Time period: 18th century

Nicholas Dyer, assistant to Sir Christopher Wren and the man with a commission to build seven London churches plans to conceal a dark secret at the heart of each church. 250 years later, detective Nicholas Hawksmoor is investigating a series of gruesome murders.

Collingwood went to sea as a 13-year-old and died at sea aged 62 - he literally gave his life to the Navy. Based on original log books and diaries, this biography details his life story, from the American War of Independence to the victory over Napoleon's navy.

From the sugar plantations of Saint-Domingue to the lavish parlours of New Orleans at the turn of the 18th century, Isabel Allende's novel tells the story of a mulatta woman, a slave and concubine, determined to take control of her own destiny in a society where that would seem impossible.

Newly crowned King George III must marry, but he can't wed the woman he loves - Catholic Lady Sarah Lennox. Thus a search begins for an appropriate German Protestant royal. For years Charlotte has hidden her ethnicity using white Elizabethan makeup to help her title-rich but cash-poor family surv...

Kitty Cask is a smuggler's daughter. In the Cornish coastal village of Minnock, Kitty and her family make their living as 'free traders' - secretly bringing contraband goods into the country while evading the corrupt Redcoats who work for the King. Kitty isn't supposed to be involved in any of he...

London, the 1720s. Welcome to 'Romeville', the underworld of that great city. The financial crash caused by the South Sea Bubble sees the rise of Jonathan Wild, self-styled 'Thief-taker General' who purports to keep the peace while brutally controlling organised crime. Only two people truly defy ...

Drawing on the lives and works of a unique collection of scholars, philosophers and literary figures, this text shows how the heirs of English radical thought, some visionary and all ahead of their time, sowed the seeds for future British reform, in opposition to the disappointment of the Revolut...

'Northanger Abbey' is about the misadventures of Catherine Morland - young, ingenuous, and mettlesome, and an indefatigable reader of gothic novels.

Cheshire. May Day, 1753. Tabitha De Vallory's perfect life is shaken when a girl is slaughtered beneath the Mondrem Oak on her family's forest estate. Nearby, enigmatic Baptist Gunn is convinced that a second messiah will be born, amid blood and strife, close to the oak on Midsummer's Day. Could ...

Although he died at the age of just 37, Robert Burns had an extraordinary life. This is the second book in James Barke's quintet of novels about Robert Burns, following 'The Wind that Shakes the Barley'.

Bath, 1761. Sent into service by her dominating father, Lizzie Yeo ends up pregnant and rejected by society. When the baby tragically dies, her Aunt Mary secures her a job as a wet nurse, working for the vicar Jonathan Harding. Having lost his wife Jane, he needs someone to take care of his son. ...

Bath, 1761: When the body of a woman is found in the River Avon, the authorities quickly declare it is merely a nameless pauper who committed suicide. However, maidservant Lizzie Yeo is worried; she hasn't seen her friend, Nancy, for a while. Intent on bettering herself and escaping her past, Liz...

1793. HMS Amazon is returning from an arduous tour of duty in the Indian Ocean when she encounters a French frigate in the Atlantic. A bloody sea battle ensues, resulting in both triumph and personal tragedy for Acting Lieutenant John Fury.

1793. HMS Amazon is returning from an arduous tour of duty in the Indian Ocean when she encounters a French frigate in the Atlantic. A bloody sea battle ensues, resulting in both triumph and personal tragedy for Acting Lieutenant John Fury.

It is 1783, the year before the start of French Revolutionary Wars. A shadow hangs over John Thomas Fury in this, his first voyage as a midshipman aboard the 32 gun frigate Amazon. Fury is seen as a pariah by his fellow sailors. Ten years earlier his father and his ships crew mutinied and went ov...

On 5 September 1785, a trial began in Paris that would divide the country, captivate Europe and send the French monarchy tumbling down the slope towards the Revolution. Cardinal Louis de Rohan, scion of one of the most ancient and distinguished families in France, stood accused of forging Marie A...

Meg Venn watches her family suffer great hardships. After the death of his wife, Zack Venn turns bitter and violent and takes his daughter to London. Distressed by the working conditions in a rough inn where Meg finds employment, she is desperate to leave and is tempted by an offer by a woman who...

18th-century London was teeming with humanity, and poverty was never far from politeness. Legend has it that, on his daily commute through this thronging metropolis, Captain Thomas Coram witnessed one of the city's most shocking sights - the widespread abandonment of infant corpses by the roadsid...

Hyderabad, India. 1798. Beatrice Sinclair, a grieving young widow facing financial destitution, has travelled from Hampshire to Hyderabad to visit her brother, an employee of the British East India Company. There, she is astonished to discover that he has married a beautiful Indian girl and lives...