marcus Aquila and his Tungrian legion on a dangerous mission to the heart...

Dr Paul Allen is a well-respected man. He lives a happy, comfortable life with his second wife and their family. Until the night...

Letters from the only man she's ever loved.
A keepsake of the father she never knew.
Or just a beautiful glass vase that...

When Stephanie brains an intruder with a stale baguette, she doesn't realise she has assaulted the new owner of the village...

Dr Aziz is a young Muslim physician in the British Indian town of Chandrapore. One evening he comes across an English woman, Mrs...

When Kate Herrick's grandmother asks her to travel down from Scotland to her childhood home in Todhall to retrieve some papers...

The isolated cottage on the remote Hebridean island of Moila seemed like an ideal away-from-it-all retreat for writer Rose...

Juliet had just moved into her dream home when things started going wrong. First with then house itself, then putting everything...

More than a decade ago, Thomas Kydd and Nicholas Renzi were in the Caribbean as sailors before the mast in the old Trajan. Now...