This book offers a fresh insight into the experience of feeling 'unmutual' or misunderstood, and how this can result in bullying at school and in the workplace, escalating into social phobia, paranoia and obsessive behaviour. It illustrates some of the expressions of the Asperger condition and provides an accessible introduction to those new to AS.
Who is the Doctor, what are the Daleks and why is the TARDIS a police box? Here is a television programme that has been running for over fifty years and has seen twelve different actors play the title role, each a unique incarnation. Why are people so devoted to this phenomenon? What is all the fuss about? Will Hadcroft and Ian Wheeler present the basics, with an overview of each Doctor's era and recommended stories to try, delivering the essential information that you need to know, your introduction to a television legend. It is the perfect beginners' guide for anyone wondering where to start, and equally suited to the die-hard fan who wants be reminded of and relive the very best bits all over again. Will Hadcroft watched Doctor Who avidly from the age of seven and became rather obsessed with it throughout the 1980s. He fantasised about being a writer like series scribe Terrance Dicks. He is the author of the Anne Droyd children's books, the young adult novel The Blueprint, and the Mia series for younger children. His autobiography, The Feeling's Unmutual, was endorsed by Tripods trilogy author John Christopher and the Sixth Doctor himself, Colin Baker. Along with his writing, Will also runs FBS Publishing Ltd with Theresa Cutts. Ian Wheeler has contributed to books about Doctor Who and Blake's 7 and has written widely about cult television. He was Coordinator of the Doctor Who Appreciation Society from 2001 to 2007 and has spoken about the series on television and radio. He has written for publications as diverse as the Financial Times, Best of British, Dreamwatch Bulletin, Comics International, CSO, Celestial Toyroom, TARDIS and Odeon Cinema Magazine. In 2008, he won the Harrogate Advertiser Theakston's Old Peculiar Crime Writing Festival competition.
In northern Britain, a scientist pursued by members of an evil organization that would force him to develop cyborg soldiers must leave his masterpiece, Anne, in the care of three eleven-year-old friends, who protect her and teach her to assimilate into human society.
This book offers a fresh insight into the experience of feeling 'unmutual' or misunderstood, and how this can result in bullying at school and in the workplace, escalating into social phobia, paranoia and obsessive behaviour. It illustrates some of the expressions of the Asperger condition and provides an accessible introduction to those new to AS.
In northern Britain, a scientist pursued by members of an evil organization that would force him to develop cyborg soldiers must leave his masterpiece, Anne, in the care of three eleven-year-old friends, who protect her and teach her to assimilate into human society.
Find the blueprint and change it... "I suppose this is the bit where the hero regains consciousness, struggles to focus, and mumbles, 'Where am I?' Except I knew exactly where I was... Liam Creedy has not had the best of times at Patrick Freeman High. Now in his final year, he suffers at the hands of bullies and is rendered unconscious. When he wakes, he finds himself in a strange distortion of school life - the building has no main exit, the classrooms have become work places, the prefects are more like police, and no one ever mentions their parents. Now everything and everyone is in black and white; everyone except Liam and Mr Samson, the boy's aloof and mysterious guide in this nightmare world. Has he slipped into a parallel world? Is he really in a coma lying on a hospital bed? Or is he dead and in some place of limbo? As tension builds and the school moves nearer and nearer to all out war, Samson presses Liam to find the blueprint and change it - only then will he find the way out. Will Hadcroft weaves a tale that dares to confront one's right to be an individual in a world that demands conformity and uniformity. He questions the education system, the roles we are pressured to play in society, and the need to challenge accepted norms before it is too late.
The adventures of Anne Droyd the android and her three human guardians, Gezz, Malcolm and Luke. The plucky foursome enjoy a vacation in the historic coastal town of Whitby, where monsters are on the rampage after dark.
Gezz, Luke and Malcolm are enjoying a trip up Winter Hill on the West Pennine moors when they are joined by a fourth person, a boy wearing old-fashioned clothes and a grey flat cap. But, when Luke introduces himself, the boy fades into nothing! Is he a ghost? Soon, the wilderness is full of apparitions, and all the clues point to the television transmitter at the hill's summit. Where are the spectres coming from? Why are they appearing? And what are their intentions? As the ghosts start to haunt the children's housing estate, Gezz, Luke and Malcolm take their robot friend Anne Droyd up Winter Hill, hoping her superhuman powers will help them solve the mystery. For one of them, life will never be quite the same again.
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