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The List of Suspicious Things - Mondays from 10th March

The List of Suspicious Things - Mondays from 10th March

€140,95
€140,95
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Read and discuss this touching story of friendship, community and secrets

Highlights

  • Join this book club and gain extra motivation to read in English
  • 6 hours of live classes to help you develop fluent speaking in English
  • Discuss this sweet story of a girl investigating secrets in the local community   
  • Be corrected by an expert English teacher to remove errors and mistakes

Practise and develop your English online in this 6 week English book club course using The List of Suspicious Things by Jennie Godfrey.  Each week you read some chapters, discuss them in class and improve specific areas of vocabulary or grammar while also examining literary aspects of the novel.  Personalised feedback improves your grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation.

The Book Club book

The List of Suspicious Things by Jennie Godfrey is a critically acclaimed 2024 debut novel. Set in 1970s Yorkshire, at the time that a terrible serial killer remains uncaptured by the police, Miv, a 12-year-old girl starts investigating people in the local community to see if they might be the killer of local women.  What she discovers opens her eyes to the local community, and speeds her development from child to teenager.  

If Miv can solve the case of the disappearing women, maybe this will also help her family stay in the local area?  Together with her friend Sharon they make a list of suspicious things in the neighbourhood.  But their search for truth reveals more secrets than they ever imagined.

*SHORTLISTED FOR BOOK OF THE YEAR - DEBUT FICTION AT THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS 2025*


 Geoff says:

"This is a really sweet book.  It's fundamentally not a crime book but a bildungsroman of a young girl growing up in a difficult time in history - the background of the Yorkshire Ripper serial killer is true."


The book
  • Genre: Mystery, coming of age, thriller
  • Language: British English; Modern
  • Suitable for: people new to reading in English - Upper Intermediate
  • Text: Original 
  • Length: Average weekly read: 90 pages (but in a large font!)
Dates & time
  • Mondays from 9th March to 13th April  
  • 19.30 CET (Paris, Berlin, Madrid, Rome & most EU)
  • 18.30 (UTC+0/GMT+0) London, UK, Portugal
  • 20.30 Greece, Ukraine
  • 21.30 Turkey*, Saudi Arabia*
  • 14.30 EDT Boston/New York**

*After 29/03 times are 1 hour earlier due to UK daylight saving 

**After 29/03 times are 1 hour EST later due to UK daylight saving 
Age 18+
Online class size Maximum 8 participants, on Zoom, using break-out rooms for increased speaking and discussion
What you learn
  • To express your ideas clearly, concisely & accurately
  • To improve specific areas of grammar and vocabulary
  • To stop making repeated errors and mistakes  
  • To summarise arguments, highlighting significant points
  • To develop discussions with related comments & feedback
  • To overcome any gaps by paraphrasing or rephrasing
  • To socialise fluently and spontaneously 
Your teacher
  • Geoff Hardy-Gould, BSc, MBA, CTEFLA, DTEFLA. 
  • Over 20 years' experience of UK language schools. 
  • Speaker at:  2026 IATEFL Conference; 2025 Literature SIG Conference; 2024 IATEFL Conference; 2023 IATEFL TechLit! Exploring crossovers between technology and literature; 2022 Extensive Reading Foundation; 2021 TESOL Italia

Only 8 places available.  Click Add to Cart above to reserve your place.

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