Years 12 and 13
Read the Guardian newspaper.
An inspiring range of approaches to enrich your writing skills. Packed with stimulating writing exercises, numerous quotes and over 30 extracts from literature across a wide variety of genres, the book can be followed as a complete course or dipped into throughout. Accessibly written by three published writers and experienced teachers from leading creative writing institutions, this is a rich sourcebook of techniques
A practical and inspiring section on the creative process, showing you how to stimulate your creativity and use your memory and experience in inventive ways. It also provides in-depth coverage of the most popular forms of writing, in extended sections on fiction, poetry and life writing, including biography and autobiography, giving you practice in all three forms so that you might discover and develop your particular strengths.
This collection of superlative writing, selected by the Sunday Times's most senior female editor, brings together the most influential, incisive, controversial, affecting and entertaining pieces of journalism by the best women in the business.
A comprehensive and accessible avenue to literary research and analysis for young adults. This unique anthology series provides an engaging approach to readers seeking literary analysis and criticism of the lives and works of leading American, British, and world authors.
With 170 contributors, a scope that is peerless, international and crosses centuries The Assassin's Cloak pays tribute to a fascinating genre that is at once the most intimate and public of all literary forms.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the history of ideas - including topics drawn from philosophy, science, history, religion and culture.
Listen to the live magazine programme on the world of arts, literature, film, media and music.
Roger McGough introduces selections of poetry on various themes, chosen by listeners.
A Good Read is one of BBC Radio 4's longest-running programmes in which two guests join the main presenter to choose and discuss their favourite books and suggest books worth reading.
Listen to a wide range of Podcasts hosted by The Faculty of English Language and Literature is by far the largest English Department in the UK, with over 75 permanent post holders, a further 70 Faculty members, 900 undergraduates and 300 postgraduates. The Faculty has a very distinguished research and teaching record, covering all periods of English Literature.
Listen to Open Book, BBC Radio 4's book review programme.
Expand your subject knowledge with our extensive library of short video lectures – each one presented by a subject expert.
A twist of fate shows Pip a dark world of possibilities, but is he willing to pay the price? |Watch Steven Knight's chilling take on the Dickens classic on BBC iPlayer, starring Olivia Colman.
Learn about the key principles and debates in journalism and enact the role of a journalist in the context of an escalating story.
Visit the National Theatre situated on the Southbank in London.
Visit the Charles Dickens Museum in London.
Explore and visit the UK's best literary festivals.
Visit the British Library in London.