Pericles returns home more than a hero: he's the leader of Athens the empire's beacon of light in th..

In 1887 Isabel Bilton is the eldest of three daughters of a middle-class family. Escaping the countr..

When Princess Matilda is 18 years old tragedy strikes the royal family and she becomes the only chil..

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

Jamesina Ross is long finished with men. But one night a stranger seeking lodgings knocks on her doo..

With the help of her old diaries Sarah Morris recounts her life story. The daughter of an English vi..

Caribbean 1720. Two extraordinary women are on the run - from their pasts from the British Navy and ..

Europe 1938. Even as the daughter of the extraordinary headlining illusionist Lena Papadopoulos has ..

1939: Young Lily Shepherd boards an ocean liner in Essex bound for Australia. She is ready to start ..

Brought to you by Penguin.Cliffehaven 1945.The war in Europe is over but for Peggy Reilly and the re..

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

The prowess and loyalty of the great knight William Marshal have been rewarded by the hand in marria..

August 1944: Over a thousand Japanese soldiers attempt to break out of a prisoner of war compound ne..

England 1903. Giles the new Earl of Stainton is struggling to bring his family's estate back to orde..

A BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of the powerful novel set in the First World War from the author of War ..