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‘Brighton Rock’ (1938) by Graham Greene ‘Heaven was a word: hell was something he could trust.’ This fast-paced thriller is one of Greene’s most famous novels. It tells the tale...
It seems that so many aspects of our lives have taken a bit of a hiatus since we all started working from home, and creative writing club has been no exception. Obviously, our...
Encouraging your child to write is an important way to support their development both academically and as a person. As research indicates writing enables young people to express...
Most of us have been having a fair few of those since the lockdown began, both literal and metaphorical. Like many idioms, the origin is uncertain, although it seems to be one of...
This week: ‘The Secret History’ (1992) by Donna Tartt The story follows a group of smart, attractive Classics students at an elite university, and an outsider who finds himself...
This week: A Short History of Nearly Everything (2003) by Bill Bryson A nonfiction offering: In his quest to provide what the title suggests, Bryson is funny, clear and...
‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ (1960) by Harper Lee This Pulitzer Prize winning novel concerns the essential nature of right and wrong and how good and evil can coexist. Through...
The English Faculty would like to draw your attention to another writing competition opportunity. This one has longer for you to create your masterpiece:
Last month, the English Faculty launched a themed Lockdown Poetry Competition. Mr Johnson and Miss Stanton set students the challenge to compose and submit a poem about an aspect...
‘Brighton Rock’ (1938) by Graham Greene
‘Heaven was a word: hell was something he could trust.’
This fast-paced thriller is one of Greene’s most famous novels. It tells the tale of a gang war that is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Seventeen-year-old Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man and thinks he can get away with it…
