Like “pat a cake, pat a cake, baker’s man”, these opening lines to Peepo!, perhaps the best known book written by the British author Allan Ahlberg, who died earlier this week at the age of ...

What does Peepo!, a popular picture book from the 1980s, have in common with Virginia Woolf’s unfinished wartime memoir? More than a little, as it turns out. Sketch of the Past is Woolf’s ...