KS3

Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye needle – Clare Hunter

 

KS4 and KS5

Slay in your lane - Yomi Adegoke and Elizabeth Uviebinene

Saving Bletchley Park - Dr Sue Baker

Wally Funks Race for Space - Sue nelson

Handprints on Hubble; an Astronauts story of invention - Kathryn D Sullivan

Tycoon - Peter Jones 

KS3

Foundation Trilogy - Isac Asimov

 

KS4

 Do androids dream of electric sheep? - Philip K Dick

 

KS5

Neuromancer - William Gibson

Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions - Brian Christian

Once Upon an Algorithm: How Stories Explain Computing - Martin Erwig

KS4

The Undercover Economist - Tim Harford

Freakanomics - Levitt and Dubner

Moneyball - Michael Lewis

Economix - How our Economy Works (in words and pictures) - Michael Goodwin

 

KS5

Factfulness - Hans Rosling

Nudge - Thaler and Sunstein

The Great Divide - Joseph Steiglitz

Postcapitalism- Paul Mason

KS3

Gulliver’s Travels - Jonathan Swift

Bridge to Terrabithia - Katherine Paterson

The Extraordinary Life of Stephen Hawking - Kate Scott

Little Leaders: Visionary Women Around the World - Vashti Harrison

 

KS4

1984 - George Orwell

The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini

We Should All Be Feminists - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Long Walk to Freedom - Nelson Mandela

 

KS5

Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe

One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The Diary of Samuel Pepys

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano

KS3

Lunch at 10 Pomegranate Street

A Year in Fleurville Recipes from Balconies, Rooftops, and Gardens

The Kew Gardens Children's Cookbook: Plant, Cook, Eat

The World in My Kitchen: Global Recipes for Kids to Discover and Cook

 

KS4

A History of Food in 100 Recipes - William Sitwell.

Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat - Bee Wilson

Dinner with Mr Darcy: Recipes Inspired by the Novels and Letters of Jane Austen - Pen Vogler.

An Edible history of Humanity - Tom Standage

Eat to save the Planet - Annie Bell

KS3

Mary Glasgow Magazines – Allons-Y!  &  Bonjour (Available from the MFL library )

https://www.thefablecottage.com/ - different levels bilingual tales

Astérix in Britain - Renée Gosciny

Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The Adventures of Tintin – Hergé

 

KS4

Mary Glasgow Magazines – Ça va? (from the MFL library)

https://www.thefablecottage.com/ - different levels bilingual tales

Le Petit Nicolas by René Goscinny

No et Moi by Delphine De Vigan

https://www.thefrenchexperiment.com/stories

 

KS5

Mary Glasgow Magazines – Chez Nous (from the MFL library)

https://www.thefablecottage.com/ - different levels bilingual tales

www.newsinslowfrench.com

Le Hobbit – J.R.R Tolkien (from the MFL library)

L'étranger– Albert Camus (from the MFL library)

KS3

Half a creature from the sea – David Almond

The Rain – Vingina Bergin

Millions – Frank Cotteral Boyce

Not as We Know It – Tom Avery

 

KS4

A short history of nearly everything - Bill Bryson

How bad are Bananas?     - Mike Berners-Lee 

Prisoners of Geography - Tim Marshall 

Lord of the Rings - J RR Tolkien  

 

KS5

This is the Way the World Ends- Jeff Nesbit

Off the Map - Alastair Bonnett

Factfulness - Hans Rosling

Worth Dying For - Tim Marshall

KS3

Mary Glasgow Magazines – Das Rad (from the MFL library)

https://www.thefablecottage.com/ - different levels bilingual tales

https://www.thegermanproject.com/stories

https://luxdigi.at/

Die Kleine Raupe Nimmerstatt by Eric CarleThe German version of The Very Hungry Caterpillar

 

KS4

Mary Glasgow Magazines – Schuss (from the MFL library)

https://www.thefablecottage.com/ - different levels bilingual tales

Jungösterreich magazines - https://joedigi.at/

German Short Stories for Beginners – Lingo Mastery

 

KS5

https://www.faz.net/aktuell/

https://www.thefablecottage.com/ - different levels bilingual tales

www.newsinslowgerman.com

https://www.goethe.de/ins/gb/de/spr/unt/kum/dfj.html

German Short Stories: Deutsche Kurzgeshichten Ernst Zillekens - (New Penguin Parallel Texts Series)

KS3

The Time Traveller’s guide to Medieval England - Ian Mortimor

Treason - Berlie Doherty

Black Tudors - Miranda Kaufmann

Why do we remember? The Great Fire of London by Izzi Howell

American Indian Stories - Zitkala-Sa
-Black and British: A short essential history - David Olusoga

Lumber Jills: The Unsung Heroines of World War II - Alexandra Davis

 

KS4

The Great Gatsby- F Scott Fitzgerald

Of Mice and Men- John Steinbeck

Regeneration- Pat Barker

 

KS5

12 Years A Slave - Solomon Northup

Podcasts:

In Our Time

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qykl/episodes/downloads

The Rest Is History

https://open.spotify.com/show/7Cvsbcjhtur7nplC148TWy

KS5

Nutshells, Criminal Law - Paul Dobson

Nutcases, Criminal Law -Penny Childs

Law Review -Hodder education.

Tort Law -Chris Turner

The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken

Law, Liberty and Morality -H.L.A.Hart

KS3

Mickey and the Animal Spies - Anne Miller

The Parrot’s Theorem - Denis Guedj

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time- Mark Haddon

Murderous Maths Series - Kjartan Poskitt

Mathemagic - Raymond Blum

The Indisputable Existence of Santa Clause - Hannah Fry

Alex’s Adventures in Numberland - Alex Bellos

 

KS4

Humble Pi, A Comedy of Maths Errors - Matt Parker

Hello World - Hannah Fry

What if? - Randall Munroe

The Indisputable Existence of Santa Clause - Hannah Fry

The Simpsons and their Mathematical Secrets - Simon Singh

 

KS5

Flatland, A Romance of Many Dimensions - Edwin A Abbott

17 Equations That Changed the World - Ian Stewart

Maths on the back on an Envelope - Rob Eastaway

The GCHQ Puzzle Book - GCHQ

Fermat’s Last Theorem (Not for the faint-hearted) - Simon Singh

The Music of Primes (Not for the faint-hearted) - Marcus de Sautoy

KS3

If I Stay – Gayle Foreman

Swing Time – Zadie Smith

XOXO – Axie Oh

When You Get The Chance – Emma Lord

Let Me Hear a Rhyme – Tiffany D Jackson

Every Good Boy Does Fine – Jeremy Denk

Music: A Very Short Introduction – Nicholas Cook

Music – Nicholas Cook

Year of Wonder: Classical Music for Every Day – Clemency Burton-Hill

You Are The Music: How Music Reveals What It Means to Be Human – Victoria Williamson

 

KS4

The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945 - Władysław Szpilman

An Equal Music – Vikram Seth

Kiss and Tell – Adib Khorram

Forward March – Skye Quinlan

The Piano – Jane Campion

In The Key of Genius – Adam Ockleford

Protect Ya Neck! A Music Industry Survival Guide – Christian Farrad

The Confident Performer – Dr David Roland

The Rest is Noise – Alex Ross

How Music Works – David Byrne

 

KS5

Phantom of the Opera - Gaston Leroux

The Importance of Music to Girls – Lavinia Greenlaw

The Unsinkable Greta James – Jennifer E Smith

I Was Born for This – Alice Oseman

Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall – Kazuro Ishiguro

Musicophilia – Oliver Sacks

Psychology of Music: From Sound to Significance – Siu-Li Tan, Peter Pfordresher, Harre Rom

The Study of Orchestration – Samuel Adler

The Power of Music – Susan Hallam

How Musicals Work and How To Write Your Own – Julian Woolford

KS5

Plato: A Beginner's Guide, chapter 3 - Roy Jackson

The Great Philosophers: Aristotle chapter - Brian Magee

Extracts from Phaedo in Antony Flew: Body MInd and Death - Plato

KS5

The principles of Psychology – William James

The Little Book of Psychology - Ralls, E., & Riggs, C.

TED Talks -  https://www.ted.com/talks?topics%5B%5D=psychology

Delusions of Gender: The Real Science Behind Sex Differences - Fine, C.

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat - Sacks, O.

KS3

The Story of Stuff: How Our Obsession with Stuff is Trashing the Planet, Our Communities, and our Health—and a Vision for Change

Philosophy for Kids: 40 Fun Questions That Help You Wonder...about Everything!

Ethics: Behave Yourself! (ThinkAboutIt!: Philosophy For Kids)

Introducing- a graphic guide books: Descartes, Islam, Aristotle, Hinduism, Buddha

No-Nonsense Buddhism for Beginners: Clear Answers to Burning Questions about Core Buddhist Teachings

 

KS4

It’s not about the Burqa- Mariam Khan

Why we think the things we think- Alain Stephen

What would Nietzsche do? - Marcus Weeks

How Christianity transformed the world- Sharon James

KS3 Frank Einstein and the Antimatter Motor  - Jon Scieszka

High Voltage Danger Lab - Bob Pflugfelder and Steve Hockensmith

The Astronauts Handbook - Louie Stowell

The Radioactive Boy Scout - Ken Silverstein

What's Physics all About - Kate Davies

Why is Snot Green - Kate Davies

Will We Ever Speak Dolphin - New Scientist

Greta's story: the schoolgirl who went on strike to save the planet - Valentina Camerini

Hiding Edith - Kathy Kacer

Stuff that scares your pants off - the Science Museum book of scary things - Glenn Murphy

 

KS4

A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes - Adam Rutherford

Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA - Brenda Maddox

The Vaccine Race: How Scientists Used Human Cells to Combat Killer Viruses - Meredith Wadman

The Body: A Guide for Occupants - Bill Bryson

The Radium girls - Kate Moore   

The Poisoner's Handbook - Deborah Blum

Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World - Mark Miodownik

Oxygen: The Molecule that Made the World - Nick Lane

Mauve: How one man invented a colour - Simon Garfield

Elephants on Acid - Alex Boese

 

KS5

Biology

The Brain - David Eagleman      

Creation: The Origin of Life - Adam Rutherford  

Gene Machine: The Race to Uncover the Secrets of the Ribosome - Venki Ramakrishnan  

I Contain Multitudes:The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life - Ed Yong

The Gene: An Intimate History - Siddhartha Mukherjee

Cuckoo: Cheating by Nature - Nick Davies        

The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being: Evolution and the Making of Us - Alice Roberts

The Code of Life: How gene editing will rewrite our futures - Nessa Carey          Hacking

Alice Roberts     Tamed: Ten Species that Changed our World

 

Chemistry

Creations of Fire: Chemistry's Lively History from Alchemy to the Atomic Age - Cathy Cobb     

Why Chemical Reactions Happen - James Keeler      

Reactions: The private life of atoms - Peter Atkins       

The Disappearing Spoon...and other true tales from the Periodic Table - Sam Kean

Napoleon's Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History - Penny Le Couteur         

Molecules of Murder: Criminal Molecules and Classic Cases - John Emsley 

Why Does Asparagus Make Your Wee Smell?: And 57 other curious food and drink questions - Andy Brunning

Periodic Tales: The Curious Lives of the Elements - Hugh Aldersey-Williams   

 

Physics

The Physics of Superheroes - James Kakalios       

The Goldilocks Enigma - Paul Davies 

An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth - Chris Hadfield 

How to teach Quantam Physics to Your Dog - Chad Orzel 

In Search of Schrodinger's Cat: Updated Edition - John Gribbin

How to Build a Universe - Brian Cox and Robin Ince    

Big Bang - Simon Singh      

We need to talk about Kelvin - Marcus Chown  

Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race - Margot Lee Shetterly  

Storm in a Teacup:The Physics of Everyday Life - Helen Czerski

KS4

Lord of the Flies – William Golding

Animal Farm – George Orwell

The Colour Purple – Alice Walker

Herland – Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class  – Owen Jones

 

KS5

Poverty Safari – Darren McGarvey

Who the hell is Karl Marx? – Manus McGrogan

Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age of Trump – Asad Haider

The Communist Manifesto – Karl Marx and Fredrick Engels

Invisible Women – Caroline Criado Perez

Why Ethnography Matters – Oli Williams

It’s Not About the Burqa – Mariam Khan

Is Britain unfair and unequal? – Joan Garrod

Global Culture and Popular Culture – John Storey

Hood Feminism – Mikki Kendall

Anti-Social: The Diary of an Anti-Social Behaviour Disorder – Nick Pettigrew

KS3

Mary Glasgow Magazines – Que tal? (from the MFL library)

https://www.thefablecottage.com/ - different levels bilingual tales

https://www.thespanishexperiment.com/stories

https://www.spanishbookshop.co.uk/spanish-readers

Short Stories in Spanish King -  John.R

 

KS4

Mary Glasgow Magazines – Ahora (from the MFL library)

https://www.thefablecottage.com/ - different levels bilingual tales

Teen Readers Spanish

https://www.spanishbookshop.co.uk/spanishbooks/series/TEES

Spanish Short Stories for Beginners – Lingo Mastery

Short Stories to Learn Spanish- https://www.lingomastery.com/

https://www.thespanishexperiment.com/stories

 

KS5

Mary Glasgow Magazines – El sol (from the MFL library)

https://www.thefablecottage.com/ - different levels bilingual tales

www.newsinslowspanish.com

The Shadow of the Wind -  Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Homage to Catalonia - George Orwell