The Cooler King tells the astonishing story of William Ash an American flier who after being shot do..

As the effects of the war raging in Europe begin to be felt at home in London Monica Dickens decides..

Kim Philby was the most notorious British defector and Soviet mole in history. Agent double agent tr..

Peter Davison became a national treasure for having his arm up a cow in his role as Tristan Farnon i..

In this wickedly funny sequel to MI5 and Me it is the 1950s and reluctant typist and spy's daughter ..

When aristocrat's daughter Charlotte Bingham was summoned to her father's office aged eighteen she n..

Filled with the twists pathos and unusual characters that sprang from this novelist's extraordinary ..

Catapulted onto the international stage with her grace and compassion following the Christchurch mos..

Unimpressed by the world of debutante balls Monica Dickens shocked her family by getting a job. With..

How does it feel to confront a pandemic from the inside? To bridge the gulf between a perilously unw..

In the quiet Cotswolds village of Great Rollright in 1944 a thin and unusually elegant housewife eme..

Jennifer Worth was just 22 when she volunteered to spend her early years of midwifery training in th..

In 1895 nine American heiresses travelled across the Atlantic to bag themselves husbands and titles...

'Good people I am come hither to die and by a law I am condemned to the same.' These were the words ..

On 17 August 1860 wealthy widow Mary Emsley was found dead at home killed by a blow to the head. Wha..