nine miles

'Nine Miles' describes the fight against the Newbury bypass and other road protests of the British Isles in the mid nineteen nineties. It was a fight characterised by extreme cold, fire and community, cider, drugs and living simply in the woods. It was a fight to preserve our natural inheritance, to make the case for sustainable transport in the face of powerful vested interests and, in a wider sense, to stand up for the earth herself at a time when our lifestyles are often grossly out of balance with the natural order of things. Ten years on, that fight has lost none of its urgency.

"Told with candid humanity and a warm clarity that captures the brilliance, the lunacy, the nobility and the haphazardness of the campaigns."

- Merrick Godhaven, author of Battle for the Trees.

"Deeply moving... managed to catapult me straight back into the midst of the passion, chaos and turmoil."

- Rebecca Lush, founder of Roadblock.

"Beautifully written and wonderfully honest."

- Professor Alastair McIntosh, author of Soil and Soul and Love and Revolution.

"...enormously historically important. A cultural landmark."

- The Nail poetry magazine.

"Extraordinary."

- John Vidal, The Guardian.