Deze auteur staat bekend om haar serie humoristische young adult romans, die ze samen met haar moeder heeft geschreven. Ondanks dat ze zelf dyslexie ervaart, wat haar leessnelheid beïnvloedt, vindt ze schrijven een toegankelijkere vorm van expressie. Haar academische interesses liggen op de nichegebieden van Klassieke Archeologie en Oude Geschiedenis. Ze kijkt ernaar uit om haar literaire wereld te delen en interactie te hebben met lezers.
It's time for the Year Seven residential trip to Cadabra Castle and new witch Bea can't wait! But with rumours of a ghost haunting the grounds, the class will need to learn some serious teamwork if they're to solve the spooky mystery!
When Bea's dad accidentally enrols her at the local witch school, she has to get to grips with casting spells, like, NOW! But with the Halloween Ball on the horizon, will she be able to master her wand skills in time to WOW?
Geek Girl meets Fame meets New Girl in this brilliantly funny new series!When Elektra is discovered by an acting agent, she imagines Oscar glory can't be far away, but instead lurches from one cringe-worthy moment to the next! Just how many times can you be rejected for the part of 'Dead Girl Number Three' without losing hope? And who knew that actors were actually supposed to be multi-lingual, play seven instruments and be trained in a variety of circus skills?Off-stage things aren't going well either - she's fallen out with her best friend, remains firmly in the friend-zone with her crush and her parents are driving her crazy. One way or another, Elektra's life is now spent waiting for the phone to ring - waiting for callback.Can an average girl-next-door like Elektra really make it in the world of luvvies and starlets?
This is the story of Messalina - third wife of Emperor Claudius and one of the most notorious women to have inhabited the Roman world. The scandalous image of the Empress Messalina as a ruthless and sexually insatiable schemer, derived from the work of Roman historians such as Tacitus and Suetonius, has taken deep root in the Western imagination. The stories they told about her included nightly visits to a brothel and a twenty-four-hour sex competition with a prostitute. Tales like these have defined the empress's legacy, but her real story is much more complex. In her new life of Messalina, the classicist Honor Cargill-Martin reappraises one of the most slandered and underestimated female figures of ancient history. Looking beyond the salacious anecdotes, she finds a woman battling to assert her position in the overwhelmingly male world of imperial Roman politics - and succeeding. Intelligent, passionate, and ruthless when she needed to be, Messalina's story encapsulates the cut-throat political manoeuvring and unimaginable luxury of the Julio-Claudian dynasty in its heyday. Cargill-Martin sets out not to 'salvage' Messalina's reputation, but to look at her life in the context of her time. Above all, she seeks to reclaim the humanity of a life story previously circumscribed by currents of high politics and patriarchy.