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  • Location: Essex, Blackwater Estuary

The Restless Dead

2000s: A badly decomposed body has been found in the mudflats and salt marshes of the Backwaters.

  • Location: Northumberland

A Farmer’s Diary: A Year at High House Farm

2000s:  The highs, lows and hard, hard work involved in making a living from the land.

  • Location: London, Jamaica

The Confessions of Frannie Langton

1826: Frannie Langton, maid to Mr and Mrs Benham, goes on trial for their murder.

  • Location: Antarctic, Arctic

Byrd & Igloo: A Polar Adventure

1920s: A man and his dog go on the adventures of a lifetime!

  • Location: New Zealand

Diggers, Hatters & Whores

1800s – 1900s: The social history of New Zealand’s gold rushes, as used by Eleanor Catton in her research for The Luminaries.

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One Dark Night

2025: A party at sunset. A body at sunrise. What happened that night in the woods?

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