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..

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..

The Bletchley Girls weaves together the lives of 15 women who were all selected to work in Britain's..

To many Queen Victoria is a ruler shrouded in myth and mystique portrayed as an ageing stiff widow. ..

In January 1991 eight members of the SAS regiment embarked upon a top secret mission deep behind ene..

I Am I Am I Am is a memoir with a difference - the unputdownable story of an extraordinary woman's l..

Rick Stein's childhood in Oxfordshire and Cornwall was idyllic. But ever-present was the unpredictab..