Help me trace the book that prompted my political awakening
George Monbiot: In a dusty box in the school sanatorium I found a book that had escaped the censorship of the headmaster. But what was its title?
David Walliams to help launch plans to boost child literacy in UK
Little Britain creator and education secretary Nicky Morgan to announce campaign aimed at creating book clubs in more than 200 primary schools
Kate Taylor obituary
Other lives: Teacher and lecturer who wrote books about her home town of Wakefield
Brian Nisbet obituary
Other lives: Careers adviser and published poet who also worked with young people with special needs
Russian region bans British historians’ books from schools
Authorities in Yekaterinburg tell schools to ‘prevent access’ to works by Antony Beevor and John Keegan, claiming they promote Nazi stereotypes
Spanish town set to spend subsidy on books instead of bullfights
Traditional bullfight which costs Villafranca de los Caballeros around €18,000 a year may end after council votes on using fund for school supplies
Bryan Nelson obituary
Ornithologist devoted to studying, filming and writing about seabirds, he became the ‘biographer’ of the gannet
Sheila Whiteley obituary
Emeritus professor who held Britain’s first chair of popular music
Charles Hannam obituary
Other lives: Charismastic teacher and influential author who arrived in Britain on one of the last Kindertransport trains from Germany before the second world war
Romeo and Juliet in Palestine review – Shakespeare under occupation
Tom Sperlinger’s account of teaching English literature to students in the occupied territories is an illuminating look at the wider role of education
Michael Morpurgo answers your students’ questions – live chat
The award-winning author joined us to answer your pupils’ questions and inspire a love of all things literary
National curriculum is damaging children’s creative writing, say authors
Primary school teachers are steering children towards “too elaborate, flowery and over-complex language”, a group of acclaimed writers will say in an open letter to the education secretary
Are you as well read as a 16-year-old Eton schoolboy?
The outgoing head of Eton has published a list of books he recommends for bright boys. It’s a shame it’s a so … Etonian
Boarding School Syndrome review – education and the pain of separation
A gripping academic study of the mental wounds inflicted by classic British institutions
A moment that changed me – the man who forgot we’d had sex
Donald may not have been able to remember our first sexual encounter a week later, but without him I would never have married my husband