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Trouble down below

I woke up in hospital, on a Monday afternoon, and behold! – a catheter was protruding from my nether regions.   Steve Latham   I’d gone in for an investigation, to see whether I had bladder cancer; the result was gratifyingly negative. But I had not expected to leave with […]

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Heroes for young readers

The rainbow colours and bold graphics of publications for young children throw into low relief the grey print of grown-ups’ books.   Sean Sheehan   Young minds love tales of soaring imagination and worlds of magical transformations where animals converse and the laws of physics are blissfully ignored. But heroism […]