One of the extracts used by Cambridge IGCSE English language describes a journey to the Andes through Merida in Venezuela. They say that it was so amazing that they couldn’t think of enough superlatives to describe it. Well, I did the same trip, and I have my own list of superlatives, but not for the […]
Firstly, I totally love the play, ‘A Streetcar Named desire’, it is as relevant today as it was when it was first written and performed. In production, the biggest problem is how do you beat Marlon Brando and Vivien Leigh? Before the start of the play, as the audience in the cinema, we got to
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‘Could a felt hat have the power to change lives?’ Is the first line of blurb of the book ‘The President’s Hat’ by Antoine Laurain. This relatively entertaining book is a series of four narratives exploring how a hat that once belonged to President Mitterrand, was found by chance, and gave this person the confidence
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The debut novel ‘Burial Rites’ by Hannah Kent is an engaging read, and it also offers us an interesting insight into the standards of literacy in Scandinavia. Kent recreates an era of Icelandic history with an engaging insight into how tough life for ordinary people was in the cruel climate of Iceland in the 1820s.
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