I read (or, more accurately, listen to) a lot of books from a lot of different genres, but even the most cursory scans of my ...

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From Tudor England to the White House, read the unmissable fiction that’s inspired by history. Conjure up some of your favourite books and we can guarantee some of them will have their roots in ...