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  • Location: Paris, Durango, Guernica

The Dress Thief

1930s: This is a stunning, sumptuous and silky journey back in to the heyday of Paris fashion scene and an insight into the copyists –…

  • Location: Isle of Harris

Secrets of the Sea House

1860s, 1990s: Based on a real nineteenth-century letter to The Times in which a Scottish clergyman claimed to have seen a mermaid…

  • Location: Calcutta, India

The Strangler Vine

1830s: A very intriguing story which showcases the colour, heat, sweat and glory of India in all its forms

  • Location: London, Kingsland, Margate

Elijah’s Mermaid

Late 1800s: A mermaid child found in the Thames is to lead a life no one could have foreseen…

  • Location: Kashgar, London

A Lady’s Cyclist’s Guide to Kashgar

1920s and present day – Kashgar, one of the most remotest cities in China in the 1920s, and the journey told via the pages of…

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The Tumbling Girl

1876: So much sass and sexiness in one book!

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