2006

Contents

• J.K. Rowling, Philip Pullman, Anne Fine, Andrew Motion, Maggie Gee and Victoria Glendinning name their top books for children
• Katherine Duncan-Jones assesses the RSL/QCA debate on literature in schools
• Philippa Pearce looks back on 50 years of writing for young readers
• P.D. James and Ruth Rendell discuss the nature of crime fiction
• Paul Gravett chronicles the rise of the graphic novel
• Maggie Fergusson on writing the life of George Mackay Brown
• Peter Parker meets Edward Upward, the last survivor of the Isherwood generation
• Short story: Jonathan Haylett's winning entry for hte V.S. Pritchett Memorial Prize
• Jay Parini remembers John Steinbeck's widow Elaine