Terms, in plain language
The book is free to read. The paperback costs money. Nothing on this page is written to catch you out, and nothing here takes away a right the law already gives you.
Who we are
Solarpunk Press is an imprint of wordforword OÜ, Tallinn, Estonia. The author, Matt Lygate (GINGERBEARD), is in Glasgow, Scotland.
Write to [email protected] about anything on this site: the book, your data, or a mistake we have made. A person reads it.
What is free
The complete ebook (ePub, Kobo ePub and PDF) is free to download, with no account, no email address and no copy protection. Taking it creates no contract and no debt. You may copy it and pass it on to other people, unchanged and free of charge. You may not sell it or pass it off as your own work. Copyright stays with the author.
What is paid
The paperback is £17.99 in the UK. It is printed to order and posted by Bookvault, who run the checkout and take the payment; it is also sold at list price by The Great British Bookshop. This site has no basket and never sees your card details. The price, postage and any tax for your country are shown in their checkout before you pay, and their own terms apply to the payment and delivery.
Outside the UK the price and postage are higher. Delivery times are the shop’s estimate, not a guarantee from us. The shop is the seller, so a late, lost, damaged or misprinted copy is theirs to put right: the refund page says where to go.
What is voluntary
The Honesty Box is a pay-what-you-want payment through Ko-fi, who process it under their own terms. It is a thank-you for a book you can already read for free. It buys nothing extra and nothing is held back if you pay nothing. A sponsored copy (£13.49) pays for one paperback that we send to a library, youth group or prison library.
Shops, libraries, groups
Bookshops and festival stalls buy at 50% trade (£9 a copy, firm sale) through a Bookvault retailer account. Libraries, charities and community groups buy at 25% solidarity (£13.49 a copy) with a code we send by hand; it works on the Bookvault shop only. These are business purchases and Bookvault’s trade terms apply.
Your rights
When you buy the paperback, your contract is with the shop that sells it to you, and the rights the law gives you as a buyer are against that shop. The refund page points you to them.
The publisher is an Estonian company, so Estonian law applies to these terms. That never removes the consumer protections of the country you live in, and you can always bring a complaint there. EU readers can also use their national consumer body.
This website
The site is offered as it is, free. We work to keep it accurate and running, but we do not promise it will never be wrong or offline. The book is a novel and a set of arguments, not legal, financial or medical advice. Links to other services (Bookvault, Ko-fi, Telegram and the social platforms) lead to sites we do not control. How we handle the little data we hold is on the privacy page; what your browser stores is on the cookies page.
Last updated 14 November 2026. If these terms change, the date changes with them. Questions: [email protected].
