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  • Location: Yorkshire

South Riding

Destination: South Riding   Departure Time – 1930s War comes to Yorkshire and the social order is changing.

  • Location: Tokyo

The Courtesan and the Samurai

Destination: Tokyo   Departure Time: 1860s 1868. In Japan’s exotic pleasure quarters, sex is for sale and the only forbidden fruit is love …  

  • Location: Milan, Switzerland

A Farewell to Arms

Destination: Milan, Switzerland  Departure Time: WW1 In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war, to the ‘war to end all wars’.

  • Location: Sligo

The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty

1900s: The author clearly has an  ear for the music and lilt of Sligo dialect which recreates the ambiance of Western Ireland before and during…

  • Location: Lima

Chasing the Sun

1990s – Set in Lima, Peru, in a time of civil and political unrest, this evocative page-turner is a perfect marriage of domestic drama and…

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The Tumbling Girl

1876: So much sass and sexiness in one book!

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