Don't Stop Now! Level 1

by Philip Prowse

Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, from Starter to Advanced, this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student's capabilities. A brick smashes the window of a family-run Internet café in central London. A message comes with "Don't Stop Now!". Matt, a frequent visitor to the café, offers to help Kate and her family. But Kate's father won't tell Matt what the message means. What is Kate's family secret? And who are the men ready to do anything to stop Matt finding out? Paperback-only version. Also available with Audio CD including complete text recordings from the book.

32 pages, Paperback

First published December 5, 2005

About the author

Philip Prowse, author of the Nick Hellyer espionage series, lived and worked overseas for over a decade including periods in Egypt where Hellyer’s Trip takes place against the background of the 1967 Six Day War, Portugal whose 1974 Carnation Revolution and guerrilla war in Mozambique feature in Hellyer’s Coup, and Greece where the fall of the military junta and the 1974 invasion of Cyprus provide the setting for Hellyer’s Line.

Moving into an unknown country with an alien language and culture, ways of thinking and perspectives on life parallels that of the secret agent’s struggle to swim unobserved in perilous waters. Through the series we follow Nick Hellyer’s development from reluctant accidental academic spy to trained hardened professional. But his depth of experience has been gained at the cost of traumatic incidents which have increased his vulnerability and undermined his self-confidence.

We experience events from Nick’s point of view, knowing and seeing only what he does as he hurtles towards his destiny. We are privy to his thoughts and self-doubt, exhilaration and despair, delirium and delight. We interpret this evidence in our own way and reach our own conclusions because like him we want to know how it will all end.

Reading a fast-moving Hellyer novel will immerse you in a story where accurate historical fact and plausible fiction meld, where with Nick as guide you may uncover fresh truths about the world and even yourself.

Listening to the masterly narration on the top quality audiobooks will bring the characters and action to vivid life.

Reviews

[Yurika Tokoro · Rating 3 out of 5]

Cambridge/ level 1

10/01=30 minutes

cafe/ crash/ secret/ credit card/ love/ two men/ pizza/ prison/

' In Malta, Paolo said, ' when you give someone the "Kiss of Death" you are telling them, "Do what we say or someone in your family is going to die." '
One of two evil men kisses Paolo's forehead, the owner of Web Cafe. This scene could be sweet, but in this case it is not.

I like the way the story goes on. On the other hand, I still do not understand why the cover page shows a man and two women. When I found this book, I thought the story was about love triangle because of the cover page. But actually it is not, so I don't know why the author or publisher chose it.

[Linh Tran · Rating 4 out of 5]

2024 English Reading

A reread. It is a story about a internet cafe owner who was blackmailed by two criminals that he knew, and a young man who was trying to help.

[Ana Ivančević · Rating 2 out of 5]

I don't even know why i took it in my hands. I was bored...