Arnold Bennett

Arnold Bennett is famous for his stories about the Five Towns and the people who live there. They look and sound just like other people, and, like all of us, sometimes they do some very strange things. There's Sir Jee, who is a rich businessman. So why is he making a plan with a burglar? Then there is Toby Hall. Why does he decide to visit Number 11 Child Row, and who does he find there? And then there are the Hessian brothers and Annie Emery - and the little problem of twelve thousand pounds. CEFR A2/B1

Bursley in the Five Towns has a 'card': Denry. Denry begins life in a poor little house where the rent is twenty-three pence a week. Before he's thirty, he's made a lot of money, and had more adventures than you'd believe. The town of Bursley never stops talking about him. Whatever will young Denry do next? CEFR B1