First published in Great Britain by HarperCollins Children’s Books in 2018

Published in this ebook edition in 2018

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Text copyright © Anna James 2018

Illustrations copyright © Paola Escobar 2018

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Source ISBN: 9780008229863

Ebook Edition © September 2018 ISBN: 9780008229887

Version: 2018-09-01

For my sister Hester, who is made of the same stories as me

Contents

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

1. The View From the Gate of a Fairground

2. No One has Proper Adventures in Real Life

3. Other People’s Memories

4. Somewhere Adventures Live

5. Magic, Mischief, Nonsense

6. Trouble Always Starts When You Are Out of Proportion With Who You are Talking to

7. Imaginary Friends

8. A Bit of Nonsense Never Hurt Anyone

9. Read Outside Your Comfort Zone

10. Fictional by Definition

11. Try to Make a Little More Space For the Impossible to Happen

12. At Active Imagination

13. The Story is the Thing

14. An Excellent Plot Twist

15. It Just Felt Like the Right Book

16. Welcome to the Underlibrary

17. Legere Est Peregrinari

18. Some Books are Far Safer Than Others

19. Getting Lost in a Good Book

20. The Absolute Safest Books You can Travel Into

21. Time Works Differently in Books

22. An Incredibly Bad Idea

23. This is Why You Should Always Follow the Rules

24. Everything has Tilted on its Axis

25. More Than Neat Plot Devices

26. The Last Page

27. The Ordnances of Bookwandering

28. Stories are For Reading

29. Book Magic is the Only Sort We Have

30. Fairy Tales

31. Curiosity Creates the Very Best Adventures

32. You Can Walk off the End of Any Story

33. A Whole Extra Character

34. The Wrong Place at the Right Time

35. A Bookshop is Like a Map of the World

36. Be Brave and be Kind

37. Readers are so Messy

38. Some Books are Loved and Some are Forgotten

39. How the Story had to End

Epilogue

Acknowledgements

Tilly’s Bookshelf

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