Alan Pulverness is the author of All in a Word: literature in language teaching (Bell Educational Trust 1989) and co-author of a number of ELT textbooks. He has edited a schools' edition of Macbeth (Societ¥ Editrice Internazionale 2000) and was editorial adviser for The Literary Labyrinth (Societa Editrice Internazionale 1993) and The World Wide Reader (Oxford University Press and La Nuova Italia 2001).

His most recent publications are Right Now 1 & 2 (Oxford University Press 2000; 2001) and Changing Skies: The European coursebook for advanced learners (Swan 2001). An Associate Trainer with the Norwich Institute for Language Education, he is Editor IATEFL Conference Selections and was Editor of Folio (the journal of the Materials Development Association) from 1999 to 2003.