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  • Location: Turkey (Turkey during the Crimean war), Crimea

No Place For A Lady

1850s – Two sisters follow their heroine Florence Nightingale over to the Crimea to do their bit for King and country. But neither of them…

  • Location: Costa Rica

Pura Vida

What do ostriches and a farm in Alberta have in common with Costa Rica?

  • Location: Guyana

The Secret Life of Winnie Cox

1910, 1900s: South America – A time of racial tension and poverty. A time where forbidden love must remain a secret.

  • Location: Colombo, Nuwara Eliya, Dickoya

The Tea Planter’s Wife

1920s, 1930s: Dinah Jefferies really knows how to transport a reader to the places she writes about. And this tale set on a tea plantation…

  • Location: Mauritius, St Louis

The Prisoner of Paradise

1825: Mauritus – the landscape of rootlessness .

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Dark Island

2000s: Midwinter in Orkney. Six hours of daylight. A race against time to catch a killer.

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