David Hughes

"This compulsively readable journey takes you into the area of film-making where all writers, directors and stars fear to tread: Development Hell. It's the place where scripts are written (and rewritten, and then rewritten again), actors are hired and sets designed ... but where the films themselves rarely get made."--Back cover.

The Greatest Movies Never Made?

Tales from Development Hell

Roz Southey

Margaret Maddison

Charles Avison (1709-1770) was a remarkable Tyneside musician who became England's one of the most important 18th-century concerto composer. This book presents the biography of this talented composer.

Making Music and Money in Eighteenth Century Newcastle

The Ingenious Mr. Avison

Matt Harvey

Where Earwigs Dare

Giles Gordon

An anthology of English short fiction includes the works of such well-known writers as Ruth Rendell, William Trevor, Peter Carey and Edna O'Brien

Best English Short Stories, 1989

The Pork Butcher

On holiday in Suffolk, a boy and his dog discover a World War II pillbox half buried on a deserted beach. When he returns the next day with his parents, the pillbox has disappeared. They learn a pillbox had been there and a boy had once been found in it, dead... 1945, another boy, another dog, the same pillbox ... and an American serviceman from the local base. Murder, treachery, a terrible secret... David Hughes’ second graphic novel is a haunting ghost story – dark, disturbing and – as always with Hughes – stunningly drawn.

The Pillbox

The Complete Kubrick

Tongues are set wagging at the post office when Emily and Jane make their home together running a B & B in the small close-knit village near Nottingham, but the gossips are taken by surprise when Emily suddenly becomes pregnant. Only Emily and Jane know who the father is, and they think he is out of their lives for ever. Alas, life is rarely that simple! The two women find themselves caught up in a blackmail plot and they stand to lose everything they have schemed so hard to gain. Their desire for a child together has set them on a path that could even lead to murder.

Different Women Same Love

Poems, on Various Subjects, in English and Latin

The Star of Bethlehem Mystery

This is an unexpected input from the remarkable mystical teacher, George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff, over thirty years after his passing in 1949. A method of transmission was devised, through a trance medium, with multiple means for pursuing and checking the authenticity of the material and demonstrating the validity of the explanations provided. The information given is linked with clues in the published corpus of available teachings and backed by research into ancient sources of what Gurdjieff knew. It comes with the intriguing stories of how both the author found himself involved in the project, and Gurdjieff s explanation of why he had to resort to such a means of communication. Much of the mystery surrounding the man and his mission is unpacked, and many things about his life and work are revealed for the first time. We get a fuller picture at last of what he was trying to achieve during his lifetime. Special groups were set up by Gurdjieff before his passing to protect his writings and disseminate his teachings when he was no longer here. Many groups in many countries still carry on that work. What Gurdjieff addresses in the message of this book is the incompleteness of what he was able to pass on by that means. His students simply werent ready to receive all he had to give to them. What couldnt be directly said or grasped was hidden in his enigmatic writings. At some future time, those messages would need to be revealed. This book is part of that process. Followers of Gurdjieff will find invaluable updated teaching here. Those previously unacquainted with him will nevertheless find a reliable path to self-development.

Updated Teaching

Encounters with Gurdjieff

Durrell is of universal interest not only as a writer about wildlife but as a man dedicated to the savin g of species likely to die out. As a result of his pioneerin g zoo in Jersey, he is everyone''s ideal of a crusading conse rvationist. '

A Portrait of Gerald Durrell

Himself and Other Animals

Neil Parpworth

David Pollard

The fourth edition of Constitutional and Administrative Law: Text with Materials provides a wealth of essential materials drawn from a wide range of sources and integrated with lively commentary. It enables students to gain a full understanding of public law by explaining the context of its historical development and current political climate.

Text with Materials

Constitutional and Administrative Law

The UK threat of mainland attack, as we stand today, remains at 'substantial'. This means that a terrorist attack remains a strong possibility and could occur without warning. Figures revealed that the number of terror arrests had risen by sixty per cent in the year to September 2012. Hellfire Landing is based on what could happen if real-world terrorists decide to launch a coordinated attack within the UK. A major disaster could happen at any moment, and in just five minutes could affect the lives of thousands of persons in the UK. Could it really happen? Yes, and the consequences could be mind-blowingly catastrophic. And, yes, it could happen in any country in the world which has similar infrastructures to those in the UK.

Hellfire Landing

Covers films such as Steven Spielberg's "Night Skies", Stanley Kubrick's "Childhood's End", and Philip Kaufman's "Star Trek: Planet of the Titans". This book also covers Kevin Smith's "Six Million Dollar Man", Tim Burton's "Superman Lives", and James Cameron's "Alien 5".

The Greatest Sci-fi Movies Never Made

This is the second book by David Hughes on the subject of his own personal feelings and opinions of the world he lives and exists in, covering 2010 to 2017, with updates and new and more interesting personal thoughts, experiences and actual true facts. The book details his acquired knowledge and the beliefs that he has obtained as he trawled through the world around him. His life has been totally different and is far more complex in comparison to the world in which most persons will exist. The world has had the little red book and the little black book and now there is the little blue book!

Man Talk - The Sequel

An illustrated book about bullying which was shortlisted for the Smarties Book Prize.

Bully

Hughes on Booze

David Hughes was born and raised in Liverpool. He taught English literature and language from 1975 to 2004 at St Peter's School, York. When he died in 2011, he left a little over 200 poems, preoccupied with the impact of war upon the individual, the landscapes of mountainous and glacial northern Europe, the ecology of school, his friends, Wales, Liverpool, York, moments of communal celebration, his eulogy. Many of them were informed by two pivotal events which would shape his poetry. The first was his witnessing the death of his friend and colleague Barry Daniel in a mountaineering accident in 1986. The second was an incident in 2008 in which his throat was cut by a young friend, who was imprisoned for six months. During that time David wrote a series of poems about their friendship, about his forgiveness and about their differing experiences of that sentence.

Ex Libris

The energy transition has begun. To succeed – to replace fossil fuels with wind and solar power – that process must be fair. Otherwise, mounting popular protest against wind farms will prolong carbon pollution and deepen the climate crisis. David Hughes examines that anti-industrial, anti-corporate resistance, drawing insights from a Spanish village surrounded by turbines. In the lives of these neighbours – freighted with centuries of exploitation - clean power and social justice fit together only awkwardly. Proposals for a green economy, the Green New Deal, or Europe’s Green Deal require more effort. We must rethink aesthetics, livelihood, property, and, most essentially, the private nature of wind resources. Ultimately, the energy transition will be public and just, or it may not be at all

David Hughes

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