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Film of Charlie Ellis flying round the Earth in a home-made spaceship brings the world's media to Horsepool Hill. He announces he is going to plant a flag at every planet in the solar system."A love letter to childhood innocence, real-world science, pop culture, rollicking Boys Own adventure stories, and Jules Verne. This is the kind of book that isn't written very often, with hefty dollops of charm that makes you smile while you're reading it...

DC SUPER HEROES chapter books feature the WORLD'S GREATEST HEROES including BATMAN. The DARK KNIGHT prowls the shadowy streets of GOTHAM CITY with his partner, ROBIN, THE BOY WONDER, putting fear into the hearts of super-villains. With original art by DC COMICS illustrators, these full-colour chapter books will captivate young readers.

The first analytical study of the pioneering English musician. The historian, Paul Sutton begins by taking the reader through a vastly entertaining potted history of rock music pioneers, tracing them all back to "a delta of Mississippi mud from where howled the first harmonica, and from where was heard the first blue plucking finger on string", to show that popular music was strictly The Imitation Game until Gary Numan came along with his Mach...

October 1854: As the British Army charges into the Crimea, the Minister for War sends Florence Nightingale to take charge of the field hospital at Scutari. But there's already an angel of mercy working with the wounded at Scutari: Thomas Hector Schofield.

Angry and satirical, yet tender, Paul Sutton's poetic tour through fast food outlets tells us much about where we, and our society are now. " The Sorry History of Fast Food moved me deeply. It's an elegy to all that we lost through modernity, a quiet mapping of the disorientation and atomisation that we feel. The poetry itself is a kind of yearning for unity. There's something disturbing about the way Sutton puts words together - like some gre...

What links a disintegrating spaceship to a posh garden party, where a wealthy couple are celebrating their love for each other in style? Gatecrashers the Doctor and Lucie think they know the answer. But they're not the only uninvited guests - ferocious alien warriors riding pterodactyl-like Vortisaurs are about to make their entrance!

A celebration of the work of Ken Russell. A portrait of the man and his art from the 1950s to the great films of the 1960s and 1970s, the cult films of the 1980s, through to the digital short films with which he ended his career. Talking About Ken Russell includes hundreds of exclusive interviews with Russell and the people who worked with him, and includes, for example, the first-hand testimonies of more than a dozen people who worked on Wome...

The first analytical study of the pioneering English musician. The historian, Paul Sutton begins by taking the reader through a vastly entertaining potted history of rock music pioneers, tracing them all back to "a delta of Mississippi mud from where howled the first harmonica, and from where was heard the first blue plucking finger on string", to show that popular music was strictly The Imitation Game until Gary Numan came along with his Mach...

Problems beset the Doctor and Evelyn Smythe as they travel by train to the Wild West town of Fortune. A young woman is investigating the murder of her father nine years earlier, and a wanted poster indicates that the Doctor is the killer!

Public Sector Reform (PSR) and New Public Management (NPM) have been promoted by Commonwealth Caribbean governments and supported by regional and international agencies as a necessary step to ensure effective, efficient and economical administration, improve governance, and manage globalization. This title covers both the theory and practice of PSR and NPM in the region.

Three years after Vilag was all but laid waste by the Killorans, the Doctor is back alongside a different companion. And a lot has changed. Emotions soon boil over into violence, a violence that seems to have gripped the entire city...

What links a disintegrating spaceship to a posh garden party, where a wealthy couple are celebrating their love for each other in style? Gatecrashers the Doctor and Lucie think they know the answer...

On a distant outpost of Earth, terraformers are under threat from the giant carnivorous Farakosh. All that stands between the colonists and a grisly death are the Exotrons, designed by the outpost's leader, Major Taylor. But all is not as it seems...

Authorised biography of Bill Nelson, guitarist, singer and songwriter with the 70s art rock band Be Bop Deluxe. Draws on hours of interviews with Nelson and other members of the band, as well as fans such as John Leckie and Steve Harley, and illustrated with photos and drawings from Nelson's private archive.

First Published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Lindsay Anderson's provocative, savage and wickedly funny 1968 masterpiece, " If..., " deals fundamentally--and controversially--with England and quintessential "Englishness." "If..." was the first film ever with a British setting and cast to win the Palme d'Or for Best Film at Cannes. The fruit of Anderson's first-hand studies of the Czech, Polish and Indian New Waves led by Milos Forman, Andrzej Wajda and, most famously, Satyajit Ray, it pro...

John Holmstrom, the literary editor of the Royal Shakespeare Company and a governor of the British Film Institute, spent decades travelling the world to research and write two scholarly books about children in films. The first book, The Moving Picture Boy Encyclopaedia, was published to unanimous acclaim, but the companion volume, The Moving Picture Girl Encyclopaedia, was not completed in Holmstrom's lifetime. Film historian Paul Sutton open...

In this collection of poetic short stories, Paul Sutton takes a journey through life, from the very young through to the teenage years and into adulthood and old age. Young people and old people alone and together. Lyrical tales of rebellion, conformity, grief, neglect, creation and joy. Illustrated with Paul Sutton's own 35mm Leica photographs, and with line-drawings by Paul Dufficey, who made his name as the production designer of the Ken Ru...

In this collection of poetic short stories, Paul Sutton takes a journey through life, from the very young through to the teenage years and into adulthood and old age. Young people and old people alone and together. Lyrical tales of rebellion, conformity, grief, neglect, creation and joy. Some of the stories have appeared in magazines over the last twelve years, but most are new. Praise for the collection has been unanimous: "It reminded me ...

A celebration of the work of Ken Russell. A portrait of the man and his art from the 1950s to the great films of the 1960s and 1970s, the cult films of the 1980s, through to the digital short films with which he ended his career. Talking About Ken Russell includes hundreds of exclusive interviews with Russell and the people who worked with him, and includes, for example, the first-hand testimonies of more than a dozen people who worked on Wome...