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<em>"If you want a glimpse into one version of alternative London in the 1970s and 80s, here it is... amusing and enchanting in equal measures; a kind of Thousand and One Nights for the counterculture."
</em>Rupert Loydell, <a href="http://internationaltimes.it/living-the-dream/">International Times</a>

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<strong><span style="color: #000000;">Dave Tomlin
Paperback
210 x 148
£15.99
ISBN: 9781907222566</span></strong>
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<em>‘The ideas we discussed in the sixties were not just ideals: many people actually put them into practice. These tales are the best account I’ve ever read of trying to live that life. Written with a wonderfully light touch and yet often dealing with seriously challenging issues, this is a book that probes deep but will also make you laugh out loud.’</em>
Barry Miles

<em>‘Dave Tomlin’s collection of tales gives a vivid picture of the counter-culture of those years at its most engaging. I personally found the tales funny, and often touching.’  </em>Diana Athill

One night in 1976, a group of squatters entered the Cambodian Embassy in London, an opulent building that had remained empty for two years following the bloody revolution of the Khmer Rouge. For the next<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>fifteen years, this peculiar residence would play host to the Guild of Transcultural Studies, an open platform for creative monomaniacs, radical metaphysicians, poets, prophets and exiles.
<p class="p1">Dave Tomlin, founder of the Guild, member of the experimental music ensemble Third Ear Band, and contributor to the legendary underground newspaper <i>International Times</i>, traces a playful, semi-fictionalised, and highly readable path through this long occupation, illustrating the unfettered nature of its many occupants while providing a vivid portrayal of a more leisured age in which eccentricity could<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>flourish more readily.</p>
<p class="p1">These humorous, perceptive, and deftly crafted vignettes boast a thinly disguised cast of provocateurs, including John Michell, earth mysteries sage and fortean, Nicholas Carr-Saunders, author of <i>Alternative London</i>, beat poets Harry Fainlight and George Andrews, playwright of <i>The Warp</i> Neil Oram, countercultural photographer and journalist John “Hoppy” Hopkins, and Sir Mark Palmer, aristocrat-turned-gypsy-traveller and male model impresario.</p>
<strong>About the Author
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<p style="text-align: left;">Artist, writer and musician Dave Tomlin was a founder-member of the seminal free-form folk group Third Ear Band. A constant presence within the London underground scene, he founded the Guild of Transcultural Studies in 1976 and contributed to the <i>International Times</i>.</p>

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