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Set in the mythical village of Watersmeet, in post-Medieval Britain, two dramatic stories unfold. Allhan travels through a vast forest, and returns to the civilised world he once knew. Changed and disorientated by his experiences, he struggles to regain his memory. He meets Elgiva, a young woman desperate to escape her life as a farmer’s…
In 1898 a six-year-old German boy disappears in Jerusalem. What remains is a portrait painted by a family friend. Set amongst German Templers, Zionists and Arabs and against the backdrop of two world wars, the story unfolds in Cairo, Venice and Jerusalem. Its closing pages depict the bombing of Dresden when the fate of the…
It’s 1492 and Spain issues an edict forcing all non Christians to convert to Catholicism or face expulsion. Sephardi Jew Jacob ben David, his wife and young sons leave Toledo for Lisbon. Five years later the Inquisition spreads to Portugal so Jacob and family must emigrate . They cross the Atlantic and Mediterranean seas to…
