C1 Graded Readers

When a reader discovers that a passage in Joanna Price's prize-winning novel is almost identical to a forgotten story from 1974, the novelist is accused of plagiarism. The truth turns out to be stranger and sadder than theft.

Two brothers who haven't spoken properly in nine years walk out across the sands to scatter their father's ashes. When the tide turns faster than expected, they are stranded together with everything they have never said.

Every night at 3 a.m., a patient who cannot sleep rings the bell, and every night, the young nurse on duty sits with him. Their conversations become the most honest hours of her week.

Archivist Ruth Adeyemi is cataloguing a box of donated letters when she notices a single correction in a ledger from 1919. It overturns a story one local family has told with pride for a hundred years.

Nadia has ten minutes to convince three investors to fund the app she has spent two years building. Halfway through her presentation, she realises exactly what the investors want it to become, and she has to decide what she is prepared to sell.