Shelf life: Looking at secular books
I got into a conversation about this book on the train. It ran: ‘Strange title!’ ‘Its a children’s book.’ ... ‘What’s it about?’ ‘Well, the holocaust, really.’ ‘For children? Weird.’
THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PYJAMAS: A Fable
By John Boyne
David Fickling Press. £10.99
ISBN 0385 60940X