Hartismere School

Est. 1451. An outstanding coeducational secondary school & sixth form college and England's first academy

Home Login

Alexander Gordon Smith

Alexander Gordon Smith


The official, personal website of Alexander Gordon Smith, author of The INVENTORS, ESCAPE FROM FURNACE, The FURY and The DEVIL'S ENGINE

Explore...

Guardsman Tromans Simon Armitage's 'Remains'

Zhang Yimou - Visionary of China's past

A Girl's Own Story

Rate a trailer yourself... | British Board of Film Classification

The Wave: Cinema's most terrifying lesson

Book recommendations Year 8

A Level English Literature: moving towards a critical vocabulary

Dracula, 1931 - Don't look in the mirror

Behind Carol: the photographers who influenced Todd Haynes’ award-winning film

Year 7 English poems

New...

Examination Rules, Guidance and Support

Film post-production explained

Pan's Labyrinth - The Pale Man article

I Belong: encouraging girls into computer science programme

Hartismere Art & Photography Exhibition 2025

5 Brilliant Moments in Patterns

Pupil Premium Strategy Statement

Year 10 British Farming Fortnight

Discover...

Just For Fun ZEN English Key Stage 3 Jcq Transport Short Film Assessment Aspen Russell Ingredients Post-Production Sound The Wave Vimeo Do The Right Thing Cinematography Anthology Private Study College Fallen Angels

Uh-oh - we were unable to load our website on your browser so we're showing you a plain HTML version.

We use many features found in modern browsers and regrettably yours seems incompatible.

However this legacy version contains (very, very nearly) all the same content. Each page is rendered on our server and doesn't rely on any browser features except the odd font. It doesn't even need Javascript or fancy CSS. It's like being in 1995!

Your browser is reporting itself to us as Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com). Please consider updating your browser to make the most of our website.

If you would like to try our proper website again - you can do so here...