Here be dragons
‘A survey showed one in eight schools doesn’t have a library. It’s absolutely tragic’
THE big, bare walls and tall turrets of Cressida Cowell’s illustration of the warrior castle in remind me of a post-Modern architect’s design for a shopping mall. I wonder if she was inspired by Hammersmith Broadway, where the low-slung terraces of the older part of the town give way to the higher, rather overpowering buildings of more recent vintage. ‘If I was, it was only subliminally,’ she laughs, pointing out that her home is on the border with Chiswick, close to
