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CJStone

Books.

CJ Stone is an author, columnist and feature writer. He has written four books: Fierce Dancing: Adventures in the Underground (Faber & Faber 1996); The Last of the Hippies (Faber  & Faber 1999); Housing Benefit Hill & Other Places (AK Press 2001); and The Trials of Arthur (Thorsons/Element 2003). He is currently working on his fifth. Click on the links to read a sample chapter from each.

The Guardian Weekend.

From 1993 till 1998 he was a regular columnist with the Guardian Weekend in the UK. His column Housing Benefit Hill was a runaway hit, observing life on a run down housing estate in a small town in England, while his travel column CJ Stone's Britain took a wry look at the state of Britain in the 90s. You can read the entire collection of of CJ Stone's Britain columns here, while a number of Housing Benefit Hill columns can be found on the links page here.

Prediction.

From 2003-2008, he ran a column for Prediction magazine. There are a number of his Predition columns available on HubPages. Other columns include a fortnightly column for The Whitstable Times and columns for Mixmag & the Big Issue. You can find samples of his Big Issue columns here & here, and his Mixmag columns here, here & here.

More recent columns include a series called Tales of Ordinary Magic for Kindred Spirit magazine, and The Home Front, an on-line column about the indignities of being a homeless middle aged man living with his parents.

The Whitstable Gazette.

Currently he writes a fortnightly column for The Whitstable Gazette. You can read more stories from The Whitstable Gazette & The Whitstable Times on CJ's Whitstable based HubPage Whitstable Views as well as on these pages.

You can find CJ Stone's website here while he also has a facebook page here.

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