Going back to off-to-school books

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Unbelievably, it's somehow September, and time for a new school year again. It's many, many years since I started my last year of school, but I feel like marking the occasion, regardless. I don't have school-age kids, so I can't join in the parade of off-to-school photos on Facebook, and, thank God, I don't yet have to prepare rucksacks and book bags, name-label gym kit and fill lunchboxes. So, instead, it's time for a re-read of schoolday classics.

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