Rosalie Kerr Books

Provides practice exam questions for the CAE exam, which replicate the real test papers. Photocopiable answer sheets give students practice in transferring their answers from the test paper. The With Answers edition helps teachers and students learn about the mark scheme through detailed notes and real examples of student composition.

This series of readers is aimed at students at 6 levels from elementary to advanced. All stages have exercises for classroom or private use, plus a glossary to help with vocabulary. In this story, the great detective returns to hunt for Jack the Ripper.

The police at the 87th Precinct hate kidnappers. And these kidnappers are stupid, too. They took the wrong boy - the chauffeur's son instead of the son of the rich tycoon, Douglas King. And they want a ransom of $500,000. A lot of money. But it's not too much to pay for a little boy's life, is it?

An English rose garden on a summer's day. A small boy watches with interest as his great-aunt cuts the deadheads off the rosebushes with a sharp knife. What could be more peaceful, more harmless? Young Patrick grows up to be a calm, pleasant man, with a good job, a wife and two children, and the best rose garden for miles around. When somebody tells the police that Patrick Aldermann is killing people, Chief Superintendent Dalziel thinks it's probably all nonsense. But Inspector Pascoe is not so sure...--Quatrième de couverture

Penguin Readers is a series of simplified novels, film novelizations and original titles that introduce students at all levels to the pleasures of reading in English. Originally designed for teaching English as a foreign language, the series' combination of high interest level and low reading age makes it suitable for both English-speaking teenagers with limited reading skills and students of English as a second language. Many titles in the series also provide access to the pre-20th century literature strands of the National Curriculum English Orders.

Katherine Mansfield was born in Wellington, New Zealand, on 14 October 1888, and died at Fontainebleau on 9 January 1923, at the age of 34. Her first book "In a German Pension", was published in 1911; it was a collection of stories which had appeared in The New Age. In 1912 she began to write for "Rhythm", edited by John Middleton Murry, whom she married. For the next few years her writing was mainly experimental. In 1916 she wrote "Prelude", a long and famous story in which her originality was first fully apparent. From that time onward she was master of her own style. She contracted tuberculosis in 1917, and thenceforward led a wandering life in search of health, and wrote under difficulties. Her second book of collected stories, "Bliss", was not published until 1921. It was well received. Her third collection, "The Garden Party", appeared a year later. It was her last book to be published in her life-time. After her death two more collections of her stories were published; also her Letters and her Journal. These were the foundation of her great reputation in France, where her fame stands higher than in England. It was French appreciation rather than English which established her as a European classic, for her tender humanity, her clarity, her wit, and her courageous gaiety. These qualities are evident in "The Garden Party".

When James and Matthew spent the weekend with Henry Tillotson in 1954, they took an instant liking to the country house that Henry had inherited from his father. His wife was a bit odd though - she never seemed to get out of bed. Gossip suggested that Henry had inherited her as well.

In 1944 Henry Tillotson brings his new wife, Mararet, home to his farmhouse in the English countryside. Margaret is a strange, unpleasant woman, determined, it seems, to make Henry's life miserable. 'Poor Henry!' say his friends, as they visit at weekends and holidays. 'What an awful life he has!' But Henry is not at all the sad and disappointed man we might expect him to be. He manages to enjoy life, and indeed, has quite a lot of fun, one way and another ... Mary Wesley's story takes a sharp but light-hearted look at love, sex, and marriage - and the things people will do to get what they want

Contains five complete practice tests for the Cambridge First Certificate in English. This edition contains details about the mark schemes for Papers 2 and 5, together with sample student answers for Paper 2, full tapescripts and keys.