Last year were lamenting that the harrowing, but very good book; 'the death of grass' which the very poor, though still harrowing (it's such a good story you can't go wrong) film 'No blade of grass' is based on, has been out of print for decades.
And lo! such is the power of ETS it's back in print :-).

penguin modern classics.

leaving aside the main subject of the novel; john custances moral descent/ascent into tribal leader and the responsibilies that come with it.
what do people think of the tactics for getting to an 'ark' when society is descending into anarchy in a matter of days?
what would you do differently?

i did find the text on the web in a few minutes on google if you don't want to buy it.

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