Paddington's back - and this time it's his status as a refugee that's getting him into trouble. Michael Bond, the 81-year-old writer who created Britain's favourite asylum seeker back in 1958, returns with his first novel-length collection of Paddington stories for 30 years, and the bear in the duffel coat is confronted with what his creator calls a "very different world". The opening story of Pad
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