The Antipope (The Brentford Trilogy Book 1)

“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 2024

Outside, the sun shines. Buses rumble towards Ealing Broadway, and I’m expected to battle the powers of darkness. It all seems a little unfair…

They say nothing much happens in Brentford, the West London suburb known for nylons and a battle so ancient no one remembers the date. But when Neville, the part-time barman of The Flying Swan, encounters a tramp with dreadful aspect and sorry footwear, everything changes. An ancient evil stalks the streets, spreading terror. This evil? A demonic incarnation of the notorious Borgia Pope, Alexander the Sixth, aiming to establish a new Vatican in the local Seaman’s Mission and raise an army of brainwashed slaves to conquer the world…

Perhaps it all began with the red-eyed tramp with slimy fingers who gave Neville the fright of his life. Or maybe when Archroy’s wife swapped his trusty Morris Minor for five magic beans while he was at the rubber factory.

Then again, it could have started almost five hundred years ago, when the Borgias walked the earth.

Pooley and Omally, stars of the Brentford Job Centre and the Flying Swan, want nothing to do with it, especially if there’s a Yankee and a pint of Large in the offing. But Pope Alexander the Sixth, last of the Borgias, has other ideas…

First published over thirty years ago, THE ANTIPOPE 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 first novel in the “Brentford Quadrilogy of trilogies” has been reimagined and repackaged for 2024 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 THE ANTIPOPE and the wild imagination of Robert Rankin, and grab your copy now before the price changes!

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