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A long story: why sales of 'big' classics soared in lockdown

From War and Peace to Middlemarch and Anna Karenina., something's been drawing us back to the big beasts of literature.

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The school curriculum must reflect an accurate past to fix the future

What we'd all gain from curriculum reform
Carlo Rovelli on Nabokov's butterfly expertise

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Avni Doshi on motherhood and 'Burnt Sugar'

Brilliant novels for Black History Month

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Roddy Doyle: 'Getting old is comical, really'

The author on Love, lockdown and the horror of 'Zoom pints'
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We must help all students find belonging in books

Penguin and The Runnymede Trust launch multi-year initiative to support culturally diverse English literature curriculum
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Books that shaped the 1980s

From Toni Morrison to Tom Wolfe, Alan Hollinghurst to Alice Walker, here are some of the writers who captured the decade best.

Essential non-fiction for Black History Month

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Books with Black heroes every child should read

From tender tales that celebrate individuality to stories that offer new perspectives on history
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The best campus novels in literature

From Philip Roth to Zadie Smith, authors who captured the magic and possibilities of uni life.
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Beautiful books for Christmas gifts

Give them something special with one of these gorgeously illustrated stories, clothbound classics or photography collections.

Books everyone is talking about

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'Fury could be righteous': How Malcolm X changed my life

Growing up between England and Saudi Arabia, Arwa Haider was galvanised by discovering the story of Malcolm X.
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P. G. Wodehouse quotes to cheer you up

Few writers of the 20th century had a rummier knack for a one-liner than the Jeeves and Wooster creator.
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The book that changed Britain

Why the Lady Chatterley’s Lover obscenity trial still matters 60 years later

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Howard Jacobson: 5 books that changed my life

The Booker Prize-winning author on taking refuge in Dickens, bringing Austen to Australia and having a highly disappointing encounter with Philip Roth.
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Claudia Rankine on talking to strangers about white privilege

The author, poet and playwright talks about Just Us, and the 'experimental' conversations that informed her work.
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Dolly Alderton on fiction, friendships and life in your 30s

After a decade of dating columns and a bestselling memoir, the author is turning her sights on fiction with new novel Ghosts.

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How my love for photography helps me be a better writer

Ahead of the release of his debut novel 'Open Water', Caleb Azumah Nelson reflects on how taking portraits nourishes his fiction.
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Suicide is not inevitable: we can reduce it to zero

Cheer The F**k Up author Jack Rooke on the model and training that could radically tackle our mental health crisis.
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Johny Pitts on 'An African in Greenland'

The author of Afropean on the book that turned him into a travel writer.

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