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Children with SEND (special educational needs and disabilities), especially those in special schools, often experience grief at a much younger age than others, as some of their peers are more likely to have life-limiting medical conditions. Yet many adults do not know the best way to support a griev... More

Orphaned as a child when her parents are murdered in Africa, Maya is raised in a Yorkshire village by her unloving aunt and uncle who view raising her as their Christian duty. These bleak childhood years are brightened only by Maya's friendship with Emily Roper, a laughing, red-haired girl who is fa... More

Lisa Foreshaw grows up torn between two worlds, and regarded as poor relations by her family, Lisa is never allowed to forget her place. Despite this she falls in love with her handsome and charming cousin Dominic, the Viscount Lexican and heir to Hazelmere. But Dominic has a secret his family is wi... More

Erica and her sister Nancy live in the small village of St Agnes on Rowansdale. Each year the village holds events to celebrate the longest day of summer. The event that Erica is most looking forward to is the village dance. However, this year the death of one of the elderly organisers threatens to ... More

After an exotic childhood spent in India, Amanda Dexter finds it hard to adjust to life in rainy Lancashire. But when a scandal surfaces, Amanda is all too happy to leave the family's troubles behind and return to India - the place that she can really call home. Life in the intoxicating social whirl... More

Alex Faversham dreams of rebellion and longs to break away from her comfortable background. And so a chance visit from her aunt fires her determination to escape. At the age of nineteen Alex sets out to find the exciting destiny she yearns for in Italy. Italy is enchanting, but as she watches the da... More

By 2050, the world population is expected to reach nine billion. And the challenge of feeding this rapidly growing population is being made greater by climate change, which will increasingly wreak havoc on the way we produce our food. At the same time, we have lost touch with the soil--few of us k... More

While most of us live our lives according to the working week, we did not evolve to be bound by industrial schedules, nor did the food we eat. Despite this, we eat the products of industrialization and often suffer as a consequence. This book considers aspects of changing human nutrition from evolut... More

The essays that comprise Elusive Archives raise a common question: how do we study material culture when the objects of study are transient, evanescent, dispersed or subjective? Such things resist the taxonomic protocols that institutions, such as museums and archives, rely on to channel their acqui... More

Best of TOC is a collection of essential posts from the last 12 months, selected from the TOC blog and a number of external sources.One of the mantras at Tools of Change is "fail forward fast," which is an alliterative way of encouraging experimentation. That's why we felt it appropriate to use Best... More