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Garnet Oracle Readers

04/01/2012 by Peter Viney

Garnet Oracle Readers are being published through 2012, with the earliest titles available now.

These include the two new titles by Peter Viney, The Case of The Dead Batsmen (Level Four) and Zoo Diary (Level one). All sixteen covers have been added to the Bibliography here.

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Short review of the kids film Chipwrecked added yesterday. People have asked me why I bother to review this sort of stuff, but first, I see it, and second, the kids film reviews get more hits than the serious ones.

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Classic Picture Stories for ELT

02/01/2012 by Peter Viney

We have added free sample ELT materials, under Classic Picture Stories in the ELT section. These are PDFs which you can print off for classroom use. This is something we’d like feedback on.

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What’s In A Name

01/01/2012 by Peter Viney

The article “What’s in a name?” on given names in English has been updated with the 2011 Top Ten names for newborn boys and girls.

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Best of 2011

10/12/2011 by Peter Viney

Selections for Best of 2011 added here.

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The Unthanks

10/12/2011 by Peter Viney

Review of The Unthanks, at Southsea, Portsmouth, December 9th 2011 added.

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The Ladykillers

03/12/2011 by Peter Viney

Review of current London production of The Ladykillers, adapted by Graham Linehan, added.

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Chesil Beach

30/11/2011 by Peter Viney

Paul Newman sent me his April 2008 review of “Chesil Beach” by Ian McEwan which I’ve added to the Sloppy Fiction article. He picked up on the same point about Beatles / Rolling Stones records that I did. I’ve added the full review.

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