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The Duchess of Sussex was spotted last year with a blue sticker on her wrist. Will Hosie talks to the man who sold it to her

Between 1939 and 1945, around 10% of concentration camp guards were women, yet these Aufseherinnen (overseers) as they were known, barely feature in Holocaust history or literature. On the few occasions they do appear, it is most commonly as a masculinised sadist when the reality was much more complex.

Literature in translation has long been reliant on indie presses to bring work such as the South Korean author’s to wider audiences

"Everybody should feel important enough to tell their story," Taddeo says on the desired effect of the adaptation