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Click to view Shropshire Life feature INDEX (this page) (contents & inspiration) (major inspiration!) (yet more inspiration!) (& read an extract!) (for various media) (biography) (poetry, essays, short stories, reviews, travelogues) (The International Hope-ist Movement - a credible strategy for saving the world?)	*Saving the World and Being Happy* *(The Computer Ager)* "...a delicious mixture of messianic message, wicked satire, sweet romance and utter hilarity..." - Marian Van Eyk McCain in Resurgence magazine GET IT HERE GET IT HERE Click here to read an open letter to Bob Geldof Hope-ism coming true! Saving the World and Being Happy suggests a way of bringing the multinational companies to heel. The strategy for doing so is developed by the so-called International Hope-ist Movement. An essential step is the scoring of companies and products. I am delighted to say that this is now happening in reality. Please visit Ethiscore. Now featured in the Veterinary Times Read Veterinary Times article. Others say... "Swanepoel writes with the sensitivity of a great author and the precision of a scientific master and the result is like nothing you will have read before." - Hayley Goodwin "Awesome! Could this be 'The Celestine Prophecy' of politics?" - Loren Cottrell *"Swanepoel has managed to combine a funny and readable novel with a highly researched analysis of global economics..."* - Joe Middleton by R. Eric Swanepoel Published by PublishBritannica. Now available from only Ł10! (Became available for ordering 18 August, officially released 4 October 2004) "So, is that what you brought me here for? To tell me you've discovered Marxism? Well bully for you, Nathaniel, most of us went through that phase years ago! I gave it up when I gave up smoking, and I've been a lot healthier in mind and body since! Don't you remember our walks on the beach?" Mary snapped her swizzle stick. This was not what Nathaniel had expected, but then if he'd thought about it he should have known that she'd changed. "Look, Mary, you don't understand…." [From Chapter 21] Saving the World and Being Happy charts Nathaniel Papulous's life from lovelorn schoolboy and computer nerd to head of the all-powerful International Hope-ist Movement. He wins, loses, and regains the love of the beautiful Rosemary, and succeeds in bringing the greedy multinational corporations to heel, thus "saving the world". Opening in the portentous style of Victorian biography, this humorous novel recounts the misadventures of its hero, taking sideswipes at such issues as celebrity culture, Muzak and product placement without losing sight of its main themes: the concentration of wealth in the hands of a corrupt few and the related increase in global poverty, the divided nature of the political left, and the means by which the latter may be united and so democratise the world.	ISBN 141371756X Click to view full-size Click to view newspaper article "...great read, funny, thought-provoking, intelligent..." - Tony Cook (Co-Founder, Red Pepper) Read more reviews ... Nathaniel discovered that he wasn't an artist. No matter how clear the image of this reluctant Juliet was in this too-willing Romeo's brain, it did not compensate for a lack of drafting skills. The clean new sheet of graph paper rapidly became a grey eczematous cellulosification of failure: so many rubbings out, so many millimetres of pencil lead — all wasted. [From Chapter Two]