Below are the Spanish film and literature titles set for the AQA A level starting from September 2016.
All the titles are available to buy from us (order details at the bottom of the page)
EL BOLA (15) SPAIN 2001 MANAS, ACHERO £19.99
Goya awarding winning film about teenage friendship.
EL LABERINTO DEL FAUNO/PANS LABYRINTH (15) 2006 SPAIN TORO, GUILLERMO DEL £17.99
An adult fairy tale set in 1944 Spain, where both fantasy and reality are sinister and malevolent.
Level: AS, A2, GCSE, Scottish Highers Subject: Spanish, Film Studies, Media Studies
MARIA LLENA ERES DE GRACIA/MARIA FULL OF GRACE (15) 2004 COLOMBIA MARSTON, JOSHUA £17.99
Thriller about a Colombia 17 years old who becomes involved in smuggling drugs to the USA. Level: AS, A2, Subject: Spanish
SPANISH LANGUAGE STUDY GUIDE BY JACKY COLLINS AND ANN DAVIES
OCHO APELLIDOS VASCOS /SPANISH AFFAIR (15) 2014 SPAIN LAZARO, EMILIO MARTINEZ £19.99
A young man from Seville seeks to win the heart of a Basque girl in this hit Spanish comedy based on the culture clash between the north and south of Spain
SPANISH LANGUAGE ESSAY ON OCHO APELLIDOS VASCOS
VOLVER (15) 2006 SPAIN ALMODOVAR, PEDRO £19.99
After her death, a mother returns as a ghost, to fix a family situations she couldn’t resolve during her life.
SPANISH LANGUAGE STUDY GUIDE WRITTEN BY CARMEN HERRERO
MODERN LANGUAGES STUDY GUIDES: VOLVER : FILM STUDY GUIDE FOR AS/A-LEVEL SPANISH
Scene, character and theme in Volver, this accessible guide will enable your students to understand the historical and social context of the film and give them the critical and language skills needed to write a successful essay.
Hodder Education ISBN: 9781471891786 2017 - £11.99
ALLENDE, ISABEL: LA CASA DE LOS ESPIRITOS
Entertaining family saga spanning four generations, with an eccentric cast of men, women and spirits.
SPANISH LANGUAGE TEXT
Debolsillo ISBN: 9788483462034 - £12.95
ENGLISH TRANSLATION - THE HOUSE OF THE SPIRITS
Black Swan. ISBN: 9780552995887 - £8.99
DVD - HOUSE OF THE SPIRITS (15) 1993 AUGUST, BILLE IN ENGLISH £15.99
Isabelle Allende's bestselling romantic novel set in Chile.
BECQUER, GUSTAVO ADOLFO: RIMAS Y LEYENDAS
Collection of poetry and short stories.
SPANISH LANGUAGE TEXT-
Colección Austral. ISBN: 9788467033311 - £10.75
ENGLISH TRANSLATION - RHYMES AND LEGENDS (BILINGUAL EDITION)
Dover Publications ISBN: 9780486447889 - £12.99
ESQUIVEL, LAURA: COMO AGUA POR CHOCOLATE
Set in revolutionary Mexico the book is a comic fairy tale of romance, repression, revolution and cooking in the all-female De La Garza family.
SPANISH LANGUAGE TEXT
Punto de lectura. 9788466329088 - £12.80
ENGLISH TRANSLATION - LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE
Black Swan. ISBN: 9780552995870 - £7.99
MODERN LANGUAGES STUDY GUIDES: COMO AGUA PARA CHOCOLATE : LITERATURE STUDY GUIDE FOR AS/A-LEVEL SPANISH
This accessible guide will enable your students to understand the historical and social context of the novel and give them the critical and language skills needed to write a successful essay.
Hodder Education ISBN: 9781471890109 2017 - £11.99
OXFORD LITERATURE COMPANIONS: COMO AGUA PARA CHOCOLATE: STUDY GUIDE FOR AS/A LEVEL SPANISH SET TEXT
Oxford Literature Companions provide the support needed to get a deeper understanding of the AS/A Level set texts. This guide for Como agua para chocolate is ideal for use in the classroom or for independent revision, providing insight into characters, theme and language,with activities in Spanish that prompt a closer analysis of the text.
OUP ISBN: 9780198418375 2018 - £9.50
DVD - COMO AGUA PARA CHOCOLATE/LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE (15) MEXICO 1993 ARAU, ALFONSO £15.99
Mexico’s biggest international hit, based on Laura Esquivel’s novel, it’s a captivating comic fairy tale of romance, repression, revolution and cooking.
FERNAN GOMEZ, FERNANDO: LAS BICICLETAS SON PARA EL VERANO.
A play about being a teenager in Madrid during the Spanish Civil War.
SPANISH LANGUAGE TEXT-
Austral nuevo formato ISBN: 9788467035469 - £12.75
GARCIA MARQUEZ, GABRIEL: CRÓNICA DE UNA MUERTA ANUNCIADA
Santiago Nasar is brutally murdered in a small town by two brothers, twenty seven years later, a man arrives in town to try and piece together the truth.
SPANISH LANGUAGE TEXT
Debolsillo ISBN: 9788497592437 - £11.75
ENGLISH TRANSLATION - CHRONICLE OF A DEATH FORETOLD
Penguin Books ISBN: 9780241968628 - £8.99
MODERN LANGUAGES STUDY GUIDES: CRONICA DE UNA MUERTE ANUNCIADA : LITERATURE STUDY GUIDE FOR AS/A-LEVEL SPANISH
Breaking down each scene, character and theme in Cronica de una muerte anunciada (Chronicle of a Death Foretold), this accessible guide will enable your students to understand the historical and social context of the novel and give them the critical and language skills needed to write a successful essay.
Hodder Education ISBN: 9781471890130 2017 - £11.99
GARCIA MARQUEZ, GABRIEL: EL CORONEL NO TIENE QUIEN LE ESCRIBA
Atmospheric novel is set in a small Colombian town where the frustrated and stubborn Colonel has waited for many years for the letter authorising payment of his war pension.
SPANISH LANGUAGE TEXTS -
Manchester University Press. ISBN: 9780719008368 - £10.99
Debolsillo. ISBN: 9788497592352 - £8.55
ENGLISH TRANSLATION - NO ONE WRITES TO THE COLONEL
Penguin Books ISBN: 9780241968734 - £8.99
LORCA, FEDERICO GARCIA: LA CASA DE BERNADA ALBA
Widow Bernarda Alba and her five daughters are in mourning, however the daughters want top break free, in this tale of the repression of women within Catholic Spain before the Spanish Civil War.
SPANISH LANGUAGE TEXT
Alianza - El Libro de Bolsillo ISBN: 9788420671772 - £13.75
BILINGUAL EDITION - THE HOUSE OF BERNARDA ALBA : LA CASA DE BERNARDA ALBA
Methuen Drama ISBN: 9780713686777 - £9.99
MODERN LANGUAGES STUDY GUIDES: LA CASA DE BERNARDA ALBA : LITERATURE STUDY GUIDE FOR AS/A-LEVEL SPANISH
Build your students' confidence in their language abilities and help them develop the skills needed to critique their chosen work: putting it into context, understanding the themes and narrative technique
Hodder Education ISBN: 9781471891960 2017 - £11.99
OXFORD LITERATURE COMPANIONS: LA CASA DE BERNARDA ALBA: STUDY GUIDE FOR AS/A LEVEL SPANISH SET TEXT
Oxford Literature Companions provide the support needed to get a deeper understanding of the AS/A Level set texts.
OUP ISBN: 9780198418368 2018 - £9.50
RIVAS, MANUEL: EL LÁPIS DEL CARPINTERO
Santiago de Compostela, an artist sketches the famous porch of the cathedral, the Portico da Gloria using a carpenter's pencil, however he replace the faces of the sculptures with his fellow Republican prisoners. In post-Franco Spain, a survivor of that period, returns from exile and the threads of past memories begin to be woven together.
SPANISH LANGUAGE TEXT-
Debolsillo ISBN: 9788490628843 £11.75
ENGLISH TRANSLATION - THE CARPENTER'S PENCIL
Vintage ISBN: 9780099448464 - £8.99
SENDER, RAMON: RÉQUIEM POR UN CAMESINO ESPAÑOL.
Catholic priest Mosén Millán is preparing requiem mass to celebrate the life of a young peasant named Paco killed by the Nationalist in the Spanish Civil War. As he waits we hear the Priests thoughts and feelings.
SPANISH LANGUAGE TEXT-
Booket Planeta ISBN: 9788423342396 - £9.95
Manchester University Press. ISBN: 9780719032226 - £10.99
ENGLISH TRANSLATION - REQUIEM FOR A SPANISH PEASANT
Aris & Phillips Ltd isbn: 9780856687822 - £15
ZAFON, CARLOS RUIZ: LA SOMBRA DEL VIENTO
Hidden in the heart of the old city of Barcelona is the 'cemetery of lost books', a labyrinthine library of obscure and forgotten titles that have long gone out of print. To this library, a man brings his 10-year-old son Daniel one cold morning in 1945.
SPANISH LANGUAGE TEXT-
Booket Planeta ISBN: 9788408112310 - £15.50
ENGLISH TRANSLATION - THE SHADOW OF THE WIND
Orion Publishing . ISBN: 9780753820254 - £8.99
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