Hettie is an orphan, taken in by Ellie Pride and her husband to their Preston home. But she has never felt she truly belonged. Hettie has a special gift - a beautiful singing voice - and, on the...

Glen Barber isn’t the only person in the small town of Milford with things on his mind. The recession has been bad for his construction business, especially after a mysterious fire destroys one...

The Lazenders, a gilded family, have been the envy and pride of Britain for centuries. But Toby Lazender, the heir, is now mysteriously absent. His sister, Campion, is running the family estates....

It is 1983, and young Nick Guest has moved into the Notting Hill home of the Feddens: Gerald, an ambitious new Tory MP, his wealthy wife Rachel, and their children Toby and Catherine. Nick had...

Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, the third Roman Emperor, is better known by another name: Caligula, a name synonymous with decadence, cruelty and madness.

Rufus, a young...

The year is 885, and England is at peace, divided between the Danish kingdom to the north and the Saxon kingdom of Wessex in the south. Uhtred, the dispossessed son of a Northumbrian lord, warrior...

On a rainy night in 1920, Brenna Caffrey, her husband and their two young sons arrive at Liverpool docks from Ireland. They have come in search of a better life. Then Brenna, who is expecting her...

‘The Loop’ is the story of Helen Ross, a twenty–nine–year–old biologist sent alone to the hostile Rocky Mountain ranching town of Hope, Montana to protect a pack of wolves from those...

In the big old house overlooking the sea, five small children listened as their mother read them a story. Theirs was an idyllic childhood, as they played on the beach, in the gardens and the...

Harry’s babyhood was blighted by a brutal stepfather. However, when he was five his mother, Sali, finally met and married a decent man – Lloyd Evans, a Rhondda coal miner. Loved and cosseted...

In World War Two, HMS Terrapin was part of a crack hunter/killer group in the Battle of the Atlantic. Now she is working out her last commission in the Gulf of Thailand. To Lieutenant Commander...

Rose Alley is one of Liverpool’s worst slums – a place where hunger, filth and violence are a way of life.

It’s no place for proud Queenie Logan and her daughter Gillyflower. And...

Glasgow in the 1920s. World War I ended well for the Franklins, prosperous Clydeside shipbuilders.

But trouble is brewing behind their respectable façade: Lindsay Franklin...

Joyce Conway remembers things she shouldn’t. She knows about tiny cobbled streets in Paris, which she has never visited. And every night she dreams about an unknown little girl with blonde hair....

Spring, 1792. A troubled peace with France means that even a frigate captain as famous as Richard Bolitho is forced to swallow his pride and visit the Admiralty daily to plead for a ship. But, as...