What was the first book to make an impression on you? Boy’s Cinema Annual 1949, a large format annual with an olive binding, an ad for Cadbury’s Bournville Cocoa on the back with a giant drawing of a cup with tiny men climbing ladders up to it. There was a picture of John Mills in Scott of the Antarctic on the front cover and many black-and-white photographs from adventure films inside. In our house this book appeared out of nowhere when you were ill in bed and off school and vanished again when you were well. What was your favourite book as a child? See above. That led to Biggles, and all took flight from...
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