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Tom Holland on why Lord of the Rings is the greatest historical novel
Tom Holland, Bettany Hughes and Peter Stothard on Mary Renault’s Greek historical novels
Tom Holland on why Lord of the Rings is the greatest historical novel- Tom Holland: The challenge of writing about periods before the modern novel
- Bettany Hughes reads from The King Must Die
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- Will Smith on working with Armando Iannucci
- Elderly sex: Germaine Greer on the romance between Cleopatra and Antony
- Rose Tremain on The American Lover
- William Banks-Blaney on Elizabeth Taylor at Studio 54
- Terry Waite on the book he received from a sympathetic guard
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