Oh I love this discussion — the Susan thing bugged me as a kid too. Do you think kids actually notice it, or is it more of an adult re-read thing? Asking as someone writing kids' books now, I think about this stuff constantly 😅

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“Fiction is a good way to instil empathy. So that when [children] meet people who have suffered war or see war on their screens, they will understand better its dreadful impact.” Author #TomPalmer joins the Big Story Festival at the Imperial War Museum: southlondonnews.co.uk/national/hea...

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Oct 17: Feast of Regulus (Rule) (4thC). Greek who followed an angel’s request to bear some of St Andrew’s relics into ‘northern parts’. Arriving in Fife, the angel brought him to a halt. There Rule built a church to house the relics, which was later called St Andrews.

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There's a new post at The City of Lost Books: Mervyn Peake, Letters from a Lost Uncle (from Polar Regions) (1948). An oblique look at post-war post-imperialism, invoking the doomed explorers of the British Empire! thecityoflostbooks.glasgow.ac.uk/letters-from...

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Seriously harmed

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