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16 hrs ago | Guardian Unlimited

Authors in revolt against plans to vet them for school visits

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.

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Wed Jul 08, 2009

Guardian Unlimited

Book festival gets stars working in Oxfam shops

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.

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Mon Jul 06, 2009

School Library Journal

Alan Gibbons, Philip Pullman Urge British Government to Mandate School Libraries

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.

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Sat Jul 04, 2009

Guardian Unlimited

Parents alarmed over sex assault in children's novel

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

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Tue Jun 30, 2009

Thisisleicestershire.com

Amateurs learn to put on show

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

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Sun Jun 28, 2009

The Australian

Decline of John Calvin

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

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Fri Jun 26, 2009

Scotsman.com

Oxford author's degree pleasure

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

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Thu Jun 25, 2009

Oxford Mail

Author Pullman surprised at degree honour

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

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Wed Jun 24, 2009

Scotsman.com Business - Latest South ...

Oxford honour for children's writer Pullman

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

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Thu Jun 11, 2009

Gazetteherald.co.uk

Youngsters from Helmsley's 1812 youth theatre group set out on acting careers

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

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Fri May 29, 2009

Yorkshire Post

'I told stories to my little brother, and to friends... I'm a storyteller, that's all I am'

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

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Thu May 28, 2009

Guardian Unlimited

Archishop's sermon: you can find God in Eliot, Austen and even Philip Pullman

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.

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Telegraph.co.uk

Philip Pullman helps understanding of theology says Archbishop of Canterbury

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.

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Wed May 27, 2009

Telegraph.co.uk

Red tape tsar Sir William Sargent goes out fighting

'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 ...

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Associated Content

"His Dark Materials, Book I: The Golden Compass" Written by Philip Pullman

"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.

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Fri May 22, 2009

Morley Today

His Dark Materials author Philip Pullman to visit West Yorkshire Playhouse

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

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Thu May 21, 2009

Scotsman.com Living

Interview: Philip Pullman - Chapter and verse

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.

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Sat May 16, 2009

Scotsman.com Living

Amy McAllister interview: Acting is child's play

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.

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Fri May 15, 2009

Scotsman.com Living

His Dark Materials, Festival Theatre, Nicolson Street

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 ...

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Tue May 12, 2009

Yorkshire Evening Post

Canteen job is teenager's cup of tea as he chases his stage dream...

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

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