network of American Romani criminals. 1995: The Parsley Parcel by Elizabeth Arnold is a children's novel set among Roma in the English New Forest and was the basis for a seven-part Gypsy Girl TV series in 2001. 1995-2000: Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy. Features a nomadic race called the "Gyptians". Gyptians are roughly the equivalent of Roma in our universe, with the exception that they use narrowboats in place of caravans. Throughout the books they are portrayed as good and kindly people. 1996-2001: Tad Williams's Otherland series of science fiction books. A Romani character and references to Romani appear as nomads who disregard the borders of an advanced virtual reality cyberspace. 1999: Bernard Ashley's novel Johnnie's Blitz features a Roma family. 1999: Ana Castillo's novel Peel My Love Like an Onion. 1999: Thomas Harris's novel Hannibal. A member of a seemingly Romani band of travellers is hired by Inspector Pazzi to pickpocket Hannibal Lecter, in order to lift a fingerprint. 1999: Joanne Harris's novel Chocolat (and the 2000 film based on the novel), features a group of French river Roma. 1999–2003: In the Star Wars New Jedi Order series of books, the Ryn race are inspired by the Roma. 21st century 2001: Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel's Legacy series of fantasy novels. Includes the Tsingani, based on the Roma. 2001: James Herbert's novel Once. A wiccan called Nell Quick is described as alluring and dressed in the manner of a Roma woman. She is noted for her extremely beautiful looks and raven-colored dark hair. The novel never fully explains her origins or if she is connected to the Gypsies. 2003: Louise Doughty's novel Fires in the Dark. A boy from a group of nomadic Kalderash Roma, born in a barn in rural Bohemia in 1927, grows up during the Great Depression and the rise of Nazism, is interned in a camp and escapes to take part in the Prague Uprising of May 1945. 2005: Isabel Allende's novel Zorro. Features a clan of Romanies who ally themselves with the titular hero in post-Napoleonic Spain. 2005: Edith Layton's novel Gypsy Lover. Daffyd, the illegitimate son of a noblewoman and a Romani, returns to England from a penal colony in Botany Bay to pardon and clear the name of his adopted father the Earl of Egremont. 2006: Louise Doughty's novel Stone Cradle charts one family's path through persecution and tragedy, asking, can the Romani