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Eve In Your Garden is inspired by The Testaments, by Margaret Atwood https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/emerge-return
Deep Time is inspired by Underland by Robert Macfarlane. https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/emerge-return
Why I Travel This Way was inspired by The High Mountains of Portugal by Yann Martel. https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/emerge-return
Room for Three and Sanctuary were both inspired by The Book Of Dust: La Belle Sauvage by Philip Pullman https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/emerge-return
The Vanishing Hours was inspired by The Vanishing Hours, by Barney Norris. https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/emerge-return
Waggons and Wheels, and Doll were both inspired by Orphans of the Carnival by Carol Birch, and were written for when she came to Mr B's Emporium of Reading Delights, in Bath, for her author event there. https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/emerge-return
The Night We Came To Wigtown was inspired by The Diary Of A Bookseller, by Shaun Bythell. We in fact feature in the book, as he documents our arrival into Wigtown on June 8th. The song is an update on that diary entry. https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/emerge-return
Dirty Word was inspired by reading Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. It was first performed at the V&A as part of their censored season of events.
The Pull Of The Moors is inspired in part by Withering Heights, by Emily Bronte. https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/emerge-return
The Pull Of The Moors was partly inspired by Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte, and was first performed at the National Portrait Gallery as part of the Bronte sisters exhibition. https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/emerge-return