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‘Bold, brilliant, thrilling’: leading authors on the novels every school should teach
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Prominent British authors, including Ben Okri and Samantha Harvey, have shared their recommendations for novels that should be included in the school curriculum. The initiative aims to inspire students to develop a lifelong appreciation for reading fiction, coinciding with a political shift that highlights the background of the current prime minister.
WHY IT MATTERS
The recommendations from acclaimed writers provide a potential roadmap for reshaping the national English curriculum to better engage students with literature.
A new term, a new PM … time for a new English curriculum? We ask writers from Ben Okri to Samantha Harvey to pick books that will inspire a lifelong love of readingFor the first time ever, we have a British prime minister who studied for an English degree. Not all of his 58 predecessors went to university, but those who did favoured subjects such as history and classics and, more recently, philosophy, politics and economics. Yet reading fiction is a fantastic preparation for life, for understand...
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