Tim Vicary

A non-fiction book, ideal for intermediate learners of English looking to improve and practise their English. The book is filled with useful vocabulary that is carefully graded and easy to understand, it also comes with audio, so that you can listen at the same time as reading.Is there anyone who has not looked at the dark sky, and the shining points of light above us, and asked themselves questions about what is out there? Where did our planet come from? When did the universe begin? Could we live on another planet? And one question above all - is there life anywhere else in space?Begin a journey into space - where spacecraft travel at thousands of kilometres an hour, temperatures are millions of degrees, and a planet may be hard rock - or a ball of gas. In space, everything is extraordinary ...

Ideal for intermediate learners of English looking to improve or practise their English. The book is filled with useful vocabulary that is carefully graded and easy to understand, it also comes with audio, so that you can listen to the story at the same time as reading. When a large plane is hijacked, the Prime Minister looks at the list of passengers and suddenly becomes very, very frightened.There is a name on the list that the Prime Minister knows very well - too well. There is someone on that plane who will soon be dead - if the hijackers can find out who he is!And there isn't much time. One man lies dead on the runway. In a few minutes the hijackers will use their guns again. And the Prime Minister knows who they are going to kill.

Part of a series of elementary readers which offers students the opportunity to extend their reading and appreciation of the English language, this reader at Stage 1 contains 400 headwords. It is the tale of Captain Bligh and mutiny on the South Seas.

It is night in the south seas near Tahiti, and the ship HMS Bounty has begun the long voyage home to England. But the sailors on the ship are angry men, and they have swords and guns. They pull the captain out of bed and take him up on deck. He tries to run, but a sailor holds a knife to his neck. 'Do that again, Captain Bligh, and you're a dead man!' he says. The mutiny on the Bounty happened in April, 1789. This is the true story of Captain Bligh and Fletcher Christian, and the ship that never came home to England.

The woman in white first appears at night on a lonely heath near London and is next seen at a grave-side in Cumberland. Who is she? Where has she come from, and what is her history? She seems alone and friendless, frightened and confused. And it seems she knows a secret - a secret that could bring ruin and shame to a man who will do anything to keep her silent. This famous mystery thriller by Wilkie Collins has excitement, suspense, romance, and a plot that twists and turns on every page.

Simon Wilson has been missing in Africa for two weeks. When his children receive a letter from him, they realize he is in danger and set off into the jungle to rescue him. This is a story of courage, adventure and quick thinking. You will follow John and Karen into all sorts of thrilling situations. You will help them read messages in code, discover where their father is being held, and find ways to avoid wild animals and other dangers. Hotshot puzzles are readers with a difference. Every two pages there is a puzzle to solve. The stories are carefully graded and are written for young teenagers.