To browse Academia. I am indebted to many people for the completion of this thesis. My first supervisor, Professor Eugene Giddens 'got it' from the start, stayed clear-sighted throughout, and despite not being a creative writer himself, provided the work with much creative insight as well as his customary forensic scholarly attention.
I am deeply indebted to you for steering me to the right course. To my first second supervisor Dr Mick Gowar, who supported my research even through his retirement, by inviting me to co-edit the scholarly journal on books and technology, Book 2.
My second supervisor, Dr Helen Marshall also 'got it' and was instrumental in discussions that led me to the adapted form of screenplay deployed here and whose advice with regards to editing contributed substantially finishing it off to a standard worthy reaching the longlist of The Times Chicken House Children's Fiction Competition.
To Dr Tiffani Angus, my final second supervisor. To my colleague Tanya Horeck for her last-push-to-submission cheerleading. To old friends Rebekah Polding and Vicky Barker the earliest of readers. For Lotus who kick-started my YA reading with a gift book and who has been a constant and muchneeded morale booster and all-around ray of light.
To Louisa Douglas, for friendship, understanding, and childcare support when I most needed it. Ali Smith for her generous comments on a very early manuscript when ambition far outweighed skill, including the invention of a new word 'panacheful' to describe my scribblings.
