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Joined at the head but successfully separated, Henry and Ida Brick like to think they have retained a little piece of each other's brain. Sixteen years old today and short of money, Henry and Ida go to the medical school to give themselves up for guinea pigs.

The second novel from the author of "Nalda Said", this tale centres around the ups and downs of one Peacock Johnson - Glasgow's own Rhinestone Cowboy and a man determined to make it big in the music world no matter what the cost.

A backward child brought up by his Aunt Nalda in strange seclusion, the narrator of this tale lives his life between fantasy and reality. His aunt tells him fantastic stories, and he believes that his father was a jewel thief who, whilst fleeing from the law, fed his fragile baby a rare diamond.

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Contains interviews with the band themselves. This book charts the band's ascension and includes interviews with the numerous associates over their entire career, and also includes the author's eyewitness accounts at various stages along the way.

This unauthorized biography of the group that Melody Maker have called the biggest band in Britain provides a detailed, in-depth account of Travis' career to date including their life on the road trawling the underground gig circuit until they finally found fame.

The travelling community to which Melody Paradise belongs has become horribly fragmented by a series of mysterious and chaotic happenings. Her mission is to emotionally reunite them. She organises a festival to bring them together, during which an amazing story unfolds, often funny, sometimes sad, always compelling, and with a twist in the tail!

Pierre Stone is a man obsessed with a TV game-show hostess. When his mother dies, his life takes on a new stance and it gradually dawns on him that the cherished object of his affections has never replied to a single one of his letters. A funny and disturbing look at our media culture.

Part bizarre quest, part travelogue, part fiction, this is a tale of Amazonian drugs, prophetic dreams and adventurous treks through Egypt, Rajastan and Northern India. Based on the author's own experiences it takes the reader on a kaleidoscope trip of crystals, free love and Nirvana.

A re-issue of Martin Millar's classic novel which recounts the life of Alby Starvation, the first true British anti-hero of the giro generation. A strange and wonderful story of Brixton low-life, seedy gutter violence and manic paranoia that's as relevant now as when first published in the 1980s.

This dark debut novel from singer/songwriter Babybird centres around the strange life of Hit - so-called perhaps because he looks like he's been hit. When Hit discovers the journal his father hides in a shed, he decides to follow him to find out if the bad deeds he writes about are real.