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Iris doesn't remember the first time she met Nina. But she remembers the first time she paid attention to her. It was when he did. The first year of high school brought Iris into a type of privilege she'd never felt part of. But then she found her place. The magic of performing in school musicals...

Consecrated at birth as a royal goddess, Cleopatra learns early on that to rule means to fight. Politically astute, her deep love for Egypt means she'll do everything in her power to retain its autonomy from the all-devouring Romans. Julius Caesar is a legendary warrior whose might helped secure ...

"There are animals in the camouflage of undergrowth; they forage this final, fading night hour. They hear the grunting men and lift their heads, listen, then bound away: the scrub, the bushes shake and wave, signalling their invisible trajectories. After decades-old human bones are discovered in ...

London, 1991: Alex Johns, trainee art intern at the Courtauld, believes a hidden secret lies within Diego Velazquez's Las Meninas - one of the most written about paintings of all time. Her own mother died in mysterious circumstances while trying to uncover its secrets and Alex is troubled by memo...

Young heiress Scarlett Lancaster is delighted when her father tells her he hired a famous pop star and former boy band member to play at her eighteenth birthday. But delight becomes utter disappointment when it turns out he wasn’t talking about Harry Styles. No, Scarlett’s dad hired Tate Ramsey, ...

How can you know your Ancestors? You feel them when you walk on the land. You hear them in the trees and the whistling leaves. You talk to them when you listen to the birds and animals. You know your ancestors, for they are all around you every day.