Shakespeare's plays are famous all over the world, but what do we know about his life? What do we know about the man? What kind of life did he have? T ...

Contemporary / American English Guy Haines is travelling through Texas on a train when a stranger invites him to share a meal. But the stranger has a ...

Contemporary / American EnglishWhen Frank McCourt becomes a teacher in New York, he finds himself standing in front of bored, confused, angry students ...

Contemporary / British English The second exciting story from The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency series. Precious Ramotswe is now known as Botswana's f ...

When Miss Marple complains of feeling old and helpless, her doctor jokingly suggests that she needs a murder to solve. Then there is a death in the vi ...

Sherlock Holmes is a great detective. There are few cases that he cannot solve. In these three stories we meet a young woman who is terrified of a mys ...

The Time Traveller has built a time machine and has gone into the future to the year 802,701. He expects to find a better world with highly-intelligen ...

Born in the Kenyan Highlands, Wangari Maathai never lost her connection with the land. She started the Green Belt Movement, which planted trees where ...

Original / British English At the beginning of the twentieth century, the idea of women in business seemed strange. Today more and more women are reac ...

A strange black object is discovered on the Moon, and it sends out a radio signal into deep space. A team travels into space to discover the meaning o ...

When a notice appears in the local newspaper, the villagers are curious. Is it a joke, or is there really going to be a murder at Little Paddocks? At ...

rumble Federal Prison is the home for three formal judges who call themselves 'The Brethren.' They organize an illegal, but lucrative scheme to help t ...