Fiction & Memoirs Websites
All the King’s Men by Robert Penn www.worldpoliticsreview.com Warren www.parliament.uk
www.bbc.co.uk/news/politics Tracing the rise fall of 1930’s Louisiana Governor Willie Stark, a once humble man www.totalpolitics.com of the people who was steadily corrupted www.theyworkforyou.com by power. www.private-eye.co.uk
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Attwood Podcasts POLITICS Dystopian classic set in a totalitarian society that has overthrown the US WIDER RESOURCES FOR R6 STUDENTS Government. All on Radio 4 All available from the In Our Time LEARNING RESOURCE CENTRE The Tortilla Curtain by T C Boyle Political Thinking
A Point of View Published in 1996, this gripping story still resonates today in Trump’s America. The Grand Tour Californian privilege and Mexican poverty Democracy on Trial collide as two couples, both resident in Topanga Canyon strive for their version of the American Dream. The school subscribes to JSTOR, a The Bone Sparrow by Zana Fraillon digital library of academic journals,
e-books and primary sources. Born in a detention centre, the only world Subhi know is that he is at least 19 fence diamonds high and that the nice jackets never stay long. A contemporary tale of human rights, refugees and dreams of freedom. Inspiration The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson “All power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Pak Jun Do knows he is special when he is Lord Acton picked as a spy and kidnapper for his country, the glorious Democratic Republic of North Korea. A tender tale of love and sacrifice. Learning Resource Centre 2020 Learning Resource Centre 2020 Non -Fiction School Information
Books you may find useful to broaden your Human Rights: A Very Short Exam Board: Edexcel Introduction by Andrew Clapham Subject Leader: Miss H Buttery Politics knowledge will be found in all libraries under the following Dewey Decimal numbers: The controversies and complexities behind Minimum grade required: GCSE grade 5 or above in English and a highly topical human rights issues such as grade 5 in History if the subject was studied. torture, arbitrary detention, and Politics: 320 Government: 351 discrimination. 323 A comprehensive book list is available from Miss Buttery as
Political parties: 324 Modern UK History: 360 Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That part of the Independent Study booklet. Tell You All You Need to Know about Global Politics by Tim Marshall Economics: 330 Periodicals & Newspapers British Politics: A Very Short To understand world events you need to understand people, ideas and movement You may wish to consider subscribing to : Introduction by Tony Wright and this is all constrained by physical
geography. 320 A quick guide on how the British Politics Review political system works, with key The Politicians and the Egalitarians: The characteristics explored with Hidden History of American Politics by examples and illustrations.320 Sean Wilentz Covers current developments, news, reviews and commentary on science, Two key factors—partisanship and the recent psychology and technology. attention to economic inequality - reveal an insight into American political history. 320 After Blair: David Cameron and the Conservative Tradition by Kieron If Only They Didn’t Speak English: Private Eye O’Hara Notes From Trump’s America by Jon
Sopel Fortnightly satirical and current affairs Part new history of conservative thinking, part critique of the New Labour dream. news magazine, recognised for its As the BBC’s North American Editor, Sopel 320 lampooning of public figures mainly reflects on the 18 months it has taken for a politicians and media tycoons. reality star to go from laughing stock to leader Political Ideas for A level: Liberalism, Newspapers conservatism, socialism, feminism, WTF? By Robert Peston anarchism by Richard Kelly As the political climate gets ever more For a quick weekly round up of the unpredictable, Preston explains what Everything you need to know about the top political and current affairs stories happened, how it happened, and where core ideas and principles behind political look in the Sunday newspapers. we might be going. 333 ideologies. 320