In the wilderness of Lapland, the sparse vegetation dotted with trees whose leaves are faded autumnal gold, a man who has forsaken the war lives alone with only
Argentina, 1954, nine years past the end of the war, and in a Buenos Aires café an American man reads the English language newspapers over his coffee, but
Karmack, Nowhere USA, so depressed that if things don’t improve soon they’re not even going to be able to afford to turn the streetlights on, an industrial town
A Five-Star Double Rated Astral Navigatrix, Jean-Claude Forest’s adult comic character Barbarella first entered orbit in 1962, a rare liberated woman flying solo in the field of science
A child of the foster system, finding it difficult to form attachments and always disappointed in people, a childminding role for the Michaels family is a big step
It was serendipity that brought Delilah Johnson to the back door of widow Bea Pullman, responding to a notice in the newspaper asking for help but turning up
Born in September 1666, at the age of sixteen Sophie Dorothea of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Celle became the wife of Georg Ludwig, Elector of Hanover and later King George of Great