My pocket-sized utopian handbook, featuring 60 pages of text and illustrations traces the history of literary utopias from Medieval times to the present day, asking the question: where have all the big dreams gone?

The book is now available to buy online from Magma books here.

““It is 1516.
In England, change is afoot.
Thanks to the Archery Act, adult male longbow competency is on the rise. In other news, thousands of jobless common folk are wandering the parishes looking for work. Poverty is a very risky business on the highways and byways of Tudor England, with even the smallest of crimes punished with public humiliation, or bloody violence.
London meanwhile, is dark, dirty, and dangerous.
In the evening, church bells ring out to warn of the dusk curfew, and the limbs of traitors rot above the city gates. Unimaginable as it may seem, both forks and potatoes are yet to arrive on England’s shores.

These are dark days indeed...””

— Page 18 - Oceans of Lemonade and Other Necessary Nowheres

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Chapter art work

Book trailer