Blogs in March 2021

Impossible! 25th March 2021

A compelling story of London’s theatre world at the start of the 60s as 12-year old Josie tries to find success as an actress. She attends a finishing-style stage school and dreams of being on stage, but is firmly...

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In the Mirror, a Peacock Danced 24th March 2021

Agra, 1938: Eighteen-year-old Florence Hunt has grown up riding horses past the Taj Mahal and chasing peacocks through her backyard under the critical gaze of her father. Increasingly enamoured with his work on the booming railway, Florence yearns to...

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Of Serpent Born 24th March 2021

Anitha has just turned sixteen. She is intelligent and studious, but she feels like a misfit amongst her peers at school and in her own extended family. Having lost her father tragically when she was a baby, she still...

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The Dictionary of Lost Words 23rd March 2021

In 1901, the word ‘bondmaid’ was discovered missing from the Oxford English Dictionary. This is the story of the girl who stole it. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, Esme spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, a garden shed in Oxford...

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The Rose Code  21st March 2021

1940, Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire. Three very different women are recruited to the mysterious Bletchley Park, where the best minds in Britain train to break German military codes. Vivacious debutante Osla has the dashing Prince Philip of Greece sending her...

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