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This year saw us visiting our favourite theatre, the Minack, over and over and over again! An open air amphitheatre, built against the rocky granite cliffs of Porthcurno and overlooking the sea, this is truly a special place to go if you ever have the opportunity! As well as having the pleasure of performing to…

As well as our full length courses, we also run shorter weekend ones, to tie into term-times at school. Throughout this year we held a trio of courses looking at the lives of Victorian children through the eyes of one of our most beloved authors, Charles Dickens. Using a different novel over each weekend, we…

In August, we held our second Animal Worlds course here at Novel English. This time, we explored the world through the eyes of horses whilst looking at the classic novel ‘Black Beauty’ by Anna Sewell. This was one of our most exciting courses of the summer, as we had a lot of new faces attend!…

We are very proud of our garden here at Novel English; and we are always looking for new inspiration to improve its charms! Recently we have built a spiral herb garden and have also installed a beautiful angel under the bush where the tame robin sings… This year, we wanted to develop the  perfect summer…

Jane Austen is one of our favourite authors here at Novel English! Therefore, we couldn’t allow the 200 year anniversary of her death go by without constructing a special weekend course based all around her life and her wonderful works of fiction. Happily, we also had the opportunity to visit the Minack Theatre to watch…

We know the summer has truly begun when we host our annual Midsummer course here at Novel English! This year, we had a special one night jaunt into the world of Shakespeare’s most whimsical and hilarious play: A Midsummer Night’s Dream! What other text to look at during the Solstice!?

Our Easter Holidays at Novel English are always wonderful- spring is coming, the weather is getting warmer and there are always great hopes of summer ahead! But this Easter, we were given truly summer-like weather in April! How perfect, as it saw us hosting our King Arthur: Knights and Quests course. We felt the Arthurian…

It’s been a while but the February half-term course is still fresh in our minds as it was a particularly exciting one! The theme was Stand and Deliver! and we looked at the dramatic world of the 18th Century and highwaymen! We concentrated on the wonderfully thrilling book ‘Smith’ by Leon Garfield (if you haven’t…

Hello everyone! This is just a quick blog to say sorry for the distinct lack of blogging this year so far! It’s been a highly interesting, stressful and eventful year and with all the things that have been happening, we haven’t had much time for keeping the blogs up to date! This is just a…

  Last Saturday we held the first of our Creative Writing Clubs here at Novel English! These will take place every month, on the first Saturday of the month and run between 2:30 and 5pm. During this first session, we focused on genre and how to write a first sentence in a story. It was…