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11 Sep 2014:
Courtroom to classroom, society to sports, injustice will also heavily balance the scales in this week’s musical judgments, says Peter Kimpton
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29 Jul 2014: The most influential books by women include To Kill a Mockingbird, Jane Eyre and Pride and Prejudice, according to a public vote organised by the Baileys fiction prize. We are sure lesser-known books have shaped your life too. So tell us which books written by female authors have had an impact on you - and why
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29 Jul 2014:
Harper Lee's novel tops poll to find the books that have 'most impacted' readers' lives
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24 Jul 2014:
Even from a small English village, Atticus Finch, the lawyer defending a wrongly accused African American in the deep south of America, seemed the epitome of quiet decency, fatherly tenderness and physical courage, writes Neil Mitchell
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18 Jul 2014:
A war of words broke out this week following the publication of a memoir featuring To Kill a Mockingbird author Harper Lee. So what are the ethics of telling someone else's life story, asks Aida Edemariam
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16 Jul 2014:
After To Kill a Mockingbird author denies Marja Mills's book had her approval, Mills and publisher issue counterclaims
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15 Jul 2014:
Marja Mills's The Mockingbird Next Door, just published in the US, draws author's fire for claim it was written with her blessing
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Quiz,
11 Jul 2014:
Don't tell anyone, but To Kill a Mockingbird was published on 11 July 1960, and its author has kept her profile low ever since. How much have you seen of the folks below?
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8 Jun 2014:
Dewdrop: 'This book has earned the title of a classic and rightly so. A book to savour and not devour all at once'
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6 Jun 2014:
Michael Gove has been lambasted for meddling with the English GCSE syllabus, but is it due for an overhaul? Mary Beard, William Boyd, Hanif Kureishi, Will Self and other cultural figures choose their set texts. Which books would you pick?
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5 Jun 2014: After confidential agreement, federal judge ends suit in which 88-year-old author of To Kill a Mockingbird fought museum
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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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30 May 2014: Elizabeth Truss: You might think a government saying that pupils need to study a wider range of more challenging authors would be welcomed. Instead we received a broadside
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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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