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'A vat of boiling ale'? Blimey.....!

Your post has reminded me of my membership of 'The Puffin Club' at school - I loved getting to choose and order a books on a regular basis. It was a great way of getting to know authors I perhaps wouldn't always have come across in our tiny school school library.

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That’s a really good point - even the club annuals would have little extracts to discover new things. We’ve been meaning to do a piece on Kaye Webb and Puffin for ages - really must get on that

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