Experienced examiners give students advice on how to improve their grades. This text includes exam practice material, notes and glossaries.

Opening Lines
Men and Women
Time and Change
Generations
The 1914-18 War (i)
War
Town and Country
How it Looks From Here
The 1914-18 War (ii)
Opening Worlds
Thinking and linking - how stories can be linked together
Dead Men's Path by Chinua Achebe
Snapshots of a Wedding by Bessie Head
The Train from Rhodesia by Nadine Gordimer
The Gold-Legged Frog by Khamsing Srinawk
Two Kinds by Amy Tan
The Tall Woman and her Short Husband by Feng Ji-Cai
The Pieces of Silver by Karl Sealy
The Red Ball by Ismith Khan
The Young Couple by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Leela's Friend by R. K. Narayan
Games at Twilight by Anita Desai
The Winter Oak by Yuri Nagibin