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The Antipope

Robert Rankin

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English
Bantam
01 May 1992
The first book 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 Laboiur 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...
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Imprint:   Bantam
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Height: 177mm,  Width: 106mm,  Spine: 18mm
Weight:   152g
ISBN:   9780552138413
ISBN 10:   055213841X
Pages:   288
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Reviews for The Antipope

'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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