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Our new texts and poetry

Introducing these great works of literature offering rich opportunities to engage with issues and ideas that your students can relate to.
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Worlds and lives

A third poetry cluster

An exciting, modern collection of poems that include some well-known, familiar names as well as new, current voices. The collection is both personal and political and explores concerns about the world we live in.

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Princess & The Hustler

Writer: Chinonyerem Odimba

A heart-warming play about the world of a 10-year old girl and her family living in 1960s Bristol. Set against the backdrop of the Bristol bus boycott, the play brings a previously untold, yet significant chapter in Black British history into the spotlight.

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Leave Taking

Writer: Winsome Pinnock

A funny and moving play about the lives and relationships of a mother and her two daughters living in North London. It centres around the three women all searching to settle their own sense of identity in very different ways.

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My Name is Leon

Writer: Kit de Waal

This coming-of-age story follows a loving and loyal 9-year old boy who is on a mission to reunite his family, after becoming separated from his mother. The novel is inspirational and empowering and positively explores foster care in the 1980s.

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Princess & The Hustler

Writer: Chinonyerem Odimba

A heart-warming play about the world of a 10-year old girl and her family living in 1960s Bristol. Set against the backdrop of the Bristol bus boycott, the play brings a previously untold, yet significant chapter in Black British history into the spotlight.

Find out more

Leave Taking

Writer: Winsome Pinnock

A funny and moving play about the lives and relationships of a mother and her two daughters living in North London. It centres around the three women all searching to settle their own sense of identity in very different ways.

Find out more

My Name is Leon

Writer: Kit de Waal

This coming-of-age story follows a loving and loyal 9-year old boy who is on a mission to reunite his family, after becoming separated from his mother. The novel is inspirational and empowering and positively explores foster care in the 1980s.

Find out more

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Our vision is to provide a diverse and inclusive curriculum that reflects the lives of young people. These works of literature offer the opportunity to explore issues and ideas and introduce further great writers to our specification. This is just the beginning."

Pauline McPartlan | Head of Curriculum – English

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Leave Taking by Winsome Pinnock: © Leave Taking by Winsome Pinnock, Nick Hern Books, 2018

My Name is Leon by Kit de Waal: Cover from My Name Is Leon by Kit de Waal published by Penguin. Reproduced by permission of Penguin Books Limited.

Princess & The Hustler by Chinonyerem Odimba: © Princess & The Hustler by Chinonyerem Odimba. Nick Hern Books, 2019.