A BOOK by Michael Gove is on a blacklist of titles — ranging from Hitler’s Mein Kampf to The Satanic Verses, by Salman Rushdie — that have been banned from prison libraries.

Celsius 7/7, the education secretary’s 2006 treatise on Islamic extremism, has been deemed forbidden reading for prisoners, according to documents released under the Freedom of Information Act.

It is among 200 books on prison blacklists, including works by the Sunday Times columnist Jeremy Clarkson, the Booker prizewinner Ian McEwan, the science writer Ben Goldacre, the survival expert Ray Mears and the peer and former Conservative MP Jeffrey Archer.

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Matthew Burgess
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I am a journalist and author. I am a journalist at the UK edition of WIRED magazine. In 2015, my first book Freedom of Information: A Practical Guide for UK Journalists, was published. My second book Reed Hastings: Building Netflix, was published in March 2020. I created FOI Directory in 2012 and have maintained it in my spare time ever since.