The twice-winner of the Man Booker Prize has found new riches in the otherwise exhausted seam of Tudor history
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Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith
Alexander Lucie-Smith is a Catholic priest, doctor of moral theology and consulting editor of The Catholic Herald. On Twitter he is @ALucieSmith
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