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Robert Rankin, the master of far-fetched fiction, presents, for the first time, a book written in 'the first monkey'. Sure to be taken up as the newest of literary fads, Darwin, the Educated Ape here tells his life story to his legions of fans.Featuring: Chickens! Martians! Doodlebugs! The Far Future! The Distant Past! Sherlock Holmes! Winston Churchill! Dynamite! More Monkeys than you can shake a stick at! Barmen! Pubs! The End of the World and more!The fourth in Robert Rankin's series of steampunk-tinged Victoriana novels featuring the master detective Cameron Bell (who has an unfortunate fondness for blowing up major landmarks) and his companion, Darwin, the Educated Ape, this is another masterpiece of comic fiction and SF.

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9780575086470 | Victor Gollancz, October 1, 2014, cover price $18.95
9780575086463 | Victor Gollancz, December 1, 2013, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Robert Rankin, the master of far-fetched fiction, presents, for the first time, a book written in 'the first monkey'.

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Product Description: Robert Rankin, the master of far-fetched fiction, presents, for the first time, a book written in 'the first monkey'. Sure to be taken up as the newest of literary fads, Darwin, the Educated Ape here tells his life story to his legions of fans...read more
By Robert Rankin (illustrator)

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9780575086456 | Victor Gollancz, December 1, 2013, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Robert Rankin, the master of far-fetched fiction, presents, for the first time, a book written in 'the first monkey'.

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Product Description: An epic in four movements, this is the third book in Robert Rankin's highly acclaimed meta-Victorian series. Comparable to Pratchett or Douglas Adams, the Father of Far Fetched Fiction has pulled out all of the stops with this riotous tale of wicked women, a dangerous detective and Darwin the educated ape...read more

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9780575086418 | Victor Gollancz, November 15, 2012, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: The year is 1899 and the world is coming to an end.

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9780575086432 | Reprint edition (Victor Gollancz, October 1, 2013), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: An epic in four movements, this is the third book in Robert Rankin's highly acclaimed meta-Victorian series.

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Product Description: An epic in four movements, this is the third book in Robert Rankin's highly acclaimed meta-Victorian series. Comparable to Pratchett or Douglas Adams, the Father of Far Fetched Fiction has pulled out all of the stops with this riotous tale of wicked women, a dangerous detective and Darwin the educated ape...read more

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9780575086425 | Victor Gollancz, November 15, 2012, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: An epic in four movements, this is the third book in Robert Rankin's highly acclaimed meta-Victorian series.

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Product Description: Colonel Katterfelto has lately returned to London. He departed America under something of a cloud ... of smoke, issuing from his Spiritual Laboratory, which the townsfolk of Wormcast, Arizona, marched upon with their flaming torches...read more

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9780575086357 | Victor Gollancz, November 28, 2011, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: The newest opus from the Master of Far Fetched Fiction features magic, mayhem, mechanical marvels, messianic madness, and the music hall Colonel Katterfelto has returned to London, having departed America under something of a cloud—of smoke, issuing from his Spiritual Laboratory, which the townsfolk of Wormcast, Arizona, marched upon with their flaming torches.

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9780575086388 | Victor Gollancz, October 1, 2012, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Colonel Katterfelto has lately returned to London.
9780575086371 | Victor Gollancz, October 5, 2011, cover price $24.95

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Product Description: The pickled Martian's tentacles are fraying at the ends and Professor Coffin's Most Meritorious Unnatural Attraction (the remains of the original alien autopsy, performed by Sir Frederick Treves at the London Hospital) is no longer drawing the crowds...read more

Hardcover:

9780575078734 | Victor Gollancz, May 1, 2011, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Rankin's far-fetched steampunk sequel to The War of the Worlds!

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9780575088542 | Reprint edition (Victor Gollancz, December 1, 2011), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: The pickled Martian's tentacles are fraying at the ends and Professor Coffin's Most Meritorious Unnatural Attraction (the remains of the original alien autopsy, performed by Sir Frederick Treves at the London Hospital) is no longer drawing the crowds.

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Product Description: There is big and evil magic abroad upon the face of the Earth. History has been changed. The Germans have won WWII. America is a nuclear wasteland. And worst of all, the breakfast menu at The Wife's Legs Café in Brentford is serving Bratwurst rather than the proper big boys' British banger...read more

Hardcover:

9780575078727 | Victor Gollancz, January 1, 2010, cover price $28.95 | About this edition: There is big and evil magic upon the face of the Earth, and history has consequently been changed.

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9780575084971 | Victor Gollancz, May 1, 2010, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: There is big and evil magic abroad upon the face of the Earth.

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Product Description: 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...read more

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9780575070097 | Victor Gollancz, July 1, 2005, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Teenager Rizla takes his girlfriend to Brighton for a weekend, but instead of a romantic outing, he almost drowns and is rescued by Dr.

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9780575085466 | Reprint edition (Victor Gollancz, October 1, 2010), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: 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.
9780575077737 | Victor Gollancz, July 1, 2006, cover price $9.99 | About this edition: Were you aware that there are, hidden in the streets of Brighton, twelve ancient constellations, like the Hangleton Hound and the Bevendean Bat?

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Product Description: A great and sinister conspiracy exists to keep mankind from uncovering the truth about its past.  The Victorian authors and artists, for instance, did not simply dream up their various fantastic futuristic fictions; instead, their ideas were all based upon fact...read more

Hardcover:

9780575073142 | Victor Gollancz, August 1, 2003, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: In the twenty-third century, Will Starling uncovers the real truth about nineteenth century history.

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9780575085442 | Victor Gollancz, October 1, 2010, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: A great and sinister conspiracy exists to keep mankind from uncovering the truth about its past.
9780575075450 | Victor Gollancz, July 1, 2004, cover price $9.99 | About this edition: We have all been lied to—a great and sinister conspiracy exists to keep us from uncovering the truth about our past.

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Product Description: Once upon a time Jack set out to find his fortune in the big city. But the big city is Toy City, formerly known as Toy Town, and it has grown considerably since the good old days. It isn't all that jolly any more, and there is a serial killer loose on the streets who is slaughtering old, rich nursery rhyme characters one by one...read more

Hardcover:

9780575073135 | Victor Gollancz, October 1, 2003, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Jack sets out to seek his fortune in Toy City and hooks up with Eddie Baer as they try to stop a serial killer who is murdering old nursery rhyme characters.

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9780575085435 | Victor Gollancz, June 1, 2010, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Once upon a time Jack set out to find his fortune in the big city.
9780575074019 | Victor Gollancz, August 1, 2003, cover price $9.99 | About this edition: Jack sets out to seek his fortune in Toy City and hooks up with Eddie Baer as they try to stop a serial killer who is murdering old nursery rhyme characters.

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Product Description: Magic, time travel and football: not exactly your everyday combination - but the fate of mankind hangs upon the result. Of course.There's big trouble in little Brentford. Property developers are planning to destroy the borough's beloved football ground and build executive homes on the site...read more

Hardcover:

9780575073159 | Victor Gollancz, August 1, 2004, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Developers are planning to destroy Brentford's beloved football grounds.

Paperback:

9780575085459 | Victor Gollancz, March 19, 2010, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Magic, time travel and football: not exactly your everyday combination - but the fate of mankind hangs upon the result.
9780575076495 | Victor Gollancz, August 1, 2005, cover price $9.99 | About this edition: When developers threaten to bulldoze the town's football grounds, the patrons of the Flying Swan pub decide to change history, and they use a super-computer and the Golden Fleece to assist them in their quest.

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Product Description: Somewhere over the rainbow and just off the Yellow Brick Road stands Toy City, formerly known as Toy Town. And things are not going well for the city's inhabitants. There have been outbreaks of STC - Spontaneous Toy Combustion - and there are strange signs and portents in the Heavens...read more

Hardcover:

9780575070103 | Victor Gollancz, August 1, 2006, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Somewhere over the rainbow and beyond the Yellow Brick Road stands Toy City, formerly known as Toy Town.

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9780575085473 | Victor Gollancz, March 19, 2010, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Somewhere over the rainbow and just off the Yellow Brick Road stands Toy City, formerly known as Toy Town.
9780575079519 | Victor Gollancz, September 28, 2007, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Somewhere over the rainbow and just off the Yellow Brick Road stands Toy City, formerly known as Toy Town.
9780575077744 | Victor Gollancz, August 1, 2006, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Somewhere over the rainbow and beyond the Yellow Brick Road stands Toy City, formerly known as Toy Town.

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Product Description: All Jonny Hooker has to do to claim a big prize is to solve the Da-Da-De-Da-Da Code. Jonny knows that beat: it is scattered throughout popular music and it has something to do with the Devil's Chord, as well as the great blues musician Robert Johnson; Elvis Presley—who is of course still alive—and with the Secret Parliament of Five, who dictate world affairs...read more

Hardcover:

9780575070110, titled "The Da-Da-De-Da-Da Code" | Har/com edition (Victor Gollancz, September 28, 2007), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The world's Master of Far-Fetched Fiction takes us into the heart of the Da Da De Da Da Code, wherein lies the music of the angels—and the music of the devil.

Paperback:

9780575085480, titled "The Da-Da-De-Da-Da Code" | Victor Gollancz, March 19, 2010, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: All Jonny Hooker has to do to claim a big prize is to solve the Da-Da-De-Da-Da Code.
9780575082274, titled "The Da-Da-De-Da-Da Code" | Victor Gollancz, October 1, 2008, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: The world's Master of Far-Fetched Fiction takes us into the heart of the Da Da De Da Da Code, wherein lies the music of the angels—and the music of the devil.
9780575079908, titled "The Da-Da-De-Da-Da Code" | Victor Gollancz, March 1, 2008, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: The world's Master of Far-Fetched Fiction takes us into the heart of the Da Da De Da Da Code, wherein lies the music of the angels—and the music of the devil.

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Product Description: ONE IN EVERY THREE PEOPLE LIVING IS ACTUALLY DEAD!It is a matter of historical record that during the latter part of World War II, England's top-secret Ministry of Serendipity enlisted the services of arch-magician Aleister Crowley to create a Homunculus...read more

Hardcover:

9780575078710 | Victor Gollancz, December 1, 2008, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The symptoms have been studied, and the diagnosis is confirmed: the universe will cease to exist in just 12 hours.

Paperback:

9780575082427 | Victor Gollancz, August 1, 2009, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: ONE IN EVERY THREE PEOPLE LIVING IS ACTUALLY DEAD!
9780575082403 | Victor Gollancz, February 1, 2009, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The symptoms have been studied, the diagnosis is confirmed, the prognosis is bleak.

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Product Description: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work...read more

Paperback:

9781432547806 | Kessinger Pub Co, April 30, 2007, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original.

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Product Description: Robert wants to be a star in the movies. Using his computer he has invented a system that could put the old stars back on the screen, alongside him. He has the script and the money, but Hollywood isn't keen. Could the perfect partnership lie with Ernest Fudgepacker of Fudgepacker's Emporium...read more
By Robert Rankin (narrator)

Paperback:

9780552143554 | Transworld Pub, June 1, 1997, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Robert wants to be a star in the movies.

CD/Spoken Word:

9781841973685 | Unabridged edition (Recorded Books, July 1, 2003), cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Robert wants to be a star in the movies.

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Product Description: Everyone likes that nice Mr. Doveston. In fact they all like him so much, they've elected him to the post of Prime Minister. And as a student in the teachings of Hugo Rune, Mr. Doveston knows just how to sort the country out from the ground up. And it all starts with footwear.

Hardcover:

9780385600583 | Transworld Pub, September 1, 2002, cover price $29.99 | About this edition: Everyone likes that nice Mr.

Paperback:

9780552147439 | Transworld Pub, December 1, 2001, cover price $13.99 | About this edition: The millennium bug appears to be real as a new plague begins to spread--a computer virus that is transmitted from computer mouse to humans.

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Product Description: Gary Cheese is 19 and works for British Telecom as an operator. His hobbies include watching TV, walking his dog, going down to the pub, and attempting to re-animate the dead.

Hardcover:

9780385602563 | Transworld Pub, November 1, 2001, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: Gary Cheese, a British Telecom worker, discovers a secret telephone exchange that allows him to communicate with the dead.

Paperback:

9780552148979, titled "The Fandom of the Operator" | Transworld Pub, May 1, 2002, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Gary Cheese is 19 and works for British Telecom as an operator.

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Lazlo Woodbine and his friend Barry, the Holy Guardian Sprout that lives inside his head, try to uncover who killed God.

Hardcover:

9780385600576 | Transworld Pub, October 1, 2000, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: "Dallas" meets "Deuteronomy" in a Divine Comedy to out-Apocalypse them all.

Paperback:

9780552147422 | Transworld Pub, April 1, 2001, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Lazlo Woodbine and his friend Barry, the Holy Guardian Sprout that lives inside his head, try to uncover who killed God.

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Paperback:

9780738844367 | Xlibris Corp, December 1, 2000, cover price $20.99

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John Omally's ambition to be a rock star leads him to manage an odd rock group called Gandhi's Hairdryer.

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9780552147415 | Transworld Pub, October 1, 2000, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: John Omally's ambition to be a rock star leads him to manage an odd rock group called Gandhi's Hairdryer.

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This anarchic text chronicles the millennial collapse of civilisation and the great snuff-snorting revival.

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9780552145909 | New edition (Transworld Pub, December 2, 1999), cover price $12.05 | About this edition: This anarchic text chronicles the millennial collapse of civilisation and the great snuff-snorting revival.

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Product Description: This text is the anarchic comedy of one man who realises his secret ambition to get into the music industry - managing a band called Gandhi's Hairdryer. He's soon to find out that there is something very odd about the band, something "other-worldly."

Hardcover:

9780385600569 | Transworld Pub, September 1, 1999, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: This text is the anarchic comedy of one man who realises his secret ambition to get into the music industry - managing a band called Gandhi's Hairdryer.

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Product Description: The Ministry of Serendipity at Mornington Crescent runs everything. When it hears of a spacecraft that crashed into the Pacific 4000 years ago, it sends a team of paranormal investigators to recover it. Danbury Collins is on the team, but he isn't keen—what if a mad alien thaws out...read more

Paperback:

9780552145893 | Transworld Pub, July 1, 1999, cover price $13.00 | About this edition: The Ministry of Serendipity at Mornington Crescent runs everything.

Hardcover:

9780385600811 | Gardners Books, July 1, 1999, cover price $27.95

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