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Isobelle Carmody – author of the highly acclaimed Obernewtyn Chronicles – calls the fantasy genre her “room of requirement”, the place she goes to so she can step back and think. Fantasy is, she says, “a very philosophical medium”. Ever since I first followed Lucy...

Who Is Little Red Riding Hood? As I recounted the story of Little Red Riding Hood to my young daughter years ago (pausing for dramatic effect after each ‘What big whatevers you have’ and feeling her snuggle closer to me), I could still recall my own wide-eyed horror...