Anthony Trollope finds the beautiful city of Barchester idyllic on visiting it for the first time. T..

1929. On receipt of an unexpected inheritance small-time crook Horace Butterfield buys a large house..

Scotland 1722: on a windswept island an enigmatic poetess foretells tragedy and the birth of an extr..

1938. As England awaits the outbreak of war Juliet Winterton journeys from the Mediterranean to the ..

In 1897 four-year-old Lucy Thornbury’s parents are killed in a train crash. Taken in by her kindly..

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With husband Tim stationed in Egypt and her children at boarding school Hester Christie —affection..

Hester Christie has spent a blissful 18 months living in Kenya where husband Tim is posted. But now ..

Young Frances Field arrives in a scenic coastal village in Scotland having escaped her dreary life a..

1555. A priest has been stabbed to death in the village of St Botolph his body left to rot by the ro..

London 1818. MP Sir Roger Mellanby attends a performance of Macbeth at Covent Garden featuring Hanna..

Manchester 1922. Molly Watson has had enough. Engaged for the last three years to a penny-pinching p..

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Nell Golightly is living out her widowhood in Cambridgeshire when she receives a strange request. A ..

Crime is a man's business so they say though not according to Queenie Dove. A self-proclaimed genius..