https://www.nicholaswalker.co.uk Bestselling author, scientist, teacher, dance and karate instructor Wed, 16 Sep 2020 01:39:42 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 https://www.nicholaswalker.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/nick-100x100.jpg https://www.nicholaswalker.co.uk 32 32 https://www.nicholaswalker.co.uk/product/the-autobiography-of-a-short-fat-ugly-man-only-the-brave/ Wed, 16 Sep 2020 01:39:40 +0000 https://www.nicholaswalker.co.uk/?post_type=product&p=402 Gentle Reader: I have no idea why anyone would want to read my poor autobiography but my agent kept pressing me and finally one miserable winter when I was trapped in Scotland I finally wrote it. Surprisingly it sold remarkably well and I was pushed to produce the follow ups. This is the third in that line and concerns the time when my first marriage had ended and I ran away to University to study for an Education degree though I had no intention of ever becoming a teacher. This is where I met my second wife and it recounts our time at The University of Exeter and particularly our experiences doing our teaching practice in Tower Hamlets in London. The experiences we had there warranted a book all of their own. The fourth I will bring out later this year if the Corona lockdown goes on much longer here in Mallorca. This fourth one will take you right up to where I ran away around the world on the QE2 and while doing so I wrote emails to my clubs back home about the funny incidents that happened. Later on I brought them out as: Going Round The Bend On The QE2 which turned into a best-seller and prompted a number of follow-ups. These are really much funnier than the pathetic stories of my youth so I urge you to read them first!

 

]]> https://www.nicholaswalker.co.uk/product/kisses-in-the-dark/ Thu, 10 Sep 2020 01:43:12 +0000 https://www.nicholaswalker.co.uk/?post_type=product&p=369 The dramatic love story of a white boy and a Pakistani girl in Tower Hamlets. Written by best-selling author Nicholas Walker who was himself a teacher in Tower Hamlets. Hilbert and Shamira fall in love and have to battle against huge prejudices from the community, her family, the school and even The National Front. This hard hitting novel reveals the truth of schools teaching on the front line and the battles that children from minor ethnic backgrounds have to fight every day just to fit into modern British society. Shocking at times and a tender love story at others this is a novel written by an author who knows what teaching in inner city schools is really like…not for the innocent!

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