"This book provides a really sound grounding in the theories that underpin successful teaching and learning. Without over-simplification it provides accessible introductions to the key learning theories with which teachers and students are likely to engage, and it has immense practical value."
Professor Sally Brown, Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK

In 2008, Sally Gardiner makes friends with Milo, a young student. When he tells Sally why he is different from other boys of his age, she does not believe him. Years later, however, she realizes that he was right. She sits down to write a letter of warning to her granddaughter, Lola.

AUDIOBOOK: Philip Pullman - The Ruby In The Smoke (abridged)
"Her name was Sally Lockhart; and within fifteen minutes, she was going to kill a man." Philip Pullman begins his Sally Lockhart trilogy with a bang in The Ruby in the Smoke - a fast-paced, finely crafted thriller set in a rogue- and scalawag-ridden Victorian London. His 16-year-old heroine has no time for the usual trials of adolescence: her father has been murdered, and she needs to find out how and why. But everywhere she turns, she encounters new scoundrels and secrets.