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Gervase Phinn (born 27 December 1946, Rotherham, England) is an English author and educator. After a career as a teacher he became a schools inspector and, latterly, Visiting Professor of Education at the University of Teesside. He graduated from Leeds Trinity University in 1970 with a degree in Education. He has published five volumes of memoir, collections of poetry and a number of books about education. He has a particular interest in children's literature and literacy. He is married with four grown-up children. Career Phinn taught in a range of schools for fourteen years before becoming an education adviser and school inspector. He is now: a freelance lecturer, broadcaster and writer President of the School Library Association for 2006–2009 a consultant for the Open University Honorary Fellow of York St John University Doctor of Letters of the University of Leicester Fellow and Visiting Professor of Education at The University of Teesside. Bibliography He has published many articles, chapters and books and edited a range of poetry and short story collections. His academic texts include: Young Readers and their Books, published by David Fulton* Touches of Beauty: Poetry in the Primary School and Reading Matters He has published collections of his own plays, poems, picture books and short stories, including his anthologies of verse: Classroom Creatures It Takes One to Know One The Day Our Teacher Went Batty Family Phantoms Books of stories for children: What's the Matter, Royston Knapper? Royston Knapper: The Return of the Rogue Our Cat Cuddles (a picture book) Dales series Phinn is probably best known for his memoirs, many of which he has read as audiobooks: The Other Side of the Dale (1998, Michael Joseph) Over Hill and Dale (2000, Michael Joseph) Head Over Heels in the Dales (2002, Michael Joseph) Up and Down in the Dales (2004, Michael Joseph) The Heart of the Dales (2007, Michael Joseph) Associated books A Wayne in a Manger Others All These Lonely People (2009, Penguin Books) Out of the Woods but Not Over the Hill (2010, Hodder & Stoughton) The Little Village School (2011, Hodder & Stoughton) Trouble at the Little Village School (2012, Hodder & Stoughton) Secrets at the Little Village School (2016, Hodder & Stoughton) Road to the Dales – The story of a Yorkshire Lad (2010, Penguin) – a memoir of his early childhood Television and radio appearances Esther (BBC1) Midweek (BBC Radio 4) You and Yours (BBC Radio 4) Open House with Gloria Hunniford (ITV) North East Tonight (Tyne Tees Television) Today programme (BBC Radio 4) Calendar (Yorkshire Television) Breakfast Television (BBC1) The Heaven and Earth Show (BBC 2) The Des O'Connor Show (LWT) Quote... Unquote (BBC Radio 4) Look North (BBC 1) The Big Toe Radio Show (BBC Radio 7) Just One Chance (BBC 2) Book at Bedtime (BBC Radio 4) Book of the Week (BBC Radio 4) A Good Read (BBC Radio 4) Honours In 2004 Gervase Phinn received "The Speaker of the Year Award" from the Association of Speakers' Clubs. Up and Down in the Dales, won the Customer Choice Award at the Spoken Book Awards. In 2005 the highest academic award of Sheffield Hallam University, Doctor of the University (D.Univ.) was conferred upon him by the Chancellor, Professor Lord Winston. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and an Honorary Fellow of the English Speaking Board. References External links Official website "Gervase Phinn", Penguin UK Authors Gervase Phinn at IMDb. Discover the Gervase Phinn popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Gervase Phinn books.
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Going to Blazes
Malcolm CastleIt's 1987 and 26yearold Malcolm Castle is going up in the world. He's made it through eight long years as a rookie firefighter and he's become an accepted member of Red Watch in Sh...
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Stand and Deliver
Helena RavenscroftIt is 1745, and Lydia Hawkesworth feels torn between her love for highwayman Drummond and her passion for his decadent younger brother Valerian. With the arrival at Hawkesworth Man...
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The Kid
Kevin LewisKevin Lewis grew up on a council estate in South London. Beaten and starved by his parents, ignored by the social services and bullied at school, he was offered a chance to escape ...
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Centrally Heated Knickers
Michael RosenHail! Hail!I come from anothergalaxy.Discover the wierd and wonderful world of martians, woolly saucepans and centrally heated knickers in 100 poems about science and technology fr...
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Letters to a Young Poet
Rainer Maria RilkeAt the start of the twentieth century, Rainer Maria Rilke wrote a series of letters to a young officer cadet, advising him on writing, love, sex, suffering and the nature of advice...
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A Load of Balls
John ScallyAs former England striker and television pundit Jimmy Greaves famously said, football is 'a funny old game'. In A Load of Balls: Football's Funny Side, John Scally confirms the tru...
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The School at the Top of the Dale
Gervase Phinn'[Gervase Phinn is] a worthy successor to James Herriott, and every bit as endearing.' bestselling author Alan TitchmarshNewly qualified teacher Tom Dwyer has been given his first...
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The Gift
Alan TitchmarshA powerfully lifeaffirming story of the wonder of nature, the ties of family, and the healing power of love from bestselling novelist and national treasure Alan TitchmarshAn ordina...
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Cobwebs and Cream Teas
Mary MackieA warm and funny account of what it is like to live in and run a National Trust house: Felbrigg Hall in Norfolk.When Mary Mackie's husband became Houseman at Felbrigg Hall in Norfo...
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There Was a Time
Frank WhiteOn the day the Second World War broke out, Frank White was a 12yearold schoolboy in Manchester. On the day it ended, he was serving on a Royal Navy warship in the Indian Ocean. In ...
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Scottish Folk and Fairy Tales from Burns to Buchan
Gordon JarvieMystery and excitement abound in this lively collection of fairy tales, folklore and legends, which celebrate Scotland's enormously rich oral tradition and offers a carefully chose...
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Teenage Revolution
Alan DaviesWhen Alan Davies was growing up he seemed to drive his family mad. 'What are we going to do with you?' they would ask as if he might know the answer.Perhaps it was because he came...
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Literature and Evil
Georges Bataille & Alastair Hamilton'Literature is not innocent,' stated Georges Bataille in this extraordinary 1957 collection of essays, arguing that only by acknowledging its complicity with the knowledge of evil ...
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Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners
John BunyanComposed and published while John Bunyan (16281688) was in prison for his religious principles, Grace Abounding is an extraordinary spiritual autobiography. It was written in an ag...
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Home at Grasmere
Dorothy Wordsworth & William WordsworthA continuous text made up of extracts from Dorothy Wordsworth's Journal and a selection of her brother's poems. Dorothy Wordsworth kept her Journal 'because I shall give William pl...
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Londoners
Maureen DuffyMany of the Londoners in this novel are outcasts some are criminals in society’s eyes. Most are descended from adventurers and immigrants. The worlds they inhabit the bedsit; the...
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The Physiology of Taste
Jean-Anthelme Brillat-SavarinBrillatSavarin's unique, exuberant collection of dishes, experiences, reflections, history and philosophy raised gastronomy to an art form. First published in France in 1825, this ...
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Finding My Voice
Russell WatsonRussell 'The Voice' Watson is a star with a real story to tell. While most stars of today find success early, Russell was still working in a Salford factory at the age of 30. He sp...
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Tales Out of School
Gervase Phinn'[Gervase Phinn is] a worthy successor to James Herriot, and every bit as endearing.' bestselling author Alan Titchmarsh'A shining light in our dark days' 5 STAR reader reviewAft...
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Monster Shoes
Emma LaybournJack's mum insists he has new school shoes and the only ones they can find are horrid, black laceups. They are so stiff, noisy and uncomfortable that Jack suspects they must be mo...
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My Childhood
Maxim GorkyColoured by poverty and horrifying brutality, Gorky's childhood equipped him to understand in a way denied to a Tolstoy or a Turgenev the life of the ordinary Russian. After his ...
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The Man Who Sees Dead People
Joe PowerFor almost a decade, psychic medium Joe Power has used his extraordinary powers to investigate highprofile, unsolved crimes around the world, including, most recently, the disappea...
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British As A Second Language
David BennunDavid Bennun had lived in Africa his whole life. At the age of 18 he came to Britain, the mother country. The country he had read about in Punch magazine or seen in films like Char...
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Vets in Love
Cathy WoodmanThe sixth book in Cathy Woodman's hugely popular Talyton St George seriesEach book in the Talyton St George series can be read as a standalone novel, but when Cathy first had the i...
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A Pocketful of Holes and Dreams
Jeff PearceThe poor boy who made his fortune . . . not just once but twice.Little Jeff Pearce grew up in a postwar Liverpool slum. His father lived the life of an affluent gentleman whilst hi...
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Dear Teacher
Jack SheffieldIt's 1979: Dallas is enthralling the nation on TV, Mrs Thatcher has just become prime minister, Abba is top of the pops, and in the small Yorkshire village of RagleyontheForest, Ja...
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Fanny Burney
Kate ChisholmFanny Burney (17521840) is best known as the author of EVELINA, one of the most engaging novels of the eighteenth century. But for much of her long life, she was also an incomparab...
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Christmas at Thrush Green
Miss ReadA brand new Miss Read novel, set in the Cotswold village of Thrush Green at Christmas.The villagers of Thrush Green celebrate Christmas traditionally, in a way that has hardly chan...
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Lydia In The Harem
Philippa MastersThe Boer War has erupted in Africa and Lydia must sail for England. She looks forward to her voyage with a crew of lusty mariners. When the ship is forced to dock in Arabia, a Prin...
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The Lone Woman
Bernardo Atxaga & Margaret Jull CostaIrene is 37 years old and just out of prison after serving time for terrorist activities. Deciding to return home to Bilbao, she takes a bus journey across Spain, striking up conve...
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Whispering Back
Adam Goodfellow & Nicole GoldingAdam Goodfellow and Nicole Golding run a stable in the Cotswolds and specialise in curing problem horses. It's never an easy task, and often requires changing the habits of the own...
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Wild In The Country
Monica BelleSacked from her job working in one of London's finest kitchens for having sex with a souschef, Juliet Eden leaves the rat race behind and heads for the country. Alone in her inheri...
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White Rose Rebel
Janet PaisleyAnne Farquharson is a Highland girl – tempestuous, bold, determined to be her own woman. Yet the clan Farquharson is threatened. The Highlands suffer at the domineering hand of Eng...
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Charles Bukowski
Barry Miles'Fear makes me a writer, fear and a lack of confidence'Charles Bukowski chronicled the seedy underside of the city in which he spent most of his life, Los Angeles. His heroes were ...
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A Class Act
Gervase PhinnThe third and final novel in the delightful Top of the Dales series from bestselling author Gervase Phinn.'A worthy successor to James Herriot, and every bit as endearing.' Alan T...
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Romain Gary
David BellosAirman, war hero, immigrant, law student, diplomat, novelist and celebrity spouse, Romain Gary had several lives thrust upon him by the history of the twentieth century, but he als...
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Mister Teacher
Jack SheffieldIt's 1978, and Jack Sheffield begins his second year as headmaster of a small village primary school in North Yorkshire. There are three letters on his desk one makes him smile, o...