As a teenager, Mick Hugo swapped the dry land of East London for a life in the merchant navy. Now more than 50 years later, the Hoxton man has written a fascinating account of his seafaring days
19th-century Romantic writer John Clare once walked from an Epping Forest asylum to Northamptonshire without food or money. Andrew Kötting and author Iain Sinclair have made a documentary about it, starring Toby Jones and a straw bear
