"One of the rare guys who can always make me laugh"― Sir Terry Pratchett "Stark, raving genius"― The Observer "He becomes funnier the more you read him"― The Independent "Douglas Adams on a sugar high"― Kirkus "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 NEW REVISED EDITION FOR 2025 AVAILABLE ON AMAZON FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER The third book in the final Brentford Trilogy. The twelfth book in the Brentford Quadrilogy - a series that has taken over forty years to finish. And it's worth the wait. The End is Nigh and things are going from bad to worser in London's favourite borough. Is there a ray of hope? Can Pooley, Omally, Professor Slocombe, Elvis Presley, Barry The Time Sprout and the other many supporting regulars of the Flying Swan save the day... and Brentford? Well, it's a finale, after all... First published in print in 2023, NORMANGHAST is a classic of Far Fetched Fiction, a genre created by author Robert Rankin in hopes of having his own shelf in bookstores. Now, this twelfth and final novel in the "Brentford Quadrilogy of trilogies" is released on Amazon and in Ebook format for the first time ever, by Hooded Man Media and Far-Fetched Books. If you enjoy the works of Douglas Adams, Jasper Fforde, and Terry Pratchett, then don't miss out on NORMANGHAST and the wild imagination of Robert Rankin, and grab your copy now before the price changes! ———- "⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Superbly written from the first line to the last. Hilarious, witty, tense, spine tingling, a modern and funny work that rivals Dickens and Wodehouse" "⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Many people describe books as 'laugh out loud funny' and while they are often quite amusing, this book is the only one to have EVER made good on that promise." "⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I still turn to it when I need a laugh and it never disappoints."
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"When Robert Rankin embarked upon his writing career in the late 1970s, his ambition was to create an entirely new literary genre, which he named Far-Fetched Fiction. He reasoned that by doing this he could avoid competing with any other living author in any known genre and would be given his own special section in WH Smith." (from Web Site Story) Robert Rankin describes himself as a teller of tall tales, a fitting description, assuming that he isn't lying about it. From his early beginnings as a baby in 1949, Robert Rankin has grown into a tall man of some stature. Somewhere along the way he experimented in the writing of books, and found that he could do it rather well. Not being one to light his hide under a bushel, Mister Rankin continues to write fine novels of a humorous science-fictional nature.
