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From Russia with love

An overdue appreciation of railway stations

Peggy Seeger’s folk music odyssey

Biography brings Frankenstein writer to life

The cold comforts of winter swimming

Hunter Davies and the diary of a somebody

Dickens, and how the spectre of poverty still haunts us

Michael Rosen, the pisher king

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Making all the right moves

Beale boost for shelf confidence

My dad, the unlikely Russian spy

Black Tudors, a forgotten history

Pol Pot’s role in the counterculture movement

Inside Britain’s clandestine interrogation centres

Towpath warpath

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The gospel according to John