August 1558. As London is bustling with growing trade from foreign lands and Queen Mary's health is ..

March 1605. Country doctor and former ship surgeon Gabriel Taverner is ready for his next adventure...

Bombay 1951. A political rally ends in tragedy when India's first female police detective Persis Wad..

Summer 1312. The brutal murder of King Edward II's favourite Peter Gaveston unleashes a horde of dem..

Yorkshire 1969. Nell Lewis is four months into her new role as governor of HMP Brackerley when the p..

March 1918. British newspapers carry the dreadful news that the German Spring Offensive has begun wi..

May 1931. For blind First World War veteran Frederick Rowlands the craze for flying holds little int..

Salonica Greece 1976. Hellenic Gendarme Major Mikhail Remis is a man in demand. A dark soul with a f..

Paris 1933. Two days before Christmas the express train to Strasbourg crashes into a local train in ..

Sunday morning and the body of Reverend Villiers has been found propped up on the vigil seat in the ..

It is late August 1940 and British Intelligence agent Hope Stapleford is desperate to join the Speci..

Berlin 1933. The Nazi regime is gaining devastating power as Hitler is appointed Chancellor and star..

Venice 1911. Monica is a 14-year-old with a wild imagination and an unbearably dull governess named ..

Adelaide 1917. The impeccably dressed Miss Kate Cocks might look more like a schoolmistress than a p..

Cambridge UK 1947. Martin Friedrich a German philosopher is cycling through an intersection on his w..