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Filled with the twists pathos and unusual characters that sprang from this novelist's extraordinary ..

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In June 1940 ten-year-old Pam Hobbs took the long journey from her council home in Leigh-on-Sea to f..

Richard Littlejohn was born in Ilford Essex in 1954. It wasn't just another century it was another c..

Johnny Johnson is 92 years old and one of very few men who can recall first-hand the most daring and..

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All families have their myths and legends. For many years Juliet Nicolson accepted hers - the danger..

In July 1969 Alan Johnson and his young family left West London to start a new life. The Britwell Es..

How does it feel to confront a pandemic from the inside? To bridge the gulf between a perilously unw..