Brought to you by Penguin.‘There is some kind of magic in you somewhere.’This edition of Matilda..

Oscar Hammerstein is asked to write the lyrics to a musical based on the life of Maria von Trapp: a ..

On the wedding day of Emperor Claudius to Agrippina a senator lies dying in his own home. Yesterday ..

Martha Parker runs a small private detective agency in Glasgow with her two sisters Helen and Geri s..

Having recently arrived in England abandoned by her father and brother Isabella is left to look afte..

Franz von Heiden son of a Nazi official and an English mother comes to England early in 1938 to visi..

Join the residents of Railway Lane for one last magical adventure. . . Globetrotting Libby Jacobs ha..

The shocking murder of a heavily pregnant woman throws the New Zealand city of Dunedin into a tailsp..

First came a sinister warning to Poirot not to eat any plum pudding… then the discovery of a corps..

Richard and Christine Clay have been married for decades. Their relationship has stood the test of t..

Preparations are underway for Cherrywood’s annual celebration of Guy Fawkes Night . . .When it’s..

CantBeArsed8: Am I the villain for being furious my partner's father changed my daughter's pirate pa..

One year ago the shadows shifted and began to show something different - not people's shapes but the..

When her feisty grandmama takes her travelling Prue is excited to explore outside of England. Determ..

1939. Europe is on the brink of change and in the fear and chaos of pre-war Italy a painting disappe..

London 1900. Hester Stanmore watches in disbelief as the jury declares her attacker 'not guilty' and..

Travelling home from a European holiday Iris Carr ends up alone at the station after a quarrel with ..

When their mother dies after a hit-and-run the Parker sisters vow to catch the driver. But things ta..

In 1914 Vera Brittain was 18 and as war was declared she was preparing to study at Oxford. Four year..

Georgina Drake's latest photography assignment takes a dark turn when she discovers the body of unpo..

A novelist ambles down the lanes of a cosy country village replete with Tudor houses and quaint cott..

Carol is a divorced teacher living in a small town in Ireland. A second chance at love brings her un..

The Welsh Marches 1301. Strong-willed heiress Johane de Geneville is married to Roger Mortimer Earl ..

A sinister case of deadly poisoned chocolates from Sodbury Cross's high street shop haunts the group..

Bolton Lancashire: 1943. Livvy knows that her family's survival rests on her shoulders - with her pa..

Set in the fictional Sussex village of Blossom Heath BEA'S BOOK WAGON is a cosy uplifting and comfor..

Since the start of the hit British TV show Swift its cast and crew have been plagued by misfortune. ..

18th century Scotland. Jacobite sympathies stir powerful emotions especially in a titled young man w..

It's mid-September a heatwave has descended on the parched hills of LA and Private Detective Philip ..

York 1989. Beginning his second year as a tutor at the University of Eboracum Dr Tom Frith is surpri..

One freezing night an SS doctor and his wife return from an evening mingling with their fellow Nazis..

Charting his 15 years working as a GP Dr Amir Khan's stories are as much about community and care as..

In London 26-year-old Venetia Stanley - aristocratic clever bored reckless - is having a love affair..

WHO CAN YOU TRUST WHEN YOU CAN'T TRUST FAMILY?Sheltered and naïve Carmen Darby has lived under the ..

Proud and canny ignorant and intensely ambitious Hannah Massey is a born ruler. Her kingdom may only..

Behind the stage lights and word-perfect soliloquies sinister secrets are lurking in the wings. The ..

From the once-popular yet unfairly neglected Victorian writer Charlotte Riddell comes a pair of nove..

Welcome to Aldermere House the stately home of author Lettice Davenport - and to a convention to cel..

From prehistoric cave paintings to the prints and etchings of Picasso owls have captivated and inspi..

The call comes in the early hours. Human remains have been discovered in a suitcase dumped on the mu..

Ivy's parents the King and Queen of the Sand Witches have prepared her a show-stopping birthday pres..

1942. Working in the greengrocers and playing the piano in the pub isn't fulfilling 19-year-old Trix..

When Toot Hansell’s water supply turns murky it's easy to blame the notoriously soggy Yorkshire we..

April 1958. Leonard is shocked when he arrives with his mother in the port of Southampton. His fathe..

When a terrified bloodied man staggers from a boarded-up shop in broad daylight in the small Suffolk..

Occupied Norway 1944. While the war rages on Anni is surviving as best she can contributing to the r..

Declutterer Ellen Curtis has been working to bring order into the life of Cedric Waites a recluse in..

The Pembrokeshire village of Morlan is a beautiful place to live but breathtaking views of the Welsh..

Jamie Matson had once enjoyed a wonderful life working alongside her best friend organising adventur..

Childhood sweethearts Neve and Jamie are inseparable from the moment they meet. Everyone knows they'..