In the final turbulent years of Henry VIII’s reign, when religious reform clashed violently with traditional orthodoxy, one young woman...

In the early morning hours of Halloween, 1968, just off the winding roads of Los Angeles ’ storied Laurel Canyon, a housekeeper entered a familiar Spanish-style villa perched discreetly behind well-manicured hedges. It was a quiet, affluent neighbourhood favoured by actors, musicians, and creatives. But inside 3110 Laurel Canyon Boulevard, something was terribly wrong. The furniture was overturned, blood stained the floor in multiple rooms, and upstairs in the master bedroom

In 1778, two Irish aristocrats ran away from home together, got caught, tried again, and eventually built a life in a rented Welsh cottage that turned into one of the most talked about addresses in Georgian Britain. Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby spent the next fifty years there, hosting poets, generals and eventually a queen's own interest, while carefully never explaining exactly what their relationship was. Two centuries later, historians are still arguing about it, and