Doggerland

SMITH, BEN

Fourth Estate

‘The Road meets Waiting for Godot: powerful, unforgettable, unique’ Melissa Harrison, author of At Hawthorn Time.\nDoggerland is a superbly gripping debut novel about loneliness and hope, nature and survival – set on an off-shore windfarm in the not-so-distant future. 
‘His father’s breath had been loud in the small room. It had smelled smoky, or maybe more like dust. He had knotted and unknotted a strap on the bag he was holding – he must have been leaving to go out to the farm that day. ‘I’ll get out,’ he’d said. ‘I’ll come back for you, ok?’ The boy remembered that; had always remembered it. And, for a time, he’d believed it too.’\nIn the North Sea, far from what remains of the coastline, a wind farm stretches for thousands of acres.\nThe Boy, who is no longer really a boy, and the Old Man, whose age is unguessable, are charged with its maintenance. They carry out their never-ending work, scoured by wind and salt, as the waves roll, dragging strange shoals of flotsam through the turbine fields. Land is only a memory.\nSo too is the Boy’s father, who worked on the turbines before him, and disappeared. The boy has been sent by the Company to take his place, but the question of where he went and why is one for which the Old Man will give no answer.\nAs his companion dredges the sea for lost things, the Boy sifts for the truth of his missing father. Until one day, from the limitless water, a plan for escape emerges…\nThis beautifully crafted novel about loneliness and hope, nature and survival, is as haunting as it is compelling – a very special debut indeed.

Literature & Fiction

Literary

'Fireflies' are non-fiction books on a variety of topics covering all areas of the curriculum, from science to citizenship. The teaching notes are full of practical suggestions for using the books. They have been updated in line with the simple view of reading and the renewed Primary Framework for Literacy.

Oxford Reading Tree: Level 6: Wild Weather

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

Oxford University Press, USA

Oxford Reading Tree Fireflies has 60 titles on a wide range of topics linked to the curriculum. There are 10 stages, one for each term from KS1 Year R Term 1 to KS2 Year 3 Term 1 (P1 to P4 in Scotland and N Ireland).* Colour-coded to show Oxford Reading Tree and bookband stages* Linked to curriculum and Oxford Reading Tree themes* Teaching Notes for every stage* A Guided Reading Card and a Take-Home Card to go with each bookCROSS REFERENCES TO OTHER OUP RESOURCES - and curriculum linksStage 6 Wild Weather: Bookband level - 8; Currricular subjects - science/geography; ORT links - The Weather Vane, The Storm, The Flying Elephant, The Scarf, Yasmin and the Flood, Noah's Ark Adventure, Flood st 8, The Holiday st 10, The Discovery st 10

Oxford Reading Tree: Stage 6: Fireflies: Wild Weather

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Oxford University Press

Design Your Own Yacht

Science & Math

Technology

UNKNO

The old recipe book (Take two books)

Children's Books

The Wright Group

A new light for the lodge (Take two books)

A day with Emily Emeryboard (Take two books)

Traffic: Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race to Go Viral

The origin story of the Age of Disinformation- the candid inside tale of two online media rivals, Jonah Peretti of HuffPost and BuzzFeed and Nick Denton of Gawker Media, whose delirious pursuit of attention at scale helped release the dark forces that would overtake the internet and American society. If attention is the new oil, Ben Smith's Traffic is the story of the time between the first gusher and the impact of climate change. The curtain opens in Soho in the early 2000s, after the first dotcom crash but before Google, Apple, and Facebook exploded, when it seemed that New York City rather than Silicon Valley might become tech's center of gravity. There, within a few square blocks, Nick Denton's merry band of nihilists at his growing Gawker empire and Jonah Peretti's sunnier crew at HuffPost andBuzzFeedwere building the foundations of viral internet media. It was tech's age of innocence- the old establishment might have been discredited by the Iraq War, but digital news would facilitate the spread of truth. After all, didn't progressive activists online get Barack Obama elected? Ben Smith, who would go on to earn a controversial reputation as BuzzFeed's editor-in-chief, was there to see it, and he chronicles it all with marvelous lucidity scored with dark wit, sparing no one-and certainly not himself. Smith tells a nuanced story- yes, Denton's ideology of radical transparency was problematic, but at least he had an ideology. Jonah Peretti survived long after Denton'sGawkerperished because his focus on clicks was relentlessly content-agnostic. But unintended consequences began to snowball. Traffic explores one of the great ironies of our time- the internet, which was going to help the left remake the world in its image, has become the motive force of right populism. People like Steve Bannon and Andrew Breitbart and Gavin McInnes and Chris Poole, the creator of 4chan, all seemed like minor characters in the narrative in which Nick and Jonah and crew were the stars. By 2020, any reasonable observer might wonder if the opposite wasn't the case. To understand how we got here, Traffic is essential and enthralling reading.

Humor & Entertainment

Penguin Press

"Engrossing and suspenseful." --The New York Times "Expertly pulls readers in." --The Guardian &nbsp; "Smith sharply chronicles the revolutionary moment." -- Financial Times The origin story of the post-truth age: the candid inside tale of two online media rivals, Nick Denton of Gawker Media and Jonah Peretti of HuffPost and BuzzFeed, whose delirious pursuit of attention at scale helped release the dark forces that would overtake the internet and American society If attention is the new oil, Traffic is the story of the time between the first gusher and the perceptible impact of climate change. The curtain opens in Soho in the early 2000s, after the first dot-com crash but before Google, Apple, and Facebook exploded, when it seemed that New York City, rather than Silicon Valley, might become tech's center of gravity. There, Nick Denton's merry band of nihilists at his growing Gawker empire and Jonah Peretti's sunnier team at HuffPost and BuzzFeed were building the foundations of viral internet media. Ben Smith, who would go on to earn a controversial reputation as BuzzFeed News's editor in chief, was there to see it, and he chronicles it all with marvelous lucidity underscored by dark wit. &nbsp; Traffic explores one of the great ironies of our time: The internet, which was going to help the left remake the world in its image, has become the motive force of right populism. People like Steve Bannon and Andrew Breitbart initially seemed like minor characters in the narrative in which Nick and Jonah were the stars. But today, anyone might wonder if the op­posite wasn't the case. To understand how we got here, Traffic is essential and enthralling reading.

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