Friday 18 January 2019

The English Chronicles: One man's story of a south coast language school an novel


As Richard Lewis wrote the "Artistic Thanet" books about famous artists connected with Thanet it would seem there are likely to be parallels between Broadstairs and Bradgate.

In the town of Bradgate on the Kent coast a business-minded earl, Lord Willingham, buys a language school and appoints a new principal, Robert Llewellyn, to run it. Robert’s inside story of his time as this principal is told in these chronicles. They chart the rise and ultimately fall of Darwin College of English and Further Studies, with minutely evoked scenes in between of life and events at the school which are often as comic as they are tragic. As an insight into the making of a language school, and also the making of a principal, 'The English Chronicles' holds a peculiar fascination.

'The English Chronicles' is a sequel to 'Barcelona One More Time', the story of a language teacher in post-Franco Barcelona.

We don't stock new fiction books as they sell at prices in the £10 ballpark and it will be a while before secondhand ones surface so you may want to buy it on Amozon which seems to be the cheapest at the moment, here is the link.


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