Montgomery Alabama. 1973. Fresh out of nursing school Civil Townsend has big plans to make a differe..

Helsinki 1982. Recently divorced postal worker Ilmari Nieminen has promised his daughter a piano for..

As Autumn deepens into darkness in Lidingö on the Stockholm archipelago the island is plunged into ..

Andrey Kurkov's war diaries continue - a searing deeply human portrait of a nation reshaped by war. ..

Every page is shared in secret. . . and a single book could cost a life. France, 1941. Margot locks ..

Harry Blenheim wasn't what you might call a good-looking fellow but his face was full of character w..

When the Gallachers received an invitation from the Duke of Moorshire to attend an evening at Lea Ha..

In Battenbun Northumberland there live four Puddleton men - Grandpop Old Popo Pop and Peter. Three o..

There are men who can at times be stirred by the power and conflict of their own emotions to the poi..

Jonathan Ratcliffe is the successful manager of Affleck and Tate's engineering works. He has succeed..

Spring 1943. After a visit to see her mother in Sussex with Ned it's time for VAD nurse Evie Jones t..

After losing her fianc? and brothers in the Great War, and with her family?s wealth gone, Beatrice m..

Norfolk 1944. Great Plumstead is buzzing with news that the American GIs have arrived on the nearby ..

July 1942. Newlywed Bobby Atherton has barely had time to experience married life with her airman hu..

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