By Deirdre Liebman  He flung himself into a patch of long grass at the side of the road. As he lay there, paralyzed with fright, breathing in the stench of rotting leaves, an enormous black horse, with a menacing, cloaked figure in its saddle, came into sight on the road, inches from his hiding place.  […]

 By Deidre Liebman  As our summer term comes to a close, many of us are reflecting on a busy, fun and productive year and looking forward to another. One highlight which many remember fondly is the Senior School production, “The Addams Family,” which was performed at the Questors Theater in Ealing. Next academic year, the […]

By Deidre Liebman On May 22, 1859, exactly 167 years ago today, the famous author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born in 1859, the eldest son of nine children. Doyle, one of England’s most prolific authors, lived to the age of 71 and penned over 300 works of fiction during his lifetime. Doyle’s birthday is […]

By Deidre Liebman  A surprising fact about the famous children’s novel, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is that it is part of a series titled The Chronicles of Narnia, written by C.S. Lewis. Netflix is launching the first film adaptation to include all seven books in the series. A version of The Magician’s Nephew, starring […]

By Deirdre Liebman Jane Austen, who was born in Hampshire, England, on December 16,1775, the seventh child of the Reverend George Austen and his wife, Cassandra, is one of Britain’s most celebrated authors. Despite dying at the young age of 41, she wrote six romantic novels in her lifetime, two of which, Northanger Abbey and […]