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Posted by Danielle Bowe
‘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...
Posted by Lynn Court
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...
Posted by Sara-Luise Smith
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...
Posted by Claire Till
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...
Posted by Lynn Court
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...
Posted by Lynn Court
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...
Posted by Lynn Court
Posted by Danielle Bowe
‘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...
Posted by Lynn Court
Posted by Danielle Bowe
The Comedy of Errors is a five-act comedy by William Shakespeare and his shortest play. It was written in 1589–94 and first published in the First Folio of 1623 from Shakespeare’s...
‘Lord of the Flies’ (1954) by William Golding A plane crashes on an uninhabited island and the only survivors, a group of schoolboys, assemble on the beach and wait to be rescued....