A startling panorama of Los Angeles in the fifties. New Year's Eve as 1949 turns to 1950 Los Angeles..

Los Angeles 1958: a city on the make. A boom town at the edge of a new era ripe for plunder. Lieuten..

It is the 1960s and Canon Sidney Chambers is enjoying his first year of married life with his German..

The loveable full-time priest and part-time detective Canon Sidney Chambers continues his sleuthing ..

It is May 1971 and Archdeacon Sidney Chambers is walking in a bluebell wood with his daughter Anna a..

Amy Knowles has always been the plain sidekick to her pretty best friend Jules. And whilst the tearo..

At the age of 15 Marie Antoniette beautiful and charming bride to the impotent Dauphin is plunged in..

France eagerly awaits the day the young King Louis XV comes of age and breaks free from the rule of ..

No longer the well-beloved Louis XV is becoming ever more unpopular - the huge expense of his court ..

In a castle in the mountains outside Rome Lucrezia Borgia is born into history's most notorious fami..

At just 18 Lucrezia Borgia the alluring daughter of the Pope has already had her life touched by dis..

In The Genius of Birds acclaimed author Jennifer Ackerman explores the newly discovered brilliance o..

In 1964 the eccentric American novelist Patricia Highsmith is hiding out in a cottage in Suffolk to ..

What's an editor to do with so many demands? Do you deal with the morning's pile of manuscript submi..

Usually sharp-witted editor Sam Clair stumbles through her post-launch-party morning with the hangov..