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Another heroic freethinker is wiped from Russian history

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By Hugh Thomson
| The Spectator Australia Verified
I, Vera: The Many Lives of Vera Gedroits, Radical Princess William Collins, pp.416, 25 It sometimes seems that those people chosen to be subjects for biographies are drawn from a strictly limited cast. Every few years, another book about Tolstoy, Dickens or some other great literary figure comes along to make library shelves groan further.
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Did the death of Shakespeare’s son really inspire Hamlet?

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By Hugh Thomson
| The Spectator Australia Verified
Just as each age refashions Hamlet in its own image, so I suspect we have got our own Hamnet. The 2020 book by Maggie O’Farrell became a worldwide success at the height of the pandemic, then an acclaimed play by the Royal Shakespeare Company and, finally, a film last year, nominated for multiple awards. The actress Jessie Buckley has now won both a Bafta and an Oscar for her performance in it. But some elements of Hamnet‘s story have been so taken for granted that they have never been questioned.
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Escape from investment banking to the open road – a biking odyssey | The Spectator Australia

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By Hugh Thomson
| The Spectator Australia Verified
The Hopeless Biker: Who Went Twice Around the World Muswell Press, pp.248, 25 A beguiling cinema advert back in the 1970s showed a young man with a series of doors closing around him with resounding clunks. First, he was hemmed in by the boredom of school, then work, and finally a mortgage – but as soon as he got the keys to his first motorbike, he could hit the open road and escape to freedom. Vroom, vroom.
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