The digested read: Everyday Drinking: The Distilled Kingsley Amis
Shirley Dent: Tracy Beaker inhabits a very different world to the Little Women, but their hearts live in similar places

Declining genre spells gloom for publishers
Letter: Adam Phillips's analysis of Cinderella is interesting and, up to a point, plausible.

Jury clears judge of libelling mother
Sales of 'misery memoirs' fall after they boomed beyond all expectations since Dave Pelzer wrote A Child Called It
