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2 weeks ago | thetimes.com | York Membery

2 weeks ago | historyextra.com | York Membery

He had a Walter Mitty quality: he was constantly fictionalising his life and pumping out fake versions of himself – partly, I think, because of his humble background [his father was a travelling salesman]. He lied about where he was born and grew up, and faked archaeological finds and ‘artefacts’ that he’d knocked up in his shed.

3 weeks ago | thisismoney.co.uk | York Membery

Ray Dorset, lead singer and guitarist with Mungo Jerry, found fame in 1970 when the group's song In The Summertime, topped the charts for seven weeks, writes York Membery. It went on to be No 1 in a further 25 countries, selling millions worldwide. It has been streamed more than 350 million times. The band had further hits with Baby Jump, also a No 1 in the UK, and Alright, Alright, Alright. Dad-of-six Dorset, 79 lives with third wife Britta in Bournemouth.

4 weeks ago | thisismoney.co.uk | York Membery

Isabel Allende is a Chilean-American author whose books have sold more than 88 million copies worldwide. She grew up in Chile and is best known for her novel The House of the Spirits (1982). Allende, 82, tells York Membery of her struggles in finding work after she was forced to flee her homeland for Venezuela following the overthrow of the Chilean president, Salvador Allende (her birth father Tomas's cousin), in a 1973 military coup led by General Pinochet.

1 month ago | historyextra.com | York Membery

Moreover, it’s an opportunity to look back and remind ourselves that our children – my boy is 16 and my girl is 14 – live in peace in a democracy because of the sacrifices of the Second World War generation. My grandfather was in the army during the war, though he was one of those people who never spoke about what he did and where he went, and he died when I was quite young.