The Magnetic North by Sara WheelerWheeler takes her readers places no one has been, places no one really wants to go except via books. This time, she guides us through the frozen north, the lands and waters north of the Arctic Circle. She's an ideal guide, one who seeks out all the coolest (in both ...
BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week production and very informative it is too - especially the last about Russia and the gulags.