With impeccable timing, Bloomsbury Publishing have just brought out a new paperback edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass. The classic is now available from Blackwell's bookshop, incorporated into the foyer of the Wellcome Trust HQ, at 183 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BE

Large banners advertise their current exhibition, High Society, while Mervyn Peake's caterpillar hangs in draped technicolor glory in the street outside. It will be seen until February next year by innumerable motorists and passers-by as they make their way along this very busy central London thoroughfare.