...here's another couple of investigations into breaking free of the modern world...
Utopian Dreams by Tobias Jones
And if you need further proof that there might be a better, happier way to live, Utopian Dreams offers one writer's attempt to retreat from the 'real world' - which is making him emptier and angrier by the day - and seek out the alternatives to modern manners and morality. With his wife and baby in tow, Tobias Jones spends a year with spritualists, time-travellers, reformed drug addicts and Quakers, producing a fascinating exploration of the meaning of community.
How to Be Free by Tom Hodgkinson
In How to be Free, follow-up to cult bestseller How to be Idle, Tom Hodgkinson shows how to throw off the shackles of anxiety, bureaucracy, debt, governments, housework, moaning and much more besides. Buy this book or alternatively, on Tom Hodgkinsons advice, take a really radical decision and . . . buy a ukulele.
