ReturnMercedes is a spirited young Spanish girl whose passion is dancing. Her life is turned upside down by the Spanish Civil War & the oppression of Franco's dictatorship. When her brothers & her lover disappear in the night, taken for interrogation by the army, she must find a way to flee, even if that means leaving her home & family forever.

Lucy brings the favourite characters of our collective childhoods back to life - prompting endless re-readings

In a dangerous future

He had lived fast and died young

more kindness

the pair will answer a selection of them with writer Douglas Abrams

How did Syria's revolution lose its way

or causing him pain

It's twenty hours to landing

who lived across vast and diverse tracts of Eurasia and survived through hundreds of thousands of years of massive climate change

But they are all searching for understanding

But it is also our collective story

A unique history of the rise of the Nazis based on fascinating first-hand accounts