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Dance of the Earth: An Interview with Anna M Holmes
The novelist discusses how her book blends theatre, history and human resilience across art, war and societal change.
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Mr & Mrs Charles Dickens: Her Story: “So The World May Know He Loved Me Once.”, by Annie Elliot
A reimagining of the troubled marriage of Charles Dickens through the eyes of his wife, Catherine, and her endurance in the face of love, loss, and betrayal.
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Daria Santini
Daria Santini was born in Rome and educated in Italy and Germany. Her most recent books – The Exiles. Actors, Artists and Writers Who Fled the Nazis for London (Bloomsbury 2019) and A Woman Named Edith. Émigré, Photographer, Secret Agent: the Extraordinary Life of Edith Tudor Hart (Yale University Press 2026) – move beyond her earlier academic work to explore biography and cultural history in a wider, more personal register.
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Sugar Plum
Set during the Second World War, the story combines historical details about the challenges of putting on ballet performances in London during the war, with a fictional tale where magic and reality intermingle during a production of Casse Noisette.
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