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Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. Original stories at seven levels from starter to advanced, written specially for learners of English. With gripping plots and a range of genres ...

Kate Grant comes from Canada. She is visiting Europe with her mother and father. One evening she sees two men in a museum. They are taking a very famous pictureGirl with a Pearl Ear-ring. What can Kat...

Norma is always right. But has she got the right train tickets What happens when Mrs Roberts has coffee with Mrs Price And is David ready for his wedding The answers are in these six sketches.

Chris leaves his home in a small town in Australia to go and study at the University of Sydney. He needs to finda somewhere to live. But it´s not easy to find a house to share in a big city. Ever...

Kim is running through the streets of the old town. She is frightened. A man with dark eyes and a knife is looking for her. He is going to catch her. This holiday in beautiful Barcelona is suddenly ve...

Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. Chief Inspector Jane Honeywell is a city detective who wonders why she has moved to a sleepy country town - nothing happens in Pilton. But the...

Classic / British EnglishMacbeth, a brave soldier, is trusted by the Scottish king. Then a strange meeting with three witches makes him greedy for power. Macbeth wants to be king. He and his evil wife...

Roald Dahl is the master of the unexpected. Things are not always what they seem and nobody should be trusted. In this collection of his short stories we learn some strange lessons about the dangerous...

18th Century London, Sweeney Todd runs a successful barbers shop, but his neighbours worry about his strange behaviour. Is he hiding something Tobias, his young employee, thinks he is. Then other peop...

The Penguin Readers are graded at seven levels of difficulty from easystarts to level 6 (Advanced). They fall into three sub-categories (Contemporary, Classics and Originals) ithin the one series, mak...

This collection brings together some of the best examples of late nineteenthand early twentieth-century short stories. Some are about ordinary people to whom something unexpected happens. Others are a...

Contemporary American English Ten-year-old Tonya Hailey is attacked and raped by two local men. Carl Lee, Tonyas father, shoots them. Now only his lawyer and friend, Jake Brigance, stands between him...

In 1998 John Wood worked for Microsoft in Australia. He was a busy, successful man. Then he went on vacation to Nepal and visited a school in a Himalayan village, this changed his life. He helped the ...

Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. Alex Forley had everything: good looks, money, a beautiful house in London, an attractive girlfriend and a close group of friends. But now he is...

Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, from Starter to Advanced, this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student´s cap...

Babe leaves the farm for the city. He wants to male some money "But nobody wins in the city", says Bob, a chimpanzee. "And nobody helps anybody. Understand?" Babe doesn´t understand, because he always...

Apollo`s Gold: Liz goes on holiday to the beautiful Greek island of Sifnos. But the peace is shattered by the death of a local villager and the arrival of a mysterious yacht, and Liz finds herself i...

* A Matter of Chance: What is luck? Paul Morris is not sure. The first woman he loves is killed by a falling roof-title and the second is a smuggler. Or so it seems. Paul finds himself in a world of ...

In the Shadow of the Mountain: Clare Crowe travels to Switzerland to bring home the body of her grandfather, found at the bottom of a glacier 74 years after a climbing accident. Or was it an accident?...

* Just Good Friends: It is Stefany and Max`s first holiday together. They go and stay at Carlo`s holiday flat in a Mediterranean village in Italy. But Carlo`s wife is not very happy to see Stefany -...

*Penguin Young Readers - Is a series for young leaners of English from 5 to 11 years age. *The books are carefully graded and designed to provide an enjoyable, challenging and enriching language lea...

A bad fairy puts a spell on a beautiful princess. Only her true prince can wake her from the spell.

Cambridge English Readers is an exciting series of original fiction, specially written for learners of English. Graded into seven levels-from starter to advanced - the stories in this series provide e...

* Amistad: In 1839, a young man called Cinque leads a group of Africans to take control of the slave ship Amistad. * They want to return to their homes in Africa but instead they land in America and...

Rip Van Winkle walks into the mountains one day and meets some strange old men. He comes home twenty years later. One dark night, Ichabod Crane is riding home and sees a man on a black horse behind hi...

Trumpet Voluntary: A musician disappers leaving only a strange e-mail message behind her. Her husband, in a desperate search to find her, revisits their shared past and has to face up to some unplea...

He Knows too Much: An English company executive in India is dismissed after he tries to uncover corruption within his company. As his life falls apart and his marriage breaks up, he sets out to disc...

* The Lady in White: John is a successful TV producer. While researching a new programme, he comes across a story about a ghostly hitchhiker that is very similar to his own life, but with a tragic o...