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...
A Level English Literature: Prose Criticism
The Wave: Tim becomes Wenger's bodyguard (clip 6 of 9)
Farrand on Film: GCSE Film Studies, Component 1: US Films
Vertigo video essay - cinematic influence
The Wave: the first autocracy lesson, part 1 (clip 2 of 9)
New...
Examination Arrangements: Summer 2026
New Wolsey Youth Theatre applications are now open for September 2026
Discover...
Just For Fun ZEN English Key Stage 3 Afternoon Wolsey Mocks Hartismere Short Film Students Art Work Sports Clubs Year 8 Representation Year 12 Poetry Revision YouTube Competition Design Technology Year 9
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...