A personal and powerful essay from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie the bestselling author of Americanah and..

On a summer's day in 1596 a young girl in Stratford-upon-Avon takes to her bed with a fever. Her twi..

In 1964 the eccentric American novelist Patricia Highsmith is hiding out in a cottage in Suffolk to ..

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Mallika is a painfully shy young woman growing up in the heart of a close-knit sometimes stifling Ne..

Cynthia was just about to turn sixteen when the unthinkable happened. Her mother was taken away by t..

Alice Samuel might be old and sharp-tongued but she's no fool. Visiting her new neighbours in her Fe..

Florence the 1560s. Lucrezia third daughter of Cosimo de' Medici is free to wander the palazzo at wi..

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At 3p.m. on a Saturday afternoon in 1911 Oskar Johansson is caught in a blast in an industrial accid..

Twins Aaron and Clive have been estranged for 40 years. Aaron still lives in the empty crumbling tow..

It is in 1950s Brighton that Marion first catches sight of Tom. He teaches her to swim in the shadow..