How African writer gave women and girls a voice

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

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

Homes boy: Sydney Cook’s Camden

A less posh King’s Cross

How Tracy Chevalier found stitching unlocks the creative talent of prisoners

Far out! The bookseller who can remember what made the 60s swing