It is 1946 and London is still reeling from the destruction and suffering of the Second World War. The formidable Letty Lackland helps to raise funds for Queen Eleanor's Hospital, destroyed in the Blitz. Dr Charlie Lucas helps Brin Lackland come to terms with a devastating wartime facial injury. Brin's sister, Kate is forging her way to success on stage and screen. Here, at the end of the vast and panoramic 'Performers' series we see the two formidable families united at last after more than a century.

Maggy Dundas is a star jazz pianist with looks, style, and a keen business brain. And when her hated mother Dolly dies, she is free at last from the memories that mar it all- from the woman whose wanton selfishness threatened to keep her from success. Or is she?

Running a fruit barrow? Dead-easy thought the younger members of the Jackson and Cooper clan marooned in London for a hot and dusty summer. Even Jane, ever sober and practical, thought it could be done. Richard was dubious, but the thought of some pin-money to spend on his beloved car was a powerful incentive. Hilary was determined to have a go, if only for the sake of old Yossell. So they took it on.

The gossipmongers at London's Royal Eastern Hospital are working overtime. Three deaths in as many days among the staff? Worse, three suicides? Something must be very wrong. Dr George Bamabas, not one to stand for any nonsense, could have toldthem that the deaths were certainly not all suicides, but acidental death is so much less interesting for the rumour mill ... Yet when a fourth person nearly dies, one of George's own lab staff, not even she can calm things down. For this does not even look like an accident: it's attempted murder, and George herself, unbelievably, comes under suspicion. She has never needed much incentive to do some sleuthing; this time she has the strongest reason of all ... Genre: Mystery

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.

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 land with only their own resilience and determination to help them survive, Hannah would move from the slums of the East End to the salons of Mayfair; to a life that she could call her own.