Series: Magna

Newly qualified teacher Phyllie Saunders is evacuated with her school to Dorset. As she struggles to control the crowd of tearful children, she sees Sammy. Her oldest and dearest friend is on the way to join his submarine, and as he kisses her goodbye, everything changes for them. But now that wa...

This is a heart-warming memoir of Joan Hart, who started nursing in the 1940s and whose experiences took her into the Yorkshire mining pits and through the tumult of the 1984-85 miners' strike. Joan always knew what she wanted to do with her life. Born in South Yorkshire in 1932, she started her ...

North West India, July 1897. Simon and Alice Fonthill are travelling with their old friend Jenkins to Marden, India for an anniversary party with the Guides Corps. But their journey takes a dangerous turn when they are ambushed and they realise the land may not be as peaceful as believed. As the ...

It's another day at Timmins & Ross publishing house but when sharp-tongued editor Samantha Clair's CID boyfriend is brought in to investigate Frank Compton's death, her loyalties become stretched. And when one of Aidan Merriam's artists is found dead in identical circumstances, Sam takes on the a...

The Journey's Inn, Lark's Estate, Manchester. Three bodies have been found, stabbed to death in their beds. The husband and father of two of the victims has fled. The police are in a race against time to find him - especially when they discover his two young sons are also missing... Manchester Me...

London is under siege. A financial scandal has promoted violent protests. As the anger in the streets detonates, a young homeless man burns to death after being caught in the crossfire between rioters and the police. But things are not quite as they seem. An opportunistic killer appears to be usi...

England is at war but land girl Esther Wynford is happy to be marrying the love of her life, fighter pilot Monty Grant. Their short honeymoon results in a baby, but on the birth of her daughter, Joy, Esther's world falls apart. Esther's dying mother confesses a dark secret. Esther is not her natu...

'Joan's got something to show you.' She rummaged in a drawer for a moment, pulled out a piece of paper and handed it to me. 'Constance Street,' she said. 'As I remember it.'And as my great-aunt showed me the hand-drawn plan of Constance Street in the 1930s, so began the stories of one street and ...

Lizzie Flowers has had a hard life but she is full of East End grit. In the bleak years after World War I her family faced desperate times, but when barrow-boy Danny Flowers asked her to leave for a better life in Australia, she stayed true to her family's roots. She married Danny's brother Frank...

Ms. March Middleton leaves her estate to take up residence with her guardian, Sidney Grice. Although Grice is a well-known private detective, his relationship with March's family is somewhat mysterious. Once she arrives, Grice's help is sought by a widow whose daughter has been murdered and whose...

In fifteenth-century Constantinople, Prince Constantine saves the life of a broken-hearted girl. But the price of his valour is high. John Grant is a young man on the edge of the world. His unique abilities carry him from his home in Scotland to the heart of the Byzantine Empire in search of a gi...

In a Yorkshire mill town in 1931, Lily Briggs works hard at Calvert Mill to make ends meet and take care of her parents and younger siblings. Saturday nights at the dance hall keep Lily upbeat, and now there's a blossoming romance with childhood friend Harry Bainbridge to put an extra spring in h...

Everything seems to be going right for brilliant young jockey Duncan Claymore. A career on the up, a beautiful wife, and all the trappings of wealth. But Duncan is haunted by the death of one of his arch-rivals. As Duncan struggles to keep his focus on the job, Michelle O'Brien - a friend and tal...

If there were such a thing as a professional Yorkshireman, Ian McMillan would be it. But he has been keeping a secret. His dad was from Lanarkshire, Scotland, making him, as he puts it, only "half tyke". So Ian is worried; is he Yorkshire enough? To try to understand what this means Ian embarks o...

Rose Petrie is desperate to do something for the war effort. Rose is doing her best down at the munitions factory, but she is dealt a blow when her childhood sweetheart, Stan, tells her he doesn't feel the same way about her. Determined to get away and make a new start, Rose decides to put her me...

When Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean kneeled down together on the ice in Sarajevo in February 1984 for the start of their famous Bolero routine, more than 24 million people in Britain tuned in to watch them to see if they could win Olympic gold. Four minutes and 28 seconds later, the crowd wen...

Vivien Epstein, a Jewish hairdresser from Manchester, arrives in London following the death of her father. She is looking for Jack Fox, a man she had an intense love affair with some months before. But the only address she has for him leads to a dead end. Determined to make a new life for herself...

Before Tara, before Ellen and Scarlett, before the war that would divide the nation ...she was Ruth. This is her story. From Ruth's early years as the beautiful young companion to a strong-willed French emigre mistress, to her brief marriage to the love of her life and finally to her life's calli...

Ranging across the illustrious detective's long career, N.M. Scott presents ten new cases in which Holmes and Watson investigate hauntings, grave robberies, art theft and the seemingly inexplicable disappearance of a priceless violin. When murder brings Holmes to the door of a popular novelist, h...

'This is the first memory I have of my mamma, the first sweet memory. Sometimes her laughter bursts into my head and I hear her call me - my name full and round in her mouth. Frustratingly though, as with all the memories I have of her, Mamma's face -always her face - blurs under the pressure of ...