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By Robert Macfarlane Hamish Hamilton, £25 There’s a mic-drop moment near the start of Robert Macfarlane’s latest spellbinding work of nonfiction. He refers to “rivers who”. At a stroke, his choice of

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A SCROOGE MYSTERY By Andreina Cordani. Zaffre, HN, £16.99 Nearly a year after his life-changing Christmas Eve, Ebenezer Scrooge is still striving to be a better man. He throws himself into festive che