Connell Guides

31/05/2023

Writing competition deadline extended! Get your entries in now! 🙌

To learn more about how The Day could work for your school CLICK HERE!

21/04/2023

Revision time again....We are offering a 3 for 2 on all GCSE and A'Level Connell Guides until the end of June 2023.
Order now https://www.connellguides.com/

Wishing all students the very best of luck with their exams

09/12/2022

30/11/2022

A Reading List for when you feel like a 19th century villain 🛡

14/10/2022

The one date that every UK school child has drummed into their brain...the year William the Conqueror beat Harold Godwinson at the battle of Hastings...956 years ago to this day - the 14th October 1066.

Roald Dahl reckons that's a pretty useless fact, but if you are interested in how French Wills got his namesake take a look at our Anglo-Norman England Guide. It covers everything from the Anglo-Saxons and the Norman Conquest, to the reigns of King Stephen and Henry II, plus a bit of Thomas Becket - yipee!

https://www.connellguides.com/collections/history/products/the-connell-guide-to-the-normans

27/09/2022

Hurry, while stocks last!!
Head over to our website to claim a free guide when you buy 2 English or History titles
https://www.connellguides.com/

14/04/2022

Help with revision - Connell Guides can give you that little lift to your studies and maybe gain that higher grade.

We are offering until the end of June - 3 for 2 on any of GCSE or A Level Connell Guides just use the code B2GOF at the checkout.
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29/03/2022

15/03/2022

Our annual short story competition is now live!

With broadcaster and journalist Jeremy Paxman judging this year's winning story on 'A Random Act of Kindness'

Send your entries of no more than 1000 words to [email protected] or visit https://www.connellguides.com/pages/short-story-competition-2022 for more information

Good Luck!

08/03/2022

As International Women's Day draws to a close, we thought we'd share a few of our guides covering groundbreaking literary works by exceptional and pioneering female authors.

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24/02/2022

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08/02/2022

Does this resonate with anyone? it did with us at Connell Guides

08/12/2021

Amazing graduate opportunity……

08/12/2021

Connell Guides is looking for a clever, creative editor who will also take charge of the marketing.

Connell Guides is a well-established brand, and now has more than 80 titles. Added to this is our All you need to know series, with 12 titles, covering everything from World War Two to the Prophet Muhammed. Top academics, actors and authors, from William Boyd to Helena Bonham Carter, have endorsed our guides. Many have done videos for us, some of which are on YouTube.

The Guides cover English and History and are immensely popular in schools and among students who want to achieve good grades in their GSE and A levels.

The business as started 10 years ago by Jon Connell, the founder of The Week and MoneyWeek, and has its main office near Chippenham in Wilts. But we are happy to consider candidates from further afield.

This is potentially a very exciting role for an enthusiastic, energetic graduate keen to make their mark and turn a flourishing small business into a larger one. You need to combine a love of English and history with an understanding of the kind of help students need to shine in their subjects. You need to be computer savvy, able to shape and put up material on our website. And you need to be adept at using social media.

Connell Guides is at an interesting point and needs to pivot more away from book publishing and more towards online content. We need someone who has the vision and energy to accomplish that. We already have a small team which can help, and Jon Connell himself will be on hand to advise and assist with the writing, doing blog posts etc.

This is a business in a very interesting area which has the capacity to become much bigger. Working hours, pay and conditions all open for discussion. Please contact us via email.

27/10/2021

The wonderful BBC 2015 adaptation of 'An Inspector Calls' is now back on iplayer. Perfect for students to watch on a cold blustery half term day.
The Connell Short Guide - all you need to know about the play in one concise volume.
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13/10/2021

Radio 4 'A Good Read' 12/10/21 - Adam Rutherford's chosen book was Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro.
In this short guide David Issacs examines the novel and critical reactions to it - and explains what Never Let Me Go is really about.
A must read

07/10/2021

National Poetry Day 7 October 2021

“Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer’s Day?” by William Shakespeare
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date.
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature’s changing course, untrimmed;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st,
Nor shall death brag thou wand’rest in his shade,
When in eternal lines to Time thou grow’st.
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

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07/10/2021

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Connell Guides are advanced study guides for higher-level GCSE and A Level English Literature and History students.

15/09/2021

QUOTE:

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” - Aristotle

29/06/2021

On this day in 1613 the Globe Theatre burnt down during a performance of Henry VIII. A cannon was fired but instead of using a cannon ball they used gunpowder held down by wadding. A piece of the burning wadding set fire to the thatch.

Brush up on your Shakespeare with Connell Guides

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30/04/2021

Short Story Competition 2021 - https://mailchi.mp/14d13c2f18ab/short-story-competition-2021

A quick reminder that this year's writing competition is open to all students up to, and including, current Year 11.A short story of no more than 1200 words on any setting and genre to be judged by the critically acclaimed historian and best selling author Robert Harris.

20/04/2021

AVAILABLE NOW

The Connell Short Guide to
Robert Louis Stevenson’s Jekyll and Hyde
This new and exciting guide, written by Dr David Anderson and Jolyon Connell. If a subscriber, you and all your students have immediate access to the eBook. For those who are not subscribers the eBook and paperback of the guide is available at a price of £5.99 (not including 15% subscribers discount). connellguides.com

16/04/2021

Continuing on our MONTH OF POETRY....

"Shakespeare and Milton were the greatest sons of their country" said G.K.Chesterton, "but Chaucer was the father of his country". The Canterbury Tales have sometimes been thought dry, even intimidating, of little relevance to the modern world. Nothing could be further from the truth, argues the distinguished literary critic Stephen Fender. Wise, moving, whimsical, funny, b***y and vivid in the extraordinary picture they paint of medieval England. The Canterbury Tales also explore themes which have preoccupied us for hundreds of years, such as the conflict between fate and free will, the gap between rhetoric and truth and the extent to which we can trust any authority.
It is no wonder, perhaps, that The Canterbury Tales have come to be seen as a founding statement of English national identity.

https://www.connellguides.com can help clear the fog of GCSE and A'Level English Literature studies

other poetry Connell Guides:
Paradise Lost | The Canterbury Tales | The Poetry of Christina Rossetti | The Poetry of Robert Browning | The Waste Land

09/04/2021

NATIONAL POETRY MONTH

Milton's Paradise Lost has long been acknowledged as one of the greatest literary works in the English language. Yet while many readers have been carried away by Milton's sublimity, others have been daunted by his grandeur, scope and learning.
In this brilliantly concise and scholarly book, Caroline Moore shows what makes Milton's verse so extraordinarily powerful and why many critics have misunderstood him. Paradise Lost, Moore argues, is the most profound study ever undertaken of the human act of choice. No other English poet - not even Shakespeare - has ever stared so long and hard into the abyss "between the acting of a dreadful thing / And the first motion"; no other poet has shown quite so vividly the dark byways and infinite strangeness of the human heart.

The Connell Guides - Intelligent study guides for GCSE and A'Level students
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The Connell Guide to:

Paradise Lost | The Canterbury Tales | The Poetry of Christina Rossetti | The Poetry of Robert Browning | The Waste Land

06/04/2021

NATIONAL POETRY MONTH - let Connell Guides help you connect to the beauty of poetry.

'The Connell Guide to How To Read A Poem' by Malcolm Hebron aims to help you read, understand and appreciate poetry.
Do you really need a guide for that? Can't you just get on and read some of the wonderful poetry that has been published in English?
You certainly can, but there are things you really need to know if you are going to get the most out of it.
Malcolm Hebron has spent years studying and teaching poetry. In this friendly, easy-to-read guide, he passes on what he has learnt while helping you read some famous (and not so famous) poems along the way...

Connell Guides https://www.connellguides.com perfect for GCSE and A'Level English Literature studies.

The Connell Guide to:
Paradise Lost | The Canterbury Tales | The Poetry of Christina Rossetti | The Poetry of Robert Browning | The Waste Land

02/03/2021

NEW - Connell Short Guide to Jekyll and Hyde - https://mailchi.mp/connellguides/new-connell-short-guide-to-jekyll-and-hyde-1246696

This new and exciting guide, written by Dr David Anderson and Jolyon Connell, is now available from our website, connellguides.com.  Being a subscriber, you and all your students have immediate access to the eBook. The paperback of the guide will be available from 18th March 2021 at a price of ....