last updated: 12 December 2024
easy town books
rethinking – well, everything
Available now chapter by chapter on the Charlie Alice Raya website.
As full book available in the evening of:
20 December 2024
€ 8.08
coming on
24 December 2024
€ 8.08
coming on
15 February 2025
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buy & pre-order
December 2024
Buy book 3/1, shaping, and pre-order book 3/2 & 3/3. This option is available from 28 November 2024.
€24.24
You will receive your copy of book 3/2, shaping, entanglements & silence in the morning of Christmas Eve 2024, and your copy of book 3/3, shaping, where do we go from here & decisions in the morning of 15 February 2024.
book 1
beginning
Alice Adler sets out to convince the US billionaire Tom Holbon to build a town experiment. The aim of the experiment is to rethink — well, everything.
Eventually Tom Holbon agrees to use his contacts and assembles a team of experts to create a first draft for the town and for the experiments. The experiments aim at finding out which environment might allow humans to thrive.
While the focus is initially on neurological patients, soon additional features catch the team’s attention, such as business ideas which empower, town layouts and architecture which focus on human well-being, the role of arts & crafts in a vibrant town, the invention of special gardens such as the Senses Garden or the party den, and quite a bit more.
In between, there are personal stories, connections and clashes to discover.
e-book, 531 pages, 134k words
pdf file, optimised for mobile phone & tablet
Price: €8.08 (incl. VAT)
ISBN 978-3-00-060915-2
Chapters
The Letter
Beginning
Week 1 — Settling in
Week 2 — Health & Care
Week 3 — Economics & Business
Week 4 — Ecology & Agriculture
Week 5 — Arts & Crafts
Week 6 — Admin & Society
Week 7 — Research & Education
Week 8 — Design
New York
The First Easy Town Conference
Back at Tom’s
Epilogue
Next: book 2, travelling
Coming up: book 3, shaping
Coming up: book 4, building
Author’s notes
book 2
travelling
part 1&2
Travelling around the world, Alice and her team build an international network for the Easy Town Project.
Travelling with them are the past, personal demons and unwittingly the topic of sex.
Like each country, each chapter opens the doors to another world, to other questions, discussions, connections and conflicts.
This edition includes both parts of book 2:
book 2/1, Prelude, Happy Flying, San Francisco, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, South Africa, Flight to Sydney, Australia, Time off
and book 2/2, Flight to Beijing, China, Otaon, Romania, Flight to Moscow, Russia, Berlin, Afterthoughts, Postscript
book 2, travelling, offers a recap of book 1, beginning, at the end of the book.
e-book, 1298 pages, 325k words
pdf file, optimised for mobile phone & tablet
Price: €20.20 (incl. VAT)
ISBN 978-3-9821289-7-9
Chapters
part 1
Prelude
Happy Flying
San Francisco, California
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Buenos Aires, Argentina
South Africa
Flight to Sydney
Australia
Time off
part 2
Flight to Beijing
China
Otaon
Romania
Flight to Moscow
Russia
Berlin
Afterthoughts
One more step
Next: book 3, shaping
Author’s notes
Recap, book 1, beginning
book 2/1, travelling
book 2/1 includes the chapters:
Prelude, Happy Flying, San Francisco, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, South Africa, Flight to Sydney, Australia, Time off
book 2/1, travelling, offers a recap of book 1, beginning, at the end of the book.
e-book, 509 pages, 128k words
pdf file, optimised for mobile phone & tablet
Price: €9.09 (incl. VAT)
ISBN 978-3-9821289-6-2
Chapters
part 1
Prelude
Happy Flying
San Francisco, California
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Buenos Aires, Argentina
South Africa
Flight to Sydney
Australia
Time off
Next: book 2/2, travelling
Author’s notes
Recap, book 1, beginning
book 2/2, travelling
book 2/2 includes the chapters:
Flight to Beijing, China, Otaon, Romania, Flight to Moscow, Russia, Berlin, Afterthoughts, Postscript
book 2/2, travelling, offers a recap of book 1, beginning, and a recap of book 2/1, travelling, at the end of the book.
e-book, 789 pages, 197k words
pdf file, optimised for mobile phone & tablet
Price: €11.11 (incl. VAT)
ISBN 978-3-9821289-9-3
Chapters
part 2
Flight to Beijing
China
Otaon
Romania
Flight to Moscow
Russia
Berlin
Afterthoughts
One more step
Next: book 3, shaping
Author’s notes
Recap, book 1, beginning
Recap, book 2/1, travelling
Coming soon
December 2024
book 3/1, shaping
arrivals & shaping
Finally the town project team have all relocated to the new base in London and the final shaping phase of the project can begin.
On the first day alone the main characters face some unexpected challenges.
Alice grimaced. She hadn’t expected this. She should have known. All she had expected from today was a happy return to the project, loads of smiles and big hellos and too many hugs. But not this.
Pages: 355 pages, 128k words
Format: pdf
Price: €8.08 (incl. VAT)
ISBN 978-3-9821289-3-1
Contents
Arrivals
1 September
Straight into the heart of the town project and of some of the main characters
15 September
The arrival of the international teams, royals, spies, toilets & rethinking
Shaping
3 October
big & crossover meetings, shaping key buildings, anchors & a squad
15 October
The opening of the Front House and many callers
31 October
The town layout & composition plus Halloween
Coming next
24 December 2024
book 3/2, shaping
entanglements & silence
Part two of book three things get very personal and tense, and that has consequences.
Meanwhile the travelling team departs, the town plans are completed and most members of the team depart for the winter break.
At Christmas Eve the five main stories are woven together and many more are hinted at.
‘Alice, I need you to check in with me frequently over Christmas and New Year.’
‘Dennie, I have survived many Christmases. Why shouldn’t I survive this one?’
‘Christmas shouldn’t be about survival.’
Pages: 300 pages, 120k words
Format: pdf
Price: €8.08 (incl. VAT)
ISBN 978-3-9821289-8-6
Contents
entanglements
11/12 November
Consequences & entanglements
26/27 November
More entanglements, a dance and a fall
2 December
Chickens
And then there was silence
14-16 December
ready, a party, departures, silence
24 December
New Years Eve
28 December
Silence persists & a song for the New Year
6 January
A new year
Coming up
15 February 2025
book 3/3, shaping
Where do we go from here & decisions
Part three is intense as the future of the town project hangs in the balance and that’s not the only shock the teams have to deal with.
‘We are still doing our core work.’
‘Which is?’
‘Rethinking everything. A town would be great, but we don’t need it.’
‘That’s not true and you know it. So long as we don’t have a town, we will just be another group of people with big ideas. The town is our only chance to demonstrate what might be possible.’
‘I know,’ Alice said quietly. ‘And I swear I will not give up on our town. Right now, we are rearranging our project. But we will keep our work going, and we will grow until someone has the guts to open the doors to us.’
Pages: 355 pages, 128k words
Format: pdf
Price: €8.08 (incl. VAT)
ISBN 978-3-9821289-2-4
Contents
Where do we go from here?
10 January
sex talk & conference preparations overshadowed by a clash
13 ff January
The unexpected expected
31 January
The deadline
Decisions
15 February
transformations, more clashes & the summons
16 February
Could this be a site for the town?
17 February
What would you do?, Can we put together a promising campaign team? & A suggestion
