The Brightonomicon
Author(s): Robert Rankin
Robert Rankin's THE BRENTFORD TRILOGY - seven books and counting - catapulted him into the dizzy heights of "cult success", but over the years that cult following has grown and Robert Rankin is now the second best-selling writer of comic fantasy in Britain, after Terry "He Always Makes Me Laugh" Pratchett. Were you aware that there are, hidden in the streets of Brighton, twelve ancient constellations, like the Hangleton Hound and the Bevendean Bat ...well, there are: and on each one hangs a tale, a tale so strange that only The Lad Himself, that inveterate spinner of tales and talker of the toot, Hugo Rune, can get to the bottom of them. And he'd better do it quickly, because if he doesn't solve the dozen mysteries before the year is out, that'll be the end of the world as we know it. And everything.
Product Information
We quintupled Rankin's hardcover sale to more than 15,000 copies when Gollancz published THE HOLLOW CHOCOLATE BUNNIES OF THE APOCALYPSE. More than 50,000 copies of THE HOLLOW CHOCOLATE BUNNIES sold in MMP Rankin gives great celebrity, winning new fans wherever he appears. Rankin has a huge and devoted fan club who are prepared to do anything they can to put Rankin at the top of the charts. 'Stark raving genius' The Observer 'To call Rankin irreverent doesn't begin to describe just how very good he is at playing with the rules' The MIRROR 'We read him for his exuberant salmagundi of old jokes, myths, urban and otherwise, catchphrases, liberatingly crazy ideas, running gags, recurring characters and locations, unreliable autobiographical anecdotes, and not forgetting the now legendary "load of old toot" ... he becomes funnier the more you read him.' Mat Coward in The INDEPENDENT
Robert Rankin is an unrepentant Luddite who writes his bestselling novels by hand in exercise books. He is the author of The Brentford Trilogy (7 books), The Armageddon Quartet (3 books) and many more.
General Fields
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- : Orion Publishing Group, Limited
- : Gollancz
- : 0.274
- : 01 December 2009
- : 198mm X 129mm X 23mm
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 November 2011
- : books
Special Fields
- : Robert Rankin
- : Paperback
- : 823.914
- : 384
- : illustrations
