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About the Book
Alan is bequeathed the contents of an old farm-house. As he explores the house, he discovers hints that something odd has been happening there, with objects and incidents that just don't make sense.
When a demolition-order is placed on the house, he faces a race against time to rescue as much as he can before everything is destroyed. But when the diggers come to demolish the house, things turn a whole lot stranger, challenging our everyday notions of what is real and what is not.
From what he's found from the house, and other clues that arrive from elsewhere, Alan slowly pieces together a picture of the shadowy world of the Commonwealth and the Viner Codex. It's a world of "weird politics, weird plant-things, weird battles in which nobody dies" - a world that exists in parallel to our own, yet also intersects with it in subtle yet seemingly-unpredictable ways.
For Alan, this becomes a quest to explore if, and how, to incorporate more of the Commonwealth into his own life - and into our real-world lives too.
Set in the recent past in rural England, this blog-like story provides a first-person introduction to the bewildering world of the Viner Codex.
For more details on the story and its storyworld, see the Viner Codex website at http://vinercodex.com .
About the Author
Tom Graves is probably best-known as a writer on subjects in the 'alternative' domains, such as dowsing (water-divining), earth-mysteries research and the relationship between science, technology and magic. Yet he has also done extensive research and writing on a wide range of other themes, including business-models, personal-development and gender-issues. The common theme in all of his work is explorations of how people learn new skills - the development of sensemaking, decision-making, judgement and awareness in discovering new capabilities for and of themselves.
For more information on Tom and his work, visit his personal website http://tomgraves.org or his more business-oriented weblog at http://weblog.tetradian.com .