Peter May Livres

En rupture avec son passé, Fin Macleod retourne sur son île natale de Lewis. La mort tragique de son jeune fils a détruit son mariage, et il a quitté la police. La lande balayée par les vents, la fureur de l’océan qui s’abat sur le rivage, les voix gaéliques des ancêtres… il pense pouvoir retrouver dans ces lieux de l’enfance un sens à sa vie. À peine Fin est-il arrivé qu’on découvre le cadavre d’un jeune homme, miraculeusement préservé par la tourbière. Les analyses ADN relient le corps à Tormod Macdonald, le père de l’amour de jeunesse de Fin, faisant du vieil homme le suspect n° 1. Mais celui-ci ne peut se défendre, perdu qu’il est dans les brumes de sa maladie d’Alzheimer, Fin va donc l’aider. Au rythme des fulgurances qui traversent l’esprit sénile de Tormod, le passé ressurgit, douloureux, dramatique, dévoilant le sort que la société écossaise a réservé pendant des décennies aux enfants orphelins ou abandonnés que l’Église catholique envoyait sur les îles Hébrides.

Marqué par la perte récente de son fils unique, l’inspecteur Fin Macleod, déjà chargé d’élucider un assassinat commis à Edimbourg, est envoyé sur Lewis, son île natale, où il n’est pas retourné depuis dix-huit ans. Un cadavre exécuté selon le même modus operandi que celui d’Edimbourg vient d’y être découvert. Sur cette île tempétueuse du nord de l’Ecosse, couverte de landes, où l’on se chauffe à la tourbe, pratique encore le sabbat chrétien et parle la langue gaélique, Fin est confronté à son enfance. La victime n’est autre qu’Ange, ennemi tyrannique de sa jeunesse. Marsaili, son premier amour, vit aujourd’hui avec Artair. Alors que Fin poursuit son enquête, on prépare sur le port l’expédition rituelle qui, chaque année depuis des siècles, conduit une douzaine d’hommes sur An Sgeir, rocher inhospitalier à plusieurs heures de navigation, pour y tuer des oiseaux nicheurs. Lors de son dernier été sur l’île, Fin a participé à ce voyage initiatique, qui s’est dramatiquement terminé. Que s’est-il passé alors entre ces hommes ? quel est le secret qui pèse sur eux et resurgit aujourd’hui ?

Peter May’s thrilling new China novel brings together Beijing detective Li Yan and American pathologist Margaret Campbell for the third time. When the mutilated and dismembered bodies of eighteen women are discovered in a mass grave in Shanghai, Li is sent to establish if the corpses are related to an unsolved murder in Beijing, and he finds the most horrifying catalog of killings ever uncovered in the Middle Kingdom. Once more, Margaret is unsure of her mercurial relationship with Li, and if it will threaten their professional collaboration. Having just suffered the heartbreak of burying her father, she arrives in Shanghai to find any partnership with Li threatened by another woman named Mei-Ling. Born in the Year of the Tiger, Mei-Ling seems to have her claws firmly fixed in Li. How can Margaret, a mere “foreign devil,” compete with Mei-Ling, the deputy head of Shanghai’s serious crime squad? Faced with the grisly proposition that the murdered women have been subjected to “live” autopsies, the three soon realize they are tracking a monster of inhuman capacity. The closer they get to this ruthlessly cold-blooded killer, the closer they come to realizing their own personal nightmares. Peter May combines edge-of-the-seat suspense and a brilliantly evoked picture of modern China to create an unstoppable thriller.

Dans ce dernier volet de la "série chinoise" de Peter May, l'inspecteur Li Yan et Margaret Campbell, médecin légiste américaine, affrontent un tueur en série qui nargue la police de Pékin en copiant à la lettre les crimes vieux de plus d'un siècle d'un célèbre éventreur anglais. Il choisit ses victimes jeunes et ravissantes, et il semble s'intéresser tout particulièrement à l'entourage de l'inspecteur Li Yan...

Un chef mythique est assassiné alors qu'il avait convoqué la presse dans son restaurant trois étoiles. Quelle révélation s'apprêtait-il à faire ? Sept ans plus tard, le mystère reste entier. Le célèbre enquêteur écossais, Enzo MacLeod relève le défi et relance l'enquête. Une épouse jalouse, une maîtresse abandonnée, un frère envahissant, un critique acerbe : il ne tarde pas à plonger dans l'arrière du décor de la grande gastronomie à la française.

Opus final de la trilogie de Lewis, Le Braconnier du lac perdu est aussi le plus apocalyptique. Tandis que les hommes font face à la puissance dévastatrice de la nature, l’heure des derniers comptes sonne sur Lewis et réclame son lot de victimes.

Au petit matin, sur une route déserte du Texas, le shérif adjoint Jackson est attiré par un camion frigorifique qui semble abandonné. La cargaison qu'il découvre lui fait regretter amèrement sa curiosité : quatre-vingt-dix-huit cadavres de clandestins chinois morts asphyxiés. Encore un sinistre drame de l'immigration ? Pas sûr... Les pages d'un carnet trouvé sur l'un des corps, ainsi que d'étranges et inquiétantes marques de piqûres, attirent l'attention des autorités sanitaires du pays. Qui a bien pu vouloir transformer ces malheureux, venus chercher des jours meilleurs en Amérique, en véritables "bombes humaines" ? Dans ce quatrième volet de la "série chinoise" de Peter May, c'est aux Etats-Unis que l'inspecteur Li Yan, dépêché par le gouvernement chinois, retrouve Elizabeth Campbell, médecin légiste, chargée d'organiser l'autopsie des quatre-vingt-dix-huit corps. En compagnie du FBI et des services de l'Immigration, ils plongent dans l'univers trouble des trafics de clandestins et s'engagent dans une course contre la montre. Car si les responsables de cette machination ne sont pas neutralisés, c'est toute l'humanité qui est menacée d'une terrible et collective agonie.

Au cœur de l'hiver, dans l'effervescence générale d'un Pékin métamorphosé par l'approche des Jeux olympiques, six athlètes chinois de haut niveau meurent dans des conditions mystérieuses à quelques semaines d'intervalle : un nageur se pend au plongeoir d'une piscine à la veille d'une compétition internationale, anéantissant les espoirs de son pays de remporter une victoire face aux États-Unis ; un haltérophile meurt dans les bras de sa maîtresse ; trois coureurs de relais périssent dans un accident de voiture ; un cycliste se noie... Lorsqu'un septième athlète disparaît mystérieusement, LiYan, devenu chef de la Section n° I des affaires criminelles, décide de mener l'enquête. II demande à Margaret Campbell, pathologiste de renommée internationale, de pratiquer des autopsies. Peu à peu, le milieu sportif révèle ses dessous : des intérêts financiers colossaux, et leur corollaire, des méthodes de dopage sans cesse plus poussées, jusqu'à devenir quasiment indétectables. Plongés au cœur de cette nébuleuse, Margaret et LiYan vont devoir mettre leur vie en danger pour découvrir la sombre vérité qui se cache derrière les apparences.

"Cristina Sánchez Pradell, flic à Marvina, dans la région de Malaga, est de garde cette nuit-là. Quand la police est appelée pour un cambriolage, elle accepte de remplacer l'un de ses collègues, jeune père impatient de rentrer chez lui. Sans imaginer un seul instant qu'en mettant les pieds à La Paloma, ce quartier à la vue imprenable sur la Méditerranée où de riches expatriés se sont bâti de luxueuses villas, sa vie va basculer irrémédiablement et qu'elle va désormais craindre sans relâche non seulement pour sa vie, mais pour ceux qui lui sont chers, son fils Lucas, Antonio son mari, et sa tante Ana, aveugle et sourde. Tandis que John Mackenzie, un policier écossais réputé pour son flair autant que pour son caractère exécrable, est détaché sur l'affaire où des compatriotes sont impliqués, le paysage paradisiaque de ces confins du continent européen se peuple de sourdes menaces."--Quatrième de couverture

Sur l'île d'Entrée, dans l'archipel de la Madeleine à l'est du Canada, peuplée par une poignée de familles d'origine écossaise pour la plupart, aucun meurtre n'a jamais été commis. Jusqu'à cette nuit de tempête où James Cowell est poignardé. Tous soupçonnent - sa femme, sauf l'enquêteur Sime Mackenzie, qui a l'étrange sentiment de la connaître depuis toujours. S'isolant du reste de son équipe, où oeuvre son ex-femme, et rompu par l'insomnie, Sime sombre dans un état second où la réalité se mêle à des rêves étranges, faisant ressurgir l'histoire de son aïeul, expulsé de l'île de Lewis dans les années 1850, au moment de la Famine de la pomme de terre. Avec la certitude folle que le destin de Kirsty Cowell et le sien se sont noués là, quelque cent cinquante ans plus tôt, dans un amour interdit qui n'a cessé de brûler. Un roman envoûtant et haletant, où Peter May donne à voir avec émotion la puissance des liens insulaires.

Mystery fiction. Detective and mystery stories. In 1989, a killer dumped the body of twenty-year-old Lucie Martin into a picturesque lake in the West of France. Fourteen years later, during a summer heat wave, a drought exposed her remains - bleached bones amid the scorched mud and slime. No one was ever convicted of her murder. But now, forensic expert Enzo Macleod is reviewing this stone cold case - the toughest of those he has been challenged to solve. Yet when Enzo finds a flaw in the original evidence surrounding Lucie's murder, he opens a Pandora's box that not only raises old ghosts but endangers his entire family.

THE PERFECT COMPANION TO PETER MAY'S LEWIS TRILOGY, AND A PHOTOGRAPHIC JOURNEY THROUGH THE HEBRIDEAN ISLANDS. The landscape of the Outer Hebrides, with its stark cliffs, ghostly mists and lonely beaches, has become a definitive character of Peter May's Lewis trilogy. In Hebrides, readers will accompany him on an odyssey in prose and images, through a history of the Vikings' 'Long Island' and his own deep personal connection with the islands that influenced his bestselling work. Travelling as if alongside his protagonist Fin Macleod, he describes the island life - as bewitching as it is treacherous - his encounter with the bird-hunters of Sula Sgeir, the savage seas of Ness and the churches of Eriskay. With extracts from the trilogy and specially commissioned photographs, this book places his writing and characters within the land that gave them form. Couldn't get enough of the Lewis trilogy and its extraordinary setting? Check out Peter May's latest bestseller, Coffin Road, in which the million-selling master of crime brings murder back to the Outer Hebrides.

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On one tiny island, many hidden secrets - that Enzo Macleod must uncover to crack the fourth of France's most notorious unsolved murder cases. Ile de Groix, France. A Frozen Island. This tiny isle off the coast of Brittany is the scene of a murder left shrouded in mystery and grief. A Frozen Crime. Adam Killian's study has been left intact since his death - the perfect state for Enzo Macleod's forensic investigation. A Frozen Heart. Killian's widow is still hoping; the first suspect is still hiding; and the treacherous island itself still has a revelation for Enzo.

Focusing on the Hale-America National Open, the narrative explores its significance and the controversy surrounding its status as an official tournament. Set against the backdrop of World War II, it highlights Ben Hogan's victory in 1942 and his argument for the event's recognition as a US Open, which would elevate his title count to five. Peter May delves into the historical context and the implications of this claim, shedding light on Hogan's legacy in golf.

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THE RETURN OF FIN MACLEOD, PETER MAY'S MUCH-LOVED HERO OF THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING LEWIS TRILOGY. A MURDER The body of eighteen-year-old TV personality Caitlin is found abandoned on a remote beach at the head of An Loch Dubh - the Black Loch - on the west coast of the Isle of Lewis. A swimmer and canoeist, it is inconceivable that she could have drowned. A SECRET Fin Macleod left the island ten years earlier to escape its memories. When he learns that his married son Fionnlagh had been having a clandestine affair with the dead girl and is suspected of her murder, he and Marsaili return to try and clear his name. A RECKONING But nothing is as it seems, and the truth of the murder lies in a past that Fin would rather forget, and a tragedy at the cages of a salmon farm on East Loch Roag, where the tense climax of the story finds its resolution. The Black Loch takes us on a journey through family ties, hidden relationships and unforgiving landscapes, where suspense, violent revenge and revelation converge in the shadow of the Black Loch.

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Fin Macleod, now head of security on a privately owned Lewis estate, is charged with investigating a spate of illegal game-hunting taking place on the island. This mission reunites him with Whistler Macaskill - a local poacher, Fin's teenage intimate, and possessor of a long-buried secret. But when this reunion takes a violent, sinister turn and Fin puts together the fractured pieces of the past, he realizes that revealing the truth could destroy the future.

From King Henry VIII to Queen Elizabeth II, via the introduction of the Classics, a duel at Ascot, the first steeplechase, a Derby Day fraud, a huge Cambridgeshire gamble, the desolation of Fred Archer, a thousand-mile walk around Newmarket Heath, the greatness of Ormonde and Sceptre, Man o' War's record-breaking runs, National Velvet and Emily Davison, to the brilliance of Lester Piggott, Tony McCoy and Frankel, Peter May has selected over one hundred days that encapsulate five hundred years of the Sport of Kings. His short, informative, easy-to-read essays bring to life racing's milestone events that set the nation on a different path, such as the 1913 Derby, and the sacrifices horseracing made to support the British military campaigns overseas. A host of anecdotes tell of the exploits of the racing fraternity and cast light on the psyche of those who were prepared to take on bets which, at today's rates, would stretch into millions. Sure to rekindle fond, and maybe distant, memories of the races and horses that once dominated the sporting section of the daily newspapers.

The compelling, little-known story of Charlie Sifford, the first Black golfer to get his PGA card, and Stanley Mosk, a crusading civil rights attorney and California Supreme Court justice, who together made history by taking on the PGA and the Caucasian Only clause in its bylaws.

THE EVIL WRATH Cambodia, 1978: Amid the Khmer Rouge's crazed genocide, soldier-of-fortune Jack Elliott is given the impossible task of rescuing a family from the regime. THE PAINFUL TRUTH Eighteen-year-old orphan and budding journalist Lisa Robinson has received the impossible news that her father is, in fact, alive. His name is Jack Elliott. THE NOBLE PATH As Jack tracks the hostages and Lisa traces her heritage, each intent on reuniting a family. Yet to succeed, they each must run a dangerous gauntlet of bullets and betrayal.

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The first three victims were drugged, tied, labelled with a single word and a single number - then expertly beheaded. The fourth victim was dispatched in the same way, but unlike the others he was an American diplomat.

Enzo Macleod is facing a death sentence. Having been diagnosed with a terminal illness, time is running out to solve the most confounding of unsolved murders in France. But as he begins investigating the death of a rent-boy in a Parisian apartment, he suddenly finds himself under arrest. Someone is threatening to destroy his character. Someone is trying to frame him for murder. If he can use his genius for forensics to crack the cold case, he might dodge one fatal blow before another strikes.

"In a sleepy French village, the body of a man shot through the head is disinterred by the roots of a fallen tree. A week later a famous art critic is viciously murdered in a nearby house. The deaths occurred more than seventy years apart. Asked by a colleague to inspect the site of the former, forensics expert Enzo Macleod quickly finds himself embroiled in the investigation of the latter. Two extraordinary narratives are set in train - one historical, unfolding in the treacherous wartime years of Occupied France; the other contemporary, set in the autumn of 2020 as France re-enters Covid lockdown. And Enzo's investigations reveal an unexpected link between the murders - the Mona Lisa.Tasked by the exiled General Charles de Gaulle to keep the world's most famous painting out of Nazi hands after the fall of France in 1940, 28-year-old Georgette Pignal finds herself swept along by the tide of history. Following in the wake of Da Vinci's Mona Lisa as it is moved from château to château by the Louvre, she finds herself just one step ahead of two German art experts sent to steal it for rival patrons - Hitler and Göring.What none of them know is that the Louvre itself has taken exceptional measures to keep the painting safe, unwittingly setting in train a fatal sequence of events extending over seven decades. Events that have led to both killings."--Publisher

This book features Beijing detective Li Yan, and American pathologist, Margaret Campbell, as they track the killer of a government scientist whose horribly burned corpse is found smoldering in a Beijing park.

From the twelve-million copy bestselling author of the Lewis trilogy comes a chilling new mystery set in the isolated Scottish Highlands. A TOMB OF ICE A young meteorologist checking a mountain top weather station in Kinlochleven discovers the body of a missing man entombed in ice. A DYING DETECTIVE Cameron Brodie, a Glasgow detective, sets out on a hazardous journey to the isolated and ice-bound village. He has his own reasons for wanting to investigate a murder case so far from his beat. AN AGONIZING RECKONING Brodie must face up to the ghosts of his past and to a killer determined to bury forever the chilling secret that his investigation threatens to expose. Set against a backdrop of a frighteningly plausible near-future, A WINTER GRAVE is Peter May at his page-turning, passionate and provocative best. *PRE-ORDER THIS EXPLOSIVE NEW NOVEL NOW*

A man stands bewildered on a deserted beach on the Hebridean Isle of Harris. He cannot remember who he is. He is physically shaken, borderline hypothermic, and overwhelmed by fear and uncertainty. The only clue to his identity is a folded map of a path named The Coffin Road. He does not know where this search will take him. A detective from across the border in Lewis sits aboard a boat, filled with doubt. DS George Gunn knows that a bludgeoned corpse has been discovered on a remote rock twenty miles offshore. Though, having grown used to a quiet and predictable routine, he does not know whether he has what it takes to uncover how and why. A teenage girl lies in her Edinburgh bedroom, desperate to discover the truth about her father. Two years on from the pioneering scientist's disappearance, Karen Fleming still cannot accept that he would wilfully abandon her, regardless of the extreme pressure placed on him by his research. She does not know his secret. Coffin Road plots three perilous journeys toward the same poisoned skeleton. It is a story about self-discovery and self-determination, and their ability to bury the evils of self-doubt and self-interest. Yet above all it is an unforgettable crime thriller proving, beyond doubt, that it is what you don't know that can kill you.

Three years ago the body of France's foremost wine critic was found strung up like a scarecrow in a Gaillac vineyard, dressed in the ceremonial robes of the Order of the Divine Bottle and pickled in wine. For ex-pat Scot and forensic forager Enzo Macleod, the answer to this unsolved murder lies in cracking the critic's secretly coded reviews - which on publication could make or break a vineyard's reputation. He finds that under the sweet idyll of southern French winery lurks a bitter, back-stabbing community - including several suspects for the critic's death.

Jaded Edinburgh journalist Neil Bannerman arrives in Brussels intent on digging up dirt. Yet it is danger he discovers, when two British men are found murdered. One victim is a journalist, the other a Cabinet Minister: the double-assassination witnessed by the former's autistic daughter. The child recalls every detail about her father's killer - except for one. In the aftermath of the tragedy, Bannerman is compelled to follow his instincts. He is now fighting to expose a murderous conspiracy, protect a helpless child, and unmask a remorseless killer

A grotesquely burned corpse found in a city park is a troubling mystery for Beijing detective Li Yan. Li, devoted to his career as a means of restoring the respect his family lost during the Cultural Revolution, needs outside help if he is to break the case. The unidentified cadaver in turn provides a welcome distraction for forensic pathologist Margaret Campbell. Campbell, married to her work and having left America and her broken past behind, throws herself into the investigation, and before long uncovers a bizarre anomaly. An unlikely partnership develops between Li and Campbell as they follow the resulting lead. A fiery and volatile chemistry ignites: exposing not only their individual demons, but an even greater evil--a conspiracy that threatens their lives, as well as those of millions of others. -- Back cover

As midnight strikes, a man desperately seeking sanctuary flees into a church. The next day, his sudden disappearance will make him famous throughout France. A new science. Forensic expert Enzo Macleod takes a wager to solve the seven most notorious French murders using modern technology - and a total disregard for the justice system. A fresh trail. Deep in the catacombs below the city, he unearths dark clues deliberately set - and as he draws closer to the killer, discovers that he is to be the next victim.

'They said that twenty-five percent of the population would catch the flu. Between seventy and eighty percent of them would die. He had been directly exposed to it, and the odds weren't good.' A CITY IN QUARANTINE London, the epicenter of a global pandemic, is a city in lockdown. Violence and civil disorder simmer. Martial law has been imposed. No-one is safe from the deadly virus that has already claimed thousands of victims. Health and emergency services are overwhelmed. A MURDERED CHILD At a building site for a temporary hospital, construction workers find a bag containing the rendered bones of a murdered child. A remorseless killer has been unleashed on the city; his mission is to take all measures necessary to prevent the bones from being identified. A POWERFUL CONSPIRACY D.I. Jack MacNeil, counting down the hours on his final day with the Met, is sent to investigate. His career is in ruins, his marriage over and his own family touched by the virus. Sinister forces are tracking his every move, prepared to kill again to conceal the truth. Which will stop him first - the virus or the killers? Written over fifteen years ago, this prescient, suspenseful thriller is set against a backdrop of a capital city in quarantine, and explores human experience in the grip of a killer virus.

Husband and wife Ruairidh and Niamh Macfarlane co-own Ranish Tweed: a Hebridean company that weaves its own special variety of Harris cloth, which has become a sought-after brand in the world of high fashion. But when Niamh learns of Ruairidh's affair with Russian designer Irina Vetrov, then witnesses the pair killed by a car bomb in Paris, her life is left in ruins. Along with her husband's remains, she returns home to the Isle of Lewis, bereft. The Paris police have ruled out terrorism, and ruled in murder - making Niamh the prime suspect, along with Irina's missing husband, Georgy. And so French Detective Sylvie Braque is sent to the island to look into Niamh's past, unaware of the dangers that await her. As Braque digs deeper into the couple's history, Niamh herself replays her life with Ruiairidh, searching her memory for those whose grievances might have led to murder.

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Compact offers intensive revision and practice to quickly maximise student performance. With this course you will consolidate language and skills for exam success through clear, concise training. Compact helps you build confidence with its unique step-by-step approach and teaches essential exam strategies through user-friendly Exam tips. The exam-specific Grammar sections and Grammar reference deepen understanding of language structures, while the Speaking bank and Writing bank extend proficiency in productive skills. Access to the Answer key, Grammar and vocabulary and exam practice is available online on Cambridge One.

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Das Student's book bereitet angehende Prüflinge gründlich in den Bereichen Grammatik, Vokabular, Sprachfertigkeit auf alle Themen und Prüfungsanforderungen vor. 10 Lektionen behandeln die 5 Prüfungsbereiche ausführlich und schrittweise. Quick steps und Hinweise zu den Teilfprüfungen beschreiben Anforderungen und Strategien zur Vorgehensweise und bieten nützliche Wendungen sowie weiterführenden Übungen. Ein Grammatikteil mit allen geforderten Schlüsselkenntnissen und lektionsweise Vokabellisten mit Definitionen sorgen für Übersicht.

Diese Ausgabe von Cambridge English: First beinhaltet die Compact-Version der Prüfungsvorbereitung, ausgerichtet auf 50 bis 60 Unterrichtsstunden. Dieses Arbeitsbuch zur selbstständigen Prüfungsvorbereitung enthält zum Student's book passende weiterführende Übungen. Jede Lektion enthält 4 Seiten mit Aufgaben, die die bereits im Schülerbuch erlernten Sprach- und Prüfungsfertigkeiten festigen. Basierend auf dem Cambridge Learner Corpus werden Lernende gezielt vor typischen Fehlern gewarnt.

Comprehensive exam training with lively topics and a colourful design. This dynamic course will appeal to teenagers and adults alike.

Comprehensive exam training with lively topics and a colourful design. This dynamic course will appeal to teenagers and adults alike.

Fast, focused exam preparation for the B2 First exam. Compact Student's Book offers intensive revision and practice to quickly maximise student performance. (4ème de couverture)

Highly focused preparation for the revised 2015 Cambridge English: First (FCE) course in 50-60 core hours. This Student's Book without answers provides B2-level students with thorough preparation and practice needed for exam success. Ten units cover all four exam papers in a step-by-step approach. 'Quick steps' and Writing, Speaking and Listening guides explain what to expect in the exam, and provide strategies on approaching each paper, model answers, useful expressions and further practice. Two complete practice tests are available online for teachers to access.

Highly focused preparation for the revised 2015 Cambridge English: First (FCE) course in 50-60 core hours

Complete PET combines the very best in contemporary classroom practice with stimulating topics aimed at teenagers and young adults.

A focused, 50-60 hour course for the revised Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE) exam from 2015.