Goodness. Never had that happen to me before.

In eight years of being an independent adult, there have of course been many occasions on which I've had to take something I bought back to the shop because it was faulty. However, one type of item I've never before had to return is that single simplest and most successful entertainment device known to mankind, the one with the fewest moving parts and the least embedded high technology, the book.

But it's happened now, and thankfully I still have the receipt from my shopping trip a week or two ago. My copy of Brotherhood of the Wolf has a second copy of pp 37-84 in place of pp 517-564 – even the page numbers reflect this.

I do hope it's a one-off and not a problem with the whole print run; I found this out after reading the first 516 pages, at which point the book is just getting to the climax, so I'd really hate to take it back to Borders and find they couldn't replace it for me because all their other copies were the same!