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To Live Outside the Law
Book launch
Presented by The Literary Consultancy
Wed 6 Jul 2011, 5:00pm
Free Word Lecture Theatre
The Literary Consultancy is proud to invite Leaf Fielding, a former TLC client, to celebrate the launch of his memoir, To Live Outside the Law, published by Serpent's Tail.
'As bold and innovative as its author, To Live Outside the Law takes the reader on a breath-taking guided tour of academic acid absorption, hitch-hiking hells, emotional whirlwinds, years in the slammer, and colossal amounts of dope.' Howard Marks
Leaf Fielding was arrested in Britain's biggest drugs bust in history, but he didn't do it for the money. He wanted to change the world. To Live Outside the Law is the first insider account of the LSD conspiracy ended by Operation Julie. This book opesn with Leaf Fielding's arrest in a pre-dawn police raid and ends five years later with his release from jail. His ten years of adventures in the hippie underground gave the title to this book - a quote from a Bob Dylan song; they also took him across Europe, to the Andes, to Indochina and on to the edge of the known universe. They also led inexorably to his downfall.
Leaf will be reading from his fascinating memoir, and be in conversation with TLC editor Karl French about how the book came into being.