Letters are famously easy to recognise, notoriously hard to define. Both real and fictitious letters can look identical to the point that there are no formal criteria which can distinguish one from the other. This has long been a point of anxiety in scholarship which has considered the value of an ancient letter to be determined by its authenticity, necessitating a strict binary opposition of genuine as opposed to fake letters. This volume challenges this dichotomy directly. Rather than defining epistolary fiction as a literary genre in opposition to ‘genuine’ letters or reducing it down to fixed rhetorical features, it argues that fiction is an inherent and fluid property of letters which ancient writers recognised and exploited. This volume contributes to wider scholarship on ancient fiction by demonstrating through the multiplicity of genres, contexts, and time periods discussed how complex and multifaceted ancient awareness of fictionality was. As such, this volume shows that letters are uniquely well-placed to unsettle disciplinary boundaries of fact and fiction, authentic and spurious, and that this allows for a deeper understanding of how ancient writers conceptualised and manipulated the fictional potential of letters.

Designed to be used alongside the bestselling AQA GCSE Religious Studies A (9-1) student books, this write-in workbook is packed full of activities to support and stretch students: * Carefully designed activities help to reinforce content, with linked activities that build up to exam practice questions. * A focus on the learning of key terms and sources of religious beliefs and teachings, and how they can be applied in the right context. * Includes key terms glossaries for you to fill-in and revise from. * Challenge activities stretch more able students. * Exam practice chapters provide sample answers, scaffolded activities and practice questions. * Helpful Tips throughout offer exam advice and guidance. * Answers and marks schemes are supplied online so you can mark your work. * This workbook covers Christianity and Islam for Paper 1. Authored by experienced teachers, sharing proven strategies for raising attainment, these workbooks allow students to take an active approach to getting to grips with the demands of the 2016 GCSE specification.

Pete Jackson was the youngest child in a missionary family, who struggled with separation, loneliness and boarding school before emerging as a vibrant young Christian man. Through the letters he wrote home and later the journal he kept, we see Pete as a warm, godly and committed individual who, depite his youth, had a great influence on the people he came into contact with. His desire was to be a man of God and there is no doubt that this story will inspire other teenagers to become men and women of God too.

Designed to be used alongside the bestselling AQA GCSE Religious Studies A (9-1) Student Books, this write-in workbook is packed full of activities to support and stretch students: * Carefully designed activities help to reinforce content, with linked activities that build up to exam practice questions. * A focus on the learning of key terms and sources of religious beliefs and teachings, and how they can be applied in the right context. * Includes key terms glossaries for you to fill-in and revise from. * Challenge activities stretch more able students. * Exam practice chapters provide sample answers, scaffolded activities and practice questions. * Helpful Tips throughout offer exam advice and guidance. * Answers and marks schemes are supplied online so you can mark your work. * This workbooks covers Christianity and Buddhism for Paper 1. Authored by experienced teachers, sharing proven strategies for raising attainment, these workbooks allow students to take an active approach to getting to grips with the demands of the 2016 GCSE specification.

Written for the 6yr old sibling of her eldest son, this is the story of the missing character, the silent partner, the unsung hero of Rachel's other book - "The Thing - A Young Boy's Journey with Asperger Syndrome" It tells of the little jealousies, frustrations and perceptions of a little boy...and the gentle shifting of his understanding of his brother. With parent/carer notes, this book is not simply for brothers and sisters of children on the Autistic Spectrum. It applies to any sibling trying to understand from the side-lines of disorder and offers a sensitive and accessible route to opening discussion with children across both mainstream and specialist settings about the nature of diversity and acceptance.

A follow on in the journey through Autism and Aspergers - this, the third book in Rachel's series - enters a new diagnostic space as she learns about and begins to understand Pathological Demand Avoidance - a new flavour of ASD still disputed, debated and under researched. With a foreword from Harry Thompson (The PDA Paradox) and recommendations and backing from the PDA Society, this is a wonderful resource aimed at building open dialogues between parent/carer and child about the nature of their condition - but it is also a wonderful way to open discusion in classrooms and with peer groups who may be struggling to understand PDA in others.

The Thing is a simple story poetically told by a loving mother of a 7 year old boy with High Functioning Aspergers. Written to fill the hole she had found in this very niche market, her book doesn't teach you how to change your child. It doesn't teach the child the nature of their condition and how to survive or mask it. It isn't about fixing anything at all...merely supporting your child to accept it and in some way embrace it as an amazing and indelible part of who they are. With parent/carer notes and suggestions for classroom activities, this book is not simply for children on the Autistic spectrum. It is a sensitive and accessible route to opening discussion with children across mainstream and specialist settings about the nature of diversity and acceptance.