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21 Oct 2014:
After an American tourist got locked in to one of their bookshops, Waterstones are inviting volunteers for a sleepover. Here are ten short books you could read in an evening – but what would you do if you could spend the night in a bookshop? Let us know in the comments below
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Gallery (6 pictures),
16 Aug 2014:
Seth Armstrong imagines appropriately exotic locations for six books, writes Kathryn Bromwich
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5 Jun 2014:
Petition demanding sack for education secretary sees surge of support bringing signatures close to 110,000
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3 Jun 2014:
It can seem daunting, but there's a whole world of books beyond the children's section. Site member Firebird is here with a few commandments for those thinking of taking their first steps...
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30 May 2014: Jonathan Bate: I was part of the board of experts who recommended that government broaden what has been a very narrow English literature syllabus
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29 May 2014:
Changes follow the government's reshaping of the English literature exam syllabus, removing the category of prose from different cultures and replacing it with modern works from Britain
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29 May 2014:
Robert McCrum: AQA boss Andrew Hall says 'we can't please everyone' - but he might have done some basic homework before sitting the exam
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28 May 2014:
Michael Gove's attitude to American classics have caused quite a stir - one outraged teen reviewer takes him on
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27 May 2014:
Education secretary claims exam boards are being asked to broaden, not narrow, the GCSE English literature curriculum
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26 May 2014: Letters: OCR needs to explain why the tastes of the current secretary of state for education are relevant
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25 May 2014:
New English literature GCSE ditches American classics for pre-20th century British authors such as Dickens and Austen
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17 Apr 2014:
John Steinbeck's classic is revived on Broadway with an all-star cast, but the critics can't agree if its leads bring huge chemistry or are simply reading from CliffsNotes
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Picture,
14 Apr 2014:
The photography of Dorothea Lange is as closely associated with American farmers' struggle against drought and dust in the depression era as John Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize winning novel, The Grapes of Wrath. Lange was commissioned by the US Farm Security Administration to document the lives of farming families during 1930s and her stirring images helped to publicise the sharecroppers' struggle to survive
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14 Apr 2014: Alan Yuhas: Steinbeck didn't want us to lose hope – he wanted us to get angry at those who would strip hope from us
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Quiz,
14 Apr 2014:
The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck's landmark novel of The Great Depression, is 75 years old this week. Have you saved up enough knowledge to get through our quiz?
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