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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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by Tony Robinson (£25, HB, Little, Brown Book Group) Labelled a heretic, Father Asser’s days are numbered as he awaits his death in a papal prison in Rome. But in a twist of fate, he is saved by Cardi