Louise Sandall, who published under the name of Louise Cooper, died unexpectedly on October 20th 2009. She was 57. Louise had worked with the British Council and the BritLit project for a number of years and her writing had proved enormously popular with both teachers and students.

Beryl Bainbridge's black comedy takes as its setting a noisy, argumentative working class family in Liverpool, getting ready to see a pantomime based on Peter Pan.

‘Billy Elliot’ is the story of a boy from a coal mining family who decides to be a ballet dancer.

'The Hand that Feeds Me' is a story by the American born writer Michael Z. Lewin, who lives in Bath in England. The narrator has a different view of the city from most people. This kit was written by a group of teachers from Italy, Spain and Portugal who attended the NILE (Norwich Institute for Language Education) course in Norwich in August 2008.