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Mountains of muck, former Jihads and Michael Palin...

How to live when you have a 50% chance of developing early onset dementia

The most important family in British history...no - it's not the royals

Uncovering a deadly well of dark secrets...this month's retro reads: THE WELL by Elizabeth Jolley, HONEY by Elizabeth Jenkins, A GLOVE SHOP IN VIENNA by Eva Ibbotson

Tearing a strip off a children's entertainer and a wintry Sarah Moss... this month's contemporary fiction: Fabulous (& Furious) by Harper Ford, Bitter Melon by Liv Little, The Winter Guest by Sarah Moss

Spellbinding Susanna Clarke returns with a minute miracle: O Now! by Niall Williams, The Bishop of Durham by Susanna Clarke, The Bridge by Colm Toibin

Forget the pharmacy - your garden might have the cure

Tom Read Wilson picks the book that made him the writer he is...

Three brothers. 10,000 miles. One Boat... Read the extraordinary story of how the Maclean brothers rowed unaided from Peru to Australia and raised £1 million

Closeted Carry On star who dreamed of a fireman rescue

Michael Morpurgo and his wife Clare's acts of extraordinary kindness...

I wrote Rocky, but they offered me $360,000 NOT to be in it...Sylvester Stallone shares the wildest stories from his life of hard graft and grit

Barbara Kingsolver's back...this week's literary fiction: PARTITA by Barbara Kingsolver, THE FLOATING WORLD by Ben Eastham, THE COMETS by Eoin McNamee

The brutal Nazi who saved my father's life...but also forced 10-year-olds into slave labour and didn't regret his war crimes

A westerner's guide to the REAL Japan