Profound, lyrical, shocking, wise: this collection of the 100 finest stories ever written ranges fro..

November, 1145. The bitter rift between King Stephen and Empress Maud at last has a chance of reconc..

In 2012 in a Middle Eastern souk CIA agent Miles Brookhaven was attacked. He was infiltrating rebel ..

Dr John Watson is back home fresh from his time in the trenches of Flanders Fields and now his task ..

Summer 1914: Europe is on the brink. As Britain's enemies grow stronger the Comptroller-General must..

Seventeen-year-old Muriel Dearlove has weathered the Blitz unscathed earning her keep in Miss Chapma..

The market town of Everham is full of rumours and counter-rumours. Dr Leigh McDowall medical registr..

Amory Ames might be wealthy but she is unhappily married to playboy Milo so willingly accepts her fo..

Following heavy casualties General Townsend withdraws his exhausted troops to the town of Kut Al Ama..

1916 Mesopotamia. The Turks order prisoners from the siege of Kut to march the hundreds of miles to ..

Fisher College at Cambridge lies between St John’s and Trinity Colleges. Here one morning the bedm..

1859 St. Mary’s Church Sponden. A little girl playing hide-and-seek jumps into a freshly dug grave..

Amory Ames is investigating the disappearance of valuable jewellery snatched at a dinner party and l..

Henriette d’Entragues isn’t satisfied with simply being mistress of Henry IV of France she wants..

A beautiful and talented actress Mary Robinson was one of the most famous women of her time. But Mar..