Oxford UK-based artist and writer Mike Philbin has been an independently published novelist and short-story writer since 1989.

His new novel Custodian (CreateSpace, £6.99), the first in the ‘free planet’ series, follows a group of Oxford University’s finest minds, the eponymous Custodians, enabling people to escape the yoke of Corporate Slavery to The Industry.

Radical students also join in, starting a TV show called Natural Lottery, to be broadcast on all channels.