The intrepid Miss Marple is getting on and now has a full-time nurse, but the little grey cells are still working overtime. When celebrity Marina Gregg moves to St. Mary Mead, it's amazing how many people turn up at her first house party, claiming to be old friends. When one of them ends up dead, it looks like the lethal cocktail might have been meant for Marina herself.
The book seeks to enlarge the theoretical scope, research agenda, and practices associated with TBLT in a two-way dynamic, by exploring how insights from writing might reconfigure our understanding of tasks and, in turn, how work associated with TBLT might benefit the learning and teaching of writing.
Fresh from the field of Waterloo, Matthew Hervey, newly-appointed aide-de-campe to Wellington, is dispatched on a secret mission to India. The princely state of Chintal is threatened by intrigue and military might, and Hervey - sabre in hand - is again destined for the battlefield.
