A gentle romance begins innocently enough in the stalls of a London theatre where Catherine is enjoying her ninth and Christopher his thirty-sixth visit to the same play. He is a magnificent young...

The Delaneys have the reputation of being difficult guests. When they arrive, order departs, chaos reigns.

Maria, Niall and Celia have grown up in the shadow of their famous parents –...

In the title story, we find Wallis Simpson aged and bedridden, forbidden to leave the house by her Paris lawyer who will not allow anyone, friend or foe, to visit her.

Rose Tremain...

It is the late 1960s, and for Persephone Plover, the daughter of distant and absent parents, her innocent days of childhood are long past. Now she must deal with an adult world.

It's the mid 1960s and James Bond's beloved Miss Moneypenny combines forces with him to smoke out a mole that she is convinced is buried deep in the heart of MI6. Her dangerous mission takes her...

Inspired by an old photograph album to investigate the life of a lost relative, a man finds himself on a journey that traverses the 20th century, leading him from an American asylum to the shores...

Three 'witness' insights into history. In 'That Door' by Elizabeth Kuti (read by Eleanor Bron), it is Wittenberg, 1517 and Brother Martin meets the indomitable Frau Sprenger. In 'Nothing but Blue...

Agnes Meadowes is cook to the Blanchards of Foster Lane, the renowned silversmiths. Her quiet world of culinary activity, preparing jugged hare, oyster loaves, almond soup and other delicacies for...

It began in a women's club in London on a February afternoon. A discreet advertisement in The Times, addressed to 'Those who Appreciate Wistaria and Sunshine...' lures four very different women...

Eugenia, an American expatriate brought up in Europe, arrives in rural New England with her charming brother Felix, hoping to find a wealthy second husband after the collapse of her marriage to a...

May’s second marriage to Colonel Herbert Brown–Lacey is turning out to be a terrible mistake. Her children find the colonel’s presence oppressive and leave home; Oliver to drift from one...

'The Sea Change' is a beautiful and unusual novel concerned with four people: a 61-year-old playwright who is half-Irish, half-Jewish; his younger wife who has a weak heart and is unable to...

On a freezing January morning in 1961, eight-year-old Anna’s mother disappears into the fog forever. Looking back, Anna will wish that she could have paid more attention to the facts of that...