B2 – Upper Intermediate
More detailed vocabulary, longer sentences, and more complex ideas. Suitable for learners who feel comfortable reading adapted novels or light fiction.
Summary Final Deal is the fifth instalment in Ted Tayler‘s The Freeman Files series, featuring retired Detective Inspector Gus Freeman as he leads a Crime Review Team tasked with solving cold cases. In this gripping mystery, Freeman and his team investigate the death of Dennis Gates, a 49-year-old car dealer who was found dead on the steps […]
Summary In Deadly Formula, the fourth instalment of Ted Tayler‘s The Freeman Files series, retired Detective Inspector Gus Freeman returns to lead a Crime Review Team tasked with solving cold cases. This time, the team investigates the murder of Dr Ian McGuire, a research scientist shot dead in his kitchen in January 2004. As they delve deeper,
Summary Pressure Point is the third book in Ted Tayler‘s The Freeman Files series, a gripping detective mystery centred around cold case investigations. Gus Freeman, a retired Detective Inspector, leads a Crime Review Team tasked with solving unresolved crimes. In this instalment, the team tackles the perplexing case of Laura Mallinder, a 27-year-old masseuse found dead at her
Summary In Last Orders, the second book in Ted Tayler‘s The Freeman Files series, retired detective Gus Freeman takes on a haunting cold case: the murder of Trudi Villiers, a 26-year-old barmaid who was raped and killed while walking home from the Ring O’Bells pub in October 2003. The case, long unsolved, is revisited by Freeman and his
Summary Fatal Decision is the first book in Ted Tayler’s The Freeman Files series, introducing readers to Gus Freeman, a retired Detective Inspector grappling with personal loss and professional uncertainty. After losing his wife Tess to a sudden brain aneurysm, Gus spends three years in solitude, tending to his allotment and reflecting on his life. His former
Dead Famous – Summary Dead Famous is a satirical whodunit set in the world of reality television, parodying the voyeuristic culture surrounding shows like Big Brother. The story revolves around House Arrest, a fictional TV programme where ten contestants live under constant surveillance by thirty cameras and forty microphones. The routine drama of alliances, betrayals and romantic entanglements
Summary High Society is a darkly comic and provocative novel that explores the pervasive issue of drug addiction and the failures of the war on drugs in Britain. The central narrative revolves around Peter Paget, a Labour Party MP who proposes a controversial bill to legalise all recreational drugs. Paget believes that regulation and taxation
Summary Nick Hornby’s How to Be Good is a witty and thought-provoking exploration of morality, relationships and personal transformation. The novel centres on Katie Carr, a 40-something doctor living in Holloway, England, who is disillusioned with her marriage to David Carr, a bitter newspaper columnist known as “The Angriest Man in Holloway”. Katie’s dissatisfaction leads her
Summary High Fidelity follows Rob Fleming, a thirty-something record store owner in London, as he grapples with the aftermath of his breakup with Laura, his most recent girlfriend. Rob is an obsessive music fan who spends much of his time ranking songs, albums and even his past relationships. After Laura leaves him for another man,
About A Boy – Summary About a Boy is a 1998 novel by British author Nick Hornby, set in London in the early 1990s. The story revolves around two protagonists: Will Freeman, a 36-year-old bachelor who avoids responsibility and lives off royalties from a Christmas song his father wrote, and Marcus Brewer, a socially awkward 12-year-old
