Happy New Year to one and all, now that the festive season is over and our offices are open again, we have lots to look forward to this year. We have more books in the Mysteries of Stickleback Hollow series to look forward to, the next two trilogies in the Chronicles of Celadmore, more books …
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The Merchant of Venice
You might be aware of C.S. Woolley’s work with Foxton Books, modernising the classics and simplifying them so that those learning English can enjoy reading the complicated narratives even when they know only a small portion of the language. Well this is not the only way that she is working to help education. She has …
Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke
Happy International Women’s Day! We thought we’d take some time today to highlight some of our favourite female figures in literature starting with Mary Sidney Herbert. Many people will know that the Sidney family had quite a literary bent, (Sir Philip Sidney for example), however the Countess of Pembroke was one of the first women …
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