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At Galore Park, we are proud to work with such a wonderfully varied, talented and experienced selection of authors. Learn more about each of them below.

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Alison Primrose
Author in verbal and non-verbal reasoning
Alison has had a prolific teaching career and completed a doctorate in educational assessment.
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Belinda Froud-Yannic
Author in 13+ geography
Belinda Froud-Yannic has been Head of Geography at Thomas's School, Clapham since 2001 and believes geography is a subject anyone can enjoy.
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Bob Bass
Author in 13+ Latin
Bob is Head of Classics and Senior Master at Orwell Park. He is the Chief Setter of ISEB Common Entrance and Common Academic Scholarship (CASE) Latin papers.
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Chris Pearse
Author in 11+ verbal reasoning
Chris Pearse is a qualified primary school teacher with many years of experience supporting KS2 pupils.
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David Hanson
Author in 11+ and 13+ mathematics

David has more than 40 years' experience of teaching and has been a member of both the ISEB 11+ and 13+ mathematics setting teams.

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Elizabeth Holtom
Author in study skills

Elizabeth has taught pupils with special needs at all levels, also working as a learning support co-ordinator and now a study skills consultant.

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Gavin Hannah
Author in 13+ history
Gavin was Head of History at Summer Fields school for 30 years, seeing hundreds of students through their Common Entrance examinations.
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Jackie Barns-Graham
Author in 11+ science
Jackie was Head of Science at St Andrew’s School in Woking and is currently team leader for the ISEB 11+ and L1 13+ science setting teams.
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James Dale-Adcock
Author in Key Stage 3 geography
James Dale-Adcock held the post of Head of Geography at Cranleigh Preparatory School for 15 years and is currently their Academic Deputy Head.
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Michael Wilcockson
Author in 13+ religious studies
Michael Wilcockson has been Head of Philosophy at Eton since 2012. He is also the chief setter for Common Entrance Religious Studies for ISEB.
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Nicholas Oulton
Founder of Galore Park, author in 13+ Latin and history
Nicholas taught Latin and Greek for 10 years before writing the So You Really Want to Learn Latin course and founding Galore Park in 1998.
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Nigel Pearce
Author in Key Stage 3 and Common Entrance French
Nigel Pearce was Head of Modern Languages at Summer Fields in Oxford for 20 years and now lives in western France, where he is a translator and proofreader.
 
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Peter Francis
Author in 11+ non-verbal reasoning
Peter has been developing and illustrating Non-Verbal Reasoning (NVR) items for 25 years.
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Richard Balding
Author in 13+ science
Richard ran the science department at Summer Fields for 26 years and was chairman of the Physics Common Entrance setting panel.
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Ron Pickering
Author in 13+ science
Ron Pickering has worked in education for more than 30 years. He now divides his time between teacher training and writing in the UK and overseas.
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Sarah Collins (Sally Moon)
Author in 11+ verbal and non-verbal reasoning
Having developed structured learning programs for schools, Sarah has specialist knowledge of 11+ content and its development over a variety of platforms.
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Serena Alexander
Author in Key Stage 2 and 3 mathematics
Serena has taught mathematics since 1987, as Head of Mathematics and Head. She helps to run mathematics conferences for prep school teachers.
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Stephen Froggatt
Author in 13+ mathematics
Stephen Froggatt taught mathematics in prep and secondary schools for 20 years. He retired from teaching to follow a calling to ministry in the Methodist Church.
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Steve Hobbs
Author in 11+ mathematics
Steve has been teaching in primary and secondary schools since 1998. He is an examiner for Functional Maths and writes questions for exam papers.
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Sue Hunter
Author in 11+ science
Sue is a member of the Common Entrance setting team and a governor of local primary schools.
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Susan Grenfell

Author in religious studies

For 10 years, Susan was Head of Religious Studies at St Hugh’s School, Faringdon, before retiring and taking up writing full time.

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Victoria Duggan
Author in Key Stage 2 English
Victoria Duggan has been teaching for the past 10 years. She currently works at The Granville School in Sevenoaks where she is Director of Studies and Head of English.
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