Time period: 19th century

Julian Fellowes' 'Belgravia' is the story of a secret. A secret that unravels behind the porticoed doors of London's grandest postcode. Set in the 1840s when the upper echelons of society began to rub shoulders with the emerging industrial nouveau riche, this novel is peopled by a rich cast of ch...

Set in the 1840s when the upper echelons of society began to rub shoulders with the emerging industrial nouveau riche, 'Belgravia' is peopled by a rich cast of characters. But the story begins on the eve of the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. At the Duchess of Richmond's now legendary ball, one famil...

The twelfth and final novel brings the family story to a close - with Bella taking centre-stage, moving between her home at Nampara on the rugged Cornish coast and the wildly exciting world of the theatre in London and Europe at the beginning of the 19th century.

Terrible, unspeakable things happened to Sethe at Sweet Home, the farm where she lived as a slave for so many years until she escaped to Ohio. Her new life is full of hope but 18 years later she is still not free. Sethe's new home is not only haunted by the memories of her past but also by the gh...

Terrible, unspeakable things happened to Sethe at Sweet Home, the farm where she lived as a slave for so many years until she escaped to Ohio. Her new life is full of hope but 18 years later she is still not free. Sethe's new home is not only haunted by the memories of her past but also by the gh...

Terrible, unspeakable things happened to Sethe at Sweet Home, the farm where she lived as a slave for so many years until she escaped to Ohio. Her new life is full of hope but 18 years later she is still not free. Sethe's new home is not only haunted by the memories of her past but also by the gh...

It's the mid-1800s. At Sweet Home in Kentucky, an era is ending as slavery comes under attack from the abolitionists. The worlds of Halle & Paul D. are to be destroyed in a cataclysm of agony & torment. The world of Sethe is to turn to violence & death.

When Cassandra Hampden, fleeing from her violent husband, returns to her family home of Juniper Park, her dying great-uncle reluctantly offers her the derelict Belvedere Tower. When her husband arrives, his mood is murderous.

When 22-year-old Olivia is coerced into marriage by the cruel Alistair Sheldon she leaves England for Egypt, his home and the land of her own childhood. Reluctant as she is to go with Alistair, it's in her new home that she finds happiness in surprising places: she is reunited with her long-estra...

Berthe Morisot was the leading woman impressionist. This book considers her work in the context of the artistic debates of the time and discusses the extent to which Morisot participated in these.

Written by Bill Pertwee, of Dad's Army fame, this book offers a nostalgic look at the heyday of the British seaside resorts, from the early Punch & Judy shows and camera obscura to the building of the great piers at Blackpool and Brighton.

Almost all of us have happy memories of excursions and holidays spent beside the sea. For many, these will have included the Yorkshire coast which runs unbroken for more than 100 miles between the two great rivers, the Tees and the Humber. Within those boundaries are the popular seaside resorts o...

12 year-old Eliza Bragg has known little in life but the cold, comfortless banks of the Thames. Her only comfort is the love and protection of her older brother, Bart. But Bart id forced to flee when he accidentally kills a man. Alone and at the mercy of her cruel uncle, Eliza realises that her v...

Cape Colony is proving a tiresome assignment for Captain Kydd's commander-in-chief Commodore Popham. Rumours that Spain's South American colonies are in a ferment of popular unrest and of a treasure hoard of silver spur him to assemble a makeshift invasion fleet and launch a bold attack on the ca...

Rumours that Spain's South American colonies are in a ferment of popular unrest & of a treasure hoard of silver spur Commodore Popham to assemble a makeshift invasion fleet & launch a bold attack on the capital of the Viceroyalty, Buenos Aires.

Cape Colony is proving a tiresome assignment for Captain Kydd's commander-in-chief Commodore Popham. Rumours that Spain's South American colonies are in a ferment of popular unrest and of a treasure hoard of silver spur him to assemble a makeshift invasion fleet and launch a bold attack on the ca...

As Inspector Ben Ross of Scotland Yard walks homeward one Saturday night in late October 1867, the fog that swirls around him is like a living beast. By the time it has lifted next morning a woman lies murdered in Green Park. Allegra Benedict was the beautiful Italian wife of an art dealer in Pic...

As Inspector Ben Ross of Scotland Yard walks homeward one Saturday night in late October 1867, the fog that swirls around him is like a living beast. By the time it has lifted next morning a woman lies murdered in Green Park. Allegra Benedict was the beautiful Italian wife of an art dealer in Pic...

When a shipwreck and disaster overtakes a ship, a 100-mile reef off the coast of Africa becomes a powerful symbol of crisis and survival, claiming alike the innocent and the damned.