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The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

by Douglas Adams

Sequel to Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency. A passenger check-in desk at London's Heathrow Airport goes up in a ball of flame and Dirk Gently becomes very inquisitive.

Dirk Gently: Book 1

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

There is a long tradition of Great Detectives, and Dirk Gently does not belong to it. But his search for a missing cat uncovers a ghost, a time traveler, AND the devastating secret of humankind! Detective Gently's bill for saving the human race from extinction: NO CHARGE.

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy: Book 5

Mostly Harmless

by Douglas Adams

Douglas Adams is back with the amazing, logic-defying, but-why-stop-now fifth novel in the Hitchhiker Trilogy. Here is the epic story of Random, who sets out on a transgalactic quest to find the planet of her ancestors. Line drawings. From the Hardcover edition.

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy: Book 3

Life, the Universe and Everything

by Douglas Adams

The unhappy inhabitants of planet Krikkit are sick of looking at the night sky above their heads–so they plan to destroy it. The universe, that is. Now only five individuals stand between the killer robots of Krikkit and their goal of total annihilation. They are Arthur Dent, a mild-mannered space and time traveler who tries to learn how to fly by throwing himself at the ground and missing; Ford Prefect, his best... (more)

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy: Book 4

So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

by Douglas Adams

Back on Earth with nothing more to show for his long, strange trip through time and space than a ratty towel and a plastic shopping bag, Arthur Dent is ready to believe that the past eight years were all just a figment of his stressed-out imagination. But a gift-wrapped fishbowl with a cryptic inscription, the mysterious disappearance of Earth's dolphins, and the discovery of his battered copy of The Hitchhiker's... (more)

The Inscrutable Americans

by Anurag Mathur

Brentford Trilogy: Book 1

The Antipope

by Robert Rankin

'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... (more)

Armageddon Trilogy: Book 1

Armageddon the Musical

by Robert Rankin

FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF 2050, YOU'RE HISTORY 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... (more)

Brentford Trilogy: Book 2

Brentford Triangle

by Robert Rankin

Omally groaned. "It is the end Of mankind as we know it. I should never have got up so early today" and all over Brentford electrical appliances were beginning to fail...' Could it be that Pooley and Omally, whilst engaged on a round of allotment golf, mistook laser-operated gravitational landing beams for the malignant work of Brentford Council? Does the Captain Laser Alien Attack machine in the bar... (more)

Brentford Trilogy: Book 3

East of Ealing

by Robert Rankin

'Ahead, where once had been only bombsite land, the Lateinos & Romiith building rose above Brentford. Within its cruel and jagged shadow, magnolias wilted in their window boxes and synthetic Gold Top became doorstep cheese...' Something sinister is happening east of Ealing. The prophecies of The Book of Revelation are being fulfilled. Lateinos & Romiith, a vast financial network, is changing... (more)

Brentford Trilogy: Book 4

The Sprouts of Wrath

by Robert Rankin

Amazing, but true: Brentford Town Council, in an act of supreme public-spiritedness (and a great big wodge of folding stuff from a mysterious benefactor) has agreed to host the next Olympic Games. The plans have been drawn up, contracts, money and promises are changing hands. Norman's designed some stunning kit for the home team, and even the Flying Swan's been threatened with a major refit (gasp!). But... (more)

Where Have All the Bullets Gone?

by Spike Milligan

In response to popular demand, folks...the fifth volume of spike's uniquely amazing military memoirs of life in the ranks during world war 2.

Rommel? Gunner Who?

by Spike Milligan

This is the second volume of Mr Milligan's reminiscences of World War II.

The First Rumpole Omnibus (Rumpole)

by John Mortimer, John Clifford Mortimer

Who rose to enduring fame on Blood and Typewriters, told the pregnant Portia of the Chambers it would come out in the end, advised Guthrie Featherstone, Q.C. to adopt a more judicial attitude, returned in the tender gloaming of each evening - via Pommeroy's and a glass of Chateau Fleet Street - to she who must be obeyed? The answer is Horace Rumpole whose legal triumphs, plundering sorties into the 'Oxford Book of... (more)

Raiders of the Lost Car Park

by Robert Rankin

Goodbye Soldier

by Spike Milligan

In "Goodbye Soldier" the central pool of artists, now rechristened the combined services entertainment, complete with Gunner Miligan, now rechristened Lance-Bambardier, makes its way across Europe, via romantic Rome and verneral Venice, to Vienna where Spike continues to demoralize the troops from the stage despite frenzied protests from Eisenhower, Churchill and Stalin. Hastily discharged from the army in... (more)

BLANDINGS CASTLE AND ELSEWHERE

by P.G. Wodehouse

A "Crooning Tenor" is attempting to captivate the affections of the Rev. Rupert Bingham's fiancee, Lord Emsworth is trying to remove a pumpkin-shaped blot on the family escutcheon, and the Hon. Freddie Threepwood tries to convert Lady Alcester in this collection of stories.

The Lord God Made Them All

by James Herriot

The war is over, the RAF uniform has been handed in and James Herriot goes back where he ought to be - at work in the dales around Darrowby. Much has changed, but the blunt-spoken Yorkshire folk and the host of four-legged patients are still the same. So is their vet, who doesn't yet know that literary success is just around the corner...'After an evening among his tales, anyone with as much as a dog or a... (more)

Riotous Assembly

by Tom Sharpe

The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy

by Douglas Adams

The first four parts of the ever-expanding trilogy: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy; The Restaurant at the End of the Universe; Life, the Universe and Everything; and So Long, and Thanks for all the Fish, collected in one bumper paperback volume. (Kirkus UK)

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