Somewhere, a Boy and a Bear

When Winnie-the-Pooh first appeared in print on Christmas Eve 1925, his creator had no idea that for the next hundred years this bear would, for so many, become synonymous with childhood.

Here Gyles Brandreth tells the remarkable story of A A Milne – the man behind that ‘bear of very little brain’ who nevertheless went on to become a global phenomenon.

Drawing on years of friendship with Milne’s ...