Alec Charles: 7 books

Doctor Who is one of television’s most enduring and ubiquitously popular series. This study contends that the success of the show lies in its ability, over more than half a century, to develop its core concepts and perspectives: alienation, scientific rationalism and moral idealism. The most extraordinary...

The EU is in a constant state of flux: its constitution, its institutions and especially its political, economic and regulatory borders. Media in the Enlarged Europe deals with the complexity and instability of the European Union and its relationship with the mass media, looking beyond national and...

Newspapers have long been enthralled by accounts of cute, cuddly, strange, dangerous and endangered beasts, and by extraordinary and sometimes apocryphal narratives of natural phenomena. This study explores the incidence of several such stories in the British press: from reports of the "ethnic" conflicts...

Lee tires of living with his abusive, street-preaching uncle and makes an escape from him and the small, rundown town in which he was born. He finds himself in Los Angeles where he soon encounters Father Doyle - a fighting, drinking man of his own few rules. Together, the two survive by stealing what...

Two years is a long time in the world of new media – a world of phubbing and selfies, of cyberbullying and neknomination, of bitcoins, Prism surveillance and Google Glass. Much has occurred since the first edition of this book: from the extraordinary social media responses to the deaths of Margaret...

Lee is beaten and left for dead outside Whicker following his vengeful attack of the rotten core of the seemingly peaceful town. His broken body is taken in by The Missionaries of Charity. Father Doyle’s dog-collar saving his skin once more when the Sisters take him for a man of God - but...

With his already broken world in tatters, Lee flees Los Angeles. In his pocket, the off-white dog-collar last worn by his dubious friend Reverend Doyle. Arriving in the town of Whicker, and now adopting the persona of the Reverend, he discovers a person from his long past with a secret as deep...