"When Alice Trembath is mugged in the stark Australian outback, she has two choices: return to the US with an "I told you so" from her conservative parents and join the family business, or take a job as a nanny on a nearby cattle station. Despite being wildly...

"Gerard is 12. He hates his name, but loves flying round the streets of Glasgow on his bike, or mucking about with his gang, the Broncos. He's a bright kid, but trouble seems to follow him. No one really knows what it's like at home for Gerard; he's used to...

"The Abbotts' new lodger Luke hasn't told them much about himself, but they can't expect to know everything about a stranger who's just moved in. Only Luke keeps asking about their family photos, and snooping through their things. Why does he want to know...

"They raised me. Nurtured me. And lied about everything. Sadie's childhood has always been shrouded in mystery. But there are three things she knows. She was raised by two aunts. She never knew her parents. She is convinced she was stolen. Cristy Ward, podcast...

Teenage girls are going missing across Liverpool and the police are no closer to identifying the killer. When the third victim, Kelly Stack, is discovered on the banks of the Mersey, the police have no alternative but to call for help. DCI de Silva hasn't been...

"Did you know there are things that you can do to help your baby cry and fuss less? Did you know that many parents experience unnecessary disruptions to their sleep at night? Are you longing for a less exhausting, deeper connection with your little one? The...

"1928. In British-ruled India, headstrong Sita longs to choose her own path, but her only destiny is a good marriage. After a chance meeting with a Crown Prince leads to a match, her family's status seems secured and she moves into the palace, where peacocks...

"Where there's a rulebook, there's a rebel ... Ruby McBride has always been on the wrong side of authority. The grand opening of the Manchester Ship Canal is set to be a day of unfettered festivity for Ruby and her younger sister and brother. Even Queen...

"Berlin, 1933. The night skies are burning bright with huge bonfires of banned books. The Nazi party is swelling in number, Berlin is no longer a safe place for young Freya. She can only watch on, horrified, as her beloved city falls to fascism - and the...

"'What does it mean to be on land that was taken from other people? Now that we know how the taking was done, what do we do with that knowledge?' Kate Grenville is no stranger to the past. Her success and fame as a writer exploded when she published The Secret...

"The royal court is in turmoil following a massacre. Kel, Prince Conor's body-double, is hunting for traitors; the notorious Ragpicker King, ruler of Castellane's criminal underworld, holds the only clues. But they lead to a dark conspiracy. Lin also faces...

"It's the story everyone wants to hear. That spring night in South London, when Isabel and Edward's lives were torn apart. The night Isabel learned that the worst things wait, just outside the door. The night Edward learned that he was powerless to stop them....

"Autumn, 1895. The turn of the century is approaching and Paris is as chaotic as it is glamorous. Industry and invention create huge wealth and terrible poverty. One morning, an anarchist boards the ill-fated Granville to Paris express train, determined to...

"Yuriko leads a quiet, orderly life as a piano teacher. It's New Year's Eve and her grown-up son Izumi comes to visit. Yuriko makes him his favourite meal: omelette and hayashi rice. Together, they look like a normal family. But Yuriko has a secret. Many years...

"Ever since a man was found dead in Vera's teahouse, life has been good. For Vera, that is. She's surrounded by loved ones, her shop is bustling, and best of all, her son, Tilly, has a girlfriend! All thanks to Vera, because Tilly's girlfriend is none other...

"A commercial expedition to a distant star system discovers a pitch-black moon alive with radio activity. Its high-gravity, high-pressure, zero-oxygen environment is deadly to human life, but ripe for exploitation. They named it Shroud. Under no circumstances...

The JIA sends intelligence agent Carl Logan on a routine mission to Russia. It should have been simple. But when Logan's cover is blown, he's transported into a world of hell he thought he would never see again. Something is different this time, though, and...

They've erased his past. Wiped out his very existence. But Carl Logan isn't finished yet. On the run in a harsh Russian winter, Logan - once an invaluable asset but now branded a traitor - has been framed for murder. His own firm, the secretive Joint...

Laura Gilchrist has always made sensible choices. But a trip to Provence to sell an inherited stone house leads her face to face with Noah Dufour, her wild, irresistibly attractive real estate agent. And within an instant she's bewitched. Without a second...

Ever since Jimmy was a boy, he's known two things: the rough streets of Merthyr Tydfil and that one day he would marry Enid Hardcastle. But when Enid disappears without a word, his life takes a different turn. Determined to make something of himself, Jimmy...

Wivenhoe, February 1940. As the war clouds gather over Europe, the Roby family are thankful to have started their new life in Wivenhoe safe from German bombs... for the moment at least. And with the safe arrival of baby Grace, family life at Harbour House...

Recently-widowed father of one Will is desperate for a sign. Since his beloved wife Helen passed, Will and six-year-old Amy are just about keeping the show on the road, but he'd do anything to have Helen near him again. Connie's much-missed mum was everything...

April 1942, Bath - the nurses are under fire in the city they once thought safe... Freda knows the work she does on the home front is vital. Especially when bombs begin raining down on her beloved city of Bath and she and her friends find themselves feeling...

Egypt 1219AD. Abandoning the safety of England for the perilous shores of the Levant, Estienne Wace is thrust into the turmoil of the Fifth Crusade. Burning with righteous purpose, he is determined to reclaim the Holy Land in the name of Christ. War rages...

Cambridgeshire - 1943. As Spring blossoms, it seems love is in the air. 21 year-old John Talbot dreams of a world not at war, where he can be a father to his young son Jonny and have a wife by his side. But is nurse Lucy Ross the woman for him? When brothers...

A retelling of one of literature's great novels, Oliver Twist, from the point of view of Nancy, one of the most sympathetic, most maligned and most tragic of Dickens's characters. Nancy has spent her whole life on the vibrant and gritty streets of Victorian...

Home again at Ceann Mara Station, Roisin O'Byrne, a young lawyer with a passion for protecting the Darling River where her family has lived for almost two hundred years, finds herself embroiled in a battle. Her commitment to environmental justice pits her...

On her sixteenth birthday, Layla Scott uncovered an unimaginably cruel secret, and over the years tried too many times to stop the hurt. Now her sister is in the last place Layla wants her to be, remembering someone Layla wants to forget, and dangerously close...

Bustling with rich detail, historical vignettes and surprising wares, this is the story of Britain's best-loved but ever-changing public spaces. What makes a high street? It's certainly not just about the shopping; these thoroughfares are often the beating...

On the eve of a major international AIDS conference in London, it's leather night at a discreet London sauna for gay men - where the conference chair, Pomfrey Lister, is found dead. Noel, second-hand bookseller and Pomfrey's ex-lover, teams up with Sylvie,...

Welcome to Tenderness! A quaint seaside town in Kitakyushu, Mojiko is full of hidden delights. And one unexpected treasure is the 24/7 convenience store, Tenderness. At first glance, it's a store like any other. Sure, it's a bit odd that the handsome manager...

Happily married and running a successful business, Peter Berry's life changed when, at the age of 50, he was given a terminal diagnosis of early-onset dementia. Since that day, he has learned to live with his very own 'dementia monster'. From depression and...

Ann is a reluctant Vicar's wife. She tries her best but her husband only has eyes for God, her son is asking questions she struggles to answer, and it is all too easy to displease the congregation. It may only be a matter of time before she makes the headlines...

Adrianna, heir to the multimillion-dollar Kensington nightclub empire, is planning her dream wedding on the Kensingtons' private tropical island Elysium. There's only one flaw in her perfect plans. Elysium holds traumatic memories as the place where she was...

1898. Quinn Le Blanc, London's most talented con woman, has five days to pull off the seemingly impossible: trick an eligible duke into marriage and lift a fortune from the richest family in England. Masquerading as a wealthy debutante, Quinn is the jewel of...

Jessica has been in love with her best friend Robin since they met at university. As an events planner, she has organised a surprise birthday trip to Italy for his birthday, quietly hoping he will keep his promise of getting together when they are older. Laura...

Things have been difficult for Annie since her husband left. Her teenage daughter, Isla, has become a ghost of her former self. Annie's terrified that Isla might hurt herself, and she'll lose her too. So when Annie receives a video of herself crying at Isla's...

One moment I was just living my life, finding my way in the world. The next I woke up in a hospital bed with years of my life missing. The man by my side - Rob, my husband - looks familiar, but I can't remember marrying him. I can't remember our life together....

Laura wants to shake things up. She's thirty-eight and has been living in her parents' house since her divorce last year. Her siblings seem to have got their lives together: successful careers, happy marriages, beautiful children. Laura's determined to prove...

I'm obsessed with true crime. All the podcasts, the documentaries... I can't get enough. And now there's a murderer on the loose where I live. What a rush! Of course, some people might wonder if it's me. Am I an innocent soul with an unhealthy fascination, or...

It's time to return to Ischia...Alessia knows her grandmother grew up on the beautiful Italian island off the coast from Naples. But Ornella seldom talks about her life there - or why she never went back.So Alessia is amazed when Ornella reveals that as a...

When Liv's boyfriend Kit disappeared on a hike, seven years earlier, she thought her life was over. But with the help of their family and friends, she's pushed her way through the grief, and now, miraculously, she's found a way to love again. Until the morning...

Liverpool, May 1926. Peggy and Dar Tenant's dream for security and respectability has been their driving force since they married. Just as they prepare to buy their own home tragedy strikes when Dar is involved in a devastating accident at the docks and...

Emmie Brown has always known she was adopted. Nellie Brown sacrificed everything to make their life together comfortable and, while not the most demonstrative or warm woman, Emmie never doubted her devotion. But, when Emmie finds a stash of letters and a...

When Megan loses her beloved husband, Rick, in a tragic car accident, she feels like it's her own life that has ended. She feels too young to be a widow. Walking around the house that had been their home - so quiet without him - nothing feels the same. But at...

A surprise arrival. Working with the Whistlestop River air ambulance is Nadia's whole world. She adores her job and the team - they're family. But when a baby is abandoned on the steps of the base, Nadia is forced to confront events from her past she'd rather...

When Jude Gray and DI Binnie Khatri join a local walking group, their expectations for a peaceful outing to the Malvern Hills takes a grim turn. Arguments abound, and the hike ends in tragedy when one of the walkers is found dead in her car. Initially ruled as...

1939. Europe is on the brink of change and in the fear and chaos of pre-war Italy, a painting disappears and is never seen again. 1963. London is on the cusp of change in the swinging 60s. Nightclubs are in their heyday, as are the art thieves of the East End...

In attendance: the VIP fans, staying at Aldermere; the fan club president turned convention organiser; the team behind the newest movie adaptation of Davenport's books; the Davenport family themselves - and the three actresses famous for portraying Lettice's...

Always on the periphery, looking on, young Frankie Howe was never quite sure enough of herself to take centre stage - after all, life had already judged her harshly. Now old, Frankie finds it easier to forget the life that came before. Then Damian, a young...

Archaeology professor Carla James is reeling following the death of her husband. Desperate for a change of scene, she takes a job at an elite New England college. On her first day, Carla is asked to represent the department at a murder site. She initially...

When novelist and experienced hiker Simon Cleary sets off to follow the course of the river that has so influenced his life, he hopes that by walking its banks - from its source to where it empties into the bay - he will better understand the power and impact...

The streets of London have been home to many great detectives since the days of Sherlock Holmes and Watson, with some of the best authors in the genre taking to the short story form to pit their sleuths against crimes ranging from murders on the Tube to heists...

Edinburgh, 1890. The Season is in full swing with parties nearly every night and Fanny is enjoying every moment. Then John Shaw comes to town on business and loses his heart to her. He sets about his wooing without delay and eventually brings his young bride...

1920s England. Emmeline Lucas - Lucia to her friends - reigns supreme as the social queen of the village of Riseholme. With her large-hearted husband Peppino, and her devoted companion Georgie (who dedicates his hours to needlework, water-colours, and piano...

With Europe temporarily at peace, Napoleon Bonaparte has dispatched his victorious army with a vast fleet to the Caribbean. Its aim is to re-impose French authority in the region but first they must reconquer Saint-Domingue. Captain Nathan Peake is sent from...

January 1943. Warsaw. City of the dead. In the ghetto, the last 50,000 Jews await their fate, but, unlike those who preceded them to the death camps, these Jews are prepared to fight. Jan Kalisz, Kripo investigator and Resistance double-agent, has promised to...

Seven people wake up in a remote mansion. The doors are all locked. They have no idea where they are. Who brought them there. Or how to escape. Each knew the victims of a dreadful crime committed four years earlier but that's all that links them. Then a voice...

At 66, Paula Spencer - mother, grandmother, widow, addict, survivor - is finally living her life. A job at the dry cleaners she enjoys, a man - Joe - with whom she shares what she wants, friends who see her for who she is, and four grown children, now with...

DI Nyree Bradshaw and her team have their work cut out for them once again. Local woman Lizzy Bean has been found dead, garrotted with a piece of wire. Lizzy's property, a 1970s beach house overlooking a pristine Northland bay, is overflowing with rubbish....

Thriving on structure and organisation, Lachie's life is a tapestry of travel, surf and sea. Working and living in the breathtaking Whitsunday Islands, he finds solace in the ocean's embrace. But when carefree Irish traveller Kat crosses his path, he senses a...

A beautiful young law student dies on the concrete below her third-storey window in chilly Dunedin. It's clear enough how she died. What isn't is why - or who's involved. Plenty of people had a reason to hate Ashleigh, with her straight As and perfect looks....

It's that week between Christmas and New Year, and sisters Kate and Selena, and their friend Paisley, are meeting for an all-girls mini-break - no men allowed. But Affie, Carlos and Joseph have a similar idea, involving a sports channel, plenty of beer, and...

When Beth is offered an exciting new job in London, Jack is the last person she expected to meet. Years ago, he swept her off her feet in Corsica and then dumped her - all within the space of three weeks. When he left, Beth lost her ability to trust and in the...

Anna is on the brink of losing it all when she is handed the career opportunity of a lifetime - working as a ghostwriter for charismatic neuroscientist Nate. Nate's work at the mysterious Pain Laboratory could transform millions of lives, but his research is...

Things seem to be on the up for builder Mark Poynter. He's got himself a nice little earner taking care of the sizeable property portfolio built up from the career earnings of former Premier League bad-boy and local celebrity, Danny Kidd. But when Danny puts...

When Evie's father falls desperately ill, she finally returns to the family home on Orkney and the wild landscape she left as a teenager, swearing never to return. Not everyone is happy at her arrival, particularly her estranged sister Liv, their relationship...

A mile outside the Cotswolds, everyone knows everyone in Honeystone, and for many years the villagers have lived quiet, steady lives. But a wind of change is here... Anthea is the new owner of Spindle Hall. A renowned perfumer who lost her sense of smell,...

Holderness, 1988. Elizabeth Foster has lived in Tillington all her life. She knows everything about the local community... Everything except why another family, the Reedbarrows, now live in her ancestral home, Foster's Mill. When Christopher, a man from 'down...

Hetty Affleck is working as a maid at the prestigious Beach Hotel in Littlehampton. Her beau, Lorcan, is away at war and has recently stopped replying to her letters but she is determined to keep her spirits up. When she meets wealthy shipbuilder's son Victor...

AD 61. Britannia is divided. The rebel horde has been defeated. But the leader, Boudica, and her remaining warriors are still at large. With them is the eagle standard of the Ninth Legion, taken in ambush, flaunted as proof that Rome can yet be beaten. The...

March, 1605. Country doctor and former ship surgeon Gabriel Taverner is ready for his next adventure. He can't wait to leave Devon and tend to the crew of the Luipaard while sailing the Eastern seas. As years pass by, Gabriel's family and friends back home are...

October 1861, England. Harriet and Matthew Rowsley, the housekeeper and estate manager of Thorncroft House in Shropshire, have to cut short their successful trip to Oxford when they receive a telegraph: a decapitated and mutilated body has been found on the...

After serving nine years of a life sentence for the manslaughter of a former beauty queen, Shona Pickton returns to her home town of Felixstowe, exonerated after an appeal quashed her conviction. She has always protested her innocence - despite being tried and...

Tammy and her mother, Grace, are desperate to escape Tammy's violent bully of a father. But when an unforeseen tragedy strikes, mother and daughter must flee Scotland in the dead of night. To survive the severest of penalties, they leave behind everything they...

1916, Scotland. Five years after leading a strike at the sewing factory, newly pregnant Ellen is rushed off her feet at the Clydebank Clothing Exchange. Ellen is missing her husband and worried about how to make ends meet. Meanwhile, her best friend Sadie is...

Prudence Dudley was a woman who appeared to have everything: an undeniably attractive woman who had already achieved considerable success as a novelist. Yet she remained at odds with life after her sad rejected childhood and a more recent deeply wounding...

Georgina Corrigan is dead! It must be true. It has been printed in the newspapers. How does one prove one is not dead? Georgina is forced to seek assistance from her well-connected friends to establish that she is indeed alive and well and living in Percy...

Felicity was never meant to end up with a money-pit farmhouse to renovate and a broken heart to heal... But when Fliss attempts to drown the sorrow of seeing her ex-fianc and his new wife's magazine-worthy wedding all over social media, one rash decision...

1936. Brought up in Cornwall by her grandparents, Aster thinks often of her parents, who were taken from her at a tragically early age. The only thing she has to remember her mother by is her Flower Book, a journal of pressed flowers that charts Violet's life...

Ever since the death of their father twenty years before, beautiful thirty-two-year-old Anna has acted as her younger sister Becky's support, playing the peacemaker in her stormy relationship with their mother, and counselling her through the traumas of a life...

With London still in the grip of war, Cordelia, Mavis, and Jane find themselves facing a new challenge. Determined to make a difference, the librarians band together to organise rent strikes, standing up against dirty landlords and unfair practices. Meanwhile,...

1940, Stretton Village, Cambridgeshire. The start of the war and the tragic loss of their beloved father marks the end of an era for the Searles family as their children embark on their adult lives. Eldest sister Frances is about to marry her childhood...

With Alex Silva facing time behind bars, his family are in freefall. Wife Maggie doesn't know how she's going to cope without her beloved Alex. How will they survive? But survival is in the Silva blood and Alex has taught his children well. And this new...

Every morning on my way to work, I settle with my cappuccino in the corner of my favourite caf , Angelo's, and watch the world go by. I'm especially riveted by the flat across the street. It's where a pretty brunette comes and goes. I try to imagine things...

Spring 1939. Dashing young William Burton and the beautiful Constance Han set sail from London on the same ocean liner to Hong Kong. Connie is intrigued by Will's talent for writing poetry, and as romance blossoms she offers to give him Cantonese lessons to...

'We're celebrating life,' Rose said. 'Life, every single minute of it. Tell me, girls - is there ever anything better to celebrate than that?' Five years after seventy-something Tess jetted off to Paris with her best friends, Jen, Rose, Della and Pam - the...

NHL hot shot, Nick Hawkeye Hawke has 4 months to recuperate from a potentially career ending injury. All he has to do is take it easy and keep things low key. So, looking after his grandmother's beloved second-hand romance bookshop, saving it from closure and...

Tommy Jr might be one of the youngest members of the Carter family, but he has plans to one day step into his Uncle Jonny's shoes as head of the family. But when his young girlfriend Aimee announces she's pregnant, everything changes. Although only nineteen,...

When Elisabeth Quemener dies she leaves a mysterious bequest - a small parcel with the instructions that it must only be opened by Astrid Oake. The trouble is, no one knows who Astrid Oake is... Elisabeth's family turn to Touissants detective agency for help...

1038 AD, Constantinople. Harald Sigurdsson has risen through bravery and glory in battle to become the commander of the legendary Varangian guard, the oath-sworn protector of the Roman throne in Constantinople; The wielder of the emperor's axe. With the...

Dark Age Britain crumbles. Cruel Kings of Britain sit alone atop their hilltop fortresses as brutal Saxon invaders push ever forwards, greedy for plunder and weakened British kingdoms to conquer. Blood feuds, jealousy, and pride keeps these Kingdoms isolated....

When crime novelist Phoebe opens the post and receives an invitation to her own funeral, she's horrified. Not least because the date of her death is marked as tomorrow. Deciding it's nothing more than a prank from an enemy from her past, she determines to put...

When Fiona's husband ups and leaves on the same day her only son goes away to college, she suddenly finds herself the wrong side of forty and feeling very alone. Fortunately, there's a distraction of mammoth proportions swimming in the River Thames. Determined...

All she wanted was a lovely family Christmas with perfect turkey and luxury crackers. Instead, daughter Sara announces she's getting divorced... and where is the fizz? And son, John and perfect wife Vanessa announce they are leaving for New York... and are the...

London, July 1939. Elizabeth Roby lives a content and privileged life in London with husband Jonathan and children, Emily and George. But with the outbreak of war, everything changes. Jonathan informs his family that they have to move from their smart London...

After three years behind a desk, Inspector John Barton wonders if he's still got what it takes. An opportunity arises to return to Major Crimes, so he jumps at it, after all he's been around the block a few times. When he and his team are called in to...