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I’ve been teaching in prep schools for twenty-five years, and I also attended one. As both student and teacher, I’ve been fascinated by student social dynamics—how groups form, fracture, and define what they value or reject. I’m equally interested in how teachers’ experiences mirror yet differ from students’. Though I always looked forward to summer breaks, I was drawn to literature—especially mysteries—set in prep schools. These stories helped me better understand the complexity of these relationships while offering a lens to reflect on my own experiences, often with far more drama than real life.
I love fantasy, and I love when fantasy meshes with reality in a way that comments on the real world through the fantasy. Emily Tesh nails that.
I also loved how evident it was that Tesh had worked at schools and made some of the drudgery of faculty meetings and admin work sparkle with humor in her novel. The characters are deeply and believably flawed.
'A searingly brilliant fantasy. This is magical school with teeth . . . an unmissable read' Tasha Suri, author of The Jasmine Throne
'Fans of Naomi Novik's Scholomance series won't want to miss this' Publishers Weekly
Dr Walden is the Director of Magic at Chetwood School and one of the most powerful magicians in England. Her days consist of meetings, teaching A-Level Invocation to four talented, chaotic sixth formers, more meetings and securing the school's boundaries from demonic incursions.
Walden is good at her job - no, Walden is great at her job. But demons are masters of manipulation. It's…
A moving story of love, betrayal, and the enduring power of hope in the face of darkness.
German pianist Hedda Schlagel's world collapsed when her fiancé, Fritz, vanished after being sent to an enemy alien camp in the United States during the Great War. Fifteen years later, in 1932, Hedda…
Okay, so this one is a bit of a cheat because I was already a huge fan of Craig Ferguson. It took me a while to get to this memoir, which is written more as a series of essays that jump around in terms of subject and what part of Ferguson's life he's unpacking. One of the things I respect and adore about Ferguson is his honesty about a range of subjects--sobriety, failed marriages, anxiety, his approach to being a creative--and all of that is explored with the sort of depth, candor and humor that I love when Ferguson is the one being *interviewed*, as opposed to the interviewee (which he also rocks at).
From the comedian, actor, and former host of The Late Late Show comes an irreverent, lyrical memoir in essays featuring his signature wit.
Craig Ferguson has defied the odds his entire life. He has failed when he should have succeeded and succeeded when he should have failed. The fact that he is neither dead nor in a locked facility (at the time of printing) is something of a miracle in itself. In Craig's candid and revealing memoir, readers will get a look into the mind and recollections of the unique and twisted Scottish American who became a national hero for…
