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Philip Pullman

Jonathan Maitland profiles the writer Philip Pullman, whose latest book, The Good Man Jesus and The Scoundrel Christ, has prompted letters damning him to eternal hell.

Jonathan Maitland profiles the writer Philip Pullman, whose latest book 'The Good Man Jesus and The Scoundrel Christ' has prompted letters damning him to eternal hell - even though it has yet to be published. Pullman is no stranger to controversy: the film of the first book in the trilogy 'His Dark Materials' outraged influential American Catholics who campaigned to get the dramatisation of his next two books shelved.

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Sun 28 Mar 2010 17:40
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