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Anneliese Hodge, PhD Candidate, Ecotoxicology, Plymouth Marine Laboratory

The novel that changed my mind – ten experts share a perspective‑shifting read

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Our beliefs aren’t fixed. They’re shaped, stretched and sometimes overturned by the ideas we encounter as we move through life. For many of us, novels are the moments where that shift happens.

For World Book Day, we asked ten academic experts to share a work of fiction that has challenged their assumptions and changed their thinking in a lasting way.

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