Secondary class sets

When her mum falls into a coma, a young teenager uses key objects from her mother's childhood in Kuwait to magically experience key moments from her past that help strengthen their fragile relationship.

A new edition of Shakespeare's historical tragedy about an army general driven mad by his murderous actions to take the Scottish throne.

Conan Doyle's classic Sherlock adventure.

Nicky and Kenny find themselves in danger when they get lost on the Yorkshire Moors in a snowstorm.

A 12-year-old boy's ghost watches his family in the aftermath of his death after being shot dead by a policeman.

Alem thinks he is on holiday with his father in London, but his father has brought him to the UK to escape the war in Ethiopia and leaves him to survive by himself as a refugee.

A girl makes friends with a boy who has lived in a detention centre for refugees all his life.

An eleven-year-old boy is permanently confined to an isolation unit due to an immune system disorder, but conspires with his new nurse to have an adventure outside.

The classic story about the romantic fortunes of Elizabeth Bennet and her four sisters

Sherlock and Watson investigate the connection between a murder and the sighting of a large dog

The classic story about an African American girl growing up in Mississippi in the 1930s

Based on true stories of Afghan refugees, this novel describes how a girl defies the Taliban and dresses as a boy in order to feed her family.

New cover reprint of the Christmas classic in which an elderly miser is visited by three spirits who show him the error of his ways

A 10-year-old boy born with a facial abnormality attempts mainstream school for the first time

Twin brothers are separated at birth because their mother cannot afford to keep them both. She gives one of them away to wealthy Mrs Lyons and they grow up as friends, in ignorance of their fraternity until the inevitable quarrel unleashes a blood-bath.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls

A Muslim boy and white girl bond over their love of drawing comic book art, but the leader of his gang of friends threatens to spoil this happiness.

A boy is visited by ghosts of family and friends he knew as he takes the lift down from his family's flat to exact revenge on the person who shot his brother dead in a gangland attack.

A teenage girl uses poetry to write about her life growing up in a poor area of Harlem.

Conjoined twins start at a normal school after being previously homeschooled, and one of them develops a chronic heart disease endangering both of their lives.

A short essay about what 'feminism' is and should be in the 21st century.

A 15 year old autistic boy goes in search of a local pet dog's killer and writes a book about the process

Annotated student's edition of the historical tragedy by Shakespeare.

Follows the fortunes of George and Lennie as they struggle to find their place in American society.

Golding's best-known novel is the story of a group of boys who, after a plane crash, set up a fragile community on a previously uninhabited island. As memories of home recede and the blood from frenzied pig-hunts arouses them, the boys' childish fear turns into something deeper and more primitive.

Study edition of the classic play in which a police inspector questions the members of a family about the suicide of a young woman.

Complete scripts of four plays by J B Priestley including An Inspector Calls.

Streetwise George and his childlike friend Lennie are drifters, searching for work in the fields and valleys of California. They have nothing except the clothes on their back, and a hope that one day they'll find a place of their own and live the American dream. But do dreams come at a price!

Follows the trial of a black man accused of raping a young white girl with all the prejudices of the southern US in the 1930s.

The story of nine-year-old Meena, the daughter of the only Punjabi family in the Midlands' mining village of Tollington.

All animals are equal - but some are more equal than others.

Afghanistan, 1975: Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the local kite-fighting tournament and his loyal friend Hassan promises to help him. But neither of the boys can foresee what will happen to Hassan that afternoon, an event that is to shatter their lives.

The classic romantic story about of a young governess, her love for her employer and the discovery of his terrible secret.

Originally commissioned for BBC Radio, Simon Armitage recasts Homer's epic as a series of dramatic dialogues. His version bristles with the economy, wit and guile that we have come to expect from one of the most individual voices of his generation.

Adult cover edition of the story about a teen girl chosen to take part in a reality show where participants must kill their competitors to win.

An Earthman joins a gang of alien oddballs to explore the universe after Earth is destroyed by Vogons

Text of this classic Williams play

A Midsummer Night's Dream is one of the most popular texts for study by secondary students the world over. This edition includes illustrations, preliminary notes, reading lists (including websites) and classroom notes.

Winston Smith works for the Ministry of Truth in London, chief city of Airstrip One. Big Brother stares out from every poster, the Thought Police uncover every act of betrayal. When Winston finds love with Julia, he discovers that life does not have to be dull and deadening, and awakens to new possibilities.

In this first volume of her autobiography, Maya Angelou beautifully evokes her childhood with her grandmother in the American south of the 1930s. She learns the power of the white folks at the other end of town and suffers the terrible trauma of rape by her mother's lover.

Composed towards the end of the first millennium of our era, the Anglo-Saxon poem "Beowulf" is a Northern epic and a classic of European literature. In this new translation, Seamus Heaney has produced a work that is true, line by line, to the original poem.

When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Count Dracula with the purchase of a London house, he makes a series of horrific discoveries about his client. Soon afterwards, various bizarre incidents unfold in England: an apparently unmanned ship is wrecked off the coast of Whitby; a young woman discovers strange puncture marks on her neck; and the inmate of a lunatic asylum raves about the 'Master' and his imminent arrival. In Dracula, Bram Stoker created one of the great masterpieces of the horror genre, brilliantly evoking a nightmare world of vampires and vampire hunters and also illuminating the dark corners of Victorian sexuality and desire.

An account of the ascent of the 21,000ft Siula Grande peak in the Peruvian Andes. Joe Simpson and his climbing partner, Simon Yates, had achieved the summit before the first disaster struck. What happened and how they dealt with the psychological traumas that resulted is the subject of this book.

First published in 1953, this is Bradbury's prophetic dystopian vision of a weird but too distant future where happiness is allocated on a four-walled TV screen, where individuals, eccentrics and scholars are outcasts of society and where books are burnt by a special task-force.

A classic collection of stories - all told on the skin of a man - from the author of Fahrenheit 451.