The ‘religious atheist’ author held a reputation as CS Lewis’s opposite. But his two trilogies – which came to a close this year – were a celebration of humanity and imagination ...

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Robert Hitchens, from Newlyn, had a colourful life which took many twists and turns after that fateful trip which cost more ...

I yearn for the days when we pretended not to have any spies. In our missions abroad, they were known as 'the unmentionables' ...