Eliza Langland

Seven (or six - depending on the version) short stories of conquest, desperation and the will to overcome.

'Please don't slam your door - we have a delicate child', but when the baby cries, Deb ignores it. There is a secret which is destroying Deb's marriage to Greg. Only she can save it - only Deb can unlock The Dark Room.

A clumsy Victorian housemaid is determined to pursue her career as a painter's model.

Edinburgh 1963: Alice is 11 and fascinated by sex. But her mother's involvement with Francois introduces Alice to more facts of life than she had bargained for.

Christmas is looming but Winston gets conned by a ned into buying a turkey so fresh it's still alive, Tam devises his own means of delivering Christmas cards for Frances and Jack and Victor are left out in the cold when they offend Isa, who usually supplies their Christmas dinner. Are there consolations to be had by joining the pensioners in the Community Centre?

The story of Claire Randall, a married combat nurse from 1945 who is mysteriously swept back in time to 1743, where she is immediately thrown into an unknown world where her life is threatened. When she is forced to marry Jamie, a chivalrous and romantic young Scottish warrior, a passionate affair is ignited that tears Claire's heart between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives.

The gripping, decades-spanning inside story of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Prime Ministers who shaped Britain's post-war destiny. The Crown tells the inside story of two of the most famous addresses in the world – Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street – and the intrigues, love lives and machinations behind the great events that shaped the second half of the 20th century. Two houses, two courts, one Crown.