Her collection, Broadcasting, centres on the 1942 Army requisition of five rural Norfolk villages for D-Day training and the loss of the homes and way of life for villages. She is currently translating the poems of French-Russian painter Marc Chagall into English. Kathryn Hughes is an historian and writer of non-fiction. She is the author of George Eliot: The Last Victorian and most recently of The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs Beeton. She is currently writing a book on the body-parts of well-known Victorians.