‘Bold, brilliant, thrilling’: leading authors on the novels every school should teach
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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 reading For 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 w
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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 reading For 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 understanding people and the times through which we live.
Novels encourage empathy, they help you to stand in other people’s shoes, to navigate complicated, sometimes conflicting emotions, they entertain and bring joy.
The creative industries contribute some £145.8bn each year to the UK economy; it is our soft superpower. In other words, books matter.
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