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Five hundred kilometres out in the Atlantic Ocean lies an island.
The last in its tiny archipelago, Navigaceo contains only empty
caves, an abandoned lighthouse and a colony of seals. The last time
anyone set foot there was 1971. Until now. A team of research
scientists, accompanied by Quin Macfarlane, a documentary
filmmaker, are the first in recent memory to explore the island's
tangled forests. But on arrival, Quin makes a devastating
discovery; while filming, she spots a body in a cove at the foot of
the treacherous cliffs. And although nobody has been on Navigaceo
for half a century, the corpse has all the markers of a recent
death . . . Each member of the research team has secrets. More than
one of them could be a murderer. It's five days until they will be
returned to the mainland. And Quin knows if she's not careful,
there could be another body on the shore by morning. Praise for
Martin Griffin 'If there is a finer crime debut this year, it will
be a surprise . . . Stunning' Daily Mail 'Fresh, gripping and
addictive! An absolute gem of a crime novel!' Allie Reynolds,
author of Shiver 'Tense!' The Sun 'Clever and bold . . . Anything
you think you know, you don't' Lisa Gardner, author of One Step Too
Far 'A brilliant debut from an excellent new voice in the world of
crime fiction' My Weekly
ONE DETECTIVE. ONE MURDERER. BUT WHICH IS WHICH? Remie Yorke has
one shift left at the Mackinnon Hotel in the remote Scottish
Highlands before she leaves for good. Then Storm Ezra hits. As
temperatures plummet and phone lines go down, an injured man
stumbles inside. PC Don Gaines was in a terrible accident on the
mountain road. The only other survivor: the prisoner his team was
transporting. When a second stranger arrives, Remie reluctantly
lets him in from the blizzard. He, too, is hurt. He claims to be a
police officer. His name is also Don Gaines. Someone is lying and,
with no means of escape, Remie must work out who. If the cold
doesn't kill her, one of these men will get there first . . .
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The Second Stranger
Martin Griffin
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The story of arts and cultural policy in the twenty-first century
is inherently of global concern no matter how local it seems. At
the same time, questions of identity have in many ways become more
challenging than before. Narrative, Identity, and the Map of
Cultural Policy: Once Upon a Time in a Globalized World explores
how and why stories and identities sometimes merge and often clash
in an arena in which culture and policy may not be able to resolve
every difficulty. DeVereaux and Griffin argue that the role of
narrative is key to understanding these issues. They offer a
wide-ranging history and justification for narrative frameworks as
an approach to cultural policy and open up a wider field of
discussion about the ways in which cultural politics and cultural
identity are being deployed and interpreted in the present, with
deep roots in the past. This timely book will be of great interest
not just to students of narrative and students of arts and cultural
policy, but also to administrators, policy theorists, and cultural
management practitioners.
The story of arts and cultural policy in the twenty-first century
is inherently of global concern no matter how local it seems. At
the same time, questions of identity have in many ways become more
challenging than before. Narrative, Identity, and the Map of
Cultural Policy: Once Upon a Time in a Globalized World explores
how and why stories and identities sometimes merge and often clash
in an arena in which culture and policy may not be able to resolve
every difficulty. DeVereaux and Griffin argue that the role of
narrative is key to understanding these issues. They offer a
wide-ranging history and justification for narrative frameworks as
an approach to cultural policy and open up a wider field of
discussion about the ways in which cultural politics and cultural
identity are being deployed and interpreted in the present, with
deep roots in the past. This timely book will be of great interest
not just to students of narrative and students of arts and cultural
policy, but also to administrators, policy theorists, and cultural
management practitioners.
ONE DETECTIVE. ONE MURDERER. BUT WHICH IS WHICH? 'Fresh, gripping
and addictive! An absolute gem' ALLIE REYNOLDS 'Clever and bold'
LISA GARDNER 'The book everyone's going to be talking about' KAREN
DIONNE ________________ Remie Yorke has one shift left at the
Mackinnon Hotel in the remote Scottish Highlands before she leaves
for good. Then Storm Ezra hits. As temperatures plummet and phone
lines go down, an injured man stumbles inside. PC Don Gaines was in
a terrible accident on the mountain road. The only other survivor:
the prisoner his team was transporting. When a second stranger
arrives, Remie reluctantly lets him in from the blizzard. He, too,
is hurt. He claims to be a police officer. His name is also Don
Gaines. Someone is lying and, with no means of escape, Remie must
work out who. If the cold doesn't kill her, one of these men will
get there first . . . ________________ What real readers are saying
about The Second Stranger 'Plenty of heart-stopping moments, twists
and turns. A fast-paced story, atmospheric, intriguing, with a
great ending. I loved it' 'I enjoyed the excellent descriptions of
the hotel, weather and conditions . . . I felt every gust of wind
and slammed door' 'A swiftly moving and menacing plot. The remote,
atmospheric and unsettling backdrop make this eerie, chilling and
unpredictable suspense' 'The suspense and drama build throughout .
. . Very clever and unexpected' 'I could not put it down. Would
definitely recommend!'
A practical workbook of activities designed to supercharge GCSE
students' resilience, positivity, organisation and determination.
Successful students approach their studies with the right
behaviours, skills and attitudes: they understand how to learn and
revise effectively, they're determined and organised, they give
more discretionary effort and they get top results. Success at GCSE
is a result of character, not intelligence. The GCSE Mindset
Student Workbook offers students a structured way to work through
the 40 activities in Steve Oakes and Martin Griffin's The GCSE
Mindset (ISBN 978-178583184-3). It coaches students to develop the
key characteristics which will help them be successful at GCSE:
vision, effort, systems, practice and attitude (VESPA). Based on
the authors' collective 30-plus years of teaching and coaching,
this practical workbook will enable students to break through
barriers, build resilience, better manage their workload and
release their potential. While categorised thematically under the
VESPA umbrella, the activities have been sequenced chronologically
by month in order to chart the student's journey through the
academic year and to help navigate the psychological terrain ahead.
Each activity has been designed with a pupil audience in mind,
takes 15 to 20 minutes to complete, and allows space for students
to record and reflect on their answers and to organise their
thinking. Sold in packs of 25, the workbook sets are ideally suited
for GCSE teachers and tutors who want their classes to benefit from
the GCSE mindset and are using The GCSE Mindset.
The GCSE Mindset: 40 activities for transforming student
commitment, motivation and productivity, written by Steve Oakes and
Martin Griffin, offers a wealth of concrete, practical and
applicable tools designed to supercharge GCSE students' resilience,
positivity, organisation and determination. At a time when GCSE
teaching can feel like a conveyor belt of micromanaged lessons and
last-ditch interventions, Steve and Martin - acclaimed authors of
The A Level Mindset - suggest a different approach, underpinned by
their VESPA model of essential life skills: vision, effort,
systems, practice and attitude. These five non-cognitive
characteristics beat cognition hands down as predictors of academic
success, and in The GCSE Mindset Steve and Martin take this simple
model as their starting point and present a user-friendly
month-by-month programme of activities, resources and strategies
that will help students break through barriers, build resilience,
better manage their workload and ultimately release their potential
- both in the classroom and beyond. The book's forty activities,
while categorised thematically under the VESPA umbrella, have been
sequenced chronologically by month in order to better chart the
student's journey through the academic year and to help them
navigate the psychological terrain ahead. Each activity can be
delivered one-to-one, to a tutor group or to a whole cohort, has
been designed to take fifteen to twenty minutes to complete, and
has been written with a pupil audience in mind. However, to
complement the tasks' practical utility, the authors also explore
the underpinning research and theory - including the pioneering
work of Angela Duckworth, Dr Steve Bull and Carol Dweck - in more
detail in the introduction to each section. Informed by the
authors' collective thirty-plus years of teaching and coaching,
this essential handbook for GCSE success also suggests key coaching
questions and interventions for use with pupils and includes expert
guidance on how schools can implement and audit the core components
and outcomes of the VESPA approach in their own settings.
Additionally - and indeed pertinently in the present educational
environment where empirical data is valued so highly - the book
features a chapter dedicated to the measurement of mindset, written
by guest contributors Dr Neil Dagnall and Dr Andrew Denovan from
Manchester Metropolitan University. They present the
twenty-eight-item VESPA questionnaire, which they helped Steve and
Martin to design, and take the reader through the research process
behind its origins before going on to describe how it can be used
to identify areas for development and to measure the impact of
interventions. Suitable for teachers, tutors and parents who want
to boost 14-16-year-olds' academic outcomes and equip them with
powerful tools and techniques in preparation for further education
and employment.
In The Student Mindset: A 30-item toolkit for anyone learning
anything, Steve Oakes and Martin Griffin provide clear, effective
and engaging tools designed to help students plan, organise and
execute successful learning. Successful students find a way to
succeed. They get the results they want. And they achieve this not
by superior ability, but by sticking to habits, routines and
strategies that deliver those results. By cutting through the noise
surrounding academic success and character development, bestselling
authors Steve Oakes and Martin Griffin have identified the five key
traits and behaviours that all students need in order to achieve
their goals: vision, effort, systems, practice and attitude
(VESPA). These characteristics beat cognition hands down, and in
The Student Mindset Steve and Martin provide a ready-made series of
study strategies, approaches and tactics designed to nurture these
qualities and transform your motivation, commitment and
productivity. The book's thirty activities, while categorised
thematically under the VESPA umbrella, have been organised around
six key phases of learning so that you can recognise which phase
you're in before choosing from the range of tools and techniques to
help you get through it. The six co-existing key phases are:
preparation; starting study; collecting and shaping; adapting,
testing and performing; flow and feedback; and dealing with the
dip. At each phase you'll experience challenges and discover new
ways of working, and this book's activities have been designed to
help you gain control and become a better learner by sharing
workload management tactics and revision strategies associated with
calm, purposeful study and - ultimately - getting good results.
These tools include a range of effective prioritisation, stress
reduction, procrastination-busting and mindset development
approaches - all neatly packaged into this outstanding practical
guide to becoming a successful and confident student. Suitable for
all students.
Successful students approach their studies with the right
behaviours, skills and attitudes: they understand how to learn and
revise effectively, they're determined and organised, they give
more discretionary effort and they get top results. Success at A
level is a result of character, not intelligence. The A Level
Mindset Student Workbook offers students a structured way to work
through the 40 activities in The A Level Mindset ISBN
978-178583024-2 by Steve Oakes and Martin Griffin. It coaches
students to develop the key characteristics which will help them be
successful at A level: vision, effort, systems, practice and
attitude. With space for students to record and reflect on their
answers, along with plenty of advice for improvement and
self-development based on the authors' experience as heads of a
successful sixth form, the student workbook is an essential tool to
help students with their time management, commitment, motivation
and study habits which will ultimately help them achieve. Sold in
packs of 25, the workbook sets are ideally suited for A level class
teachers, and heads of sixth forms or colleges, who want their
classes to benefit from the A level mindset and are using The A
Level Mindset ISBN 978-178583024-2
During their combined 40 plus years of teaching and coaching, Steve
and Martin have discovered something important: those students who
make real and sustained progress at A level aren't necessarily the
ones with superb GCSEs. Some students leap from average results in
Year 11 to outstanding results in Year 13, while others seem to hit
a ceiling. But why?It was in trying to answer this question that
the VESPA system emerged. Steve and Martin have cut through the
noise surrounding character development and identified five key
characteristics that all students need in order to be successful:
vision, effort, systems, practice and attitude.These
characteristics beat cognition hands down. Having pinned down the
core traits that contribute to student success, the authors have
developed a range of practical activities to help every student
develop the A Level Mindset: 40 concrete, easy-to-use and
applicable tools and strategies that will supercharge learners'
ambition, organisation, productivity, persistence and
determination.And in this revised edition Steve and Martin present
a range of case studies and useful advice on effective
implementation to guide schools towards putting the VESPA model
into practice. Furthermore, they have also revamped the
introductions to each aspect of the VESPA model with updated
insights and references.Suitable for teachers, tutors, heads of
sixth form or anyone else who wants to help A level students
achieve their potential.
Embracing the temptations and horrors of life.....Joey became a
prisoner of reality.....This is a journey into a life of confusion,
desperation and wonder.....this is a journey into the dark and
humorous corners of one mans soul.
The Vietnam War, from a very different angle, seen through the eyes
of a British musician who spent 18 months there, from 1967 to 1969,
playing for American troops. Entertaining and informative,
satirical and funny, it certainly gives us a different insight into
some aspects of this 'rock'n'roll war.'
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