In March 1808, as Napoleon holds Portugal and threatens his old ally Spain, Vice-Admiral Sir Richard Bolitho is dispatched once more to the Cape of Good Hope to establish a permanent naval force...

December 1917. Germany opens the final, bitter round of the war with a new and deadly weapon in the struggle for the seas _x001A_ the Vulcan sails from Kiel Harbor. To all appearances she is a...

In 'The Colditz Story', Pat Reid told the story of the escape academy that sprang up inside the most impregnable German POW camp of the Second World War, ending appropriately with his own...

Inspired by a true story, the bestselling author of In Country offers a gorgeous, haunting novel about an airline pilot coming to terms with his past, and searching for the people who saved him...

Anton Lesser and Anna Madeley star in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of the fourth novel in Lindsey Davis's bestselling series featuring Roman private eye Falco.The Iron Hand of Mars...

With the outbreak of the American Revolution, Abigail Lovell's family is torn apart—while her schoolmaster father is an outspoken loyalist and prominent figurehead in the community, she and her...

Spithead, 1784. His Majesty's frigate, Undine, sets sail for India and the seas beyond. Europe may be at peace - but in colonial waters the promises of statesmen count for little and the bloody...

Conceived as an invincible defence against enemy commerce raiders, the battlecruiser was hailed as a triumph. Designed to outrun and outshoot its opponents, its weakness was exposed at the Battle...

Where better to enjoy the last days of summer than on the beautiful Bay of Naples? All along the coast, the Roman Empire’s richest citizens are relaxing in their luxurious villas. The world’s...

When Harriet Unwin takes the position of governess in the well-to-do Thackerton household, it would seem that fortune has smiled on her at last. That is until William Thackerton is found stabbed,...

Paris, 1945. A manhunt is raging across the liberated city, conducted by the British, American and French intelligence services.

One man is more eager than most to find the quarry:...

Returning to Rome after his mission to Germania, Falco finds that his mother is being harassed by a centurion named Censorinus, who says he is chasing a debt owed to him by Falco’s brother...

This is the story of the Hasting family - their secrets, their loves and losses, dreams and heartbreaks - captured in a seamless series of individual moments that span the years between the first...

April 1778, English Harbour, Antigua. As the French enter the American War of Independence in earnest, young Richard Bolitho is given his first command: Sparrow—a fast, well-armed fighting...

Marcus Didius Falco and his laddish friend Petronius find their local fountain has been blocked -- by a gruesomely severed human hand. Soon other body parts are being found in the aqueducts and...