This seven-level course provides a flexible package that ensures exam success and encourages students to develop 21st century skills through creative games and activities.

Full- colour readers with extensive Activities and Project pages. Dominoes are suitable for students who need more support in their reading than is provided by traditional readers. The Activities and ...

The Moonstone is a beautiful yellow diamond that was stolen from the statue of a Moon god in India. When Franklin Blake brings it to Rachel Verinder´s house in Yorkshire for her birthday, it brings ba...

Look at a desert, and what do you see? Nothing much - just a hot, flat, dry place, with lots of sand, and no animals or people. But look again. There are deserts with mountains, and deserts with snow....

‘To sound natural’ is a key aim of many English students. natural English focuses very much on that aspect of communication, especially when speaking. With this course, you cover the high-frequenc...

International Express is a course for adult professional learners who need English for work, and for communication in out-of-work functional contexts, such as travel or socializing. The balance of g...

English level: Intermediate to Advanced The essential reference guide to writing effective business correspondence - now revised and updated. Overview All the information and examples you need for wr...

There, on top of the msuhroom, was a large caterpillar, smoking a pipe. After a while the Caterpillar took the pipe out of its mouth and said to alice in a slow, sleepy voice, "Who are you?" What str...

Mrs Proudie, the warlike wife of the new Bishop of Barchester, brings the Reverend Slope into the Bishop´s Palace to help dominate her husband and rule the local clergy. But Slope is a snake in the gr...

"Then a letter came for Aloo from a famous college in America. They offered him a place . . . a place with a scholarship. Aloo could not believe it at first. He read the letter again and again." Aloo...

Chief Inspector Morse is drinking a pint of beer. He is thinking about an attractive woman who lives not far away. The woman he is thinking of is hanging, dead, from the ceiling of her kitchen. On the...

An English rose garden on a summer´s day. A small boy watches with interest as his great-aunt cuts the deadheads off the rosebushes with a sharp knife. What could be more peaceful, more harmless? ...

It was a very inconvenient time for murder. Florence was full of Christmas shoppers and half the police force was already on holiday. At first it seemed quite an ordinary murder. Of course, there are...

A new series of short, specialist English courses for professions such as human resources, or marketing and advertising, and work skills such as telephoning, meetings, and presentations.

"My brother preferred being with mother and me. He used to help us prepare vegetables in the kitchen or make the bread. But what he liked best was listening to my mother´s stories." But those child...

"I´m afraid to look in the storeroom. All our food for the winter - where is it now? Inside those hungry guests! They never stop eating! And they never say thank you! And those children - my God, they...

"Moondial!" As Minty spoke the word, a cold wind went past her, and her ears were filled with a thousand frightened voices. She shut her eyes and put her hands over her ears - and the voices and the w...

Allegra is an unusual name. It means "happy" in Italian, but the little girl in this story is sometimes very sad. She is only five years old, but she tells Adrian, her new friend, that she is going to...

"Who is the man with the roses in his hand?" thinks Anna. "I want to meet him." "Who is the girl with the guitar?" thinks Will. "I like her. I want to meet her." But they do not meet. "There are lots...

As they walk through a park in the distant future, Harl and Ellen talk about their work and their lives. But they will never have a life together because their work as scientists is more important to ...

Tony Kytes is a favourite with the girls but he´s not terribly clever. If you meet an old girlfriend and she asks for a ride home in your wagon, do you say yes? And then if you meet the girl you are p...

"I turned on the light, but there was nobody there. Then I saw something in the corner that made my blood turn cold. Scudder was lying on his back. There was a long knife through his heart, pinning hi...

The Greek island of Corfu lies like a jewel, green and gold, in the Ionian sea, where dolphins swim in the sparkling blue water. What better place for an out-of-work actress to relax for a few weeks? ...

People love and need animals. They keep them in their homes and on their farms. They enjoy going to zoos, and watching animals on films and on TV. Little children love to play with toy animals. But p...

How do you get a licence if you want to keep a monkey? What can you do if your wife has a lover? How can you see into the future? Where can you go for an exciting but cheap holiday somewhere hot and f...

Deep rivers, tall trees, strange animals, beautiful flowers - this is the rainforest. Burning trees, thick smoke, new roads and cities, dead animals, people without homes - this is the rainforest too....

The job was too good. There had to be a problem - and there was. John Duncan was an honest man, but he needed money. He had children to look after. He was ready to do anything, and his bosses knew it....

"My brother preferred being with mother and me. He used to help us prepare vegetables in the kitchen or make the bread. But what he liked best was listening to my mother´s stories." But those childho...

"I like work. I find it interesting . . . I can sit and look at it for hours." With ideas like this, perhaps it is not a good idea to spend a holiday taking a boat trip up the River Thames. But thi...

When a handsome young man begins to court Catherine Sloper, she feels she is very lucky. She is a quiet, gentle girl, but neither beautiful nor clever; no one had ever admired her before, or come to t...

The four Walker children never meant to go to sea. They had promised their mother to stay safely in the harbour, and to be home on Friday in time for tea. But there they are in someone else´s boat,...

Into the narrow social world of New York in the 1870s comes Countess Ellen Olenska, surrounded by shocked whispers about her failed marriage to a rich Polish Count. A woman who leaves her husband can ...