THE autobiography of a 101-year-old Spanish anarchist provides a rich background to a debut e-book by a Tavistock author.

Kevin Eady, who lives in Glanville Road, has published his first novel, 'Uncontrollable' — the tale of Buenaventura Garcia. Based on fiction but drawn on real events the story follows Buenaventura from his birth in Barcelona in 1909 before destiny leads him to his participation in the Spanish Civil War, the concentration camps of France and Germany, surviving a gulag and playing his part in Russian rebellion before his life is transformed and he finds himself Amsterdam.

The author promises a final shocking twist in the tale. Kevin told the Times: 'There are three possible interpretations at the end — a slightly science fictional one, a slightly dismal one and a slightly shocking one. I prefer the slightly shocking!'

The title 'Uncontrollable' comes from what the leadership of the Republican movement during the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s called those within their own ranks who did not always follow the party line.

Kevin, aged 58, studied modern history at St John's College, Oxford. He is now semi-retired, after recently being made redundant as an IT worker from a Plymouth paper-making company.?It took a year to research and write his 80,000-word novel.

'In many ways,' says Kevin, 'like most of us Buenaventura's life is uncontrollable in how events around him affect his own destiny.

'When it comes to this book, of course, you have a dream of worldwide success but I'm more realistic. If it sells I will feel it has been worthwhile and if enough people enjoy the e-book then I will be happy with that.'