Hello my heroes,

It's September the first and "Heroes and Villains" is live. Right, let's get this out the way early:

http://alltherage.org.uk/alltherage-2008-09.pdf

Most of the regulars came through for this issue, it's a good one. Expect:

* a wonderful true story about the Great War from the Great Ralph Harrington
* a teen's experience of nightclubs from everyone's fave teen, Matt Parker
* a dizzying break-down of the story of the old woman who swallowed a fly (finally!) courtesy of Peter Fletcher
* Tania Ashan's analysis of the acknowledgments pages of books and some useful advice
* a very beautiful collage of one of my greatest heroes, made by me
* a warning about the modern villain that is the stealth sloane - thanks to Oliver Holtaway
* and... Sylvia Bellini, last but never least, with a tale of a villainous costume and a heroic little girl.

Hope you enjoy. Next month is probably going to be a bumper London Games Festival tie-in, we may have more readers than usual. Get in touch if you have any ideas or want to be featured, as ever. That number again:

http://alltherage.org.uk/alltherage-2008-09.pdf

Your friend and mine,

ATR xxx