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  • Location: Orkney

The Metal Heart

1940: Five hundred Italian prisoners-of-war arrive to fortify the remote and windswept islands…

  • Location: Tuscany

The Tuscan House

ww2: A house in Tuscany bears a secret

  • Location: London

The Plague Letters

1665: Who would murder the dying?

  • Location: Edinburgh, Scotland

Black Snow Falling

In 1592, a girl with spirit is a threat.

  • Location: Oxford

The Dictionary of Lost Words

In 1901, the word bondmaid was discovered missing from the Oxford English Dictionary. This is the story of the girl who stole it.

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Just a Little Dinner

2025: Parisians behaving badly: a dinner party implodes

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