Step One:  Take a look and choose a book

You’ve got a choice of 10 books to use as inspiration for your lyrics, from the gang wars in Romeo and Juliet to the ultimate love story in Pride and Prejudice.

Take a look and choose from the selection below:


The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
by Arthur Conan Doyle


Through the foggy streets of Victorian London to the deepest countryside, Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson embark on thrilling criminal investigations.




Anne Frank, Diary of a Young Girl
by Anne Frank

Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank follows a young Jewish girl’s experience of being in hiding during World War Two in the form of her diary.

Artemis Fowl
by Eoin Colfer


Fowl by name, Fowl by nature. Twelve-year-old villain, Artemis Fowl, is the most ingenious criminal mastermind in history.

Casino Royale
by Ian Fleming


Introducing James Bond: charming, sophisticated, handsome; chillingly ruthless and very deadly. Casino Royale the first of Fleming's tales of agent 007.

The Catcher in the Rye
by J.D. Salinger


Catcher in the Rye is written through the eyes of Holden Caulfield, a seventeen- year-old dropout who has just been kicked out of his fourth school.

Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen


The story of the Bennet family and of Mrs Bennet's efforts to marry off her five daughters.

Romeo and Juliet
by William Shakespeare


Set in a city torn apart by feuds and gang warfare, Romeo and Juliet is a dazzling combination of passion and hatred, bawdy comedy and high tragedy.




The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4
by Sue Townsend


The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4 is an unabashed, pimples-and-all glimpse into the troubled life of an adolescent.





Slam
by Nick Hornby


Slam is all at once funny, serious, thought-provoking and perfectly-pitched – a brilliant book for and about teenagers.




White Teeth
by Zadie Smith


White Teeth is a funny, generous, big-hearted novel, dealing - among many other things - with friendship, love, war, three cultures and three families over three generations.


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