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  • Location: Hampshire, London, Loos, The Somme

The Storms of War

WW1: An epic saga of one family’s fortunes across the miles during the Great War and its impact on those who went and those who…

  • Location: Sussex

The Darkest Hour

WW2: Set in the midst of the Battle of Britain, a young pilot and a promising artist fall in love. One of the paintings she…

  • Location: Suffolk, Bletchley, London

The Dandelion Years

2000s and WW2: A book restorer spends her days tending to broken battered books and dreaming of past readers when she finds a hidden notebook…

  • Location: Paris, Ile De France, Royaumont

In Falling Snow

WW1 –  There are many war stories of people who did amazing things for the good of others during such a horrific time. In 1917, …

  • Location: Barcelona

The South

1950s: Colm Tóibín’s first novel vividly evokes the Barcelona of the exile, as a young Irish woman starts a new life in the city.

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The Reluctant Spy

2025: Right place, right time. Wrong man.

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