The Brightonomicon (Brentford Trilogy)

by RobertRankin (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2010

  $16.98

  Our teenage hero, having been thrown from Brighton Pier by the leader of The Canvey Island Mod Squad, narrowly escapes drowning thanks to the Perfect Master, Cosmic Dick and self-styled Logos of the Aeon (not to mention the reinventer of the Ocarina), Hugo Rune Himself.

  Our hero has lost his memory, and, in desperation, agrees to join The Lad Himself in the solving of twelve cases based upon The Brightonomicon, the new zodiac signs formed by the alignment of Brighton streets and discovered by Rune: carriageway constellations.

  And together they must find the Chronovision before it falls into the wrong hands and affords ultimate power to the would-be world dictator. And this being an adventure most exciting, they must find it before the sinister Count Otto Black, would-be World Dictator and all-round bad guy. Or the whole world will all go to pot.

• Used

  Paperback
  2005

  $5.90

  Robert Rankin's THE BRENTFORD TRILOGY - five books and counting - catapulted him into the dizzy heights of cult success , but over the years that cult following has grown substantially: 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, hidden in the streets of Brighton, are twelve ancient constellations, like the Bevendean bat and the Hangleton Hound ...well, there are: and on each one hangs a tale, a tale so strange that only The Lad Himself, that inveterate spinner of stories 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.