When aspiring writer Sophie Elliot receives the keys to the family townhouse in Bath, it’s an invitation she can’t turn down, especially when she learns that she will be living next door to the house where Jane Austen lived....

Love is in the air and the festive season is just around the corner at the seaside town of Muddleford. Nellie is happily settled in her gorgeous clifftop home. Her favourite evenings are those spent at her beach hut,...

The Bartlett family are close. Thirty-two-year-old, Jessie has two younger brothers and a sister. Her biological father, Allan, died when she was five and her mum Kathleen remarried. Jessie’s stepdad, David has been her anchor and although now confined...

One Wednesday morning in November 1912 the ageing Thomas Hardy, entombed by paper and books and increasingly estranged from his wife Emma, finds her dying in her bedroom. Between his speaking to her and taking her in his arms,...

As children, Hester and Elias were inseparable. Every year, their families would spend the summer together at their beach huts on a wild and windswept sandbank, where the two of them never left each other’s side. But childhood friendships...

1943: The world is at war, and the villagers of Tyneham are being asked to make one more sacrifice: to give their homes over to the British army. But on the eve of their departure, a terrible act will...

Three women making their way in an ever-changing world. Will they find happiness and finally lay the ghosts of the past to rest? London 1922 – Ivy prepares to divorce her cruel husband, but finds the law is not...

Detective Sergeant (and amateur archaeologist) Wesley Peterson hoped that a transfer from the lively but frantic pace of London to the bucolic river port of Tradmouth would have a positive effect on both his personal and professional lives. But...

Nine years ago her daughter was taken. And now she’s back. Two-and-a-half-year-old Holly is playing happily in a pink plastic playhouse, while her mother Rachel sips coffee and chats with a friend nearby. It should be an ordinary day...

I feel the steady thump of my new heart beating inside me. The surgeon said everything went well. But I can’t stop thinking about my donor: the girl who was killed. Her death saved my life. But now whoever...