Serpent in Paradise

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When Eva is sent to the island of her childhood to photograph the bloody civil war, she faces her hardest assignment yet: her own history.The traumas of Eva’s youth resurface in the decaying house whe …

The Wreck of the Batavia

In 1629, the ship Batavia, pride of the Dutch East India Company, was wrecked on the edge of a coral archipelago, some fifty miles from the Australian continent. Most of the people on board survived t …

Strange Blooms

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In seventeenth-century Britain, a new breed of ‘curious’ gardeners were pushing at the frontiers of knowledge and new plants were stealing into Europe from East and West. John Tradescant and his son w …

The Magic Spring

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City-dweller Richard Lewis has been having a problem with roots. His, he means. It would have been so much more romantic if he had been born in Dublin or Marseille. But what if you’re simply from Croy …

Molvania

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‘This book took me straight back to my holiday in Molvania: I intend to sue.’ Ben SchottMolvania, birthplace of the polka and whooping cough, is often overlooked as a tourist destination but thanks to …

Stories I Stole

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Shortlisted for the Thomas Cook Book Award 2003Longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award 2002Fed up with working for Time magazine in London, Steavenson moved to Georgia on a whim. Stories I Stole …