A level Textbooks
Please click on the subject below for the A level textbooks.
Biology
If you wish to purchase a second-hand book, please contact the Head of Biology for contact information of past students. Or we might have a few second hand copies in school.
Year 12
Year 13
Business
Chemistry
Year 1
Year 2
Drama
Edexcel Student Handbook
Set Text – Machinal, Sophie Treadwell
Economics
English Language and Literature
The Great Gatsby – Penguin Modern Classics ISBN 9780141182636
Great Expectations – Vintage Classics ISBN 9780099511571
All My Sons – Penguin Modern Classics ISBN 9780141189970
English Literature
A Level English Literature textbooks for 2023
‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ by Margaret Atwood (Vintage) ISBN 9780099740919
‘Frankenstein’ by Mary Shelley (Scholastic) ISBN 9781407144047
‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ by Tennessee Williams (Penguin) ISBN 9780141190273
‘Poems of the Decade: An Anthology of the Forward Books of Poetry’ by Forward Arts Foundation ISBN 9780571325405
‘Hamlet’ (Cambridge School Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare ISBN 9781107615489
‘Selected Poems’ by Christina Rossetti (Penguin) ISBN 9780140424690
Fashion and Textiles
French
We currently have a few second hand copies of this book in school. Please see your French teacher in September.
Further Maths
Please buy via school: we have stock with 1 year use for £5 each (£10 if unused)
Year 12 requires 3 books: Further Core Pure Maths 1, Decision 1 and Further Statistics 1
Further Core Pure:
Decision 1:
Further Statistics 1:
Year 13 requires only 1 more book:
Geography
German
We currently have a few second hand copies of the text books in school at a much reduced price. Please see your German teacher in September.
You will also be asked to buy a study guide for the film and the play when we begin studying them. They will not be needed in the first term.
History
OCR A Level History: England 1485-1603
Unit 2 : Democracy and Dictatorships, German 1919-1963 (new for September 2024)
Unit 3: Russia and its Rulers, 1855-1964
Italian
Maths
Please buy via school: we have stock with 1 year use for £5 each (£10 if unused)
Year 12 requires 2 books: Pure Maths Year 1 and Applied Maths Year 1
Pure:
Applied:
Year 13 requires the next 2 books: Pure Maths Year 2 and Applied Maths Year 2
Pure:
Applied:
Media Studies
OCR A Level Media Studies Student Guide 1: Media Messages (Louisa Cunningham)
OCR A Level Media Studies Student Guide 2: Evolving Media (Jason Mazzocchi)
My Revision Notes: OCR A Level Media Studies Paperback (Mike Rodgers)
Media Theory for A Level: The Essential Revision Guide (Mark Dixon)
Power without Responsibility: Press,
Broadcasting and the Internet in Britain (James Curran and Jean Seaton)
Music
EDUQAS A Level and AS Level Study Guide
Symphony No. 104 “London”: Eulenburg+pocket Score AND Audio CD (Eulenburg Audio+Score Series)
Symphony No. 4 A major op. 90 – “”Italian”” – orchestra – study score + CD – Urtext – (EAS 128)
PE
Copies of all textbooks available to buy from the PE Department in September.
Book 1
Book 2
Physics
AQA Physics A level by Jim Breithaupt, Oxford University Press
ISBN 978-019-835187-0
Politics
1. UK Government & Politics
2. US Government & Politics
3. Political Ideas
PRE
Product Design
Psychology
Sociology
Year 12
AQA A Level Sociology Book One Including AS Level: Book one
Year 13
AQA A Level Sociology: Book two
Sociology for AQA Volume 2: 2nd-Year A Level
Spanish
We currently have a few second hand copies of this book in school. Please see your Spanish teacher in September.
