CJ STONE

Author and Columnist

Books By CJ Stone
 

Culled from his regular columns in 'The Guardian' and 'The Big Issue', CJ's latest offering Housing Benefit Hill passionately documents life as experienced "in every run-down council estate in the land, peopled by the forgotten generation of post-thatcherite Britain: the poor, the ejected, the rejected, the lost". His is not that cynical post-modernist impotency so often promoted as "the literature of today", his is the voice of righteous anger raised against the horrible inequalities that those who should know better prefer to dismiss as a "part of human nature"
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Buy Housing Benefit Hill
			Mad, bad and shamelessly bold, self-styled King Arthur Pendragon, Druid and Eco-Warrior fought a fourteen-year battle for the public's right to attend Solstice celebrations at Stonehenge and won. He has taken the Home Office to the High Court and Her Majesty's Government to the European Court, has stood his ground on numerous battlefields, from the wooded enclaves of the Newbury By-Pass construction Site, to the studio's of Clive Anderson's Talk Back. The wonderfully entertaining story of Arthur, his origins and his exploits, also offers a journey through the moral landscape of the modern British psyche
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Buy "The Trials Of Arthur
It's hard to know where the hippie movement begins. It's even harder to know where it ends. There were hippies before they were ever called hippies. And there were hippies long after the hippie movement was dead. There still are hippies. It's a generic term really. It means vaguely fluffy and idealistic with a cosmic turn of phrase. It means naive and optimistic and hopeless with money. It refers to middle-aged pot-fiends who sport dreadlocks and baggy trousers, and who look slightly lost in the world; or to men who've reached the age of fifty without ever having gone out to work. The hippie era was a wild, a visionary, a revolutionary time. Especially as you could claim Social Security while you were at it.
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Buy 'The Last of the Hippies
			Hippie idealism, punk, anarchism, rave organisation and new age mysticism forged in the the fiery heart of dance culture became melded into a new force in the land. Or at least that is what the purveyors of post rave politics like to claim. But is it true? Does hope really lie in the wearing of nose rings? Can we counteract the forces of repression by making sure that our margarine contains no animal fats? Are tattoos the answer? CJ Stone, acclaimed columnist for the Guardian and the Big Issue, travels the land and investigates the curious state we are in
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Buy 'Fierce Dancing'

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