In November 1944 Bologna's bomb-scarred streets are filled with starving refugees fleeing the advanc..

Tudor Close Hotel Rottingdean is the most glamorous venue of the season. Virginia and Vanessa usuall..

1929. Blinded war veteran Frederick Rowlands has escaped the bustle of London to establish a secure ..

Paris 1933. Two days before Christmas the express train to Strasbourg crashes into a local train in ..

Summer 1948. London swelters amid post-war reconstruction while continued rationing and the black-ma..

South-east London 1925. Talented ambitious designer-dressmaker Rose Burnham knows well both the stra..

Yorkshire 1969. Nell Lewis is four months into her new role as governor of HMP Brackerley when the p..

September 1920. A young bride is discovered dead at a country house on her wedding day. Has she fall..

March 1941. World War Two is well underway and the Blitz is taking its toll on Central London with b..

January 1939. When young Amy Rowlings meets Detective Sergeant Bodkin at the scene of a robbery on t..

March 1918. British newspapers carry the dreadful news that the German Spring Offensive has begun wi..

January 1922 and the Bangalore Constabulary is on high alert. The Prince of Wales is scheduled to vi..

A house full of academics should imply calm and quiet but much to housekeeper Harriet Rowsley's dism..

October 1861 England. Harriet and Matthew Rowsley the housekeeper and estate manager of Thorncroft H..

May 1931. For blind First World War veteran Frederick Rowlands the craze for flying holds little int..