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What is nonfiction?

According to my nearest Oxfam bookshop, comic annuals count as nonfiction:

Beano annuals, by Terry Freedman

Does the Oxfam bookshop know something I don’t? Well, as an ex-teacher who sometimes despairs of hearing about schools where the pupils seem to be in charge, I’ve often read the Bash Street Kids as commentary….

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