An Experienced Tutor, Poet and Writer Offering Services to GCSE and Post GCSE Students

I have a degree in Applied Sociology and Social Research. In July 1998, I obtained a Post Graduate Teaching Certificate. I began tutoring in October 1990 and have been online since October 2021. I have extensive experience tutoring students from diverse cultural and socio-economic backgrounds. From 1991, both GCSE and A Level English became some of my core subjects.

From April 2003, I began my own Creative Writing, and by October 2006, I was doing performing poetry in a variety of venues. My works

My published works include: -
1) Published Books
1.1 Published Under the Name of Richard Smith
A Saga of Smith: An Epic Family History
Lulu (but available on Amazon)
ISBN:-H/B
ISBN:-P/B

Advantage Study Skills
(A Manual Designed to Assist Teachers and Students)
Lulu (but available on Amazon)
ISBN:-

Paradigm Wars (2025)
(The Conflict Between Three Different Views of Reality
Lulu Publication
ISBN: To be determined

1.2 Published Under the Pen Name of Leo Arland
The Exit Machine (2012)
(A Dark Comedy Concerning the Office Romances and Internal Politics of a Euthanasia Centre, Set in a World where Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia are No Longer a Matter of Choice)

Hoofbeats of the Apocalypse (2014)
(Creative Works Exploring the Relationship between the Decay of Western Civilisation, the Impact of Social Darwinism and the Growing Turmoil in the Middle East)

U.S. Redux: Exploring the madness of a Nation (2017)
(Some reflections on the Rise of Donald Trump to the U.S. Presidency)

(These books are available on Amazon and Lulu Publishing. ‘The Exit Machine’ is also available on Amazon Kindle, as is ‘Restless Ashes’, my collection of poems and short stories based on my visit to Auschwitz in October 2011. ‘U.S. Redux’ is only available on Amazon Kindle.)