• Do my homework
• Update my thematic highlighting (Identity, Perception, Gender, Privacy Vs. Public, Expression)
• Work on my coursework
• Practice past paper questions
• Read outside of the central texts…
PROSE FICTION
Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid’s Tale
Angela Carter - Wise Children *
Kiran Desai - Hullaballoo in the Guava Orchard *
Roddy Doyle - The Woman Who Walked into Doors *
Michael Frayn - Spies *
David Guterson - Snow Falling on Cedars *
Toni Morrison - Beloved *
Alice Walker - The Color Purple
Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart (Penguin, 1958)
James Baldwin - Go Tell it on the Mountain (Penguin)
Nadine Gordimer - July’s People (Bloomsbury, 1981)
Radclyffe Hall - The Well of Loneliness + (Virago, 1928)
Zora Neale Hurston - Their Eyes Were Watching God + (Virago, 1937)
Andrea Levy Small Island * (Headline, 2004)
Patrick McCabe Breakfast on Pluto * (Picador, 1998)
Anne Michaels Fugitive Pieces * (Bloomsbury, 1996)
Arundhati Roy The God of Small Things * (Harper Perennial, 1997)
Robert Tressell The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists + (Flamingo, 1914)
Irvine Welsh Trainspotting * (Vintage, 1993)
Jeanette Winterson Oranges are not the only fruit (Vintage, 1984)
Richard Wright Native Son + (Vintage, 1940)
Kurt Vonnegut Slaughterhouse 5 (Vintage, 1969)
PROSE NON-FICTION (Autobiographies and Biography, Diaries)
Maya Angelou - Autobiography, especially I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings (Virago,1969)
Diana Souhami The Trials of Radclyffe Hall * (Virago, 1999)
Memoirs and Interviews
Silvia Calamati Women’s stories from the North of Ireland * (Beyond the Pale Publications, 2002)
Bobby Sands Skylark Sing Your Lonely Song (Mercier Press, 1982)
Malcolm X Malcolm X Talks to Young People (Pathfinder, 1964-1965)
Alice Walker The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult * (Phoenix, 1996)
Travelogues
Salman Rushdie -The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey (Vintage, 1987)
History and cultural commentary, essays and speeches
David Beresford Ten Men Dead: The Story of the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike (Harper Collins,1987)
Beverley Bryan, Suzanne Scafe,
Stella Dadzie
Germaine Greer The Female Eunuch (Harper Perennial, 1970)
Martin Luther King Jr. I Have A Dream: Writings And Speeches That Changed The World (Harper, 1956-68)
Adhaf Soueif
Amrit Wilson
Laws
Parliament - ‘Section 28 of the Education Act’ 1988
Literary Criticism
Ralph Ellison
Dolly A. McPherson
Kate Millet
Amrit Wilson
Richard Wright
Jeremy Hawthorn ed.
DRAMA
Brendan Behan - The Hostage (Methuen, 1958)
Sudhar Bhuchar - Child of the Divide * (Methuen Modern Plays)
Jim Cartwright - The Road (Methuen Modern Plays, 1986)
Caryl Churchill - All plays
Claire Dowie - Why is John Lennon Wearing a Skirt? * (Methuen Modern Plays, 1996)
Brian Friel - Dancing at Lughnasa * (Faber, 1990)
Lorraine Hansberry - A Raisin in the Sun (Methuen Modern Plays, 1959)
Sarah Kane - Complete Plays * (Methuen Drama, 1998-2006)
Tony Kushner - Angels in America * (Nick Herne Books, 1992)
Martin McDonagh - Beauty Queen of Leenane * (Methuen, 1996)
Sean O’Casey Three Dublin Plays: Juno and the Paycock + (1924), The Plough and the Stars + (1926), Shadow of a Gunman + (1923) (Faber)
Arthur Miller - Death of a Salesman (Penguin, 1949)
Ntozake Shange - Shange Plays 1- (Includes For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enough)
Timberlake Wertenbaker - Our Country’s Good (Methuen, 1988)
Tennessee Williams - A Streetcar Named Desire (Methuen, 1947)
International Connections (contributor Jackie Kay) - New Plays for Young People * (Faber 2003)
POETRY
Simon Armitage Dead Sea Poems * (Faber, 1995)
W.H Auden e.g ‘The Quarry’, ‘Funeral Blues’, ‘Refugee Blues’ + (1930s)
Gillian Clarke Letter From a Far Country (1985)
Carol Ann Duffy The Other Country * (Anvil, 1990)
Allan Ginsberg Howl (City Lights Pocket Poet Series, 1956)
Jackie Kay Life Mask * (Bloodaxe Books, 2005)
Liz Lockhead Collected Poems + (Vintage, 1930-1960)
Audre Lorde Dreaming Frankenstein and Collected Poems (Polygon, 1984)
Grace Nichols The Fat Black Woman’s Poems (Virago, 1984)
Adrienne Rich
Lemn Sissay
Gertrude Stein Tender Buttons + (Dover, 1914)
Alice Walker
Benjamin Zephaniah Too Black, Too Strong * (Bloodaxe Books, 2001)
TEXTS IN TRANSLATION
Novels
Isabel Allende - The House of the Spirits (Chile/Spanish) (Black Swan, 1985)
Alexandra Kollontai - Love of Worker Bees + (USSR/Russian) (Virago, 1930)
Manuel Puig - Kiss of the Spider Woman (Argentina/Spanish) (Vintage, 1976)
Alexander Solzenichen
Poetry
Pablo Neruda
Drama
Bertolt Brecht - Mother Courage and her Children + (German) (Methuen, 1940)
Federico Garcia Lorca - The House of Bernarda Alba + (1936), Yerma + (1934), Blood Wedding + (1933) (Spanish) (Penguin)
Non fiction autobiography/diary/ travelogue
Anne Frank The Diary of a Young Girl (Dutch) (Penguin, 1947)
Che Guevara The Motorcycle Diaries (Argentina/Spanish) (Harper Perennial, 1952)
Nawal al-Saadawi Memoirs from the Women’s Prison (Egypt/Arabic) (1984)
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Oh! So you've got a bit to get on with then.
I wanted to thank you and let you know that I found this blog more help than you can imagine when my son was studying for his GCSE English earlier this year. Your notes on Armitage, Duffy, Browning and On Mice And Men helped ME to talk to him about his revision. Because you helped me to understand and appreciate these works I was able to see, in my discussions with him, that he was on the right track. I think he really appreciated being able to do that and because of what I read here I was able to come up with a couple of extra points for him.
I suddenly remembered today that I had used your blog so extensively and never thanked you which is why I have returned today. But you know, seeing this list, I may keep coming back to learn more from you.
Thanks so much !
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