Gabriel Fielding: 5 books

Through Streets Broad and Narrow re-introduces John Blaydon, emotionally troubled protagonist of Fielding's acclaimed coming-of-age novel, In the Time of Greenbloom. John Blaydon, now eighteen and with exciting opportunities ahead of him, travels to Dublin to undertake a medical degree. Through...

Pretty Doll Houses is a study of childhood and adolescence. Set in the 1920s and 1930s, the narrative, although fictional, is based on Fieding's early years growing up in Tulllagee, in Sussex; of the family's life in the Yarm-on-the-Trees where his father was vicar; and of the adolescent years in...

In the Time of Greenbloom is a psychological coming-of-age story set in rural England in the 1920s. John Blaydon, barely thirteen when the story opens, feels unlike his peers and disconnected from the rest of his generation. When his one dear childhood friend dies tragically, John creates his own...

The Birthday King describes Hitler's Germany from the inside of one wealthy industrialist family, part Jewish and part Catholic, entangled in political and financial alliance, frought with petty jealousies, treacheries, fears, and aspirations.

Social pedagogy is an innovative discipline that supports children's upbringing and overall development by focusing on the child as a whole person. It has been described as where education and care meet or as 'education in its broadest sense'. This book provides a comprehensive overview of...