Three exam boards – OCR, AQA and the Welsh board WJEC – have just published their lists of set texts for English Literature ... conversely the line-up of GCSE set prose books has excluded ...

English literature is a compulsory GCSE for many, if not most students in England. Secondary school pupils will have to read and analyse several books and plays picked out by their teacher.

Research commissioned by Penguin Random House has revealed only 0.7% of English Literature GCSE students ... only 7% study a book by a woman. Its study, conducted by a team at Oxford University ...