Unique limited edition copy of the novel Floaters by C.M. Taylor.
50% of profits going to Surfers Against Sewage, to help support their big campaigning year – 2026 offers a once in a generation window to positively influence the UK’s water quality.
Only 215 copies of this first edition will ever be printed – one copy for each mile of the Thames.
Each copy hand-numbered, signed, and hand-named after a feature of the waterway associated with the numbered mile.
When they’re gone, they’re gone.
Sometimes cleaning up means getting dirty first
School’s out, meaning a long summer of freedom for three best friends – lost boy JP, high-achieving No Phone and ever-changing Twix – but when they dive gleefully into their local wild swimming spot they find sewage oozing from an overflow pipe.
Eww! They’re angry and bewildered, but what can they do? Can their spirit of rebellion turn to genuine activism when they meet gutsy boomer Barbara Bone, especially when she exposes MP Julian Coutts and the water company’s role in the sewage dumps?
A mad plan evolves, to take revenge, but can JP, No Phone and Twix really pull off their unlikely eco-heist? Funny, fast-paced, and heartfelt, Floaters is a coming-of-age caper capturing the generational moment when youthful despair turns to fearless action.
Surfers Against Sewage
Surfers Against Sewage is a grassroots environmental charity that campaigns to protect the ocean and all it makes possible. It was created in 1990 by a group of Cornish surfers, fighting to clean up the sea that was making them sick. Now, Surfers Against Sewage campaigns on all that threatens the ocean – plastic pollution, the climate emergency, industrial exploitation and water quality – by taking action on the ground that triggers change from the top.
About the author
Craig has authored five novels, two of which have been optioned for the screen, and has co-written a feature film. He is Senior Lecturer at the Oxford International Centre for Publishing. A novice experimental film director whose work has won and been screened at numerous international film festivals, and an art history enthusiast, Craig lives in Oxfordshire, with his wife and daughters where he canoes regularly on the Thames.
https://cmtaylorstory.substack.com/
Praise for C M Taylor
- You’ll have a hoot: The Guardian
- Taylor is clearly a very accomplished and witty prose stylist: The Mirror
- As with all good satire, this dystopian vision inspires laughter and loathing in equal measure: Independent on Sunday
- Magnificent: Sport Magazine
- Brilliant: The Sun
Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental