The Debt Generation is now ready to pre-order! It will be ready to ship out at end of the month.
You can order it direct from the distributor’s secure web site (They are a long established firm – used to be part of Longman Academic publishers, so they are safe and reputable) where the book costs £6.99 + £2.25 p&p or you can order it from Amazon at the full rrp of £9.99.
We get far more of the money if you order from the UK printer, so please consider that option if you can. The link to their web site is
We are in the process of setting up a web site for the book, under debtgeneration.org (still under construction) where anyone who wants to know about the book will be able to hear me read extracts from it, or read them as text and there will be an audio interview about why I wrote the book.
We are also setting up a YouTube site where we will put up films relevant to the book and the ongoing Financial and political crisis. And lastly we will have a Facebook site so that we can have a slightly more interactive side to things including, we hope, threads started by any of you.
You may also be able to order the book through Waterstone’s. Not yet confirmed.
So there you have it. NOW starts the job of letting people know the book exisits. So if any of you know someone who might be interested and wouldn’t mind mentioning it to them, I’d be much obliged.
Great news – congratulations. Hopefully it will pick up a few reviews
Hi Golem,
Congratulations! Have now changed my order to ypd books from Amazon. Looking forward to the website – now to find some willing buyers.
Congratulations!
Is there a kindle version or other electronic format? If not I will pick up the paper copy and then lend it to lots of people after reading it.
Thank you. Sorry I wasn't around to say thanks earlier but I have been out shovelling shit.
I kid you not. A metric tonne of manure was dumped just outside our allotment. The whole lot had to be forked over the fence.
You start being quite prissy about it. By the end you're in the middle of it, sliding around in the stuff. Or maybe that was more info than you needed? Sorry.
Must have been 'great fun' – I presume you ordered it, otherwise very unlucky! And possibly more than I needed to know!
Am thinking of sending a few off as Xmas presents.How's that for an idea?
It's a very generous idea, Cleo.
Hi Golem,
Christmas presents here too, just sorting out postage with them for my worldwide network .
Thanks for the reminder on manure,in the meanwhile just off to get some firewood under cover …
PS good idea getting the veg growing organised . . . in these times . . .
frog2
Hello Forg2,
still geting delicious Sorrel, Rocket and Lettuce. The late Rocket is amazingly tasty. Onions all dried, braided and hung up. A last few little beets. And pounds and pounds of the most fantastic Damson jam. Basically hog heaven!
Firewood split and stacked. Willow is weird wood isn't it? So brittle when its wet. I'll stop now. I'm beginning to sound like Percy Thrower's demented half brother.
Are you sitting comfortably children?
Then we will begin.
Once upon a time….
Good job dude I bet there's a couple of songs in there. Last time i bought a book (not including today) was the latter part of the 20th century 😛
You people make me sick with your veg gardens and firewood stacks.
Sorry, wrong word.
Jealous, you make me jealous, that was it.
24K,
You're a born comedian you know that? Made me laugh out loud.
And yes, I know there is smoe sort of abreviation for laughing out loud, but I'm too old for it.
heartiest congratulations
Cool, just in time for Christmas.
How have you constructed it? One long narrative? In chunks looking at different themes? A series of essays?
Are there pictures? cartoon strips? Pop-ups?
I need to work out the appropriate audience.
The book is based on what I wrote for two years when commenting at the Guardian. It is NOT just comments stitched together. They have been highy edited and streamlined, amalgamated and grouped. But they do follow events.
This gives it a strong narative feel and allows you, I hope, to remember those events as they happened and your own thoughts as they did.
It makes it a very fast read. There is no hanging about with long theoretcal back-story explanations. There IS a coherent critique of present policies as well as an argument for an alternative, which is still open to us. But this emerges out of the events.
What I think is preserved is a strong sense of how it happened, the speed of it, what rubbish we were fed and the growing sense of outrage.
The book relies a lot on the welter of metaphors and analogies that I tend to use as a way of trying to demystify and make plain what experts seem to want to preserve as mystery.
It is NOT a text book. It is NOT a dry theory. It is NOT from within the broad concensus of opinion you get in the papers and on tele.
It aspires to be something more visceral than those things. It is part critique and explanation, part call to arms. Think of those pamphleteers of the English and Amercian revolutions. Think Tom Paine or Gerard Winstanley. I'm not claiming to be in their league. But that is the genre.
Yup! Lovely stuff! Quite so! Can't wait!
Thanks Golem, maybe your book can re-ignite some of the rage I used to feel. The trouble is, it's difficult to maintain the anger over long periods of time while hope is being repeatedly inflated then punctured (think Obama).
Emotions only burn fiercely for a limited time I suppose.
Order placed!