This collection captures the full range of writing from the 20th and 21st centuries, with fiction, non-fiction and literary non-fiction organised into themes that help you to explore the events, the people and their views on different aspects of life across this time period. The collection includes extracts from novels and short stories by authors such as George Orwell, Andrea Levy and D. H Lawrence, and an array of non-fiction and literary non-fiction sources including newspaper and magazine articles, autobiographies and memoirs, travel writing, letters, essays, diaries and accounts, making it ideal preparation for GCSE English Language and GCSE English Literature requirements and the perfect companion to the 19th-Century Fiction and Non-fiction collection.

 

This book features in the following series: Rollercoasters, Rollercoasters Series .

This book is aimed at children in secondary school.

There are 272 pages in this book. It is an anthology. This book was published 2016 by Oxford University Press .

Author Christopher Edge worked as a teacher before becoming a full-time writer. He is the author of teenage novel The Dead Ways and novelty book How to be a Hero. Popular illustrator Maggie Kneen's most recent book for Templar is Christmas in the Mouse House; Richard Johnson's are the pop-up sounds books Alice in Wonderland and Pinocchio. Sandy Nightingale has contributed to the innovative StoryWorld storytelling series.