Series
Brentford
Robert Rankin · 9 novels · 1981–2009
Robert Rankin's Brentford novels are set in a surreal, comic version of the London suburb of Brentford, mixing pub-culture farce with conspiracy theories, aliens, time travel, and increasingly absurd apocalyptic threats. The Antipope opens the loosely connected sequence, which follows an overlapping cast of local eccentrics across bar-room schemes that spiral into cosmic-scale nonsense. It began in 1981 and continued, on and off, for nearly three decades.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
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Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
- Omnibus editions(1 edition)
Map
Brentford at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1980s4
- 1990s2
- 2000s3
Shape
Mood
Bright and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 44%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book9 of 9 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- The Brentford Triangledarkest · calmest
- The Antipopebrightest · most intense