Welcome, incoming Year 12 students!

Here is your pre-course task for Year 12 English:

Choose a novel from the A-level reading list below that you haven’t already read. Read it over the summer and prepare a short presentation to give to the rest of your class in the first week of your English course. Your presentation should include:

• An explanation of why you chose to read this novel
• A description of some of the main characters
• An outline of key themes and ideas explored in the novel
• Information about any other novels written by the same author, or any novels written by other authors in a similar genre or style, or exploring similar themes

You must have finished your novel and be ready to give your presentation by the beginning of September.

If you have any questions about this task, or about any of the novels on the reading list, please contact Mr Dooley at the following email address: sdooley@netherhallschool.org

We look forward to meeting you in September!

The Oakes College English Department

A-level reading list

No reading list can possibly capture the wide variety and richness of books just waiting for you to read them. Here are just a few suggestions to get you started, based on some of the books we have enjoyed reading!

We hope that you will enjoy exploring the school library and bookshops (as they become available) and that you will then be able to recommend lots of other titles to your teachers as well as to other students.