Meet the Authors
Meet the series editor, Philip Prowse
Patricia Aspinall has a first degree in Education and an M.Phil in Linguistics from the University of Cambridge. After teaching English as a Foreign Language in schools and Colleges of Further Education, she joined UCLES (University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate) where she was responsible for running and developing EFL examinations including PET, FCE, CAE, and CPE. She is now a freelance author and language consultant and has written numerous books and other materials on language development. She specialises in books that prepare students for examinations such as the Certificate in Advanced English and the Business English Certificates.
Cambridge University Press publications:
The House by the Sea (Cambridge English Readers)
Colin Campbell has worked in English teaching for almost 30 years. He has been a teacher, teacher-trainer and consultant in a number of countries, including Poland, Spain, Italy, Ireland and England. He has also been involved in setting up language schools in Italy and Poland. Some of his favourite memories from his career are - co-hosting a Learning English television series for local television in Italy; recording Irish songs for a Children's coursebook in Poland; writing original readers for Cambridge University Press and, still, teaching students anywhere.
In addition to teaching, training and writing, Colin Campbell does voluntary counselling work in London.
Cambridge University Press publications:
Parallel (Cambridge English Readers)
The Ironing Man (Cambridge English Readers)
The Lady in White (Cambridge English Readers)
What a Lottery! (Cambridge English Readers)
Penny Hancock has EFL teaching experience in Greece, Italy and
Morocco. She has held a peripatetic post supporting English language learners
in the mainstream classroom, and teaches EFL at summer schools.
As a freelance writer Penny Hancock is now working on a novel. She continues to teach in primary schools on supply. She has written articles for national newspapers and magazines.
Cambridge University Press publications:
A Love for Life (Cambridge English Readers)
Just Good Friends (Cambridge English Readers)
Within High Fences (Cambridge English Readers)
Jeremy Harmer Jeremy Harmer is an occasional lecturer at Anglia Polytechnic University in
Cambridge where he lives, but he has taught extensively in both the UK and
in Mexico, where he worked for many years.
As both a coursebook writer and the author of key titles on EFL teaching methodology Jeremy is a frequently invited speaker at conferences and seminars all over the world. When not teaching, writing or travelling his interests include listening to and playing music (he plays piano, guitar and viola with more passion, perhaps, than skill), and this obsession with music is reflected in his two readers for Cambridge University Press.
Cambridge University Press publications:
The Double Bass Mystery (Cambridge English Readers)
Trumpet Voluntary (Cambridge English Readers)
David A Hill trained as a teacher at St Paul's College, Cheltenham and completed an M. Phil in Applied Linguistics in 1987 at Exeter University. He spent three years working as a primary school teacher in the UK, then taught English in Italy, Kosovo and Serbia. In 1998 he set up his own language services compan, FUTUR-ED Bt. in Budapest, and has since worked with the Albanian government, South Indian universities and a Singapore publisher, among other organisations. He runs an elective course at the Centre for English Teacher Training at ELTE, Budapest. David's special interests in ELT include effective TT, thematic lessons, primary ELT and materials writing.
Outside the ELT world David is a poet and translator of poetry, with three books published. He is a naturalist who has written many articles for professional journals on ornithology and botany, and has discovered a new species of Crocus for science. He plays the guitar and sings — mostly blues and traditional folk. He is also something of an expert on art nouveau architecture and design, especially William Morris.
Cambridge University Press Publications:
A Matter of Chance (Cambridge English Readers)
How I Met Myself (Cambridge English Readers)
Margaret Johnson In a former life, Margaret Johnson was Melissa Bond — the pen
name she used to write the five romantic novels she had published in
the 1980s and 1990s. Since then, she has been writing plays — her
play Goddess was a big hit at the Cambridge Drama Centre in
1999 — as well as writing two Cambridge English Readers.
All I Want, her first Reader, is a comedy romance which was
inspired by heroines such as Bridget Jones, as well as by Margaret's
own memories of hopeless crushes on figures of authority.
Cambridge University Press publications:
All I Want (Cambridge English Readers)
Different Worlds (Cambridge English Readers)
Jungle Love (Cambridge English Readers)
Murder Maker (Cambridge English Readers)
Next Door to Love (Cambridge English Readers)
Sue Leather is an ELT consultant and writer with over 25 years of experience in the field. She has a background as a teacher, teacher trainer and school manager. Since 1995 she has been running consultancy and training projects around the world and has worked in Europe, Asia, Africa, The Middle East, & North & South America. www.sueleatherassociates.com
Apart from writing, Sue's passions are travel, martial arts and films. These interests are reflected in her titles for the Cambridge English Readers series.
Cambridge University Press publications:
Bad Love (Cambridge English Readers)
Dead Cold (Cambridge English Readers)
Death in the Dojo (Cambridge English Readers)
Dirty Money (Cambridge
English Readers)
Hotel Casanova (Cambridge English Readers)
Just Like a Movie (Cambridge English Readers)
The Amsterdam Connection (Cambridge English Readers)
The Big Picture (Cambridge English Readers)
The Way Home (Cambridge English Readers)
Richard MacAndrew has worked in ELT for over 30 years. He has taught in Finland, Sweden, Malaysia and Great Britain. He has been a freelance writer since 1996, writing a number of readers for the Cambridge English Readers series, as well as a variety of books for other British and American EFL publishers.
His interests, other than writing, include walking in the Yorkshire Dales, listening to the music of Jerry Garcia, reading numerous detective stories and thrillers, and watching Scotland play rugby — preferably in his favourite city, Edinburgh.
Cambridge University Press publications:
A Death in Oxford (Cambridge English Readers)
A Puzzle for Logan (Cambridge English Readers)
Blood Diamonds (Cambridge English Readers)
Inspector Logan (Cambridge English Readers)
Logan's Choice (Cambridge English Readers)
Strong Medicine (Cambridge English Readers)
The Lahti File (Cambridge English Readers)
The Penang File (Cambridge English Readers)
The University Murders (Cambridge English Readers)
Alan Maley has been in the field of TESL for over 30 years. After
being at the University of Leeds under Peter Strevens in the early 1960s, he worked
as an English Language officer with the British Council for over 25 years. His
career took him to places as diverse as Yugoslavia, Ghana, Italy, France, P.R.
China and India.
He left the Council in 1988 to take over as Director-General of the Bell Educational Trust in Cambridge, where he stayed for 5 years. Between 1988 and 1992 he was the Chair of IATEFL and was very active in promoting links with other teachers' associations worldwide. In 1993 he took up a position as Senior Fellow in the Department of English Language and Literature at the National University of Singapore, where he stayed for 5 years.
He currently divides his time between Bangkok, where he is director of post Graduate English programmes at Assumption University, and Canterbury, from where he does consultancy work and writing.
He has been active in the field of publishing for several years, especially in the area of resource books for teachers. At present he is working on a study of the phenomena of repetition and reformulation in language teaching.
Cambridge
University Press publications:
Drama
Techniques in Language Learning (with Alan Duff, Cambridge Handbooks for
Language Teachers)
A Tangled Web (Cambridge English Readers)
He
Knows Too Much (Cambridge English Readers)
Antoinette Moses is a writer. Her books range from media studies
and poetry to a guidebook to Athens, where she lived for four years. Antoinette
read English Literature at York University, and has worked as an editor, journalist,
film festival director and for a music festival. She now teaches creative writing
for ELT materials writers.
Cambridge University Press publications:
Apollo's
Gold (Cambridge English Readers)
Dolphin
Music (Cambridge English Readers)
Frozen
Pizza and Other Slices of Life (Cambridge English Readers)
John Doe (Cambridge
English Readers)
Jojo's
Story (Cambridge English Readers)
Let Me Out (Cambridge English Readers)
The Girl at the Window (Cambridge English Readers
Helen Naylor has been an EFL teacher for over 30 years, teaching to adults in language schools in the UK. Apart from the full range of teaching from beginners to advanced, she also teaches teachers. And even after all these years she still loves it! As well as teaching and writing, Helen is also involved with Cambridge ESOL working on exams from KET to CPE from Cambridge University Press.
Cambridge University Press publications:
In the Shadow of the Mountain (Cambridge English Readers)
Two Lives (Cambridge English Readers)
When Summer Comes (Cambridge English Readers)
Sarah Scott-Malden studied French and Italian at Bristol University before
moving to Italy for three years where she had her first teaching jobs in Pisa
and Florence.
She took the RSA Diploma in TEFL and then took up a teaching post with the Bell School of Languages, at first in Norwich and then in Saffron Walden. She taught at the Saffron Walden school for eleven years before moving with her family to California. While with the Bell School, Sarah worked as a teacher and a teacher trainer.
Cambridge University Press publications:
A
Picture to Remember (Cambridge English Readers)