From what is it they flee?' He took a while to reply. By the time he spoke the men had gone inside. ..

Paris 1942. When thirteen-year-old Amelie Dreyfus goes into her mother's wardrobe to hide it's a gam..

Would a plant drink ink as happily as it would drink water? Is there anything that eats a cat? How d..

From the shattered empire five kingdoms are emerging. Seleukos triumphant in the capture of Babylon ..

Jersey 1943. Once a warm and neighbourly community now German soldiers patrol the cobbled streets im..

1666. The Great Plague has passed. Londoners celebrate survival in different ways. They drink. They ..

Suffolk 1939: Julia Compton has a beautifully well-ordered life. Once a promising musician she now h..

At the age of 15 Marie Antoniette beautiful and charming bride to the impotent Dauphin is plunged in..

Sixteen-year-old Frances Stuart arrives at the Restoration court to find her innocence and beauty ar..

1911. In a forgotten valley on the Devon-Somerset border the seasons unfold marked only by the ritua..

1912. Leo is on a journey. Aged 13 and banished from the secluded farm of his childhood he travels t..

1864: Suddenly left as the head of the family Kitty McKenzie must find her inner strength to keep he..

When Dot McCann playing with her pals decides to hide in Butcher Rathbone's almost empty dustbin she..

Liverpool 1940. There comes a moment in every child?s life when they must learn to stand on their ow..

It's 1964. England has shaken off its post-war gloom and the world is full of possibilities. Best fr..