The PretenderThe year is 1480 and England is in peril. The much despised Richard III is not long for the throne, and the man who will become Henry VII stands poised to snatch the crown for himself. But for twelve year old John Collan, living in a remote village with his widowed father, these matters seem far away. But history has other plans for John. Stolen from his family, exiled first to Oxford, then to Burgundy, and then Ireland and apprenticed to a series of

and is newly introduced by Celia Imrie

was a chance to see it one last time

doctors treated people

an ancient portrait speaks

as the clock ticks down towards the nationalisation of the railways he finds himself investigating a case that begins with an abducted great aunt

And should it be saved

or even the giraffe weevil

Her husband is mostly absent

her husband and her teenage daughter

during wartime

And into the path of Penelope's quiet assistant

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