Illness as an educator #lessonswecanlearnfromteachers
This article is an extract from a forthcoming book, The Long Game: The Lessons We Can Learn From Long-Serving Teachers, which will be published later on in 2016. The aim was to interview long-serving...
View ArticleAusten’s Pride and Prejudice: The Study Guide Edition
“A great teacher,” Jeremy Paxman, BBC’s Newsnight. “Clearly Francis Gilbert is a gifted and charismatic teacher,” Philip Pullman, author of Northern Lights.” “Gilbert writes so well that you...
View ArticleSummer Solstice Readings for National Writing Day at the Word Bookshop, New...
I had a very enjoyable day at Goldsmiths on the summer solstice to celebrate National Writing Day. The summer solstice is: “the time at which the sun is at its northernmost point in the...
View ArticleThe Mindful English Teacher: A Toolkit for Learning and Well-Being
In need of some inspiration? Are you feeling you’re losing your mojo? This is the ultimate guide for English teachers in the 21st century because it not only offers advice about the content, skills...
View ArticleThe Time Devil: a time-travelling fantasy set in the National Maritime Museum
The Time Devil is a fantastic time-travelling story which teenagers will love. Six students from Deptford Green school are kidnapped by a Time Devil, an evil, gigantic time-travelling black bird having...
View ArticleMaking an audio book of my Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde study guide
I’m very excited to announce that the marvellous actor and audiobook reader Richard Bunn will be reading my bestselling study guide ‘Analysis and Study Guide: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’. The book has...
View ArticleMy Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Audio Book is now published: free copies available,...
I am delighted that my new audiobook Analysis & Study Guide: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: Complete text & integrated study guide (Creative Study Guide Editions) is now available here on Audible,...
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