Category: 2025

  • February 2025

    Looking for something different to read, I walked along my bookshelves and came across these two. They took me back to my teaching days. For several years I ran a lunch time reading group for able readers in year 6, so 10 and 11 year olds. We read a chapter of a book and discussed […]

  • January 2025

    The Booker Prize has been in existence since 1969. The hope was that newly published work would become as central to the English speaking world as the winners of the Prix Goncourt are to that of France. Publishers Graham C Greene and Tom Maschler came up with the original idea and then of course needed […]