Enrich your A level and IB Diploma English curriculum and spark ideas for coursework text choices with 24 brilliant texts from the eighteenth century to the present day


Provide a stimulating choice of texts to help with ‘unseen’ text analysis, promote independent reading and prompt creative and recreative writing. Enhance students’ studies with the bank of inspiring fiction and non-fiction extracts and poems across different genres and forms, carefully selected by an expert panel of teachers and writers.




Encourage personal reading and inspire text choices for coursework (NEA) with the brilliant range of challenging and thought-provoking texts
Give all students a chance to shine, see themselves in the past and present, and find a point of connection in literature by exposing them to a wealth of voices and experiences
Feel confident to deliver rewarding and engaging lessons using the teaching notes which include contextual information, discussion prompts, detailed language, structure and style points, creative and recreative response ideas, and suggestions to help students explore further
Fully customisable, downloadable and photocopiable so you can teach flexibly and share
across the department, whether you are teaching the A Level English Language, English Language and Literature, or English Literature specifications or the IB English A Diploma Programme

Illustrated by: Beth Kemp, Lucy Toop, Thishani Wijesinghe