Gosport 1943. Eadie Joy and Maureen are all doing their bit to help Britain win the war. Their work ..

Liverpool 1942. As the threat of war draws closer Isla Donahue seeks solace in her sweetheart Rory. ..

Gilly Jenkins is the third generation to bake for her family firm. Also on Bread Street in the same ..

Dear Mr Bigelow is an enchanting collection of weekly letters written between 1949 and 1961 from an ..

Winter in South Dakota. Blowing snow icy roads a tired driver. A bus crashes and is stranded in a ga..

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

Polly living in grinding poverty loses her mother in childbirth and finds herself alone on the stree..

The events of 9/11 changed Jack Reacher’s drifter lifestyle. In addition to his folding toothbrush..

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Reacher orders coffee in a foam cup not china - that way he can move on at a moment’s notice. He o..

Two small towns in Colorado: Hope and Despair. Between them: nothing but twelve miles of empty road...

Jennifer Worth was just 22 when she volunteered to spend her early years of midwifery training in th..

In the 1950s Jennifer Worth was a district midwife in East London. She worked with an order of nursi..

Young Mikey Quinn scavenging on the streets of Hull is thrown into prison for stealing a rabbit from..

Kit Philipson has always felt like something of a stranger in his family. Growing up as an only chil..