During a blackout on the streets of London in late 1944 a young Polish land girl Rosa Nowak is sudde..

The night the first snow falls a young boy wakes to find his mother gone. He walks through the silen..

With Valentine's Day fast approaching Persimmon “Simmy” Brown's flower shop near Lake Windermere..

Anthony Trollope finds the beautiful city of Barchester idyllic on visiting it for the first time. T..

A short story from British Library Crime Classic Deep Waters. James Pattinson was best known for his..

1919. The Derbyshire village of Wenfield is still coming to terms with the loss of so many of its so..

Ireland AD 671. The Great Fair of Bealtain is almost upon the fortress of Cashel and a line of paint..

June 1381. The rebel armies are massed outside London determined to overturn both crown and church. ..

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Thea is tired of having to entertain Drew's children during the summer holidays so she accepts a com..

Thea Osborne Cotswold house-sitter with an infamous reputation for getting mixed up in crime is dete..

Recovering from a broken leg after his ignominious fall from the Titanic Lestrade should have had a ..

1818 Carluke Lancashire. Mathew Fleming returns home to Scotland following heroic service at the Bat..

George Surridge director of the Birmington Zoo is a man with many worries: his marriage is collapsin..

Dr James Earle and his wife live in comfortable seclusion near the Hog's Back a ridge in the North D..