Adventures in Grammarland
By Paul Georgiou & Chris Prendergast
Fantasy | Paperback, eBook
Paul Georgiou
Adventures in Grammarland brings thought and imagination together in a remarkably enjoyable way. First and foremost it is a fairy story, with a young hero propelled into a series of fantastical adventures, all surprising and exciting, that rise to a tremendous climax in the final confrontation. But the issues and ideas are serious, the paradoxes and the puns infectious, and the case passionately argued. Teenage-readers might be inspired to think about words and how they work (or don't work). And readers of any age who sense language is being dangerously abused in our modern world, might end the book feeling that they too, like its young hero, should take up arms in its defence.
After five years studying English at New College, Oxford (M.A., M.Phil) Paul was employed in industry for 15 years. In 1978, he set up his own company, Panarc International (www.panarc.com), to provide media consultancy services. The company pioneered media coverage analysis as a professional business service, working for many years for government departments in the UK and abroad and for major UK organisations including the BBC, BT and many in the financial services sector. Throughout his time in education and business, Paul wrote in his spare time: poems, short stories and novels. It was what he really wanted to do but, as he confesses, evidently not enough to give up the day job. As part of its consultancy work, Panarc was regularly involved in book production for clients. A few years ago, it seemed sensible to add a publishing operation to the company's range of services. So Panarc developed a small, independent publishing house, Panarc Publishing (www.panarcpublishing.com). Paul's first published novel, "The Fourth Beginning", was issued under a pseudonym, Paul Gee. (The first edition of this book was published in 2012 by New Generation Publishing). Under his own name, Panarc has published: - The Tortoise and the Hare, a long, illustrated retelling of one of Aesop's fables in verse, published in 2004 - The Elements of Life, a collection of Paul's poems (now in its second edition, published in 2011) - Adventures in Grammarland, a book co-authored with Chris Prendergast, published in 2014 All four books are available from Amazon. There's more to come. Some of the other writing Paul did while earning a living is in production and he is currently working on a sequel to The Fourth Beginning.
After five years studying English at New College, Oxford (M.A., M.Phil) Paul was employed in industry for 15 years. In 1978, he set up his own company, Panarc International (www.panarc.com), to provide media consultancy services. The company pioneered media coverage analysis as a professional business service, working for many years for government departments in the UK and abroad and for major UK ...