Dr Barnabas is the new pathologist at a big inner city hospital. She is also a police surgeon - and the first woman to hold either post. Her first post-mortem is on a well-known author, with all the attendant media circus. But trouble starts when she cannot find a cause of death.

Without her husband Frank - the victim of a fatal accident, Tilly Quentin's decision to turn 17 Brompton Grove into lodgings is a brave one, for it is against the rigid Victorian social code for a lady to go into trade.

This is the second in the medical mystery series, featuring Dr Frederica Barnabus, the forensic pathologist and police-surgeon at the Old East Hospital. In this story she is involved in investigating the harrowing case of suspicious deaths of small babies in the Maternity unit.

The marriage between Mildred Amberly and Lizah 'Kid' Harris, a Jewish boxer from the East End seems a union doomed to failure. Their daughter Poppy's first memory is of Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1897. She has all the strong will and feistiness of her parents, combined with an insatiable appetite for the experiences of life. Jubilee is the powerful tale of Poppy's life during a period of rapid and monumental change - not just for her but for all women.

The early 1800's. Jesse Constam, a highly respected spice merchant, lives in fashionable Gower Street. Saved from poverty himself, he rescues two children from the gutter. Jesse's intervention changes their lives forever. The fate of Abel Lackland and Lilith Lucas and their families become inextricably entwined as they are destined for the vastly different worlds of medicine and the theatre.

In a hushed courtroom, the scene is set for one of the most celebrated trials of recent years. A tral caused by a bitter family wrangle. A trial that, as it unfolds, will reveal the dramatic story of the turbulent lives and careers of its three central characters, Hester, Hildegarde and Bonnie Morris.

She was born in 1893, in the slums of London. The daughter of immigrants, the descendant of exiles, she was part of a people doomed to wander, forever strangers in the lands they had chosen as home. But Hannah Lazar was different. She was born and bred a Londoner, and London was where she belonged. As strong-willed as she was beautiful, Hannah would uproot herself from the gloomy poverty of her parents' lives to enter a world of elegence and wealth. As her ancestors had journeyed from land to...

No one had seen her leave. Numbed by the inexplicable events of the evening, Harriet Darnell found herself running down the dark path away from the bleak mansion she hated, away from the cruel husband she feared. There was no time to question, no time to plan. She was free for the first time in her life, free perhaps for ever…Soon she was away from the house, away from the town, on a train bound for London. But no one — not her husband, nor the townspeople, nor even the conductor who collecte...

Abel Lackland, rescued from the gutter as a child, has achieved great success as a surgeon. His eldest son, Jonah refuses to follow in his father's footsteps. He secretly nurtures a desire to act on the stage. Lilith Lucas, saved from destitution at the same time as Abel, has achieved equal success and adoration as an actress. One night, Jonah steals away to watch Lilith, unaware of her thirst for revenge. He meets her after the show and is enchanted by her, as his father was many years befor...

The troubled '30s leading to the outbreak of the 2nd World War form the background for a further episode of The Performers' family saga. Harry Lackland meets Leah Landis, but because of their lack of children and the fact that she is his senior, the marriage begins to go awry. Being Jewish, Leah fears for the safety of members of her family in Germany, and with Peter Lackland, goes there - despite the dangers - to try to find them

The powerful, personal stories of Shaftesbury Avenue are set against the dramatically changing social and political background of post-Great War Britain. The war has ended but Theo Caspar, devastated by his experiences in the trenches, cannot join the celebrations. Letty Lackland wants Theo to star in her latest film. Now a successful film producer, Letty is the linchpin of the large, extended family. Using her studio she brings together many generations of the Lackland and Lucas families.

The sequel to "London Lodgings". Tilly Quentin has successfully turned Quentin's into a thriving guest house. But with the demanding guests, particularly the handsome Silas Geddes, and her beloved son, Duff, falling into unsuitable company, her problems are not over.