Lost in Brent Cross: on variety in reading

Khaled Hakim and Gérard Bocholier

At the reunion I went to in London last week, I saw several people who had taught me, including one of the two teachers I had for English at A-level — that is, for non-UK readers, in the last two years of school (aged 16-18) when pupils on a broadly academic rather than vocational pathway study only three or, less often, four typically contiguous subjec…