Reading List

Art

• How to read Paintings- A crash course in meaning and method by Liz Rideal  Bloombury books ISBN 975-1-4725-2512-3

• Contemporary Art- The essential guide to 200 ground breaking artists by Charlotte Bonham Carter and David Hodge- Goodman ISBN 978-1-84786-58-0

Biology

• Understanding Biology, advanced theory (Toole & Toole)

ISBN: 978-0748739578

• AQA Biology A Level year 1 (Toole & Toole)

ISBN: 978-0198351764

• AQA Biology A Level year 2 (Toole & Toole)

ISBN: 978-0198357704

• Maths skills for A-level Biology (Penny)

ISBN 978-1-4085-2118-2

• The Selfish Gene (Dawkins)  ISBN: 978-0198788607

• The Coming Plague (Garrett) 978-0140250916

• The Hot Zone: the true story of the Ebola outbreak (Preston) 978-0552171649

• The Epigenetics Revolution (Carey) 978-1848313477

• Mutants (Leroi) 978-0006531647

• Nature via nurture (Ridley) 978-1841157467

• DNA (Watson) 978-0099451846

• Oxygen (Lane) 978-0198784937

• How we live and why we die: the secret lives of cells (Wolpert) 978-0571239122

• Genome (Ridley) 978-1857028345

• Why we get sick (Nesse & Williams) 978-0679746744

• The drugs don’t work: a global threat (Davies) 978-0241969199

Business Studies

• AQA A Level Business Year 1/AS Third Edition (Wolinski & Coates) Authors: John Wolinski and Gwen Coates. ISBN-13: 978-1-4718-3609-1 

• AQA A Level Business Year 2 Third Edition (Wolinski & Coates) Authors: John Wolinski and Gwen Coates. ISBN-13: 978-1-4718-3611-4 

• AQA Business for A Level (Marcousé) (covers full A Level) Authors: Ian Marcousé, Andy Hammond, Nigel Watson. ISBN-13: 978-1-4718-3569-8 

• AQA Business for A Level Year 1/AS (Surridge & Gillespie) Authors: Malcolm Surridge and Andrew Gillespie. ISBN-13: 978-1-4718-3613-8 

• AQA Business for A-Level Year 2 (Surridge & Gillespie) Authors: Malcolm Surridge and Andrew Gillespie.ISBN-13: 978-1-4718-3578-0 

• AQA Business for AS (Marcousé). Authors: Ian Marcousé, Andy Hammond, Nigel Watson. ISBN-13: 978-1-4718-3580-3 

Computer Science

• OCR A-level Computer Science Paperback by George Rouse. 978-1471839764

• Computational Fairy Tales by Jeremy Kubica. ISBN: 978-1477550298

• Computer Science: An Overview by J. Glenn Brookshear. ISBN: 978-0321544285

• The Pattern on the Stone: The Simple Ideas That Make Computers Work by Daniel Hillis. ISBN: 978-0465025961

French

• AQA A Level Year 1 and AS French Student Book by Robert Pike (Author), Colin Povey (Author), Paul Shannon (Author)

• Atouts: AQA French student book - Bell

• Literature in French/ French literature in translation- Balzac, Camus, Satre, Zola

• French magazines, newspapers  - Le Figaro, Le Monde

Economics

·Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Stephen J. Dubner (Author), Steven D. Levitt (Author)

·The Economic Naturalist: Why Economics Explains Almost Everything

by Robert H Frank

·The Undercover Economist Paperback

by Tim Harford (Author)

English (both Literature and Lit and Lang)

• A Brave New World- Aldous Huxley

• In Cold Blood- Truman Capote

• Heart of Darkness- Joseph Conrad

• The Handmaid’s Tale- Margaret Atwood

• Frankenstein- Mary Shelley

• Gulliver’s Travels- Jonathan Swift

• A Streetcar Named Desire- Tennessee Williams

• The Oxford Book of English Verse

• The Third Man- Grahame Greene

• Brideshead Revisited- Evelyn Waugh

• The Lovely Bones- Alice Sebold

• Dracula- Bram Stoker

• The Kite Runner- Khaled Hosseini

• Atonement- Ian McEwan

• 1984- George Orwell

• Letters- John Keats

• Selected Essays- George Orwell

• The Great Gatsby- F. Scott Fitzgerald

• Othello- William Shakespeare

• The Tempest- William Shakespeare

• Richard III- William Shakespeare

• Hamlet- William Shakespeare

• Macbeth- William Shakespeare

• Twelfth Night- William Shakespeare

• The Cambridge Companion to English Novelists-Various

• The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare-Various

• We also recommend you read as much poetry as possible: Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney, Carol-Ann Duffy, John Keats, Philip Larkin, John Donne, Robert Frost, Wilfred Owen etc.

Government and Politics

• My Revision Notes: Edexcel AS UK Government & Politics (MRN) Paperback – 27 Jan 2012  by Neil McNaughton

• Essentials of UK Politics, 1 Aug 2015, by Andrew Heywood

• AQA AS Government & Politics Student Unit Guide New Edition: Unit 1 People, Politics and Participation, 27 Apr 2012, by Paul Fairclough

•  AQA AS Government & Politics Unit 1 Workbook: People, Politics and Participation Paperback – 28 Feb 2014, by Nick Gallop

• AS UK Government & Politics Flash Revise Pocketbook Paperback – 29 Oct 2010  by Paul Fairclough 

History

• Robin Bunce and Laura Gallagher, Edexcel AS History, Unit 1: Pursuing Life and Liberty: Equality in the USA, 1945–1968 (Pearson, 2009)

• Peter Clements, Prosperity Depression and the New Deal Third Edition, Access to History (Hodder Education, 2005)

• David Mauk and John Oakland, American Civilization (Routledge, sixth edition, 2014)

• Derrick Murphy, Kathryn Cooper and Mark Waldron, The United States 1776–1992 (Collins, 2001)

• Vivienne Sanders, Civil Rights in the USA, 1945–1968, Access to History (Hodder Education, 2008)

• Doug and Susan Willoughby, The USA 1917–45, Heinemann Advanced History (Heinemann, 2000)

• Hugh Brogan, The Penguin History of the United States of America (Penguin, 2001)

• Eric Rauchway, The Great Depression and the New Deal: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2008)

• Robert J McMahon, The Cold War: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2003)

• James Barber, South Africa in the Twentieth Century (Blackwell, 1999)

• W Beinart, Twentieth Century South Africa (Oxford University Press, 2001)

• Nancy L Clark, South Africa: The Rise and Fall of Apartheid (Seminar Studies In History, Routledge, 2011)

• T Davenport and C Saunders, South Africa: A Modern History (Macmillan, 2000)

• Saul Dubow, Apartheid, 1948–1994 (Oxford University Press, 2014)

• Nelson Mandela, The Long Walk to Freedom (Abacus, 2013)

• Tony Pinchuk, Mandela for beginners (Icon, 1994)

• Christopher Culpin, South Africa 1948–1995: a depth study (Hodder Education, 2000)

• Martin Roberts, South Africa 1948–1994: the Rise and Fall of Apartheid (Longman, 2001)

ICT BTEC

• BTEC Nationals IT Student Book 1 and Activebook (Available July 2016) Pearson Education Ltd ISBN 978-1-292140-41-4 (Note: this book covers all 4 units. It will be available as an e-book as well as a physical copy)

Media Studies

Music

• Edexcel AS/A level Anthology of Music

• Music: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Nicholas Cook

• Aural Matters by David Bowman and Paul Terry (Schott)

• Music Theory in Practice Grades 1-5 by Eric Taylor (ABRSM)

• The AB Guide to Music Theory Part One by Eric Taylor (ABRSM)

• Music Dictionary (Longman)

PE

• AQA A Level PE For Year 1 and AS. Authors Carl Atherton, Symond Burrows, Ross Howitt and Sue Young. ISBN-13: 9781471859564

• AQA A Level PE For Year 2 and AS. Authors Carl Atherton, Symond Burrows, Ross Howitt and Sue Young. ISBN-13: 9781471859564

• Bevis, P & Murray, M. AQA AS Physical Education (2008) Nelson Thornes. Roscoe D, Davis B, Roscoe J. 

• Clegg, C. Exercise Physiology And Functional Anatomy (1995) Feltham Press

• Physical Education and the Study of Sport. Robert Davis PhD, Jan Roscoe

• Sports Psychology. Inside the athletes mind. Jonny Bell

Psychology

• Introducing Psychology: A Graphic Guide to Your Mind and Behaviour (Introducing...) ISBN: 978-1840468526

• Introducing Mind and Brain ISBN: 978-1840468540

• 50 Psychology Ideas You Really Need to Know ISBN: 978-1847248527

• Free radicals: The Secret Anarchy of Science ISBN 978-1846684067

• Bad science ISBN-13: 978-0007284870

• The Selfish Society: How We All Forgot to Love One Another and Made Money Instead ISBN 978-1847396761

• Affluenza ISBN-13: 978-0091900113

• Why Love Matters: How Affection Shapes a Baby's Brain ISBN-13: 978-0415870535

• Psychology: A Very Short Introduction ISBN-13: 978-0-19-967042-0

• Intelligence: A Very Short Introduction ISBN-13: 978-0-19-289321-5

• Consciousness: A Very Short Introduction 978-0-19-280585-0

• Psychiatry: A Very Short Introduction ISBN-13: 978-0-19-280727-4

• Madness: A Very Short Introduction ISBN-13: 978-0-19-960803-4

• Memory: A Very Short Introduction ISBN-13: 978-0-19-280675-8

• The Brain: A Very Short Introduction ISBN-13: 978-0-19-285392-9

Religious Studies

• WJEC/EDUQAS RS for yr1/AS Philosophy and ethics of religion - Gray & Lawson (Illuminate Publishing) ISBN: 978-1-908682-99-4

• AS and A-level Religious Studies: Philosophy and Ethics through diagrams (Oxford University Press) 2002 – Dewar ISBN 0199148732

• Cole, W.O. & Sambhi, Piara Singh. The Sikhs: Their Religious Beliefs and Practices (Sussex Academic Press)

Sociology

• Outsiders: Studies in Sociology of Deviance: Howard Becker

• The 32 Stops: Danny Dorling

• Quirkology: The Curious Science Of Everyday Lives: Richard Wiseman

• Gang leader for a day – Sudhir Venkatesh

• The Spirit level – Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett

• Chavs! The demonization of the working class – Owen Jones

• How to be a woman – Caitlin Moran

• Non-stop Inertia: Ivor Southwood

• Down and Out in Paris and London – George Orwell

Spanish

• Ánimo 1: AS AQA Self-Study Guide- De Sudea.

• Literature in Spanish/Translation- Cervantes, Molina, Ruiz Zafon, Marquez, Borges etc.

• Spanish newspapers/magazine-  El Pais, ABC, El Mundo etc.

• La Sombra Del Viento (The shadow of the wind) – Ruiz Zafón.