easy town books

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.

e-book, 531 pages, 134k words, pdf file

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 Conference

Back at Tom’s

Epilogue

book 2, travelling, part 1

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 issue of sex.

The first part of the journey takes the travelling team to San Francisco, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, South Africa and Australia.

While book 1, beginning, introduces the town project, book 2, travelling, places the town ideas in a broader and international context.

INCLUDED is a recap of book 1, beginning, at the end of the book.

e-book, 509 pages, 128k words, pdf file

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

book 2, travelling, part 2

Refreshed from the holidays in Australia, the travelling team begin the second part of their journey around the world.

However, the visit to China is very different from everything the team have encountered so far, and the following stops couldn’t be more different either.

This second part of the journey takes the travelling team to China, Otaon in the Middle East, Romania, Russia and Berlin.

INCLUDED is a recap of book 1, beginning, and a recap of book 2, travelling, part 1, at the end of the book.

e-book, 789 pages, 197k words, pdf file

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

book 3, shaping

part 1: arrivals & shaping

The first day alone is packed with encounters of all colours and vibes, allowing the reader to dive straight into the heart of the town project and also into the hearts of some of the main characters.

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

book 3, shaping

part 2: entanglements & silence

In the second part of book 3, personal entanglements take centre stage. It is a textbook case of what happens if we can’t, for whichever reasons, talk with each other openly.   

Meanwhile the teams complete their final draft for the town.

And then there was silence.

Christmas Eve falls into this silence for Alice.

But the Christmas chapter starts with Andy in a setting we haven’t seen him in before. With his scene a chapter unfolds which is woven from five different stories and allows glimpses into many more.

I dedicate the Christmas chapter to everyone who has trouble with that night or with all Christmas days.

‘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: 282 pages, 89k words, pdf file
Price: €8.08 (incl. VAT)

ISBN 978-3-9821289-8-6

book 3, shaping

part 3: Where do we go from here & decisions

Returning to the project from their winter break, the teams bring back many new ideas for the town. This sort of helps them to deal with the fact that the future of the project hangs in the balance.

As Tom and Alice clash over the future of the project again, a new, unexpected and secretive player enters the stage and asks for a meeting.

There is some kind of game involved, but in the end, the new players offer the project land for the town.

Alice is not the only one who wonders what to make of this offer, though it is Andy who goes on a full meltdown of anger and opposition.

But by the time, Alice takes her decision, things have happened, she never expected.

‘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: 340 pages, 118k words, pdf file
Price: €8.08 (incl. VAT)

ISBN 978-3-9821289-2-4

easy town books – e-books

easy town books

beginning

Chapters

book 2, travelling, part 1

Chapters

book 2, travelling, part 2

Chapters

book 3, shaping

Contents

book 3, shaping

Contents

book 3, shaping

Contents