This 88-page resource book features 14 extracts taken from modern and classic literature, including Bridget Jones's Diary, Pride and Prejudice, About a Boy, The Time Machine, Captain Corelli's Mandolin. Useful background information on the authors and the novels accompanies each extract.

The 14 units,each exploring a different theme, provide a wide variety of language practice as well as developing reading skills, summary techniques and stylistic appreciation for the Cambridge CAE CPE and IELTS examinations.

Each extract is followed by two pages of photocopiable exercises which include vocabulary and gap-fill exercises, discussion activities and role-play situations, and composition topics based on the theme of the unit.

All extracts are read aloud on the accompanying audio CD.