Now the sunlit days of childish games and family picnics are over, as the shadows of war roll in to cloud the lives of the Cazalets. At Home Place, in the heart of the Sussex countryside, the...

The shy young Duke of Sale has never known his parents. Instead, his Grace Adolphus Gillespie Vernon Ware or Gilly for short has endured twenty-four years of rigorous mollycoddling from his uncle...

The Duchess of Richmond’s ball - Brussels, June 15th, 1815 - the eve of Waterloo. There is still time for romance, for the lovely, shocking young widow, Lady Barbara Childe, to trifle with...

The Earl of Spenborough has always been noted for his eccentricity. Leaving a widow younger than his own daughter Serena is one thing, but quite another is leaving Serena’s fortune to the...

Liverpool, 1937. Jessica is married to Bertie, a mean, patronising man who she has stayed with purely for the sake of her two young children. To make up for the love and passion that is missing...

Finding so young and pretty a girl as Amanda wandering unattended, Sir Gareth Ludlow knows it is his duty as a man of honour to restore her to her family. But it is to prove no easy task for the...

When Cully Stewart died, his family were devastated. For without Cully’s steadfast spirit, Meg, his wife, and their children all found that life was much more difficult.Meg, lonely and...

It is in regrettable circumstances that beautiful Judith Taverner and her brother Peregrine first encounter Julian St John Audley. The man, they both agree, is an insufferably arrogant dandy....

It’s 1946, after the end of WWII, and Christina Tucker decides to take a nursing job in the small town of Longstock, Wisconsin and to pursue the life she had wanted before the war’s outbreak....

Sir Waldo Hawkridge, wealthy, handsome, eligible, illustrious, and known as The Nonesuch for his athletic prowess, believes he is past the age of falling in love. But when he comes north to...

For sixteen-year-old Mary Harris, growing up in Rotherhithe in 1934 has its ups and downs.

She has a good job in a biscuit factory and a best friend, Liz, who's fun to be with, but...

When paratrooper Corporal Reith Douglas received a head injury in Greece during the Second World War, he might well have anticipated a hero’s welcome on his return home. But it would have helped...

Set in the Regency period, this is a classic tale of misunderstood love and an arranged marriage.

Life in the Glasgow tenements was never easy, but life for Beth is becoming increasingly harsh. In wartime, everyone grabs what brief happiness they can and, in Beth's case, she finds herself...

Society believes the worst of Justin Alastair, the notorious Duke of Avon, who is clearly proud of his sobriquet, ‘Satanas’. It is he who buys Léon body and soul from a scoundrel in a Paris...