Books with author Mike Chapman

"Please Don't Call Me Tarzan" is the story of the fascinating life of Herman Brix/Bruce Bennett --- from the lumber camps of Washington to the Olympic Games to the Hollywood scene of the 1930s, '40s, '50s and '60s. The book takes the reader through Herman's exciting life...and to Guatemala, where he struggles not only to become the screen's eighth Tarzan, but to stay alive in primitive conditions. Herman Brix is considered by many Tarzan fans to be the best film apeman ever, due to the great physical presence and dignity he brought to the role. There are over 90 photos in the book, many of them never seen before by the general public, and behind-the-scenes stories of working with stars like Humphrey Bogart ("Sahara" and "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre"). The book also includes a foreword by Danton Burroughs, the grandson of Tarzan creator Edgar Rice Burroughs. This book "enthusiastialy endorses Brix as the ultimate Tarzan, but also details his subsequent -- and important -- film career as well," says Jack Bender, nationally-known artist who draws the syndicated Alley Oop comic strip. "This makes a really good read, and is supplemented by many rarely-seen photos. The beautiful dust jacket is bound to become a collector's item."

The year is 2113. Britain has spent the last fifteen years recovering from a half century long war with mainland Europe; a war that desolated and destroyed unrelentingly; a war that tortured and took unforgivingly; a war that exacted mass bloodshed indiscriminately.Everybody lost something… for too many it was their life.But that was then, and this is now. Things are getting better. The country’s prospects are looking up. Hope is beginning to be restored. Those who were lucky enough to survive the conflict, while forever burdened by the memories of the past, at least can look forward to a future full of promise.Britain has re-emerged from the ashes like a phoenix and has somehow established itself once again as one of the world’s leading superpowers. Crime is down, health and wellbeing are up, and people are just about starting to smile again. And it is all thanks, predominately, to the entrepreneurial exploits of one man; Robert Stone.…..Fast forward nearly eighteen years and the picture is very different. The population is on edge again. Fear lingers in the air like a foul smell once more. The Death Penalty has been reintroduced. Punishment can be passed down to future generations. The hope that had been denied people for so long has once again slipped away like water through a sieve, and the echoes of unrest have spread to all four corners of the globe like a plague.Something happened. Something really, really terrible happened. And the whole world knows that there is only one person alive who is to blame.So, is there any wonder that this journalist is so desperate to meet Alex Gunn?

A wartime story set in the summer of 1941 on the coast of Dorset. The children of a naval officer and a young friend, relocated from London early in the war, search for a book of local topography which had been in the library of their school. The book was lent out, but a page has been torn from the register so they don’t know who borrowed it. They learn that the local public library also had a copy, but it was withdrawn from circulation under defence regulations at the outbreak of war.The search to discover who took out the forbidden book takes an increasingly suspicious course and leads the four children into great danger. The Special Branch, Security Services and Coastguard all become involved, and the story develops a disturbingly spooky dimension when they explore a cave in the cliffs.The children’s researches uncover a connection with the wrecking of an East India Merchantman in a great storm in 1786.As the story progresses, it becomes clear to the children that they are caught up in a spy drama and a mysterious and secret government research establishment.The story culminates in a tense adventure to foil the escape of the spy in a U-Boat, and finishes on a flash of other-worldly meaning.

"With each passing second, I felt my heart pound more rapidly and forcibly in my chest. My head was instructing me to switch off the computer and walk away, reminding me over and over again that there was no chance that this could ever end the way that I wanted it to. But my palpitating heart wouldn't let me leave. Contrary to the fight or flight fuelled adrenaline it was pumping around my body, it knew that I had no choice but to stick around and see this out. As impossible as it may appear, there was the slimmest of chances that it might be worth it? In fact, I'd go so far as to give it a 2% chance; 1.5% that she'd actually be online, and 0.5% that she'd actually want to talk to me. What is there to lose... right?"Anyone who grew up in the early 00's will know just how intrinsic MSN Messenger was to their social life. It was basically Social Media before Social Media was cool. You know how it used to work; you got home, threw your school stuff to one side, fired up the family PC, waited about 20 long, agonising minutes for everything to load up, and then there you go, all your friends, all in one place; evening sorted! And all the while your parents would sit there on the sofa, watching you throw away the best years of your life as you stare zombie-like into the glowing box in front of you for hours on end, and worrying that this ritual that you have become addicted to is slowly going to destroy your abilities to concentrate, conversate and interact/socialise with the real world around you (things really haven't changed much in the last 20 years, have they?)The Daniel Kenny Diaries is the candid account of a socially anxious, socially awkward teenage boy and his journey through the murky and more often perilous waters that were the dawn of the instant messaging era; a journey that would become all the more confusing and uncertain the day that Jess Richardson came online.