Living The Life
How To Talk To Children About Death Grief feels like fear – wrote C S Lewis and when my phone rang one morning three years ago, I knew instinctively that something was wrong. …
External articles for 2012
Paperbacks Vs EBooks? Easy – You Don’t Need a Charger
The Great Horse Manure crisis of 1894 caused our predecessors to get their knickers in a right twist. Writing in the Times one commentator estimated that “in 50 years every …
Balls, Body, Bodyart – Beckham Has a Defining Quality Beyond All That…
Days after Beckham’s ambassadorial arrival on British soil from Greece with the Olympic flame he announced that he felt his future was less likely to be in management but in …
Emily Bronte’s Shocking News!
It’s enough to spur excitement into Heathcliffe’s restless spirit. Whether Emily Bronte’s secret hoard of poems – almost two hundred of them –would ever have seen the …
War And Words: How Cyber Editing Could Mean Heathcliff Becomes Boris Johnson
It may have been the typhoid fever but it took Leo Tolstoy six years to write that book. Six years of Russian sweat and tears and about six years for many of us to read it. …
Reciting Poetry is One Thing, Loving it Another
There is no doubt that rhythm and rhyme are valuable tools in terms of developing vocabulary. Michael Gove has just announced that, from Year 1, five-year-old children will …
Shakespeare The Blogging Bard? Why O-Levels Should Become E-Levels
No doubt the impact of the digital revolution will be recorded in the history books – well e-readers – in much the same way as the agricultural and industrial revolutions did …
Top Tips For Writing and Selling Your Book
I could wax lyrical about the inner book and all that but hardly a day goes by when someone tells me how much they would like to write a book. Well, in many respects, it’s …
Media Studies Or Classics? It’s a No Brainer.
Shakespeare once said “the education of circumstance is superior to that of tuition” and so when I am asked, as if often the case, about the perception and relevance of media …
How Rugby Could Help to Tackle Inequalities in Sport
Prince Harry may be watching the Olympic beach volleyballers compete at Horse Guards Parade but chasing balls on sandy beaches is not unusual for AngloAmerican Sofia Luxton – …
Forget Gap Years – The “Aid Year” Is What’s Needed
The popular notion that charity begins at home was succinctly interpreted on a wider level by Bob Geldof when he said “we need to write the cheque… we need a trade deal … …
Stonehenge – One Big Joke?
Artist Jeremy Deller may have revealed more about Stonehenge than he realised when he described his inflatable replica “Sacrilege” as a representation of “Britain’s history, …
Library Matters: if it’s not Broke Don’t Fix It
As if life isn’t tough enough for many writers. The jury may still be out on the future of ebooks v tree books and the world of publishing is facing its biggest challenges …
Fame – Why It’s Not All It’s Cracked Up to Be
Whitney Houston said that fame “made you a personality instead of a person.” Amy Winehouse’s sudden rise to fame plunged the singer into a fatal cycle of substance abuse. …
How to Talk to Children About Death
Caroline’s last hours in the hospice were peaceful for her but they were painful for us. When the phone call finally came to tell us that she’d died, despite the …