Texts that I have studied and have taught in detail so far with their corresponding exam boards. If your text is not included on the list, please enquire and I will endeavour to accommodate you.

All historical concepts are covered in tandem with the poetry or prose being taught.

Historical periods: Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, the Medieval Period, the Early Modern Period, Victorian Britain, Edwardian Britain.

The French Revolution

The American Revolution

19th-century novels and prose for GCSE:

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens | AQA | Edexcel | Eduqas | WJEC

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens | AQA | Edexcel | OCR

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley | AQA | Edexcel

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë | AQA | Edexcel | OCR | Eduqas

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen | AQA | Edexcel | OCR | Eduqas | WJEC

The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle | AQA

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson | AQA | Edexcel | OCR | Eduqas

Silas Marner by George Eliot | Edexcel | Eduqas | WJEC

War of the Worlds by H.G Wells | OCR | Eduqas

Shakespeare for GCSE/A-LEVEL

Macbeth | AQA | Edexcel | OCR | Eduqas

Romeo and Juliet | AQA | Edexcel | OCR | Eduqas

The Tempest | AQA | Edexcel

The Merchant of Venice | AQA | Edexcel | OCR | Eduqas

Much Ado About Nothing | AQA | Edexcel | OCR | Eduqas

Julius Caesar | AQA Twelfth Night | Edexcel

Othello | Eduqas | WJEC (not from 2022 onwards)

Henry V | Eduqas

Modern drama texts for GCSE

An Inspector Calls by JB Priestley | AQA | Edexcel | OCR | Eduqas | CCEA | WJEC

Blood Brothers by Willy Russell | AQA | Edexcel | WJEC | Eduqas | CCEA

The History Boys by Alan Bennett | AQA | WJEC | Eduqas

DNA by Dennis Kelly | AQA | OCR

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon | AQA | Eduqas | CCEA

A Taste of Honey by Shelagh Delaney AQA

Princess & The Hustler By Chinonyerem Odimba | AQA

Leave Taking  By Winsome Pinnock | AQA

Modern prose texts for GCSE

Lord of the Flies by William Golding | AQA | CCEA | Edexcel | Eduqas | WJEC

To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee | CCEA | WJEC

Animal Farm by George Orwell | AQA | CCEA | Edexcel OCR

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck | CCEA | WJEC

Anita & Me by Meera Syal | AQA | Edexcel | OCR | Eduqas | WJEC

The Woman in Black by Susan Hill | Edexcel | Eduqas

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro | AQA | OCR | WJEC | Eduqas

About a Boy by Nick Hornby | WJEC | CCEA

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou | WJEC

Pigeon English by Stephen Kelman | AQA

The Collector By John Fowles | AQA | OCR

My Name is Leon By Kit de Wall | AQA

AQA Power and Conflict Poetry Anthology

AQA Love and Relationships Poetry Anthology

AQA Anthology Telling Tales

A-Level Texts:

Shakespeare’s Tragedies:

Antony and Cleopatra | Edexcel

Hamlet | Edexcel | OCR

King Lear | Edexcel

Othello | Edexcel | AQA

Richard III | OCR

Shakespeare’s Comedies:

A Midsummer Night’s Dream | Edexcel

Measure for Measure | Edexcel | AQA | OCR

The Taming of the Shrew | Edexcel | AQA

Twelfth Night | Edexcel | OCR

The Winter’s Tale | AQA

Other Shakespeare:

The Tempest | AQA | Edexcel | OCR

All’s Well That Ends Well

Much Ado About Nothing

Cymbeline

Timon of Athens

Pericles

Other drama: pre-1900:

Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe | Edexcel

The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster | Edexcel | OCR

Other drama: pre-1900:

The Rover by Aphra Behn | Edexcel

The Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen | OCR

The Country Wife by William Wycherley

The Revenger's Tragedy by Thomas Middleton

The Spanish Tragedy by Thomas Kyd

Volpone by Ben Jonson

The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde | Edexcel

Childhood Pre-1900:

Hard Times by Charles Dickens | Edexcel

What Maisie Knew by Henry James | Edexcel

Post-1900:

Atonement by Ian McEwan | Edexcel | AQA

The Color Purple by Alice Walker | Edexcel

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald | AQA | OCR

A Room with a View by Virginia Woolf | AQA

Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier | AQA

A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams | Edexcel | AQA

The Lonely Londoners by Samuel Selvon | OCR

Post-2000 Prose:

The First Casualty by Ben Elton | AQA

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey | AQA

Hagseed by Margaret Atwood | AQA | OCR

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini | Edexcel

The Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera

The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Colonisation and its Aftermath Pre-1900:

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad | Edexcel

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain | Edexcel

Crime and Detection Pre-1900:

Lady Audley’s Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon | Edexcel

The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins | Edexcel

Science and Society Pre-1900:

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley | Edexcel

The War of the Worlds by H.G Wells | Edexcel

Post-1900

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro | Edexcel

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood | Edexcel | AQA | OCR

Nineteen Eighty-four by George Orwell | OCR

Les Blancs by Lorraine Hansberry | Edexcel

Sweat by Lynn Nottage | Edexcel

Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett | Edexcel

The Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon | Edexcel

The Supernatural Pre-1900 and the Gothic:

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde | Edexcel

Dracula by Bram Stoker | Edexcel | OCR

The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter | OCR

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley AQA | OCR

Women and Society Pre-1900:

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë | Edexcel | AQA

Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy | Edexcel

Persuasion by Jane Austen | AQA

Emma by Jane Austen AQA | OCR

Sense and Sensibility by Austen | OCR

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontē | AQA

The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot | AQA

Classics:

The Aeneid by Virgil

The Illiad by Homer

The Odyssey by Homer

Oedipus Rex By Sophocles

The Bacchae By Euripides

Prometheus Bound By Aeschylus

The Frogs by Aristophanes

Post-1900:

Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf | Edexcel | OCR

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley | OCR

Poetry choices | Edexcel | OCR | AQA

AQA Anthology of Love Poetry Through the Ages pre-1900

AQA Anthology of Love Poetry Through the Ages post-1900

OCR ‘Towards a World Unknown’ Anthology

‘Poems of the Decade’ Anthology | Edexcel

WJEC EDUQAS Poetry Anthology

Parts 1, 2, and 3 of the Pearson Edexcel International GCSE English Anthology

Cambridge IGCSE Literature in English 0475 Poetry Anthology - Songs of Ourselves Volume 1 and 2, Part 4

Everyman and Medieval Miracle Plays, editor A C Cawley (Everyman, 1993). | Edexcel

AQA Poetic Voices Anthology | AQA

Chaucer’s Tales| Edexcel | OCR

• The General Prologue

• The Knight's Tale

• The Miller's Tale

• The Reeve's Tale

• The Cook's Tale

• The Man of Law's Tale

• The Wife of Bath's Tale

• The Friar's Tale

• The Summoner's Tale

• The Clerk's Tale

• The Merchant's Tale

• The Squire's Tale

• The Franklin's Tale

• The Physician's Tale

• The Pardoner's Tale

• The Shipman's Tale

• The Shipman-Prioress

• The Prioress' Tale

• The Tale of Sir Thopas

• The Tale of Melibee

• The Monk's Tale

• The Tale of the Nun's Priest

• The Second Nun's Tale

• The Tale of the Canon's Yeoman

• The Manciple's Tale

• The Parson's Tale

Metaphysical poetry | Edexcel

Romantic poets (Donne, Keats, Blake, Wordsworth, Byron, Coleridge, Shelley, etc) | AQA | OCR

Victorian women (such as Christina Rossetti, Elizabeth Barrett Browning etc.) | AQA | OCR

Modernist poets (such as T.S. Eliot, Sylvia Plath, Virginia Wolf, Henry James, James Joyce etc) | AQA

Wilfred Owen’s war poetry | AQA

‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge AQA | OCR

Carol Ann Duffy’s ‘Feminine Gospels’ (post-2000) | AQA | OCR

Owen Sheers’ ‘Skirrid Hill’ (post-2000) | AQA

Sheamus Heaney | AQA

Ted Hughes | AQA

Alfred Lord Tennyson | OCR

William Blake | AQA

Christina Rossetti Selected Poems | All exam boards

Phillip Larkin | Edexcel

T.S.Elliot | Edexcel

Theory (all exam boards for GCSE, IGCSE, BTEC, A-level, Diploma, and university):

Feminism

Marxism

Psychoanalytic

Postcolonialism

Literary Criticism

Postmodernism

New Historicism

Structuralism

Formalism

Sensationalist Victorian poetry and prose