At 70, Allan Ahlberg has a string of children's classics to his name, from Burglar Bill to Each Peach Pear Plum. But he's still as modest - and ambitious - as ever, says Nicolette Jones.
The most recent additions to the complete review are our reviews of two Naguib Mahfouz-novels -- written some four decades apart, but both only recently made available in translation: Cairo Modern and Morning and Evening Talk.
JLPP offers another of its translator interviews, this time with Michael Emmerich -- whose latest translation is Matsuura Rieko's The Apprenticeship of Big Toe P.
With the Madrid Book Fair -- Feria del Libro de Madrid -- running for the next two weeks, Elizabeth Nash finds Spanish bookshops buck the trend with soaring sales in The Independent.
