Mark Mason has written the Bookends column in this week’s magazine. Here it is for readers of this blog:
‘Owl?’ said Pooh. ‘What’s a biography?’
‘A biography,’ replied Owl, ‘is an Important Book. Such as an Interested Person might read. Anyone who is interested in the real-life toys which inspired you and Piglet and the others, for instance, might be tempted to read The Life and Times of Winnie the Pooh by Shirley Harrison.’
‘Is that the one you said was published by Remember When at nineteen pounds ninety-nine?’ asked Pooh.
‘The very same,’ answered Owl. Then he fixed Pooh with a Meaningful Stare. ‘But — and I say this with regret — it is a temptation they should probably resist.
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