GCSE English Set Texts
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Atonement
Set on the hottest day of the Summer in 1935, the character of thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis encounters her sister strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain, located in the garden of their country house. Also watching her is Robbie Turner,...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 384
- MBE Code : 249
Blood Brothers (Student Edition)
The Bloomsbury Student Editions are specifically annotated to assist learning. All of our class set titles come with free fitted jackets and we deliver next day. Your bulk orders are processed quickly with a hassle free invoice system built in to our...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 112
- MBE Code : 106
Boys Don’t Cry
You're waiting for the postman - he's bringing your A level results. University, a career as a journalist - a glittering future lies ahead. But when the doorbell rings it's your old girlfriend; and she's carrying a baby. Your baby.You're happy to ...
- Number Of Pages : 320
- MBE Code : 518
Coram Boy
Defined The Whitebread 2010 Book of the Year. Coram Boy is a haunting, yet captivating work of historical fiction for children. And will especially be loved towards fans of The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas and Goodnight Mr Tom. Plus, a great read for ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 368
- MBE Code : 244
Death Of A Salesman
Set in the late 1940s, Willy Loman is a salesman living in New York City with his wife, Linda, where he has lived in the same house for the last twenty-five years. Now on his last legs, failing at his job, dismayed at the failure of his sons to live ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 128
- MBE Code : 234
DNA
A group of teenagers make a mistake and by a mistake… We mean a terrible one. To make it worse, they panic and cover the whole thing up. However, when they find that the whole cover-up unites them, harmony is brought to their otherwise irritable ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 96
- MBE Code : 120
Dracula
The true original masterpiece of Victorian Horror, at its very best.
The classic novel tells the story of Dracula, who attempts to move from his home in Transylvania to England. All with the hopeful result of finding new blood and spreading the ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 496
- MBE Code : 185
Frankenstein
The timeless gothic novel of Frankenstein presents the extraordinary battle between man and monster. With the attempt of creating life, the young student of Victor Frankenstein unleashes the force between his own control. Where he sets into motion of...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 248
- MBE Code : 113
Frankenstein – Annotation Edition
This annotation edition of Mary Shelly’s well-known gothic novel is perfect for students and horror enthusiasts alike. Scholastic Annotation Editions come with extra-wide margins and double-spaced lines, they are perfect for your annotations.
They...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 464
- MBE Code : 578
Great Expectations
Perhaps one Of Charles Dickens’ most famous novels and the epic coming story of age which is reflected through his thirteen novel, and at that his penultimate completed novel.
The story of Great Expectations depicts the personal growth of an ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 560
- MBE Code : 156
Heroes
Heroes, a widely known book that is used within many schools across the country. Where we provide you with every text inside of a protective plastic wallet, for the assurance of longer life ware. All available to you in as little as the next day, at ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 144
- MBE Code : 114
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou's debut memoir has become an classic beloved worldwide. Her six volumes of autobiography are a testament to the her talents and resilience.. Loving the world, she also knows its cruelty. As a Black woman she has known discrimination and ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 320
- MBE Code : 374
Jane Eyre
This gothic infused masterpiece includes explosive passion, dark secrets and acclaimed to be one of the greatest love stories of all time. Jane Eyre tells the journey of a humble, plain governess who falls deeply in love with the dashing gentleman, ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 624
- MBE Code : 143
Journey’s End
Journey’s End is an unflinching vision of life, which is dedicated around the surrounding trenches towards the end of the First World War, and published to you in Penguin Classic, here at MBE.
Concerned around a group of British officers, who ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 96
- MBE Code : 171
Kindertransport
Kindertransport is a modern classic which reflects one woman’s struggle to come to terms with the haunting memories of her past.Savagely separated from her German-Jewish parents, nine-year-old Eva is brought to England with the promise of a new ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 112
- MBE Code : 111
Leave Taking
In North London, Del and Viv are soul-sick. Del doesn't want to be at home; staying out late - 3 p.m.-the-next-day late - is more her thing. Viv scours her schoolbooks trying to find a trace of herself between their lines.
When Enid takes her ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 96
- MBE Code : 520
Lord Of The Flies
Lord of The Flies won a Nobel Prize For Literature. This paperback is a staple of many secondary school children's backpack. MBE Books supply plastic jackets free of charge which are already fitted to the books. Next day delivery and high quality ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 226
- MBE Code : 108
Macbeth
This Scholastic Classics edition of Shakespeare's well-known tragedy is perfect for students and Shakespeare enthusiasts alike.
By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes.
When three sinister ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 134
- MBE Code : 297
Macbeth – Annotation Edition
Scholastic Annotation-friendly editions come with extra wide margins and double spaced lines, they are perfect for your annotations.
They include:
Large spaces between lines and large outer margins, perfect for highlighting and note-taking....
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 208
- MBE Code : 509
Midsummer Nights Dream
Oxford School Shakespeare is an acclaimed edition especially designed for students, with accessible on-page notes and explanatory illustrations, clear background information, and rigorous but accessible scholarly credentials. A Midsummer Night's ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 128
- MBE Code : 116
My Name Is Leon
It's 1981, a year of riots and royal weddings. The Dukes of Hazzard is on TV. Curly Wurlys are in the shops. And trying to find a place in it all is nine-year-old Leon. He and his little brother Jake have gone to live with Maureen. They've lost one...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 288
- MBE Code : 519
Never Let Me Go
Described to be one of the most acclaimed novels to be published in recent years.
Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students who are growing up in an ominous, skewed version of contemporary England.
All narrated by “Kathy”, ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 304
- MBE Code : 162
Of Mice & Men (Dyslexia Friendly)
A superb story of power and beauty, critically acclaimed across the world and now available in an accessible, super-readable format with dyslexia-friendly features, for all readers.
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 246
- MBE Code : 547
Of Mice And Men
Drifters in search of work, George and his childlike friend Lennie, have nothing in the world except the clothes on their back - and a dream that one day they will have some land of their own. Eventually they find work on a ranch in California's ...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 122
- MBE Code : 109
Oliver Twist
The story of orphaned Oliver, who runs away from the workhouse only to be taken in by a den of thieves. Plunged into a dark criminal underworld of vivid and memorable characters - the arch-villain Fagin, the artful Dodger, the menacing Bill Sikes and...
- Book Cover : Paperback
- Number Of Pages : 352
- MBE Code : 129