Inspector Montalbano is awake at dawn sitting on his porch when his attention is caught by a seagull..

1976: friends Marcus and Ruth go missing during an overland bus trip to Kathmandu. A generation late..

To many Queen Victoria is a ruler shrouded in myth and mystique portrayed as an ageing stiff widow. ..

Poland suffered terribly under the Nazis. By the end of the war six million had been killed. On 1 Au..

Alison is as close to anonymous as she can get; hers is a life lived under the radar. But once Aliso..

1945. The Red Army tears through Europe towards Berlin exacting vengeance while the British and the ..

Jenny has been in love with the handsome and successful Matthew Ward since she was 16 only she was t..

Taken in by her grandparents to ease the pressure on her family Katie Benfield dreams of pursuing a ..

Sicily 1880. When a stranger arrives in Vigata the town's inhabitants immediately become unsettled. ..

Following a disastrous marriage to a miner Karen has devoted herself to a nursing career. Rising to ..

The Roman Emperor Aurelian has defeated Queen Zenobia and crushed the Palmyran revolt. Faridun's Ban..

Obsessed by the solar religions of the east the emperor Aurelian sets out to obtain every sacred obj..

When Esther's childhood best friend Isabella dies of cancer she is devastated. Years later she is br..

London 1869: The body of a middle-aged man is found tangled in a mass of rope and wooden wreckage ne..

London 1934. Doreen Bates is working in the same office as E an older married man. They strike up a ..