The new GCSE AQA English Literature syllabus is very exciting, yet challenging too. In a world dominated by smartphones, I wonder how many students will find the prospect of a five hundred… Read More »GCSE AQA English Literature: Suspense and Uncertainty in Great Expectations ( English Tuition Bolton Manchester)
This short piece of writing records a dream about Katherine Mansfield in 2007! She did have wet hair and was very hungry, being perhaps marooned in another dimension where breakfast is… Read More »English tutor Bolton Manchester: Katherine Mansfield for Breakfast Reprise of ‘Toast’!
”I murdered my father at a very early period of my Life, I have since murdered my Mother, and I am now going to murder my Sister. I have changed… Read More »Jane Austen’s early years- a Pre-Darcy moment! English Tuition Bolton Manchester Bury
”Sometimes our words are like our gardens and sat navs, they take strange routes/roots!” For Words take us places, they govern us because they transport us in directions and encourage feelings that root us elsewhere….they… Read More »English Tuition and Confidence Coaching Bolton Manchester: Jackie kay and Root/Route Word
How perfectly acknowledged is this encounter. Every sense is awake to the moment and this moment endures ‘beyond’. Impossible to read without thinking of Seamus Heaney’s death 10 days later… Read More »Seamus Heaney’s Banks of a Canal: A soul unminding- English tuition Bolton Manchester bury
Many years ago I was fortunate to attend the very first ‘Cosmopolitan Book Day’ in London. I went because I loved reading and my heroine Angela Carter was a speaker.… Read More »Maya Angelou: And Still I rise-PHENOMENAL !
They shouted for me when their horses reared at the burning straw and eyes revolved in stately heads. I would pull a frog’s wishbone, tainted by meat, from a puch,… Read More »Andrew Forster ‘Horse Whisperer’ Analysis TWO: GCSE AQA English tutor Bolton, Manchester.
