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Hello, I'm Rihanna Dillon. Welcome back to Ask Penguin, the Penguin podcast all about books

and the people that write and publish them, coming to you from the heart of Penguin Books in London.

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So a couple of episodes back, we were talking about historical fiction.

But as it's such a popular genre, we wanted to come back and take a bit of a deep dive into the nonfiction side of things.

Later in the show, I'll be chatting to Terry Deary, so you might remember him

from your childhood. I mean, we all grew up on the horrible history books, right? But he's got a new

book out for adults coming very soon. But before that, I'm very excited because with me in the

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