Owen Hendry
Owen Hendry was born in Glasgow in 1945. He majored at Wits University in English and Latin, and spent 30 years in English-language education before founding Wordsmiths South Africa. He has written and co-authored many books and series for use in the education environment. He subscribes enthusiastically to the concept of natural language evolution and development, and recognises that English in particular always has been and surely will continue to be richly moulded by influences from a multitude of welcome sources. However, he believes that if a language is worth using it’s worth respecting and using well, that a badly written letter (or e-mail) of application will count against you, and that the world actually does care.
When neither travelling nor writing, he buys wine, reads all the books he couldn’t find time to read as a teacher, cooks pasta, watches cricket on television, pushes a lawnmower (usually quite willingly) around his wife’s stunning garden, plays golf and the bagpipes (neither with any particular skill), and delights in his five grandsons.
Among his titles as author and co-author are:
When neither travelling nor writing, he buys wine, reads all the books he couldn’t find time to read as a teacher, cooks pasta, watches cricket on television, pushes a lawnmower (usually quite willingly) around his wife’s stunning garden, plays golf and the bagpipes (neither with any particular skill), and delights in his five grandsons.
Among his titles as author and co-author are:
- Fingertips (Pharos)
- Music to the Wind (Shuter and Shooter)
- English in Context (Maskew Miller Longman)
- Wordsmiths (Maskew Miller Longman)
- Rhythm and Muse (Wordsmiths Publishing)
- X-Kit English Essential Reference (Pearson
- Education)
- Achieve! (Pearson Education)
Kathleen Bartels
Kathleen Bartels has an Honours degree in Publishing Studies from Wits University. An accomplished copywriter and editor, Kathleen has developed a solid reputation in the publishing industry for her careful, meticulous and thorough work. She has many years' experience as a newspaper sub-editor and writes, edits and proofreads a variety of texts in all genres. On the writing side, she heads up a team of former journalists, news editors, accredited PR professionals and published authors who know how to write reports and media releases that are topical, relevant, interesting, grammatically correct, and have the best chance of generating positive publicity. Clients range from NGOs to corporations, advertising and PR agencies, and government departments.
