MGGS Christmas Reading List 2021

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Christmas Reading List 2021

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ART Key Stage 3 Non-Fiction Art of a Small Camera: creative photography for compact cameras and smartphones GS Tyler - 2 Aug 2014

Just Draw It! Sam Piyasena and Beverly Philp - 2013

Smart Phone Photography Guide Peter Cope - 12 Jan 2017

Painting (Documents of Contemporary Art) Terry R. Myers - 1 Apr 2011

Art: A World History Elke Linda Buchholz - 1 Nov 2007

Historia Timelines: History of Art HistoriaTimelinesCom

German Expressionist Woodcuts (Dover Fine Art, History of Art) Shane Weller - 31 Oct 1998

21st Century Surrealism: A Guide for Artists and Creative People Mr Mark Sheeky - 3 Jun 2018

Pop Art and Design Anne Massey and3. Alex Seago - 20 Apr 2017

500 Self-Portraits Julian Bell -1 Feb 2004

Contemporary Drawing Margaret Davidson - 3 Jun 2011


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100 Years 100 Artworks Agnes Berecz - 2019

A Big Important Art Book - Now with Women! Danielle Krysa - 2018

Key Stage 4 Non-fiction The Paintings That Revolutionized Art Claudia Stauble and Julie Kiefer - 1 Apr 2015

Collins Art Design and Technology – Think Inside the Sketchbook Paperback– 20 May 2011 Photoshop CC: Essential Skills: A Guide to Creative Image Editing Mark Galer - 7 Nov 2013

Age of Collage 2 Dennis H. Busch (Hardcover)

Acrylic Painting for Encaustic Effects: 45 Wax Free Techniques Sandra Duran Wilson (Paperback)

Art Journal Courage: Fearless Mixed Media Techniques for Journaling Bravely Dina Wakley (Paperback)

Layered Textiles: New Surfaces with Heat Tools, Machine and Hand Stitch Kim Thittichai (Hardcover)

Reclaimed Textiles Techniques for paper, stitch, plastic and mixed media The Art of Embroidery: Inspirational Stitches, Textures and Surfaces Françoise Tellier-Loumagne (Paperback)

Ways of Looking: How to Experience Contemporary Art (Elephant Books) Ossian Ward - 8 Sep 2014


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Threads - Contemporary Embroidered Art Charlotte Vannier - 2019

I Know an Artist Susie Hodge - 2019

Rise Up: The Art of Protest Jo Rippon - 2019

Key Stage 5 Non-fiction Collins Art Design and Technology – Think Inside the Sketchbook Paperback– 20 May 2011 Adobe Photoshop Elements 2018 Classroom in a Book (Classroom in a Book (Adobe)) John Evans and Katrin Straub - 1 Dec 2017

Photography Today: A History of Contemporary Photography Hardcover – 26 May 2014

50 Contemporary Photographers You Should Know Florian Heine, Brad Finger (Paperback)

Auto Focus: The Self-Portrait in Contemporary Photography usan Bright (Hardcover)

The Contemporary Art Book Charlotte Bonham-Carter - 6 Oct 2016

Playing to the Gallery: Helping Contemporary Art in its Struggle to Be Understood Grayson Perry - 25 Feb 2016

The Illustrator Edited by Steven Heller and Julius Wiedemann - 2019


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Visual Impact- Creative Dissent in the 21st Century Liz McQuiston - 2015

Protest! A History of Social and Political Protest Graphics Liz McQuiston - 2019


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BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS 23 things they don’t tell you about capitalism Ha-Joon Chang - challenges conventional thinking

Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built Duncan Clark - the rise of the Chinese corporate giant

Art of Strategy Dixitt and Nalebuff - especially good for game theory examples and analysis

Behavioural Economics - a very short introduction M Baddeley

Capitalism without capital: The rise of the Intangible economy Haskel and Westlake

Capitalism, 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know J Portes - excellent reference material

Divided Tim Marshall on international relations / Geopolitics

Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21 st Century... Kate Raworth

Drunkard’s Walk Leonard Mlodinow - a history of Maths with relevant applications

Economics for the common good Jean Tirole Applied micro from a recent Nobel prize winner

Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All American Meal Eric Schlosser

Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything Levitt and Dubner

Game theory - A very short introduction Ken Binmore


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GDP: A Brief but Affectionate History Diane Coyle - the GDP/ well-being debate

Growth Delusion: The wealth and Wellbeing of Nations David Pilling - antidote to gospel of GDP

Inequality AB Atkinson one of the most defining economic/political issues of the age

Inner Lives of Markets: How People Shape Them, and They Shape Us Sharman and Fisherman

Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioural Economics Richard Thaler

Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to fight Global Poverty Banerjee and Duflo - development economics

Prisoners of Geography Tim Marshall - superb on international relations

Rebel Ideas (Matthew Syed) - excellent on contrarian thinking and going against the grain

Risk Savvy: How to Make Good Decisions Gerd Grigerenzer - heuristics and risk management

Ten Great Economists (Phillip Thornton) Biographical background

The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger Levinson

The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon Brad Stone

The Great Divide Joseph Stiglitz - a critique of globalisation

The Great Economists: How their Ideas Can Help us Today Linda Yueh

The Plundered Planet: How to Reconcile Prosperity with Nature Paul Collier


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The Undercover Economist Tim Harford - how Economics impacts on our everyday lives

The Undoing Project Michael Lewis - birth of behavioural economics

The Upstarts: How Uber and Airbnb are changing the world Brad Stone - follow up to Amazon

The World is Flat Thomas L Freidman

Thinking Fast and Slow Professor Daniel Kahneman - the influence of psychology on behavioural economics

What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets Michael Sandel - explores the need for limits on the influence of market forces in our everyday lives

Who Gets What and Why: Understand the Choices you have; Improve the Choices you make Al Roth

World of Three Zeroes Muhammad Yunus - from the founder of the Grameen Bank


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COMPUTING Key Stage 3 Non-Fiction Coding for Beginners: Using Python (Coding for Beginners) Louie Stowell

Computational Fairy Tales Jeremy Kubica

20 Games To Create With Scratch Max Wainewright

Computer Coding Python Projects for Kids Carol Vorderman

Key Stage 4 Non-fiction How Google Works Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg

Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution

Key Stage 5 Non-fiction Computational Fairy Tales Jeremy Kubica

Computer Science: An Overview J. Glenn Brookshear.

Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software Charles Petzold.

Out of Their Minds D Shasha and Cathy Lazere.

The Pattern on the Stone: The Simple Ideas That Make Computers Work Daniel Hillis

The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood James Gleick.

The Code Book Simon Singh.


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The New Turing Omnibus A Kee Dewdney.

Algorithmic Puzzles Anany Levitin and Maria Levitin.

Once Upon an Algorithm: How Stories Explain Computing (The MIT Press) The Most Complex Machine: A Survey of Computers and Computing David Eck. (Published by A K Peters Ltd.)

Tools For Thought Howard Rheingold, Written in 1985

Best Practices of Spell Design by Jeremy Kubica.

Nine Algorithms That Changed the Future: The Ingenious Ideas That Drive Today's Computers Hardcover John MacCormick - 16 January 2021

Rebel Code: How Linus Torvalds, Linux And the Open Source Movement Are Out Mastering Microsoft: Linux and the Open Source Revolution Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution Paperback – 26 Jul 2001 Steven Levy

But How Do It Know? - The Basic Principles of Computers for Everyone Lauren Ipsum,Carlos Bueno, 2011

Tools For Thought Howard Rheingold.

The new Turing omnibus: 66 excursions in computer science AK Dewdney, 2003

Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead Sheryl Sanberg

The Facebook Effect David Kirkpatrick


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DRAMA Key Stage 3 Fiction Goodnight Mr Tom Michelle Magorian

Carrie’s War Nina Baldwin

The Graveyard Book Neil Gaiman

The Ocean at the End of the Lain Neil Gaiman

Coraline Neil Gaiman

Olivia's First term (first in a series) Lyn Gardner

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (the play) Simon Stephens

Blood Brothers Willy Russell

The Border Afsaneh Gray

Key Stage 3 Non-Fiction National Theatre: All About Theatre by the National Theatre The Time Traveller's Guide to British Theatre Aleks Sierz and Lia Ghilardi

Key Stage 4 Fiction The Woman in Black Susan Hill

National Theatre Connections Plays (collection of plays written for young people)


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DNA Dennis Kelly

Noughts and Crosses Malorie Blackman

Hansel and Gretel Carl Gross

Things I Know to be True Andrew Bovell

Home Nadia Fall

Gone Too Far Bola Agbaja

The Free9 In-sook Chappell

Key Stage 4 Non-fiction National Theatre: All About Theatre by the National Theatre Theatre in Practice Nick O’Brian

The Time Traveller's Guide to British Theatre Aleks Sierz and Lia Ghilardi

Key Stage 5 Fiction The Playmaker by Thomas Keneally (Our Country’s Good) The Recruiting Officer George Farquhar

A Doll’s House Henrik Ibsen

A Doll’s House Tanika Gupta


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Top Girls Caryl Churchill

Bronte Polly Teale

London Road Alecky Blythe

Fences August Wilson

Eye for Eye Debbie Tucker Green

Key Stage 5 Non-Fiction The Fatal Shore Robert Hughes (Our Country’s Good)

Letters to George Max Stafford-Clark (Our Country’s Good)

The Frantic Assembly Book of Devising Frantic Assembly

Through the Body A Practical Guide to Physical Theatre Dymphna Callery

The Active Text Dymphna Callery

Theatre in Practice Nick O’Brian

The Complete Brechtian Toolkit Stephen Unwin

Telling the Truth: How to Make Verbatim Theatre Robin Belfield


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DESIGN TECHNOLOGY Key Stage 3 Non-Fiction Me and My sewing machine Kate Haxell

Delia's Complete How To Cook: Both a guide for beginners and a tried & tested recipe collection for life Delia Smith

Edible Science: Experiments You Can Eat (Science & Nature) Jodi Wheeler-Toppen

Do Try This At Home: COOK IT! Punk Science

Kid’s Kitchen: Fun recipes with a dash of science Lorna Brash

Sketching: the Basics Koos Eissen

Pop Art Tilman Osterwold

Key Stage 4 Non-Fiction The Seamstress Maria Duenas

Heston Blumenthal: The Biography Chas Newkey-Burden

Recipe for Life: The Autobiography Mary Berry

Sketching: Drawing Techniques for Product Designers Koos Eissen/Roselien Steur

Designer Maker User The Design Museum

Do Design: Why beauty is key to everything Alan Moore


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Taste: The Infographic Book of Food Hardcover Laura Rowe

The Cook's Book of Ingredients Hardcover DK

The Science of Cooking Dr. Stuart Farrimond

The Science of Food Marty Jopson

The story of food: An illustrated history of everything we eat DK

Drawn to Stitch Gwen Hedley

The Art of Manipulating Fabric Colette Wolf

Fabric Manipulation Ruth Singer

The Found Object Cas Holmes

Modern British Furniture: Design Since 1945 Lesely Jackson

The Elements of Design Noel Riley

Women of Design Bryony Gomez-Palacio and Armin Vit

The A-Z of Modern Design Merrell

Key Stage 5 Fiction Devil Wears Prada Lauren Weisberger

The Thread Victoria Hislop


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Designing for People Henry Dreyfuss

Key Stage 5 Non-Fiction Textiles Fashion Sewing Advanced Techniques Connie Amaden-Crawford

Pattern Magic Tomoko Nakamichi

Fashion and Music Janice Miller

Extreme Textiles Thames and Hudson

Fashion Design Sue Jenkyn Jones

Fashion Gertrud Lehner

The Fashion Handbook Tim Jackson

Sports Tech Marie O’Mahony

Clothing Technology Europa Lehrmittel

Guide to textile terms Weston Publishing

Fashioning Technology Syuzi Pakhchyay

Introduction to Clothing Technology Gerry Cooklin

Mary Quant Mary Quant


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Product Design Making It: Manufacturing Techniques for Product Design Chris Lefteri

The Design of Everyday Things Donald A. Norman

Design DK

Design of the 20th Century Charlotte Fiell

1000 Chairs Hardcover Charlotte Fiell

Materials for Design Paperback Chris Lefteri

The Measure of Man and Woman: Human Factors in Design Alvin R Tilley and Henry Dreyfuss Associates

Presentation Techniques: A Guide to Drawing and Presenting Design Ideas Dick Powell

Deconstructing Product Design: Exploring the Form, Function, Usability, Sustainability and Commercial Success of 100 Amazing Products William Lidwell and Gerry Manacsa

The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition Don Norman

Materiology Birkhauser

The Elements of Design Noel Riley

Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography Paperback Walter Isaacson


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ENGLISH Key Stage 3 Fiction To Kill A Mockingbird Harper Lee

The Woman in Black Susan Hill

Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck

Lord of the Flies William Golding

Rebecca Daphne du Maurier

Salt To The Sea Ruta Sepetysk

One Sarah Crossan

Buffalo Soldier Tanya Landman

The Bunker Diary Kevin Brooks

Maggot Moon Sally Gardner

Monsters of Men Patrick Ness

The Graveyard Book Neil Gaiman

Bog Child Siobhan Dowd

Here Lies Arthur Phillip Reeve


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Just In Case Meg Rosoff

Tamar Mal Peet

Millions Frank Cottrell-Boyce

A Gathering Light Jennifer Donnelly

The Other Side of Truth Beverley Naidoo

The Ruby in the Smoke Philip Pullman

The Knife of Never Letting Go Patrick Ness

The Hobbit J R R Tolkien

Jumanji Chris Van Allsburg

Wonder R J Palacio

White Fang Jack London

The Book Thief Markus Zusak

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas John Boyne

Little Women Louisa May Alcott

Noughts and Crosses Malorie Blackman


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The Fault In Our Stars John Green

Everything Everything Nicola Yoon

Stardust Neil Gaiman

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime Mark Haddon

I Am Legend Francis Lawrence

The Princess Bride William Goldman

Noughts and Crosses (trilogy) Malorie Blackman

Key Stage 3 Non-Fiction Notes from a small island Bill Bryson

Key Stage 4 Fiction Course texts: Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare

An Inspector Calls J.B. Priestley

Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson

Wider reading: Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë


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Journey’s End R.C. Sheriff

Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen

Frankenstein Mary Shelley

Great Expectations Charles Dickens

Jamaica Inn/Rebecca Daphne du Maurier

The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wild

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle

Animal Farm George Orwell

The Greek Myths Robert Graves

Never Let Me Go/The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro

Anita and Me Meera Syal

Lord of the Flies William Golding

Dramatic Works: An Inspector Calls J. B Priestley

Blood Brothers Willy Russell

The History Boys Alan Bennett


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The Importance of Being Earnest Oscar Wilde

Romeo and Juliet/Much Ado About Nothing/Macbeth/The Merchant of Venice William Shakespeare

Key Stage 4 Non-Fiction Robert Louis Stevenson: A Biography Claire Harman

Robert Louis Stevenson: Modern Critical Views Harold Bloom

The Gothic Tradition David Stevens

Women and Power Mary Beard

We should All Be Feminists Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The Life of Charlotte Brontë Claire Harman

Key Stage 5 Fiction Course Texts For English Literature (AQA): Othello William Shakespeare

The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood

A Streetcar Named Desire Tennessee Williams

Feminine Gospels Carol Ann Duffy


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Wider Reading: The Duchess of Malfi John Webster

King Lear William Shakespeare

Death of A Salesman Arthur Miller

The Glass Menagerie Tennessee Williams

A Doll’s House/Hedda Gabler Henrik Ibsen

Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert

Alias Grace Margaret Atwood

Metaphysical poetry - John Donne, Andrew Marvell, George Herbert Romantic poetry - Lord Byron, Keats, Shelley, Wordsworth, Blake Victorian poetry - Tennyson, Rossetti, The Brownings Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë

Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Anne Brontë

Great Expectations / Bleak House Charles Dickens

Beloved Toni Morrison


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The Secret History Donna Tartt

The Yellow Wallpaper Charlotte Perkins Gilman

A Thousand Splendid Suns Khaled Hosseini

Tess of the D’Ubervilles Thomas Hardy

Half of a Yellow Sun/Americanah Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Lady Chatterley’s Lover D.H. Lawrence

Mrs Dalloway/To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf

How to Be Both/Short Stories Ali Smith

Oranges are Not the Only Fruit Jeanette Winterson

Fingersmith/Tipping the Velvet Sarah Waters

The Awakening/selected short stories Kate Chopin

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Tom Stoppard

The World’s Wife Carol Ann Duffy

The Alchemist Paulo Coehlo


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Brick Lane Monica Ali

Strange Tales Rudyard Kipling

Atonement Ian McEwan

The Man in the High Castle Philip K. Dick

The House of the Spirits Isabelle Allende

Course Texts For English Language and Literature (AQA): The Lovely Bones Alice Sebold

The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini

Wider Reading: The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood

Frankenstein Mary Shelley

Dracula Bram Stoker

Enduring Love Ian McEwan

Key Stage 5 Non-Fiction Shakespearean Tragedy A.C. Bradley

Othello: New Critical Essays Philip Kolin

The Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Tragedy - ed. Emma Smith 1606: The Year of Lear


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James Shapiro

A Streetcar Named Desire (loom’s Modern Critical Interpretations) Harold Bloom

The Cambridge Companion to Tennessee Williams Matthew C. Roudane

The Female Malady Elaine Showalter

The Madwoman in the Attic Gilbert and Gubar

A Room of One’s Own Virginia Woolf

The Interpretation of Dreams/The Uncanny Sigmund Freud

Literary Theory: An Introduction Terry Eagleton

The Great Gatsby: Penguin Critical Studies Kathleen Parkinson

The Great Gatsby (Bloom’s Modern Critical Interpretations) Harold Bloom


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FRENCH Key Stage 3 Fiction Short Stories for Beginners + French Audio: Improve your reading and listening skills in French.

Learn French with Stories (French Short Stories Book 1) - available on Amazon French: Short Stories for Beginners + French Audio Vol 2: Improve your reading and listening skills in French. Learn French with Stories (French Short Stories for beginners) - available on Amazon

Histoires à lire le soir (French Edition) - available on Amazon Ma vie, mes copines series Catherine Kalengula - available on Amazon ( available in the school library)

Harry Potter series in French - available on Amazon (available in the school library) Tintin comic book series - available on Amazon Astérix and Obélix comic book series - available on Amazon Le petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - available on Amazon (available in the school library)

Le petit Nicolas by rené Goscinny - available on Amazon

Key Stage 3 Non-Fiction Easy Learning French Complete Grammar, Verbs and Vocabulary (3 books in 1) (Collins Easy Learning French) (French Edition) - available on Amazon

Collins French-English dictionary CGP Key Stage 3 French, the Workbook - available on Amazon CGP Key Stage 3 Grammar, the Workbook - available on Amazon

Key Stage 4 Fiction Short Stories for Intermediate Level + AUDIO : Improve your French listening comprehension skills with seven French stories for intermediate level (French Short Stories Book 1) - available on Amazon


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Short Stories for Intermediate Level + AUDIO Vol 2 : Improve your French listening comprehension skills with seven French stories for intermediate level (French Short Stories) available on Amazon

Short Stories for Intermediate Level + AUDIO Vol 3 : Improve your French listening comprehension skills with seven French stories for intermediate level (French Short Stories) available on Amazon

Arsène Lupin, gentleman cambrioleur Maurice Le Blanc - available on Amazon

L’étranger by Albert Camus - available on Amazon Le père Goriot by Honoré de Balzac - available on Amazon Contes de la Bécasse by Guy de Maupassant - available on Amazon La trilogie des fourmis by Bernard Werber - available on Amazon

Key Stage 4 Non-Fiction Collins French- English dictionary Target Grade 9 Writing AQA GCSE (9-1) French Workbook OR Target Grade 5 Writing AQA GCSE (9-1) French Workbook

New GCSE French Grammar Workbook - for the Grade 9-1 Course (includes Answers) (CGP

GCSE French 9-1 Revision) AQA GCSE French: Grammar, vocabulary and translation workbook

Key Stage 5 Fiction No et moi Delphine de Vigan

Based on a true story Delphine de Vigan

Jour sans faim Delphine de Vigan


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Le petit Prince Antoine de St Exupéry

L’élégance du hérisson Muriel Barbery

Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert

Un sac de billes Joseph Joffo

Les misérables Victor Hugo

Viviane Elisabeth Fauville Julia Deck

L’apocalypse est pour demain Jean Yanne

Key Stage 5 Non-Fiction Mot a Mot Fifth Edition: New Advanced French Vocabulary AQA A Level French: Grammar & Translation Workbook Heinemann A Level French Grammar Practice A decent French-English dictionary “Collins Robert French Dictionary” is one of the best. AQA A-level French Revision and Practice Workbook: Themes 1 and 2 AQA A-level French Revision and Practice Workbook: Themes 3 and 4


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GEOGRAPHY Key Stage 3 Fiction Horrible Geography of the World The Garbage Kid Elizabeth Laird

Northern Lights Trilogy Philip Pullman

Hidden Miriam Halahmy

Key Stage 3 Non-Fiction The travel book a journey through every country in the world Where on earth? Geography without the boring bits No one is too small to make a difference by Greta Thunberg

Key Stage 4 Fiction A crack in the edge of the world Simon Winchester

Treasure Island Journey to the centre of the earth Kite Strings of the Southern Cross Laurie Gough

Key Stage 4 Non-Fiction Mud Sweat and Tears Bear Grylls

Notes from a small Island Bill Bryson


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Extreme Cities Ashley Dawson

I am Malala Malala Yousafzai

Origins - How the Earth shaped Human History Lewis Dartnell

We are Displaced Malala Yousafzai

How Population change will transform our World Sarah Harper

There is no Planet B Miko Berners-Lee

Brazil Michael Palin

Canoeing the Congo Phil Harwood

Hurricanes Vs Tornadoes Vs Typhoons Baby Professor

How to give up plastic Will McCallum

Key Stage 5 Fiction Kite Strings of the Southern Cross Laurie Gough

The Good Immigrant Nikesh Shukla

Born a crime Trevor Noah

Six Degrees Mark Lynas

The Wall John Lanchester


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Key Stage 5 Non-Fiction Dead aid. Why aid is not working and how there is another way for Africa Dambisa Moyo

Silk Roads Peter Frankopan

The Almighty Dollar Dharshini David

Adventures in the Anthropocene Gaia Vince

Ice Bound Doctor Jerry Nielson

Touching the Void Joe Simpson

Prisoners of geography Tim Marshall

I am Malala Malala Yousafzai

Origins - How the Earth shaped Human History Lewis Dartnell

Factfullness Hans Rosling

32 Stops Danny Dorling

Divided Tim Marshall

Island on Fire Alexandra Witze

The Divide David Hickle

Climate Refugees Hubert Reeves


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Bottom Billion Paul Collier

Laudito Si Pope Francis

The Uninhabitable Earth David Wallace-Wells

We are Displaced Malala Yousafzai

Adventures in the Anthropocene - A Journey to the Heart of the Planet we made Gaia Vince

How Population change will transform our World Sarah Harper

There is no Planet B Miko Berners-Lee

When the Rivers run dry - The Global water crisis and how to solve it Fred Pearce

Step by Step Simon Reeves


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GEOGRAPHY Key Stage 3 Fiction German Short Stories: Deutsche Kurzgeschichten (New Penguin Parallel Texts Series) Ernst Zillekens

Learn German with Stories: Cafe in Berlin - 10 short stories for beginners Andre Klein

German: Short Stories for Beginners + German Audio: Improve your reading and listening skills in German. Learn German with Stories: Volume 1 My Daily German

Learn German with Stories: Karneval in Köln – 10 Short Stories for Beginners: Volume 3 André Klein

Learn German with Stories: Ferien in Frankfurt – 10 Short Stories for Beginners André Klein

Learn German with Stories: Momente in München – 10 Short Stories for Beginners André Klein

Key Stage 3 Non-Fiction KS3 German Complete Revision & Practice with Audio CD (CGP KS3 Languages) CGP Books

KS3 German Workbook with Answers: Workbook (Without Answers) Pt. 1 & 2 CGP Books

Key Stage 4 Fiction German Short Stories: Deutsche Kurzgeschichten (New Penguin Parallel Texts Series) by Ernst Zillekens

Learn German with Stories: Cafe in Berlin - 10 short stories for beginners Andre Klein


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German: Short Stories for Beginners + German Audio: Improve your reading and listening skills in German. Learn German with Stories: Volume 1 My Daily German

Learn German with Stories: Karneval in Köln – 10 Short Stories for Beginners: Volume 3 André Klein

Learn German with Stories: Ferien in Frankfurt – 10 Short Stories for Beginners André Klein

Learn German with Stories: Momente in München – 10 Short Stories for Beginners André Klein

Learning German through Storytelling: Heidis Frühstück - a detective story for German language learners (for intermediate and advanced students): Volume 5 (Baumgartner & Momsen) André Klein

Learning German through Storytelling: Des Spielers Tod - a detective story for German language learners (includes exercises) for intermediate and advanced André Klein

German Short Stories for Beginners and Intermediate Level: 11 Humorous Short Stories to Grow Your German Language Skills, Vocabulary & Learn German the Easy Way by World Language Institute Spain Christian Stah

Key Stage 4 Non-Fiction Collins German- English dictionary Target Grade 9 Writing AQA GCSE (9-1) German Workbook OR Target Grade 5 Writing AQA GCSE (9-1) German Workbook Target Grade 9 Reading AQA GCSE (9-1) German Workbook OR Target Grade 5 Reading AQA GCSE (9-1) German Workbook New GCSE German Grammar Workbook - for the Grade 9-1 Course (includes Answers) (CGP GCSE German 9-1 Revision) AQA GCSE German: Grammar, vocabulary and translation workbook


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Key Stage 5 Fiction Der Vorleser Bernhard Schlink

Die Verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum Heinrich Böll

Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder Bertolt Brecht

Zonenkinder Jana Hensel

Russendisko Wladimir Kaminer

Fundbüro Siegfried Lenz

Die Verwandlung Franz Kafka

Key Stage 5 Non-Fiction How to be German in 50 easy steps: A guide from Apfelsaftschorle to Tschüss Adam Fletcher

A Concise History of Germany (Cambridge Concise Histories) Paperback – 19 Feb 2004 Mary Fulbrook

A User's Guide to German Cultural Studies (Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany) Paperback – 30 Sep 1997 Scott Denham (Editor), Irene Kacandes (Editor), Jonathan Petropoulos

German Literature: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)Paperback – 28 Feb 2008 Nicholas Boyle (Author)

Stephen Brockmann, A Critical History of German Film Rochester: Camden House, 2010

Wort für Wort Sixth Edition: German Vocabulary for AQA A level AQA A Level German: Grammar & Translation Workbook


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Heinemann A Level German Grammar Practice A decent German-English dictionary - Collins is one of the best. AQA A-level German Revision and Practice Workbook: Themes 1 and 2 AQA A-level German Revision and Practice Workbook: Themes 3 and 4


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HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE Key Stage 5 Fiction and Memoir One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest Ken Kesey

Prozac Nation Elizabeth Wurtzel

It’s a Funny Kind of a Funny Story Ned Vizzini

Elizabeth is Missing Emma Healey

The Children Act Ian McEwan

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Mark Haddon.

Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law Hardcover Haben Girma

Key Stage 5 Non-Fiction Do No Harm Henry Marsh

This is Going to Hurt Adam Kay

The Language of Kindness Christie Watson

Far From the Tree Andrew Solomon

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly Jean-Dominique Bauby

Anti-Discriminatory Practice:Equality, Diversity and Social Justice N. Thompson


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Communication Skills in Health and Social Care B. Moss

The Reflective Practitioner:How ProfessionalsThink in Action D. Schon

Bowling Alone:The Collapse and Revival of American Community Robert Putnam


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HISTORY Key Stage 3 Fiction Warhorse Michael Morpurgo

Shadow Michael Morpurgo

When HItler Stole Pink Rabbit Judith Kerr

Number the Stars Lois Lowery

The Secret Diary of Thomas Snoop Philip Ardagh

Eliza Rose Lucy Worsley

Lady Mary Lucy Worsley

My Name is Victoria Lucy Worsely

Key Stage 3 Non-Fiction Horrible Histories Terry Deary

A Little History of the World EH Gombrich

A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived Adam Rutherford

Dear Jelly: Family Letters from the First World War Sarah Ridley


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Key Stage 4 Fiction Shadow Michael Morpurgo

The Book Thief Markus Zusak

Alone in Berlin Hans Fallada

The Last Tudor Philippa Gregory

Key Stage 4 Non-Fiction The Shortest History of Germany James Hawes

Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam Elizabeth Partridge

Korean War: A History From Beginning to End A Short History of Medicine Stephen Parker

Blood and Guts, A short History of Medicine Roy Porter

Key Stage 5 Fiction Wolf Hall Hilary Mantel

Catch 22 Joseph Heller

The Prince and the Pauper Mark Twain

Buffalo Soldier Tanya Landman


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The Things They Carried Tim O’Brien

I buried my heart at Wounded Knee Dee Bown

Key Stage 5 Non-Fiction Henry VII S.B. Chrimes

The Tudor Years John Guy

The Tudor Century I Dawson

England under The Tudors G Elton

Tudor Rebellions Anthony Fletcher and Aiarmaid Macculloch

Henry VIII and the Government of England Keith Randell

Henry VIII and the Reformation in England Keith Randell

Edward VI and Mary: A Mid Tudor Crisis? Nigel Heard

An Introduction to American History Farmer and Sanders

Why the South lost the Civil War Donald

How the North Won Hattaway and Jones

The Cheese and the Worms Ginzburg, C.

Early Modern European Society Kamen, H


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History of Science, Magic and Belief Marrone, S


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MATHEMATICS Key Stage 3 Fiction The Curious incident of the dog in the night-time

Key Stage 3 Non-Fiction The Boy Who Loved Math: The Improbable Life of Paul Erdős Deborah Helligman

Blockhead: The Life of Fibonacci John D’Agnese

Maths on the go Rob Eastaway & Mike Askew

Key Stage 4 Fiction The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Computer 978-0-307-90827-8

Key Stage 4 Non-Fiction 50 Mathematical Ideas Ben Dupre ISBN: 978-1847241474

You are a Mathematician David Wells ISBN: 0-14-017480-X

Professor Stewart’s Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities ISBN: 978-1846680649

Key Stage 5 Fiction A Beautiful Mind Sylvia Nasar ISBN-13: 978-0571212927

Key Stage 5 Non-Fiction The Neptune File Tom Standage (ISBN 0-71-399472-X)


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The Magic of Mathematics Theoni Pappas ISBN: 9780933174993

The Magical Maze - ISBN: 978-0297819929 It must be beautiful - ISBN: 1-86207-555-7 Alex's Adventures in Numberland Alex Bellios ISBN: 978-0747597162


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MEDIA STUDIES Key Stage 5 Fiction Super Sad True Love Story Gary Shteyngart

Look At Me Jennifer Egan

Note to Self Alina Simone

Key Stage 5 Non-Fiction Fans, Bloggers, and Gamers: Exploring Participatory Culture: Essays on Participatory Culture Henry Jenkins.

Media, Gender and Identity David Gauntlett

Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices Stuart Hall

Simulacra and Simulation (The Body in Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism) Jean Baudrillard

Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity Judith Butler. Published by Routledge; new edition (12 May 2006)

Feminist Media Studies Liesbet Van Zoonen

Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics Bell hooks

After Empire: Melancholia or Convivial Culture? Paul Gilroy

Power Without Responsibility: Press, Broadcasting and the Internet in Britain James Curran and Jean Seaton


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Media Regulation: Governance and the Interests of Citizens and Consumers Peter Lunt and Sonia Livingstone

Media Magazine Making is Connecting David Gauntlett


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PE Key Stage 3 Fiction Blind Side Cheer Choice

Key Stage 3 Non-Fiction Tiger Wood biography Sisters and Champions: The True Story of Venus and Serena Williams

Key Stage 4 Fiction Little girls and pretty boxes Gold

Key Stage 4 Non-Fiction When footballers were skint - a look into the soul of football Jonny Wilkinson: My autobiography

Key Stage 5 Fiction Moneyball

Key Stage 5 Non-Fiction Taboo - Why black athletes dominate sports and why we are afraid to talk about it Jon Entine


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Bounce Matthew Syed

You are awesome Matthew Syed

Exercse and Sport Science William E. Garrett, Donald T. Kirkendall


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PSYCHOLOGY Key Stage 5 Fiction and Memoir One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest Ken Kesey

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Robert Pirsig

In Cold Blood Truman Capote

Human Traces Sebastian Faulks

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden Hannah Green

Running With Scissors Augusten Burroughs

The Boy with the Topknot Sathnam Sanghera

Key Stage 5 Non-Fiction Prozac Nation Elizabeth Wurtzel

Opening Skinner’s Box Lauren Slater

50 Psychology Classics Tom Butler-Bowden

The Blank Slate Stephen Pinker

Classic Case Studies in Psychology Geoff Rolls

The Emerging Mind V S Ramachandran


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Sapiens Yuval Harari

The Psychopath Test Jon Ronson

Why We Sleep Matthew Walker

The Neurotourist Lone Frank

Chasing the Sun: The New Science of Sunlight and How it Shapes Our Bodies Linda Geddes

The Shallows: How the Internet Is Changing the Way We Think, Read and Remember Nicholas Carr


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RELIGIOUS STUDIES Key Stage 3 Fiction Sophie's World Jostein Gaarder

The Little Prince Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Key Stage 3 Non-Fiction The Philosophy Files Stephen Law

Plato and A Platypus Walk into A Bar Thomas Cathcart

The Magic of Reality Richard Dawkins

Key Stage 4 Fiction The Screwtape Letters CS Lewis

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974) Robert M. Pirsig

Key Stage 4 Non-Fiction Ethics: A Very Short Introduction Simon Blackburn The Philosopher at the End of the Universe Mark Rowlands

Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away Rebecca Goldstein

Key Stage 5 Fiction The Republic Plato


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The Metamorphisis Franz Kafka

Key Stage 5 Non-Fiction The Puzzle of God Peter Vardy

The God Delusion Richard Dawkins

The Dawkins Delusion Alistair McGrath

Ethical Studies Robert Bowie

The Philosophy Book Will Buckingham and Peter J King

The Nicomachean Ethics, Book II Aristotle

Issues of Life and Death Michael Wilcockson


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SCIENCE Key Stage 3 Fiction Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams - Age 12+

Across the Universe Beth Revis - Age 12+

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes - Age 13+

Key Stage 3 Non-Fiction Wonders of the Universe Brian Cox

Frozen Planet Alastair Fothergill & Vanessa Berlowitz

Chemical Chaos Nick Arnold

Key Stage 4 Fiction - Biology Brave New World Aldous Huxley

Bad Science Ben Goldacre

The Demon in the Freezer Richard Preston

Key Stage 4 Fiction - Chemistry The Sweet at the Bottom of the Pie Alan Bradley

The Disappearing Spoon Sam Keane


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The Alchemist Paulo Caoelho

Key Stage 4 Fiction - Physics When it Changed. A Collection of Short Stories. The Left Hand of Darkness Ursula K. Le Guin

Out of the Silent Planet C.S Lewis

Key Stage 4 Non-fiction - Biology The Human Mind Robert Winston

The Magic of Reality Richard Dawkins

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Rebecca Skloot

Key Stage 4 Non-fiction - Chemistry Uncle Tungsten Oliver Sacks

How to Fossilise your Hamster Mick O’Hare

The Genie in the Bottle Dr Joe Schwarcz

Key Stage 4 Non-fiction - Physics Cosmos Carl Sagan

Big Bang Simon Singh


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A Short History of Nearly everything Bill Bryson

Key Stage 5 Fiction - Biology Cantor’s Dilemma Carl Djerassi

The Andromeda Strain Michael Crichton

The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus Richard Preston

Key Stage 5 Fiction - Chemistry The Periodic Table Primo Levi

Creating Monsters Christopher Rankin

The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York

Key Stage 5 Fiction - Physics The Martian Rendezvous with Rama Arthur C Clarke

Revelation Space Alastair Reynolds

Key Stage 5 Non-Fiction - Biology The Blind Watchmaker Richard Dawkins

The Private Life of the Brain Susan Greenfield


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The Double Helix James D Watson

Key Stage 5 Non-Fiction - Chemistry Nature’s Building Blocks John Emsley

Why do Chemical Reactions Happen? Peter Wothers

The Radioactive Boy Scout Ken Silverstein

Key Stage 5 Non-Fiction - Physics Six Easy Pieces Richard P Feynman

A Brief History of Time Stephen Hawking

The Quantum Universe Brian Cox & Jeff Forshaw

Good film - Interstellar


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SOCIOLOGY Key Stage 5 Fiction and Memoir The Motorcycle Diaries Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara

The Colour Purple Alice Walker

One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest Ken Kesey

Angela’s Ashes Frank McCourt

My Name is Why Lemn Sissay

Crazy Love Leslie Morgan Steiner

I’m a Teacher, Get Me Out of Here Francis Gilbert

Key Stage 5 Non-Fiction How to Argue with a Racist Adam Rutherford

How to be a Woman Caitlin Moran

Outsiders:Studies in the Sociology of Deviance Howard Becker

Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race Reni Eddo-Lodge

Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men Caroline Criado-Perez

Risk Society Ulrich Beck


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Modernity and Self-Identity:Self and Society in the Late-Modern Age Anthony Giddens

The Spiritual Revolution:Why Religion is giving way to Spirituality Heelas and Woodhead

The God Delusion Richard Dawkins

Good Cop, Bad War Neil Woods

McMafia Misha Glenny

The Shallows: How the Internet Is Changing the Way We Think, Read and Remember Nicholas Carr

Sociological Imagination C. Wright Mills


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SPANISH Key Stage 3 Fiction Spanish: Short Stories for Beginners: Improve your reading and listening skills in Spanish: Volume 1 Claudia Orea

Key Stage 3 Non-Fiction Easy Learning Spanish Complete Grammar, Verbs and Vocabulary - Collins

Key Stage 4 Fiction Marina Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Spanish Short Stories For Beginners Ollie Richards

Key Stage 4 Non-Fiction Acción gramática Phil Turk and Mike Zollo

Target Grade 9 Writing AQA GCSE (9-1) Spanish Workbook/ Target Grade 5 Writing AQA GCSE (9-1) Spanish Workbook

Key Stage 5 Fiction Shadow of the Wind Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Winter in Madrid C.J Sansom


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Guernica Dave Boling

A Long Petal of the Sea Isabel Allende

Key Stage 5 Non-Fiction The New Spaniards John Hooper

The Penguin History of Latin America El laberinto del fauno: Film Study Guide for AS/A-level Spanish (Film and literature guides) Acción gramática Phil Turk and Mike Zollo

AQA A-level Spanish Revision and Practice Workbook: Themes 1 and 2 Mike Thacker and José Antonio García Sánchez

AQA A-level Spanish Revision and Practice Workbook: Themes 3 and 4 Mike Thacker and José Antonio García Sánchez


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