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  • 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.

  • Location: London

The Hourglass Factory

1912: Suffragettes, Emily Pankhurst, a mysterious hourglass factory, a female roving reporter and the world of the circus freaks…oh and a murderous plot too

  • Location: Jakarta

The Year of Living Dangerously

1960s: A vivid account of Indonesia under Sukarno’s rule and the journalists who go there to find out. Also a 1982 film starring Mel Gibson.

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The Convenience Store by the Sea

2000s: Welcome to Tenderness, Japan!

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