“A deluge of printed matter pours over the world”, F. R. Leavis proclaimed in his doctoral thesis of 1924. An excess of low-quality verbiage, in the view of this young literary scholar, was doing harm

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I know you get many letters, but I have to add my thanks for great stories and information. I love looking at who had done the illustrations. My favourite is Ged Fay – I can usually pick out the ones

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Three women tell us about the extra-special relationships they’ve been lucky to have