Fifth Friday (and Saturday, and Sunday...)

This is one of those rare weekends when, even if you aren't sure Welfare Rights Lit is your thing, you can stockpile the entire Social Insecurity series on your Kindle for nothing, just in case it is.


Severe Discomfort, in which you're introduced to Lyn and Terry Walker - who are neither heroes, nor anti-heroes, merely disabled people getting on with their lives until someone decides they're benefit cheats - is free today (29th July), along with the sequel/second half of the story, Continual Supervision.  If you enjoy these, or if you have genuine, constructive criticism you would like to share, please, please do a review - either on Amazon or Goodreads.  You might also like to track down the Solent Welfare Rights Project on Facebook and say 'hello' to the (entirely fictional) team. 


Do tell your friends about the books, so they can download them free too - next on 5th August for SD and 12th for CS.  You could even suggest your MP reads them!

You can catch up with the Walker family and their advisers a couple of years on in Limited Capability - a sometimes grim but ultimately uplifting tale of Employment and Support Allowance assessments - with all three episodes free on Saturday, and individually on consecutive Saturdays throughout August.


The last in the series, Claimant Commitment, in which the characters find themselves in the Coalition-era of sanctions and the Bedroom Tax, is free on Sunday, and in individual instalments on successive Sundays throughout the month, except for Part 2 which I can't programme free that day as it starts a new Kindle Direct term that day, so that one will be free on Saturday instead this time!

Grand Union, the 4mph thriller, isn't free, as the (real) benefits team need biscuits more than ever right now as we go onto short-time working and await the outcome of another funding bid.  Depending on the weather, I may get a lot of gardening done in the next few months, or a lot of writing, or a little of each.  Either way, a new Daphne Randall adventure is well on its way.