Time period: 19th century

Pampered and adored, Lily Elliott watches her world collapse when her father dies. Her mother's inability to cope is further exacerbated by the debts her father has left them. Two men offer help but to accept will put Lily and her mother in danger.

When the fiercest storm in living memory pounds the shores of 19th century Cornwall a young girl is found, barely alive, washed up among the rocks of a remote North Cornish cove. Her arrival and the mystery surrounding her background will affect the lives of those who come to know her and, for Al...

Set in Lancashire and Western Australia in the 1860s, Anna Jacobs' entrancing new saga follows the fortunes of the family that first appeared in 'Farewell To Lancashire'.

Scotland, 1893. 19-year-old Evelyn Ballantyre, the daughter of a wealthy landowner, has rarely strayed from her family's estate in the Scottish Borders. She was once close to her philanthropist father, but his silence over what really happened on the day a poacher was shot on estate land has come...

This volume focuses on the social impact of early industrialization on the population and looks at living standards, work and leisure, crime and the law, religion, education, the Poor Law and popular protest.

Jesus College, Oxford, 1881. An undergraduate is found dead at his lodgings and the medical examination reveals some shocking findings. When the young man's guardian blames the college for his death and threatens a scandal, Basil Rice, a Jesus college fellow with a secret to hide, is forced to ac...

When members of a prominent family disappear from a coal-mining village - and a human eyeball is discovered in a bird's nest - the local constable sends for help from Scotland Yard's new Murder Squad. Inspector Walter Day and Sergeant Nevil Hammersmith respond, but they have no idea what they're ...

Georgian England had a large and distinctive Black community. Yet all of them, prosperous citizens or newly freed slaves, ran the risk of kidnap and sale to plantations. Their dramatic, often moving story is told in this book.

Georgian England had a large and distinctive Black community. Yet all of them, prosperous citizens or newly freed slaves, ran the risk of kidnap and sale to plantations. Their dramatic, often moving story is told in this book.

When Annie marries widower Edward Stonehouse and arrives at Guardbridge, his estate on the Yorkshire moors, she thinks she has finally put darkness behind her. She is mistaken. Edward's sister, Iris, still lives in the family home. A taxidermist and medium, she urges Annie to watch out for black ...

Jack Carstares, the disgraced Earl of Wyncham, left England seven years ago, sacrificing his honour for that of his brother when he was accused of cheating at cards. Now he's back, roaming his beloved South Country in the disguise of a highwayman.

Upon publication in 1935, W.E.B. Du Bois's Black Reconstruction offered a revelatory new assessment of Reconstruction - and of American democracy itself. Black Reconstruction is a pioneering work of revisionist scholarship that, in the wake of censorship toward Du Bois's characterisation of Recon...

1842: 25-year-old Joshua Weyland is languishing in America and desperate to return to England to marry his fiancee. He ships home on a small brig but when it founders on rocks off the coast of Cornwall and he narrowly escapes with his life, it's clear to him that the ship had been deliberately wr...

1842: 25-year-old Joshua Weyland is languishing in America and desperate to return to England to marry his fiancee. He ships home on a small brig but when it founders on rocks off the coast of Cornwall and he narrowly escapes with his life, it's clear to him that the ship had been deliberately wr...

Blackpool, 1893. Tilly has come a long way from the run-down tenements in which she grew up. She has a home, a loving, handsome husband, two beautiful little 'uns - Betsy and Bunty - and she earns herself a little money weaving wicker baskets. Life is good. Until the day Tilly returns home to fin...

Blackpool, 1893. Tilly has come a long way from the run-down tenements in which she grew up. She has a home, a loving, handsome husband, two beautiful little 'uns - Betsy and Bunty - and she earns herself a little money weaving wicker baskets. Life is good. Until the day Tilly returns home to fin...

If the Fire Bug's true purpose is to make the government hand over one hundred thousand pounds, why does he seem so reluctant to apply the necessary pressure? Why does he content himself with burning down a single warehouse, when he could set an entire riverside wharf ablaze?

1864, Nuneaton. After Nessie Carson's mother is brutally murdered and her father abandons them, Nessie knows she will do anything to keep her family safe. Unprotected, she soon attracts the unwanted attention of her lecherous landlord, who will stop at nothing to get his way. Then, when her fragi...

1865, Nuneaton. Nessie Carson will do anything to keep her family together after her mother is killed, her father abandons them and they are evicted from their cosy little Nuneaton home. She and her brothers and sisters take on jobs as live-in assistants to a local undertaker. She is soon entwine...