In an imaginary country beset by a devastating financial crisis, three people and a tree become involved in a vicious territorial battle.

Is there a winner? Who gets to choose the weapons? Why do artists make art? How do finance ministers save countries? Is it true that pine pollen boosts testosterone? What is the discreet distance for a bodyguard? What kinds of heels are acceptable for visiting a refugee camp? Why is Hokusai more appropriate in the guest bathroom than the master bedroom?

These and many other intriguing questions are either answered or left hanging in this book where bold and expressive full-colour images combine with a caustically humourous text to tell a story which verges on the absurd – yet for anyone who has lived through the irrational responses of neo-liberalism to the recent near breakdown of the capitalist system, it will seem uncomfortably close to home!

Here are the first two pages of the story . . .

And some images from later in the book . . .

Publication date: September 5, 2019

• Paperback ISBN: 9780995593954
• Paperback (15.2 x 22.9 cm; 102 pages; 46 full colour illustrations) price $15. £11.99. €13.19
• Paperback available from Amazon.com Amazon.co.uk and other Amazon stores.