17 h. ago Review: There's A Monster In Your Show at The Lowry is the perfect first theatre trip for the family

The musical stage adaptation of McFly star Tom Fletcher’s children's book is back on tour with shows at The Lowry in Salford Quays

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28 h. ago Former teacher caught having affair with pupil writes children's book

Eppie Sprung wrote the book to 'help parents talk to their children about choices they've made in their past that still impact on their lives today'

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31 h. ago Teacher caught having sex with pupil in car writes children's book on 'bad choices'

Eppie Sprung, from Scotland, was struck off the teaching register for sleeping with a student. Now, she is writing a book which states 'making bad choices doesn’t make you a bad person'

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33 h. ago Sex shame teacher writes a children's book so kids can learn about 'past mistakes'

A disgraced teacher convicted of having sex with a teenage pupil has penned a children's book to help parents talk about their past mistakes.

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38 h. ago Disgraced teacher who romped with pupil in car writes kids' book about 'bad choices'

Eppie Sprung, 39, penned a book called Here, with you, aimed at 'helping families discuss parental criminal convictions' after being struck off the register for her affair with a 17-year-old

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43 h. ago Sex shame teacher caught romping with pupil in her car pens children's book

Eppie Sprung has now a published a children's book about past mistakes in another attempt to rewrite her history.

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1 week ago 'I knew he was a sex offender... but I wanted a stable life': Prison officer reveals shame of sordid affair with convicted rapist after she was spared jail for behind bars fling

Cherri-Ann Austin-Saddington, 29, told MailOnline of her 'relief' that she was this week spared jail after admitting a six-month illicit affair with sex attacker Bradley Trengrove.

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1 week ago Rob Macfarlane : ‘Sometimes I felt as if the river was writing me’

The writer and poet on reimagining rivers as living beings, the ecological crisis near and far and why copyright laws should protect natureRobert Macfarlane has been called the “great nature writer and nature poet of this generation”. A teacher, campaigner and mountaineer, he has been exploring the relationship between landscape and people since his breakthrough book, Mountains of the Mind, in 2003. His latest work, Is a River Alive?, was more than four years in the making, and, he says, the most urgent book he has written.Q: Your book is poignant and inspiring, but one part that made me laugh is where you first tell your son the title and he replies, “Duh, of course it’s alive. That’s going to be a really short book.” So, I should first congratulate you on stringing it out for more than 350 pages! Continue reading...

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1 week ago Robert Macfarlane: ‘Sometimes I felt as if the river was writing me’

The writer and poet on reimagining rivers as living beings, the ecological crisis near and far and why copyright laws should protect natureRobert Macfarlane has been called the “great nature writer and nature poet of this generation”. A teacher, campaigner and mountaineer, he has been exploring the relationship between landscape and people since his breakthrough book, Mountains of the Mind, in 2003. His latest work, Is a River Alive?, was more than four years in the making, and, he says, the most urgent book he has written.Q: Your book is poignant and inspiring, but one part that made me laugh is where you first tell your son the title and he replies, “Duh, of course it’s alive. That’s going to be a really short book.” So, I should first congratulate you on stringing it out for more than 350 pages! Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Nevermoor’s Jessica Townsend on frantic fans, her fantasy smash hit – and feeling ‘gutted’ by JK Rowling

The latest book in Townsend’s bestselling children’s series is out amid a surge in anti-trans rhetoric. But she remains committed to making sure her millions of readers all ‘know they have a place in Nevermoor’Get our weekend culture and lifestyle emailJessica Townsend feels for George RR Martin. The author of the bestselling middle-grade fantasy series Nevermoor has just released the fourth instalment, Silverborn, two-and-a-half years after it was supposed to come out in October 2022. Readers who were nine when the third book, Hollowpox, was released in 2020 had become full-blown teenagers by the time Silverborn hit bookshops in April. Townsend is now wryly mortified to be “One those authors where people are just tapping their watches and being like, ‘Excuse me!’“I had to turn off social media for a period,” she admits over Zoom from her home on the Sunshine Coast, where she lives with her two spaniels Vyvyan and Rik. “I was getting so many well-meaning nudges of ‘Where’s the book?...

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2 w. ago Gillian Anderson says Sex Education made her realise she had ‘no shame’ around sex

Actor played Jean Milburn in the hit Netflix series

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2 w. ago Tutor Doctor’s top educational book picks for Children’s Book Week

This week is Children's Book Week and Tutor Doctor's Becky Ward shares her favourite books for KS1, 2 & 3.

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3 w. ago 'Bravery' of alleged victims 'puts their abusers to shame', Rochdale sex abuse trial told

Prosecutors argued that the two complainants are 'credible, honest, accurate and reliable'

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3 w. ago 50% off winter stays with May bookings at Loch Tay Highland Lodges

Largo Leisure Holidays, owners of six stunning holiday parks across Scotland, are urging Scottish residents and families with pre-school aged children to take advantage of one of the quietest times to book a break with the added benefit of off-peak prices.

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3 w. ago RACHEL KELLY: How to talk to your teenager about pornography, drink, drugs and, yes, those accursed smartphones

Netflix drama Adolescence showed just how little many parents know about their children's lives. Now, a new book provides an essential toolkit for parents to navigate this modern minefield

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3 w. ago ‘A natural storyteller’: Jane Gardam remembered by Tessa Hadley

The author of Late in the Day pays tribute to the exuberantly inventive Yorkshire-born novelist who has died aged 96Jane Gardam, who has died aged 96, was such an exuberant, inventive writer. It’s the sheer energy of the voice you notice first, picking up one of her books from the shelf; she had the easy authority of a natural storyteller. Her first book, A Long Way from Verona, was written for children and published in 1971, when she was in her early 40s. “I ought to tell you at the beginning,” announces Jessica Vye in the first sentence, “that I am not quite normal, having had a violent experience at the age of nine.” In the book, clever bookish girls, at a private school in wartime, are hungry for adventures and also for tea with cress sandwiches and chocolate eclairs; they belong to that class beloved of British fiction in the old days, educated people fallen on hard times. Jessica’s father has left his job as a schoolmaster to follow his vocation as a poor curate. The Summer Af...

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4 w. ago How a law made to stop child abduction is being weaponised against mothers fleeing abuse

Award-winning barrister Dr Charlotte Proudman has spent her career advocating for vulnerable women in family law courts. In an extract from her new book, she explores how the very systems designed to protect children can end up putting them – and their mothers – at risk of more violence and abuse

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last month Struggling with conflict and meltdowns? Bringing children up the Danish way could help

The author of The Danish Way Every Day reveals how Danes raise such well-behaved

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