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A Boy Called Alex

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A MULTI AWARD-WINNING COMPANY WITH A REPUTATION FOR CRAFTED AND INTELLIGENT FILMS TO INTRIGUE, INSPIRE, DELIGHT AND PROVOKE

SPRING 2021 UPDATE

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Stephen Walker's new book, Beyond: The Astonishing Story of the First Human to Leave Our Planet and Journey into Space published by HarperCollins in April 2021 marked the 60th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s world-changing flight into space in 1961. The book tells the gripping tale of one of the greatest – and riskiest – adventures of the twentieth century. Visit the BEYOND Website.

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BEYOND has been receiving excellent reviews:

"A thrilling piece of storytelling."

The Sunday Times

Lead Review

"A spellbinding account of Gagarin's journey to unexpected immortality. Beyond had me enthralled from the outset, A guaranteed gem."

Colin Burgess

author of Freedom 7: The Historic Flight of Alan B Shepard

"Beyond has the exhilaration of a fine thriller - brought sympathetically, and sometimes tragically, to life."

Colin Thubron

author of Shadow of the Silk Road

"The very best account of Yuri Gagarin's space mission. A wonderfully rendered story of an epochal event"

Asif Siddiqi

author of Challenge to Apollo

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Walker George Films is delighted to announce that Stephen Walker’s New York Times bestseller Shockwave: Countdown to Hiroshima has been republished in a new edition in the United Kingdom by HarperCollins (July 2020) for the 75th anniversary of the world’s first atomic bomb. For more information please go to harpercollins.co.uk   Available in paperback or Kindle from Amazon.co.uk

Meanwhile Shockwave is being developed as a major feature film by the UK’s leading film production company, Working Title Films.

Screenwriter Tom Edge (who scripted the Judy Garland biopic Judy and co-scripted the hit Netflix series The Crown) is currently writing the final draft of a dramatized feature film based on A Boy Called Alex, our triple BAFTA-nominated 2008 documentary about the brilliant teenage musical prodigy, Alex Stobbs, who suffers from the incurable disease cystic fibrosis. The new feature film will be co-produced with Walker George Films and DNA Films for Film 4.

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