Macmillan Readers (2 200 headwords)

Five short stories set in America in the 1920s and 1940s. The Cut-Glass Bowl,Bernice Bobs Her Hair,Gretchen's Forty Winks, Magnetism and  Three Hours Between Planes.Recommended for older readers.

Original work by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Maugham, the quintessential observer of human behaviour, tells the stories of: The Creative Impulse, The Round Dozen and Jane. Recommended for older readers

It is 1852 and three young people meet for the first time in the High Court of Chancery. They are the latest victims to be caught in the long-running court case of Jarndyce vs Jarndyce. A case which has caused the financial and moral breakdown of many previous claimants.

Scaramanga is a cold-blooded killer with connections to the KGB and the Cuban Secret Police. There is only one man skilled enough and brave enough to go after him - 007, James Bond. To carry out the mission, Bond ends up in Jamaica, where he meets two old friends.

British English

When British Prime Minister Adam Lang’s ghost writer, Michael McAra, dies in mysterious circumstances, a new writer is brought in to write Lang’s autobiography. But it soon becomes clear that Lang and his wife Ruth are a much more complicated couple than they first appear. The Ghost is a powerful commentary on the policies employed by the British government in the ‘War on Terror’.