Box Office Poison : Hollywood’s Story in a Century of Flops, Tim Robey

Box Office Poison : Hollywood’s Story in a Century of Flops, Tim RobeyNew Paperback 'Failure fascinates, for all the reasons that success is a drag . . .' In his hugely acclaimed alternative history of Hollywood, Tim Robey leads us through a century of its most notable flops. From Freaks to Land of the Pharaohs, Dune to Speed 2, and Catwoman to Cats here is the definitive take on these ill fated, but essential celluloid failures.

Who would want to stand in their way

An exquisitely illustrated look at the stories of 50 ghosts from around the world

and the contemporary contest between tradition

leading an army to triumph against overwhelming odds

surrounded by rugged fells

Rey is quiet and shy and an expert on nature

the lowest of the low

how the earliest people found a way of life in the Highlands - and how she then found a home there millennia later

accompanied by Isabelle Follath's engaging and witty artwork

the growth of literacy

A chicken egg

We discover how the power-hungry Earl Godwin plays all sides until his own son Harold eventually seizes the crown and why Harold's brother Tostig chose to betray both him and his people for the Norman William the Bastard