Wars Rainbow - Family & Other Heroes

A boy dreaming of escape. A girl rooted in her family. A world changing around them.

Congleton, 1900s.
Len is restless, always chasing adventure, always defying the life his father imagines for him. Maggie, steady and bright, walks beside him, their bond unshaken by mischief, hardship, or the strict rules of their working-class town.

From cotton mills to railway lines, from riverbanks to orchards, childhood slips quickly into adulthood as the shadow of war and poverty lingers. Len longs for freedom and a chance to prove himself, but the weight of tradition and expectation threatens to bind him to a future he refuses to accept.

Rich in historical detail and alive with youthful spirit, Wars Rainbow is a heartfelt coming-of-age story of friendship, family, and the fight to carve out your own path. Perfect for readers of Ken Follett, Downton Abbey, and Call the Midwife.

London, 1905. In the narrow, soot-stained alleys of the slums, a mother and young daughter fight to maintain their dignity amid unimaginable hardship.

Born to street hawkers and raised among the poorest of the poor, Ellie has known loss all her life—siblings taken by illness, a father gone too soon, and a mother worn thin by endless struggle. Together they survive in the shadow of the workhouse, pressing their tattered clothes and mending what little they own, determined not to let poverty steal their pride.

When Ellie meets Sean, an Irish boy with dreams of escaping the slums, she glimpses a different future. But as life tears them apart, she must decide between loyalty to her ailing mother and the promise of freedom abroad.

Years later, when the chance to start anew finally arrives, Ellie boards a ship bound for America—not as a victim of circumstance, but as a woman forged by it.

Rich with historical detail and heartbreaking beauty, Perseverance - Eleanor’s Story is an unforgettable tale of endurance, love, and the quiet strength of those who history forgot.

Historical grit and industrial survival. Perfect for readers of Diney Costeloe, Val Wood, Jennifer Worth, and Maggie Hope.

In the early years of the twentieth century, Stella was ten when her family sold her.

Traded for a debt in Singapore and indentured into a bar, the nights blurred into smoke and music, and Stella learned too young that smiles could be armour, silence a weapon, and hope a dangerous thing to keep.

One storm-lashed night, as the piano played its final note and the street below burned red with lantern light, Stella made a choice that would define her life. She jumped.

In the backstreets of Singapore, Stella rebuilt herself from nothing, finding work in kitchens and boarding houses, saving coins in a hidden tin beneath the floorboards, and learning to read from newspapers.

As soon as she had enough money for a working passage, Stella boarded a ship bound for Sydney, Australia. There, in the heat and grind of hotel kitchens, she earned a reputation for beautifully presented, unforgettable food. Her talent built a name. Her determination built independence.

Stella is a powerful Edwardian-era historical story of survival, migration, and a woman who refused to disappear

Alice Ahead of Her Time is a historical fiction about all the women who fought for dignity and equality.

Born on a Norfolk farm in 1880, Alice Stuart Bourne was raised to believe that a woman’s body, mind, and future were her own. Taught carpentry, mechanics, and medicine by her parents—Alice rejected the rigid expectations of Victorian womanhood from an early age. At twenty-one, she entered medical school. And when war came, she refused to stay home.

Denied entry into the British Army as a surgeon because she was a woman, Alice travelled to South Africa anyway—unpaid, unofficial, and unstoppable. She treated the wounded under fire, operated in makeshift hospitals, survived typhoid fever, and crossed enemy lines to care for civilians abandoned by advancing troops.

Captured by Boer forces and imprisoned for four brutal months, she endured disease, hunger, and hardship before being exchanged at the war’s end.

Alice – Ahead of Her Time is the unforgettable story of a woman who lived without permission—and proved that courage is not gendered

They were Australia’s golden couple… Until the affair.

In 1971, Amy Adamson’s marriage collapses in the glare of camera flashes and screaming headlines. Betrayed by her husband and humiliated before the world, she is expected to disappear quietly.

Instead, she steps into the spotlight.

While tabloids feast on scandal, Amy channels heartbreak into her most ambitious film yet — a project she has nurtured for years. The parallels between her life and her character are almost unbearable. But what audiences see as restraint is something else entirely.

Survival.

As the film becomes a global triumph and Oscar nominations follow, Amy proves something the world never anticipated:

A woman publicly broken can become privately unstoppable.

BETRAYAL is a sweeping 1970s drama of scandal, resilience, and the art of turning pain into power.