Julie Evans – författare

Based on extensive research, and grounded in everyday classroom practice, the authors of this book explore important issues surrounding play in the early years curriculum. The book presents children’s views on, and response to their role-play environment, alongside examples of good classroom practice, and addresses vital questions such as:Will structuring role play replace children’s own attempts to create scenarios that grow out of their interests and relationships?Has an over-emphasis on subjects like literacy and numeracy eclipsed the important processes inherent in children’s social play?How we can ensure that provision for role play fully benefits all young children?Critically, the authors present the child’s perspective on play in schools throughout, and argue firmly against a formal, inflexible learning environment for young children. This book will be fascinating to all students on primary education undergraduate courses and early childhood studies. Researchers and course leaders will also find this book a ground-breaking read.

Based on extensive research, and grounded in everyday classroom practice, the authors of this book explore important issues surrounding play in the early years curriculum. The book presents children’s views on, and response to their role-play environment, alongside examples of good classroom practice, and addresses vital questions such as:Will structuring role play replace children’s own attempts to create scenarios that grow out of their interests and relationships?Has an over-emphasis on subjects like literacy and numeracy eclipsed the important processes inherent in children’s social play?How we can ensure that provision for role play fully benefits all young children?Critically, the authors present the child’s perspective on play in schools throughout, and argue firmly against a formal, inflexible learning environment for young children. This book will be fascinating to all students on primary education undergraduate courses and early childhood studies. Researchers and course leaders will also find this book a ground-breaking read.

Making Music in the Primary School is an essential guide for all student and practising primary school teachers, instrumental teachers and community musicians involved in music with children. It explores teaching and learning music with the whole class and provides a framework for successful musical experiences with large groups of children.Striking the perfect balance between theory and practice, this invaluable text includes case studies and exemplars, carefully designed activities to try out in the classroom, as well as a range of tried-and-tested teaching strategies to help you support and develop children’s musical experience in the classroom.Grounded within a practical, philosophical and theoretical framework, the book is structured around the four key principles that underpin effective music teaching and experience:Integration – how can we join up children’s musical experiences?Creativity – how can we support children’s musical exploration?Access and Inclusion – how can we provide a relevant experience for every child? Collaboration – how might we work together to achieve these aims?Written in a clear, accessible and engaging style, Making Music in the Primary School will give you all the confidence you need when working with whole classes, whatever your musical or teaching background.

Making Music in the Primary School is an essential guide for all student and practising primary school teachers, instrumental teachers and community musicians involved in music with children. It explores teaching and learning music with the whole class and provides a framework for successful musical experiences with large groups of children.Striking the perfect balance between theory and practice, this invaluable text includes case studies and exemplars, carefully designed activities to try out in the classroom, as well as a range of tried-and-tested teaching strategies to help you support and develop children’s musical experience in the classroom.Grounded within a practical, philosophical and theoretical framework, the book is structured around the four key principles that underpin effective music teaching and experience:Integration – how can we join up children’s musical experiences?Creativity – how can we support children’s musical exploration?Access and Inclusion – how can we provide a relevant experience for every child? Collaboration – how might we work together to achieve these aims?Written in a clear, accessible and engaging style, Making Music in the Primary School will give you all the confidence you need when working with whole classes, whatever your musical or teaching background.

Keeping Hold of Justice focuses on a select range of encounters between law and colonialism from the early nineteenth century to the present. It emphasizes the nature of colonialism as a distinctively structural injustice, one which becomes entrenched in the social, political, legal, and discursive structures of societies and thereby continues to affect people’s lives in the present. It charts, in particular, the role of law in both enabling and sustaining colonial injustice and in recognizing and redressing it. In so doing, the book seeks to demonstrate the possibilities for structural justice that still exist despite the enduring legacies and harms of colonialism. It puts forward that these possibilities can be found through collaborative methodologies and practices, such as those informing this book, that actively bring together different disciplines, peoples, temporalities, laws and ways of knowing. They reveal law not only as a source of colonial harm but also as a potential means of keeping hold of justice.

In Cornwall's shadows, a lawyer and a doctor play a twisted game of revenge.Claire McBride, a lawyer dedicated to justice, receives devastating news—her cancer has returned, and this time, it’s terminal. Desperate to take control of her final days, she embarks on a dangerous mission to punish those from her past who have escaped the law.Meanwhile, her narcissistic consultant, Dr. Issy Moran, harbours a twisted grudge. For years she’s been playing judge and executioner with patients she deems unworthy, and now she has Claire in her sights. Driven by a deep-seated hatred, Issy sees Claire’s diagnosis as her chance for ultimate revenge.When revenge becomes a terminal game, who really holds the power to decide who lives and who dies?Rage is the first instalment in the Cornish Crime series. Set in Cornwall’s rugged coastline, Julie Evans delivers a gripping crime thriller where the cages of the past hold the key to a chilling present._____________________________________________Praise for the Cornish Crime Series★★★★★ Really good psychological thriller.★★★★★ Loved it from start to finish.★★★★★ Absolutely loved this book! A gripping read with unexpected twists and turns.★★★★★ Brilliant, couldn't put it down.★★★★★ I LOVED IT!! A first-class read.★★★★★ A perfect page-turner★★★★★ I could not put this book down.

The price of vengeance is never what you expect...In the quiet of Cornwall, a monster lurks. Jem Fielding, a ruthless pimp and drug lord, has terrorized the lives of women for years. When he abducts mute teenager Carly Taylor and leaves her to die, he sets in motion a chain of events that will threaten everything he’s built.Carly survives, but the trauma transforms her into a woman consumed by vengeance. With her mind unraveling, she becomes determined to destroy Fielding—no matter the cost.But Carly isn’t alone. Josie, Fielding’s abused wife, hides a dangerous secret—her love for another woman. Kerenza, trapped in a web of blackmail, knows the price of defying Fielding too well.As their paths collide, the women realize their only chance to survive lies in their unity. Together, they must face their darkest fears and the treacherous road to revenge. But victory will demand a sacrifice none of them may be prepared to make.In A Sisterhood of Silence, Julie Evans weaves a harrowing tale of resilience, vengeance, and the unbreakable bonds of sisterhood in the face of unspeakable evil. ___________________________________________________________________Praise for the Cornish Crime Series:★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Captured our imaginations and curiosity.★ ★ ★ ★ ★ My new favorite author.★ ★ ★ ★ ★ I would give the book more than 5 stars if I could.★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Fast-paced, a real page-turner. The story is so good.★ ★ ★ ★ ★ A great story that keeps picking up the pace and has you racing to find out the end.

Can she uncover the truth… before it buries her?Eden Gray, a disillusioned lawyer, leaves the city behind to start her own law firm in her beloved Cornwall. However, her plans for a fresh start are derailed when she is coerced into defending Rowan Lutey, a teenage surrogate accused of burying a baby in an ancient "witch pit."As archaeologists uncover the site's dark past, the Lutey family is thrust into the spotlight, facing a relentless media frenzy and personal attacks fueled by fear and superstition. Eden, abandoned as an infant herself, must confront her own buried feelings about her birth mother as she delves deeper into the case.As she risks her life to unravel the mystery and protect others from a manipulative and deranged killer, she discovers the truth about her client, her own abandonment, and an inner strength she never imagined she possessed.In The Bitter Fruit Beneath, Julie Evans weaves a tale of secrets, strength, and redemption for fans of the series and newcomers alike.______________________________________Praise for The Bitter Fruit Beneath:★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Totally captivating from beginning to end.★ ★ ★ ★ ★ I couldn’t put this book down. A well-crafted story that had good pace, lots of surprising twists, and well-connected links.★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Julie Evans at her best.★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Such a great story, full of twists and turns, great characters, a great plot, and it moves along at pace.★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Brilliant read.

A quiet life. A deadly secret. How far will she go to settle the score before it’s too late?Gardening enthusiast, Philippa "Pinkie" Floyd infiltrates a Cornish country club with a deadly mission: to eliminate Judge Carlisle. Armed with the deadly rosary pea, a revered tool among poisoners, Pinkie meticulously plans her strike. To her fellow gardening fanatics, she appears as just another retiree seeking solace in Cornwall's tranquil beauty, but beneath this facade lies a calculated expert with a singular focus.A seasoned professional, she never mixes work with pleasure. However, with the law closing in and ghosts from her past resurfacing, Pinkie must choose between her retirement and the most perilous mission of her career.The fourth installment in Julie Evans's The Cornish Crime series, The Poison Promise is a page-turning tale of vengeance, betrayal and the blurred lines between justice and retribution._________________________________________Praise for The Poison Promise:★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The Cornwall I live in is brought to life as the story unfolds. I would recommend this writer to anyone.★ ★ ★ ★ ★ I absolutely loved this book. It might even be the best of the series so far.★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Recommended to anybody who likes British crime with a twist.★ ★ ★ ★ ★ A real page-turner with interesting, well-drawn characters.★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Thoroughly absorbing.

One fire. Three dead. A lifetime of questions. Fifteen years after a devastating fire claimed the lives of his mother, stepfather and sister, Kit Retallick returns to his Cornish hometown and hires lawyer Eden Gray to help him clear his name.Eden, initially skeptical, uncovers discrepancies in the evidence that warrant further investigation. With the assistance of ex-policeman turned investigator Ross Trenear, they begin to unravel a complex web of deceit and prejudice within the tight-lipped rural community. As they delve deeper into the case, they find that two murders occured on the night of Kit's return, raising the stakes and threatening to derail their progress. Can Eden and Ross navigate a maze of resentment and denial to uncover the truth before it's too late?In this gripping legal thriller, author Julie Evans delivers a tale of justice and redemption that will keep you turning pages. A Baptism of Fire, the fifth installment in the Cornish Crime series, is a compelling journey through the darkest corners of the human psyche.____________________________________________Praise for A Baptism of Fire:★ ★ ★ ★ ★ I literally couldn’t put it down; read cover to cover in a day.★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Very well-written, fast-paced, with plenty of twists and turns.★ ★ ★ ★ ★ I have enjoyed all of Julie Evans’ books, and this is the best so far. Brilliant.★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Once again, Julie has crafted a story that you simply can’t stop reading.★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Gripping book. Loved it.