My latest school textbook for Collins is a complete coursebook for the rather enigmatically titled ‘English General Paper’, an international exam offered by the Cambridge International Exam Board. I co-wrote it with Mike Gould in the UK and Babita Persaud in the USA. I began work on this a year ago, and it’s been quite
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Perhaps if history is one thing after another, then geography is one place after another. But if all you can ever experience is really this moment, then perhaps the only place you can ever be is here. I’m a keen walker. I suppose I have been ever since, when I was about 21, I suddenly
I’m constantly finding myself interested in narrative – in so many ways. Once upon a time – which is of course the classic way to start a narrative, the word ‘narrative’ was just a formal way to say ‘story’. GCSE students have often been told that the word ‘narrative’ will impress the examiner more than