The hidden true story of Jewish women who inspired Poland's Jewish youth groups to resist the Nazis

One of the most important...

One night Melanie walks through the garden in her mother's wedding dress. The next morning her world is shattered. Forced to...

Dauntless Liza Jarrett, born at the dawn of the twentieth century, is now in her eighties, frail and facing eviction with her...

In the final novel of her stunning trilogy, Mary Renault vividly imagines the life of Alexander the Great, the charismatic leader...

'I did a dreadful thing, the worst thing of my life, when I was twelve and a half years old, and nothing can change it'

It is...

Newly married and with a baby on the way, Jacy has everything she ever wanted. When she and her husband, Jed, go to visit his...

In September 1941, a young American woman strides up the steps of a hotel in Lyon, Vichy France. Her papers say she is a...

It is 1964 and Maya Angelou is on her way back home, leaving behind her beloved - and now seriously teenage son Guy, to finish...

At the Golden Sunset retirement home, it is not unusual for residents to invent stories. So when elderly Ms Mook first begins to...

One of the most brilliant writers of her day, George Eliot (1819-1880) was also one of the most talked about. Intellectual and...

A Wild & True Relation opens during the Great Storm of 1703, as smuggler Tom West confronts his lover Grace for betraying him to...

Born in 1831, Isabella, daughter of a clergyman, set off alone to the Antipodes in 1872 'in search of health' and found she had...

A.L. Barker dissects the unnerving emotions of everyday life with the sly humour and exquisite feel for language that prompted...

When the beautiful, ambitious actress Regina takes Fosca into her life and learns his amazing truth, she is obsessed with the...

Shortly before the Second World War, a column by 'Mrs Miniver' appeared in
The Times, the first of many recounting the everyday...

To his parents' dismay, Colin Keith - out of the noble but misplaced sense of duty peculiar to high-minded young university...

On a rainy Sunday in January, the recently widowed Mrs Palfrey arrives at the Claremont Hotel where she will spend her remaining...

1570 in the Italian city of Ferrara. Sixteen-year-old Serafina is fipped by her family from an illicit love affair and forced...

Pretty, impecunious Mary Preston, newly arrived as a guest of her Aunt Agnes at the magnificent wooded estate of Rushwater, falls...

Lila, homeless and alone after years of roaming the countryside, steps inside a small-town Iowa church - the only available...

Meet Penelope O'Shaughnessy, Harvard freshman.

Armed with her Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights poster and party conversation...

'The motto was Pax but the word was set in a circle of thorns. Peace, but what a strange peace, made of unremitting toil and...

Harriet is caught between two worlds: her older sister is no longer a playmate, her brother is still a little boy. And the...

By the end of the fifteenth century, the beauty and creativity of Italy is matched only by its brutality and corruption. When...

When newly orphaned Cassandra Dashwood arrives as governess to little Sophy, the scene seems set for the archetypal romance...

Spending the holiday with friends, as she has for many years, Camilla finds that their private absorptions - Frances with her...

The soldier returns from the front to the three women who love him. His wife, Kitty, with her cold, moonlight beauty, and his...

An orphan poses nervously for a Renaissance maestro in medieval Siena and an artist's servant girl in seventeenth-century...

When Rainclouds Gather: Escaping South Africa and his troubled past, Makehaya crosses the border to Botswana, in the hope of...

Life is not quite a fairytale for poor Viola. Left penniless, the young widow is forced to live with her late husband s family in...