Phil Smith of Wrights & Sites' fame is not the first to walk in the footsteps of W.G. Sebald, whose The Rings of Saturn is an account a walk round Suffolk 20 years ago.What is remarkable is that Phil's own walk was quite as extraordinary as Sebald's and that he matches Sebald's erudition, originality and humour swathe for swathe.On one level On Walking... describes an actual, lumbering walk from one incongruous B&B to the next, taking in D...

In this Footbook, Phil Smith (Mytho, Crab Man) extends his critical account of the gentle walking arts to the predatory lurch of the living dead. The author has been a keen observer of the zombie mythos for the past 35 years, and here he draws on the mass of plots, images and metaphors that can be found swarming in zombie movies and comics. Instead of treating zombie media as a kind of parallel universe, he concentrates on the 'normality' of the zombie apocalypse - showing how zombies have...

This practical, accessible and far-reaching guide to making site-specific theatre and performance emphasises the diversity of approaches to the practice, and explores key principles of space and site. Phil Smith draws on a wide range of interdisciplinary and international performance examples, and uses an innovative variety of exercises, to show students and aspiring performance-makers how to find a site and generate a performance beyond the theatre building.

A book about developments in walking and walk-performance for enthusiasts, practitioners, students and academics. walking’s new movement is intended for anyone who makes, or wants to make, walking art or walk-performances - and for anyone interested in psychogeography, radical walking, drift and dérive, site-specific performance, and the use/abuse of public space in the shadow of Jack the Ripper, Jimmy Savile and many others.

Jahrtausende lagen die vorzeitlichen Gräber von Liggingstone unberührt in einem abgeschiedenen englischen Moor. Dann entschließt sich die Regierung, auf dem Gräberfeld eine Laser-Versuchsanlage zu errichten.Beim Bau der Anlage kommt es zu unerklärlichen Zwischenfällen. Aber keiner der beteiligten Wissenschaftler ahnt, dass ihre Maschine zu einer Brücke ins Jenseits geworden ist.Bis sich schließlich die Gräber öffnen...Der Roman Die Auferstehungsmaschine aus...

Burnley achieved the seemingly impossible in 2009, promotion to the Premier League. Fast forward two years, and the club find themselves back in the Championship. Turf Moor Monthly captures the trials and tribulations of a calendar month at Turf Moor, covering every game of manager Eddie Howe`s tenure down Harry Potts Way. Five games, three defeats, and a Barry Kilby resignation. Phil recalls all the key events of February, as our promotion charge appears to have finally petered out.

This is the definitive guide to Counter-Tourism, except that Counter-Tourism has a low opinion of definitive guides. So it’s more like an equivocal misguide. It includes dozens of detailed Counter-Tourism ‘tactics’ plus the thinking behind Counter-Tourism, its academic and philosophical background, and its roots in film, music and literature.It also features more than 200 colour photographs, gathered by the author in the course of his counter-tourist driftings.In addition, ...

Burnley achieved the seemingly impossible in 2009, promotion to the Premier League. Fast forward two years, and the club find themselves back in the Championship. The Big Picture is a review of the 2011-12 season. Turf Moor Monthly captures the trials and tribulations of a calendar month at Turf Moor, covering every game of manager Eddie Howe`s tenure down Harry Potts Way. It was a disappointing debut season for Eddie Howe, thirteenth place and no real top six challenge reflects a period o...

"I'm bursting to say how beautiful, bewildering and breathtaking this book is. I don't want it to end...maybe it never does..." - 5-star reader's reviewThis is a book for urban explorers, imaginative walkers, ambulant youngsters, difficult drifters, artists of the path less travelled, mythogeographers, psychogeographers, situationists and all the restless.Phil Smith author of 'Mythogeography', 'On Walking' and the 'Counter-Tou...

An arrival and the usual between father and son. Then the meeting with June, the woman of the young mans dreams. Their coming together and the life they lead in this new world.The mistake, the discovery, the handing in. The trial and after and that ending!

Burnley achieved the seemingly impossible in 2009, promotion to the Premier League. Fast forward two years, and the club find themselves back in the Championship. Turf Moor Monthly captures the trials and tribulations of a calendar month at Turf Moor, covering every game of manager Eddie Howe`s tenure down Harry Potts Way. Six games, one win and a haul of just six points, only Barnsley managed a lesser total than Eddie Howe`s side in March. A first FA Youth Cup semi-final appearance since ...

A powerful, gripping and passionate award winning young adult novel of land rights, Maori spirituality, coming-of-age and love. The Unknown Zone begins with the story of fifteen-year-old Hemi Ratana who, traumatised by a humiliating incident, climbs a giant kauri on the Coromandel Peninsula in a do-or-die test of courage. High in the head branches of the kauri, Hemi finds a human skeleton. Around its neck is a key on a chain. What does the key unlock? Nearly 160 y...