Chaplin Books imprint: 51 books
Playing Sherlock Holmes
Interviews with John Wood, Robert Stephens and Christopher Lee
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Playing Sherlock Holmes contains three verbatim interviews - with John Wood, Robert Stephens and Christopher Lee - about their very different experiences of appearing as Holmes on stage and screen. The interviews were conducted in 1974. At the time, John Wood was appearing on stage in an acclaimed...
by Ted Harriott
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
Peer Confesses,Bishop Undresses,Torso Wrapped in Rug,Girl Guide Throttled,Baronet Bottled,J.P. Goes to Jug.Fleet Street is perhaps hardly a place you would associate with poetry, but when Ted Harriott and John Bull started asking around, they were surprised by how many ‘closet poets’ they unearthed...
by Clair Maskell
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Emily had planted a tiny sunflower seed in her garden but it was not growing. So her Daddy took her to visit Mrs Handbag, a colourful lady with crazy hair and a sparkly dress. Could Mrs Handbag work some magic on Emily’s seed? An ideal story for reading aloud to small children, with delightful colour illustrations.
Sebastian
A Travelling Bear
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
When Sebastian says he wants to travel, the other toys suggest a trip to the North Pole or the Equator. But Sebastian is just a teddy-bear: how could he possibly go around the world on his own? Fate steps in, and soon he is on an adventure that takes him first to Paris and then on a train bound for Russia....
HMS Bermuda Days
An Ordinary Seaman's Log
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2013
In 1961 the Royal Navy came up with a brilliant idea: why not take all its rogues, thugs and malcontents and place them on board its flagship, HMS Bermuda, where hard work and continuous exercising would keep them out of trouble?Joining this colourful crew was sixteen-year-old Peter Broadbent, fresh...
Me and My Hair
A Social History
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
Good hair day? Bad hair day? Hair has always evoked strong emotions.In this fascinating book, Patricia Malcolmson examines how British women over the past 150 years have managed their hair, from the extravagant styles of the late nineteenth century to the ‘anything goes’ attitude of today, taking...
Danny Boyle - Lust for Life
A Critical Analysis of All the Films from Shallow Grave to 127 Hours
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Danny Boyle is one of contemporary filmmaking’s most exciting talents. Since the early 1990s he has steadily created a body of work that crosses genres and defies easy categorisation, from black humour (Shallow Grave), gritty realism (Trainspotting), screwball comedy (A Life Less Ordinary), cult adaptations...
Impeccably Dressed
How Costume in Pepe-le-Moko Constructs Jean Gabin as Object of the Erotic Gaze
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
Does Laura Mulvey’s theory, that only women can be the object of the erotic gaze in cinema, still hold true if films that lie beyond mainstream Hollywood are examined? Through close analysis of the 1937 French film Pépé-le-Moko, this paper examines those aspects of the filmmakers’ craft which influence...
Evading the Issue
Hollywood and the Social Problem Film
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Tino Balio, in his book The American Film Industry, said that the Production Code meant that American films could not deal with political or social issues ‘in an honest and truthful fashion’. This incisive essay tests out the legitimacy of Balio’s claims, using The Lost Weekend (directed by Billy...
by Edward Alexander
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2015
How is it possible that despite the destruction of its infrastructure during the Siege of Sarajevo in the 1990s, Bosnian cinema rapidly rose to claim many of the most prestigious awards in world cinema during the 2000s? Were Bosnian films simply ‘better’ than those from neighbouring post-Yugoslav...
by Amanda J Field
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
This fascinating book explores the way that Sherlock Holmes has been appropriated by British businesses to advertise everything from carpets and tyres, to honey and whisky. Somerset Maugham believed that Holmes had survived so long in the public imagination because Arthur Conan Doyle had hammered the...
How to Achieve Good Fortune
A 1930s Guide
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
Is good fortune just a matter of luck? Or being born under the right star? In this compelling book, Murdo MacLeod shows how you can load the dice in your own favour. Murdo MacLeod’s easy-to-follow programme demonstrates how to harness the power within you in order to achieve:material wealthperfect...
The Ismay Line
The Titanic, the White Star Line and the Ismay family
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
The Ismay Line charts the rise and fall of one of the most eminent British shipping companies - and tells the story of the family behind it. The founder of the White Star Line, T H Ismay, pioneered a revolutionary design of iron steamships, built for him by Harland & Wolff of Belfast. By the time of...
by John W Green
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2013
Walking around Lee-on-the-Solent provides tantalising glimpses into its past - whether it’s the balconied Victorian buildings in Pier Street, the Art Deco frontages above the shops in Marine Parade West, the airfield with its gliders soaring peacefully overhead, the hovercraft museum, the sight of...