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Every day we write the book: an incomplete history of civil service authors for World Book Day

Posted by: Giles Turnbull, Posted on: 6 March 2014 - Categories: GDS team
Ian Fleming (image courtesy of Libor Kriz on a creative commons licence)

Today is World Book Day, so we thought it would be fun to look back through history and find out about some civil servants who dabbled as authors on the side.

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