1126. Heulwen daughter of Welsh Marcher baron Guyon FitzMiles has grown up with her father's ward Ad..

Scotland 1722: on a windswept island an enigmatic poetess foretells tragedy and the birth of an extr..

All families have their myths and legends. For many years Juliet Nicolson accepted hers - the danger..

Nineteen-year-old April Wilton has just enlisted in the WRENs in Portsmouth where she works servicin..

In the spring of 1939 two determined 24-year-olds Heather Jenner and Mary Oliver decided to open a m..

A tip-off leading to the discovery of a young woman’s body throws Harry Vicary and his team into a..

1938. As England awaits the outbreak of war Juliet Winterton journeys from the Mediterranean to the ..

A middle-aged man jumps under a tube train at Shepherd's Bush station and a teenage girl is killed i..

After 30 years at St Oswald’s Grammar in North Yorkshire Latin master Roy Straitley has seen all k..

After a stray bomb destroyed his childhood home the only thing that has kept Francis Brady going is ..

In 1897 four-year-old Lucy Thornbury’s parents are killed in a train crash. Taken in by her kindly..

Pentonville Prison. Wally Hibbert is serving a long sentence for arson. But after befriending and tr..

Cornwall: 1793. Rose Pengelly's father has been ruined - he has lost his boat yard and his fortune p..

January 1554. Light-fingered Jack Blackjack knows he's not going to have a good day when he wakes wi..

The youngest of five siblings Lottie Mortimer has never felt like she belonged. Her mother died shor..