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Philip Pullman has led a chorus of protest from prominent children's authors over a new scheme that will require them to be vetted before they can visit schools.

The Oxfam bookshop on Marylebone High Street in London is humming this Monday morning, customers thronging the aisles, as Monica Ali and Bill Nighy serve behind the till and Joanna Trollope busily sorts and prices the literature section.

Alan Gibbons, the two time Carnegie Medal nominee, is urging the British government to give kids the same rights as prison inmates - the right to have a library in schools.

The word "slut" appears in the first line of Margo Lanagan's new book, Tender Morsels.

In the latest magical production at Curve theatre, it will not be just the characters embarking on an adventure.

HE is a byword for bigotry cast in the role of the austere, humourless and cruel preacher of an austere, humourless and cruel God.

CHILDREN'S author Philip Pullman yesterday that he was "immensely gratified" to be awarded an honorary degree by Oxford University.

Philip Pullman surveyed the scene as he received an honorary degree from Oxford University and said no other institution could do it better.

Children's author Philip Pullman has been awarded an honorary degree by Oxford University.

FOUR talented young thespians from a Ryedale youth theatre group are enjoying stunning success.

By Nick Ahad Philip Pullman arrives at Oxford train station in a disappointingly normal, if very nice, BMW.

It is a sunny Welsh afternoon and Dr Rowan Williams , the archbishop of A Canterbury, is strolling down a cow-parsley-frilled lane from the Guardian Hay festival to St Mary's church.

Reading Philip Pullman can help people to understand theology, the Archbishop of Canterbury has said, despite criticism of the author's novels as a veiled attack on the Catholic church.

'I could have caused chaos," jokes Sir William Sargent, a film industry entrepreneur who has just spent three years at the top of the British civil service, "but I didn't." Red tape tsar Sir William Sargent goes out fighting Photo: JUSTIN THOMAS Sir William, who came to England in the 1980s to make his fortune, just happens to be the founder and ...

"His Dark Materials, Book I: The Golden Compass" Written by Philip Pullman Read by Philip Pullman and Full Cast Produced by Listening Library 2004 Back in 2007 I was intrigued by the Movie based on this book "The Golden Compass," and had to go see it.

FANS gripped by the adventures of Lyra and Will in His Dark Materials will want to head to the West Yorkshire Playhouse next month.

NOT SO long ago, the author Philip Pullman was taking a stroll past a bench in Oxford's Botanic Gardens, the site of deeply affecting pivotal scenes between Lyra Belacqua and Will Parry, the young heroes of his bestselling trilogy, His Dark Materials, when something unusual caught his eye.

SCOTTISH audiences last saw Amy McAllister at Christmas, when she played Lucy, the youngest of the four children who discover Narnia in the Lyceum's production of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

HIS Dark Materials, Philip Pullman's fantasy trilogy comprising the novels Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife and the Whitbread Prize-winning The Amber Spyglass, has often been described as the 'thinking child's Harry Potter'. As in JK Rowling's tales of the boy wizard, Pullman creates an alternative world peopled with witches and daemons a ' not to ...

By Suzanne McTaggart CANTEEN worker Joe Rogerson has always dreamt of a starring role in London's West End.