The Shoestring Academy
The Shoestring Academy is a romantic comedy about a language school director with a week to rectify his failings before the Council inspection. All sorts of things might go wrong and, in my experience as the former Mr Shoestring, often did.
Reading Age: 16+
Book length: 260 pages
Maker: Donald Brown Books
About the Author: Donald Frank Brown was born in Inverness, Scotland, in 1943 during the Second World War. He took A-levels in Classics and English before studying English at Exeter College, Oxford where he won an exhibition in English Literature. During his gap year, he worked in Paris selling the New York Times. After graduation, he spent several years as an English teacher, first at a Brighton Grammar School, and then at international schools abroad, including the United Nations School in New York. Having settled in the Island of Jersey, he founded St Brelade’s College, a language school. He is married with three children and ten grandchildren.
