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Now updated all in this specially horrible authonomy format.. Check out or download the Technicolor version on the Blog, (clic below)
Please let me know if anyone spots a cock-up! And thanks again everyone for your help and support with this project.
I'm promoting The Free on its blog..it's a Free Download, and got some interest, with the Occupy lot taking off. It now has 1700 'Fiends on Farcebook' and 50,000 views of its blog (but fewer readers and less comments).

One lonely abused schoolgirl 'OCCUPIES' herself.. and sets off an explosive social and economic Revolution..

This book is a gas, terrific writing,
a wonderful and likely prophetic story for the near future .. Jim Mac.

It creates poetry out the strange internal rhythms and logic of the main character,
full of off-beat rhythms and lyrical leitmotifs...Rob Stewart

“The Free. An unbelievably exciting book, not because of its stupendous pace and action
filled plot, but because of the depth of character holding us breathless as we explore one after another of these amazing people.’’ Gerry McCullough-

Yahoo! It is in acts, has skin and is feminist, what more can one want .Truly supported. A Zoomer

This book is truly unique. The characters and plot flow like water,
and are tasty like chocolate. A.A.

It's sexy and wonderful and just pure joy... a breathless celebration of life...
Gold in its purest literary form. Bec


About the writer

Who cares who I am?
Just so the book can be neatly labelled and filed away?.
“I knew it! ...an evil anarchist!
Who I am is not important here, except to show, perhaps,
that I am serious, about these scribbles.
So here goes...

After a boring education (I did Eng. Lit. and a thesis on De-Schooling) I began a rather brilliant career as a layabout. Passing my idle hours on Adventure Playgrounds, Street Theater, Anti Nukes and Subversive Nonsense,.
For several years I shared a magnificent squat in central Amsterdam, before definitively dossing down in Brixton, with a creditable six and a half years on the dole.
While whiling away my life doing Squatters Aid, Pirate Radio and Partying I enjoyed superb park-view accommodation, and jotted down the first version of this book for the class-less Hooligan Press.
Retiring extremely early to Barcelona beach, I was horrified to have to work and even pay rent. But then the occupations took off, and I ended up living in a 'Social Center' (on top of a mountain.).
Here I play around with gardens and old cars, and, um,
look after children and horses... I can cook a deadly vegetarian paella and my hobbies include solar-powered internet and, er, rooting in bins.
We have a wizard windmill and dispose of excellent compost toilets.
I do have one big son, who's 11 years old and speaks 4 languages (not all at once).

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The Free

M.Gilliland

One lonely abused schoolgirl 'OCCUPIES' herself.. and sets off an explosive social and economic Revolution..


.The State is going bottoms up, the Climate is going crazy,
......we’re living the collapse of capitalism, blow by blow,
...............................with a rainbow.
..............Linda changes her name to Maxie
.....She and her new friends get free of their traumas,
..and get into dealing death blows, to a skinhead gang,
....a bankrupt school and the testerical special police.
.........Next thing they flee to Ragwort CoOp Pool,
........ in a big safe occupied working class area.
.......We play the adventure live through their eyes,
..laughing and lamenting... inventing social revolution.

..The PIF soldiers eventually arrive, to restore capitalist chaos,
............Macker and Maxie are missing, the hunt begins,
....while the spaced out invaders get subverted, corrupted,
..............................swallowed and digested.
Our odd family puzzles with the pieces.. finding a fun lifestyle,
......a coppice farm, and bright ideas for saving The Planet,
but keep your hankies handy, folks.. click on your giant wings,
........................... for the fantastic FLYING finale!

I try to return all Shelvings.. unless your book is fascist, sexist or racist..

 

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I wrote 22 days ago

Hi there Joe and hope you're Swell and Bappy Just back here to give your terrific book a little push (up I hope) I had forgotten it was quite so brilliant, endearingly engrossing and engagingly entertaining to the end. If you could just climb 2 spaces you'd get it to NUMBER ONE in Feb and ret... view book

I wrote 27 days ago

hello there Mr G, just had a quick dive into your book and enjoyed the settings very much, from the yachting details to the wide open beaches, the mewing peewits and the gathering horror. Excellent evocation..6 stars view book

I wrote 27 days ago

Hi there. Just finished the 3 chapters with an urge to read more. ch 1 is superb, a fine mix of horror, surprise, original observation, delicious literary subtleties and mad black humopur. In Ch 2 I got lost, briefly, with the shorts designed to fill us in on the Collapse of Civilizati... view book

I wrote 28 days ago

I much enjoyed these excepts from Dogge's adventures, I presume this is partly autobiographical, with lots of nods to famous Irish writers. Giving it a spin on my shelf to read some more catchalater... mikegilli The Free view book

I wrote 28 days ago

Hi Jessica I've been in your Library and enjoying Ben 'n Anna's tale Very nicely told I thought. I was hoping Anna might cop on that some pet, or preferably the seal, was actually Ben! All the best with it....... mikegilli The Free view book

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