In January 2014 I was informed that I had cancer. However Quicksand is not a book about death and de..

On 8th February 2016 Hunter Davies' wife Margaret Forster died of spinal cancer and in the days that..

This delightful memoir provides a unique `Upstairs Downstairs` account of what life was really like ..

On 17 August 1860 wealthy widow Mary Emsley was found dead at home killed by a blow to the head. Wha..

I used to love the rattle and whoosh of my grandma’s buttons as they scattered from their Quality ..

In June 1940 ten-year-old Pam Hobbs took the long journey from her council home in Leigh-on-Sea to f..

It's September 1945 and Billy Hopkins is off to London to train as a teacher with only ten bob in hi..

He is a sergeant-major in the SAS. His task is to snatch a defecting Russian star-wars scientist fro..

The wonderfully evocative memoir of life in an all-girls boarding school in Suffolk in the early 196..

It is 1945 and victory marches fill the streets of London. Brenda and her friends happy that at long..

In this wickedly funny sequel to MI5 and Me it is the 1950s and reluctant typist and spy's daughter ..

When George Mottershead moved to the village of Upton-by-Chester in 1930 to realise his dream of ope..

When Felix arrived at Huddersfield Railway Station as a kitten no one knew how important she would b..

Czechoslovakia October 1937. Vast crowds have gathered to watch the threatened nation's most prestig..

At long last the untold story of the mysterious Mrs Brontë. They were from different lands differen..