The crime of rape calls out for vengeance, but when the accused is a police officer the outcry and the penalty are worse. Prosecutor Helen West doesn’t even like the officer accused, the...

Richard Beaumont hoped to see the rarest species of crow on the white cliffs of Dover. Instead, he saw a young woman jump to her death, so that is the scene he painted.

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As the summer of 1899 gives way to autumn, Lord Dilberne's decision to remain in Belgrave Square rather than move the household to the ancestral acres of Dilberne Court sends out ripples of...

Anna Del Conte brought Italian cooking to Britain at a time when the nearest most of us came to pasta was a tinned spaghetti hoop. Sharply observant, evocative, full of tastes and talk of food,...

Trisha had been rich and Trisha had been poor, and she knew it was better to be rich. But now she was poor again; not just poor but stripped of her identity. She is to swap sex, and her very soul...

Two families, two tragedies. Separated by time, linked by an enduring curse...

In Renaissance Florence, a young painter visits the Medici palace, seemingly to paint Lorenzo de...

Rome in the 1950s - narrow stone streets, the fountains and piazzas full of life in the heat of the day, the cafes and bars full of music and desire by night... Serafina has grown up with her...

Sarah Fortune’s surname has visited her domestic arrangements—an ex-lover has bequeathed her a flat in London’s Fitzrovia. Here she lives alone, unfettered by her past career as a lawyer,...