An Inspector Calls

Why is Wider Reading Useful?

Wider reading is when students independently read different types of texts about certain topics to build their knowledge. Wider reading should help you with your studies as it can deepen your awareness and understanding of different areas of your course

We have provided a list of books that share similarities to or provide context for your set text. Reading around your set text will provide you with historical or contextual knowledge which should make answering GCSE questions easier.

Wider reading for An Inspector Calls

British-Library-Extracts-on-An-Inspector-Calls.docx

Term-2-English-Literature-Year-10.246456716 copy.pdf

an-inspector-calls-aim-higher-booklet.pdf

How JB Priestley’s Inspector first called on the USSRPriestley’s first postwar play, An Inspector Calls, was premiered not in London but in Leningrad. Seventy years on, and in the runup to both the revival of Stephen Daldry’s classic production on stage and a new BBC film version, the playwright’s Russian journey seems more extraordinary than ever