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Web Site Story Waiting for Godalming Sex and Drugs and Sausage Rolls Armageddon the Musical The Antipope

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Paperback - Corgi (2001)

First British Edition Doubleday (2001)

Web Site Story
A techno-gothic blockbuster from the Father of Far-Fetched Fiction
They wrote it off as a scare story. The Millennium Bug, the non-event of the twentieth century. But they were wrong, because the Bug was real. Is real.
It’s a computer virus and it’s about to make the deadly species crossover from machine to mankind. The Black Death was spread by rats. But this plague will be spread by a mouse. The computer mouse. And do you know how many different kinds of computer viruses there are? And just what they do? And just what they might do to you if you become infected? No? Then read this book and learn the terrible truth.
Or perhaps you’d rather take a holiday in Brentfordland®? Formerly known as Brentford, this Thamesside Shangri-La is now London’s first-ever suburban theme park and holiday village. A world of excitement, relaxation and fabulous fun, waiting for you. To find out more, log on to the Brentfordland® web site. Just give your computer mouse a wiggle.
Go on.
What harm can it do?

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Paperback - Corgi (2001)

Waiting for Godalming
If it’s God’s will, then who gets the money?
God is dead. He died in mysterious circumstances while on a fishing trip to Norfolk, leaving a wife, three children and a great deal of valuable property.
According to God’s last will and testament, he left his beloved planet Earth to his youngest son, Colin. Which seems mightily suspicious as the meek were expecting to inherit it. Colin is all for flogging it off to the highest bidder, a chum of his called Lou Cipher. God’s wife is all for calling in a private eye, to expose the truth about her husband’s sudden death. And if you’re going to call in a private eye, then there’s only one man you can call. And that’s Lazlo Woodbine.
This could well be the great detective’s biggest challenge ever. And with Laz on the case you know you can expect a lot of gratuitous sex and violence, a trail of corpses leading down an alleyway, a good deal of toot being talked in bars and a really spectacular rooftop ending….
‘Rankin does for England what Spike Milligan does for Ireland. There can be no higher praise’ Mail on Sunday
‘Delivering a characteristically cracked alternative history of the late twentieth century… Rankin is on excellent form’ The Times
‘To call Rankin irreverent doesn’t begin to describe just how very good he is at playing with the rules’ Mirror

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Paperback - Corgi (2000)

Sex and Drugs and Sausage Rolls
It has always been John Omally’s secret ambition to become a rock star. In his youth he mastered air guitar and wardrobe-mirror posing, but he lacked that certain something: talent. But at last an opportunity has arisen for John to get into `The Industry’. A band called Gandhi’s Hairdryer are looking for a manager, so all John has to do is persuade them that he is the new Brian Epstein. It should be a piece of cake. But - and there’s always a but - there’s something rather odd about this band. Something other-worldly. It might be the lead singer, whose voice has the power to heal. Might she be an angel, perhaps? Or could she be the Devil in disguise? Because, after all, the Devil does have the best tunes. And this is Brentford.
So forget about millennial madness and the coming of the euro. Boogie on down to Brentford. Tune in to the Allotment Wall of Sound. Turn on to The Brentford Beat and drop the day job. There’s a TV here that needs throwing out of a hotel window.
Cover sculpture by Robert Rankin
‘To the top-selling ranks of humorists such as Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett, let us welcome Mr Rankin’ Tom Hutchinson, The Times
‘A born writer with a taste for the occult. Robert Rankin is to Brentford what William Faulkner was to Yoknaptawpha County’ Time Out
‘One of the finest living comic writers… a sort of drinking man’s H.G.Wells’ Midweek

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Paperback - Corgi (1991)

Armageddon the Musical
Theological warfare. Elvis on an epic time-travel journey – the Presliad. Buddhavision – a network bigger than God (and more powerful, too). Nasty nuclear leftovers. Naughty sex habits. Dalai Dan (the 153rd reincarnation of the Lama of that ilk) and Barry, the talkative Time Sprout. Even with all this excitement, you wouldn’t think a backwater planet like Earth makes much of a splash in the galactic pond.
But the soap opera called The Earthers is making big video bucks in the intergalactic ratings race. And alien TV execs know exactly what the old earth drama needs to make the off-world audience sit up and stare: a spectacular Armageddon-type finale. With a cast of millions – including you!
Don’t touch that dial – it’s gonna be a helluva show!
‘He crams enough gags into Armageddon The Musical to last anyone else for a trilogy. And nothing’s sacred. So buy this quick, before he ends up sleeping in Salman Rushdie’s spare bedroom’ Terry Pratchett

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Paperback - Corgi (1991)

The Antipope
The first novel in the now legendary Brentford Trilogy
‘Outside the sun shines. Buses rumble towards Ealing Broadway and I’m expected to do battle with the powers of darkness. It all seems a little unfair...’
You could say it all started with the red-eyed tramp with the slimy fingers who put the wind up Neville, the part-time barman, something rotten. Or when Archroy’s wife swapped his trusty Morris Minor for five magic beans while he was out at the rubber factory.
On the other hand, you could say it all started a lot earlier. Like 450 years ago, when Borgias walked the earth.
Pooley and Omally, stars of the Brentford Labour Exchange and the Flying Swan, want nothing to do with it, especially if there’s a Yankee and a pint of Large in the offing. Pope Alexander VI, last of the Borgias, has other ideas…
‘Wonderful ...a heady mix of Flann O’Brien, Douglas Adams, Tom Sharpe and Ken Campbell, but with an inbuilt irreverence and indelicacy that is unique - and makes it the long-awaited, heavy smoker’s answer to the Lord Of The Rings’ Time Out
‘Wonderfully entertaining ...reads like a Flann O’Brien rewrite of close encounters’ City Limits

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