Известные книга, радиопостановка и фильм. В данном случае – для уровня intermediate.
Oxford University Press
Intermediate
The perfect combination of fine writing and suspense-filled plot makes Buchan’s the Thirty-Nine Steps an engaging novel of intrigue, which was adapted to the screen by Hitchcock in 1935. Written in 1915, we follow protagonist Richard Hannay through England and the lowlands of Scotland as he eludes spies and keeps Europe from war.
Honolulu
William Somerset Maugham After working in British Intelligence during World War I, William Somerset Maugham set off to regain his health by traveling to Asia, Mexico, and the Pacific Islands. During this trip he gather materials and wrote the stories that appeared in 1921 in The Trembling of a Leaf. The six short stories and two "sketches" include the famous story "Rain"-adapted for both theater and film as Sadie Thompson, "Macintosh", "The Fall of Edward Barnard" .Of course love is always a subject of the tropics and Maugham's deft, ironic handling of the theme in "Red" and "Honolulu" is masterful.. These short stories are some of his best, and among the best ever written about the exotic South Seas. (Amazon.com).
Looking for local color, Somerset Maugham went slumming there and wrote this in his notebook: “You go down side-streets by the harbor, in the darkness, across a rickety bridge, and you come to a road, all ruts and holes; a little farther … there is a certain stir, an air of expectant agitation; you turn down a narrow alley, either to the right or to the left, and find yourself in the district… . The pretty bungalows are divided into two lodgings; each is inhabited by a woman, and each consists of two rooms and a kitchenette.”
The Anventures of Sherlock Holmes The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes Язык: ENG | Размер: 373 Mb | mp3 | Bitrate: VBR 56kbs | Длительность: примерно 50 минут | Файлов: 20 TORRENT !!!
Back then he was looking at a fat IPO and a boat. Back then he was rich. Back then he had a condo overlooking the ocean, a wife, and had just bought the BMW Z4 convertible. Cobalt blue, like the ocean on a clean, clear day in early spring. Now what he has left is the car. Ted's a real estate investor in Laguna Beach, California. He's been kicked out by his soon-to-be ex wife, his assets have been frozen by the IRS, he's holding on to his Beemer, but the car company's repo men want it back, and he's living in a tent. He's falling through the cracks of the 'Gold Coast' life, until he turns to money-laundering to get back in the game. Then things get worse...
What if the cataclysmic Tunguska explosion of 1908 was caused, not by a meteor or a comet, but by a microscopic black hole?
What if that fantastic object - smaller than an atom, older than the stars, heavier than a mountain - is still down there, orbiting deep inside the earth, slowly consuming the planet?
What if only a rookie government agent and an uncannily-insightful consultant stand between a renegade Russian billionaire and his plans to use the black hole to change history - or end it?
What if it's all true?
Winner of the Gold Medal for Science Fiction in Foreword Magazine's Book of the Year Awards
Winner of the Independent Publishers Association's Ippy prize for Best Fantasy/Science Fiction novel of 2004
Buchan The 39 steps
Honolulu
Don Winslow 
Singularity 
