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Susan Elkin

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A secondary English teacher for decades, Susan is now a full time author and journalist - among other things she is Education and Training Editor at The Stage. Her passions include donkeys, irises, colours, Anthony Trollope, onion chutney, Shakespeare, goats, words, ducks, Dvorak, bassoons and much more. She lives with her husband of many years and is the mother of two grown-up sons. Susan's latest book 'Please Miss We're Boys' tell the story of her hair-raising first five years in teaching when she was Danielle in the lions' den trying to cope with sex-crazed pupils in a challenging all boys' school in Deptford in 1968. ...more

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	To Kill a Mocking Bird: Teacher Resource Pack 3.76 avg rating — 83 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Alzheimer's Diaries 4.59 avg rating — 32 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	To Kill a Mockingbird: Harper Lee 3.75 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	100 Ideas for Secondary School Assemblies (Continuum One Hundreds, 20) 3.60 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2007 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Please Miss We're Boys 3.67 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The 100 Greatest Unsolved Mysteries (Popular Science Fact Book for Inquiring Minds) 3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The 100 Most Outrageous Hoaxes and Mistakes (The Popular Science Fact Book for Inquiring Minds) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	So You Really Want to Learn English Book 1: Book 1 3.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	So You Want to Work in Theatre? 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Unlocking The Reader In Every Child 3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2010	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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I've been researching Christopher Marlowe for an article. Marlowe is 450 years old this year (born just a few months before Shakespeare) wrote six rather extraordinary plays and worked undercover in Sir Francis Walsingham's dirty tricks department - the Elizabethan equivalent of MI6.

Then in 1593 he disappeared - in Deptford. Legend has it that he was killed in a tavern brawl but maybe not. A body Read more of this blog post »

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