Middle Grade Fiction

• Matilda by Roald Dahl

• Wonder by R J Palacio

• High Rise Mystery by Sharna Jackson

• The London Eye Mystery by Siobhan Dowd

• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C S Lewis

• His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman

• The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

• Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney

• Holes by Louis Sachar

• Nancy Drew by Carolyn Keene

• Inkheart by Cornelia Funke

• Harry Potter series by J K Rowling

• The Hobbit by J R R Tolkien

• Alice Jones and the Impossible Clue by Sara Rubin

• Kicking off by Eve Ainsworth

Middle Grade Non-fiction

• The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William KamKwamba

• When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit by Judith Kerr

• Reaching for the Moon: The Autobiography of NASA Mathematician Katherine Johnson by Katherine Johnson

• Amelia Lost: The Life and Disappearance of Amelia Earhart by Candance Fleming

• I am Malala by Malala Yousfazi (young readers edition)

• Kay's Anatomy by Adam Kay

Young Adult

• Mortal Engines by Philip Reeves

• Throne of Glass by Sarah J Maas

• Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl

• Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo

• Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman

• A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson

• Good Girl, Bad Blood by Holly Jackson

• We were Liars by E. Lockhart

• Wise Children by Angela Carter

• Eragon by Christopher Paolini

• The Secret Life of Bee by Sue Monk Kidd

• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Adult Fiction

• The Flatshare by Beth O’Leary

• The Martian by Andy Weir

• A Tiny Bit Marvellous by Dawn French

• The Spanish Promise by Karen Swan

• The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

• The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown

• Inferno by Dan Brown

• Sense & Sensibility by Jane Austen

• Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen

• Bleak House by Charles Dickens

• My Not So Perfect Life by Sophie Kinsella

• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer

• Brooklyn by Colm Toibin

• A Keeper by Graham Norton

• Holding by Graham Norton

• Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman

• Someday, Someday, Maybe by Lauren Graham

• Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay

• Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

• Casino Royale by Ian Fleming

• The Lake House by Kate Morton

• The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

• Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

• Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie

• Atonement by Ian McEwan

• Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

• Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding

• The Lord of the Rings by J R R Tolkein

• Death comes to Pemberley by P. D. James

• The Lido by Libby Page

Adult Non-fiction

• No Baggage by Clara Bensen

• The Silk Roads: A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan

• The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubehold

• I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai

• A Midlife Cyclist by Rachel Ann Cullen

• Around the World in 80 Trains by Monisha Rajesh

• Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

Shakespeare 

• Macbeth (2015, United Kingdom, dir Justin Kurzel, StudioCanal, Film4)

• The Tragedy of Macbeth (2018, United States, dir Joel Coen, Apple Original Films, A24)

• Upstart Crow (Ben Elton, BBC2, 2016 - Present, United Kingdom)

• Elizabeth (Shekhar Kapur, 1998, PolyGram Filmed Entertainment)

• Gunpowder (2017, United Kingdom, dir J Blakeson, Kudos, HBO, BBC)

• Romeo + Juliet (Baz Luhrmann, 1996, Bazmark Productions)

• Romeo and Juliet (Franco Zeffirelli, 1968, BHE Films, Verona Produzione. Dino de Laurentiis Cinematografica)

• Shakespeare in Love (John Madden, 1998, The Bedford Falls Company)

• Rosaline (Karen Maine, 2022, 20th Century Studios)

• Elizabeth (Shekhar Kapur, 1998, PolyGram Filmed Entertainment)

Other

• A Christmas Carol (1999, dir. David Hugh Jones, TNT Productions. Starring Patrick Stewart)

• A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong (2017, dir. Richard Boden, BBC. Starring Derek Jacobi)

• Blackadder’s Christmas Carol (1988, dir. Richard Boden, BBC. Starring Rowan Atkinson)

• The Man Who Invented Christmas (2017, dir. Bharat Nalluri, Parallel Films. Starring Dan Stevens)

• Bleak House (fifteen 30-minute episodes, 2005, BBC)

• Little Dorrit (fourteen 30-minute episodes, 2008, BBC)

• Suffragette (2015, Film4 Productions)

• Downton Abbey (2010, Carnival Films)

• Up the Women (2013, BBC)

• An Inspector Calls (2015, BBC)

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Shakespeare 

• Luther and the Protestant Reformation: Crash Course World History #218

• BBC Four HD England's Reformation Three Books That Changed a Nation (2017)

• The Gunpowder Plot Documentary (2004)

• Gunpowder, Treason and Plot - Documentary, C4 2001

• Shakespeare's Theatre | i.am.Will Shakespeare | BBC Teach

• Shakespeare's World | i.am.Will Shakespeare | BBC Teach

• A message from the greatest writer of all time

Other 

• Capitalism and Socialism: Crash Course World History #33 

• Communism vs. Socialism: What's The Difference? | NowThis World 

• Karl Marx & Conflict Theory: Crash Course Sociology #6 

• A brief history of socialism | A-Z of ISMs Episode 19 - BBC Ideas

• Personalities J.B. Priestley (1944) 

• BBC Victoria and Albert; The Royal Wedding with Lucy Worsley 

• Servants: The True Story of Life Below Stairs 

• Lost Stories From Victorian England’s Brutal Workhouses 

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Shakespeare

• Dante and Shakespeare: A Tale of Montagues and Capulets

• Differences between Catholicism and Protestantism 

• Timeline of Shakespeare’s Life

• Shakespeare Birthplace Trust

• Shakespeare’s Globe

• Royal Shakespeare Company

Other

• Charles Dickens Museum

• Bleak Expectations (BBC 4 Radio Series. A parody of Charles Dickens' works)

• Capitalism & Socialism: Introduction to Sociology

• The Disadvantages of Socialism