IGCSE English Anthology Non-Fiction

"The entire earth below us was a convulsion of crests and gorges and wind-sharpened pinnacles"

"It is easier to picture a giant child gathering earth in great armfuls, piling up rock, pinching mud into ridges.."

"Women will always be having babies. Women patients prefer women doctors."

"As I played, the thought of leaving school throbbed at the back of my mind like a persistent toothache."

"It’s not my problem, it’s theirs and they are the ones who have to come to terms with it."

"The noise of the approaching vehicles grew; horns tooting, bells ringing, and the special rattles"

"If you look at a pictorial language like Chinese, you can see the word for a woman...the character looks like a woman."

"My desperate brain conjures up a probably apocryphal story"

"This requires being creative and so your ‘creativity muscle’ gets bigger."

"This was Formula One without rules, or a city-centre rush hour gone anarchic.."

"The only thing my mother told us about him was that his family was very poor."

"a great flood of sunlight drenches us and everything is brilliance and fury"

"Meanwhile, distress signals were being beamed from the ditched helicopter"

"The two lads who had never been interested in this Karachi sport were suddenly fired up with enthusiasm."

"Scrambling back up to the lookout I looked across the glittering kingdom ...and took a sharp intake of breath."

"She was smokier and darker and much, much bigger, and instead of twittering, she wailed.."

"He looked radiant. For once, he was proud of me."

"It was survival of the fittest.."

"She assumed that I did not know how to use a stove."

"Slow panic. I knew what I had to say, and it was a monstrous breach of etiquette."

"My reaction to everyone else I met that day was a mixture of pity and revulsion."

"I saw that face for only a few seconds, a fleeting meeting of eyes before the face turned away"

"Each wife knew her husband instinctively and watched their progress intently"

"one Antarctic explorer told Mr Brooks’ wife it was “nothing short of a miracle” that they had survived."

"But I think staying out of prison is about conquering your fears and finding your path in life."

"I was beginning to lose faith in its happening, but the lads remained confident."

"They both found this hilarious, but I was glad he hadn’t told me before.."

"Last night there was resentment in some quarters"

"why don’t you go outside and play some football?

"I began to write, at about the age of seven, stories in pencil...that my poor mother was obligated to read".