The first in his family to attend university, he read classics at Oxford but left without taking a degree, returning to his home county to write what is now regarded as a children’s fantasy classic, ...

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In 1969, the filmmaker Philip Trevelyan was introduced to the Page family. The father – a widower known locally as “Oily Page” – had worked in aircraft engineering but at the time ...