Country Girls TrilogyNaive, reckless Kate Brady and Baba Brennan escape from their convent school and the Irish countryside to the bright lights of Dublin City, and a whirl of dances, flirtations and passionate misadventures.

the roles we play and the places we live

But a cataclysmic event that same night turns it into a very different occasion

its various occupants try to live under Nazi rule in their different ways: the nervous Frau Rosenthal

from the mayfly larvae in the mud to the patrolling bats in the night sky above

Franschhoek

Graham Mitchell

but there is a parallel history which has set the template for the future

When a dark spectre infiltrates the Future Agency

and more joyful

taking in glaciers and deserts

a Six Nations Champion

from the Bletchley Park breakthroughs of WWII to the modern-day threat of cyberattack