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The Record Books • The Black Keys
A publishing phenomenon. A dirty one.
The Record Books • Our Version Of Events
This thoughtful novel, set during World War I, deals with the phenomenon of perception influenced by prejudice, as it follows the European travels of an American jeweller.
The Record Books • Our Version Of Events
This thoughtful novel, set during World War I, deals with the phenomenon of perception influenced by prejudice, as it follows the European travels of an American jeweller.
The Record Books • X
Futuristic-virus sci-fi: ginger people are dying during illegal procedures designed to extract their unique X nucleii/pituitine-chromospurs, which ‘produce sex appeal’.
The Record Books • X
Futuristic-virus sci-fi: ginger people are dying during illegal procedures designed to extract their unique X nucleii/pituitine-chromospurs, which ‘produce sex appeal’.
The Record Books • White Ladder
1958 English bank clerk referees his internal wrestling match: tardy sexual awakening v catholic guilt. Guilt wins, TKO.
The Record Books • White Ladder
1958 English bank clerk referees his internal wrestling match: tardy sexual awakening v catholic guilt. Guilt wins, TKO.
The Record Books • Exile On Main Street
A real life road-to-Damascus tale on an epic larger-than-life 60s New York City scale.
The Record Books • Exile On Main Street
A real life road-to-Damascus tale on an epic larger-than-life 60s New York City scale.
The Record Books • Déjà Vu
“Am I literally living in the past?”, “Can thoughts think?”, “Am I whoever you think I am, based on who I appeared to be when you last thought about me?”
The Record Books • Déjà Vu
“Am I literally living in the past?”, “Can thoughts think?”, “Am I whoever you think I am, based on who I appeared to be when you last thought about me?”
The Record Books • Get Behind Me Satan
A frightful children’s educational story from 1962 dealing with themes of theology, ‘animal’ promiscuity and courtship. Published under the White Stripes brand, also responsible for Elephant.
The Record Books • Get Behind Me Satan
A frightful children’s educational story from 1962 dealing with themes of theology, ‘animal’ promiscuity and courtship. Published under the White Stripes brand, also responsible for Elephant.
The Record Books • The Payback
Frank Farrow and Roman Otis hit a pizza shop in D.C. called May’s. A cop was shot. A boy was dead. Dozens of lives were shattered forever. Three years later, Dimitri Karras, who lost a son, has discovered the killers’ identity.
The Record Books • The Payback
Frank Farrow and Roman Otis hit a pizza shop in D.C. called May’s. A cop was shot. A boy was dead. Dozens of lives were shattered forever. Three years later, Dimitri Karras, who lost a son, has discovered the killers’ identity.
The Record Books • Paranoid
Spin-off large-format annual, based on the TV game show of the same name which had contestants having to decide whether to lie about their recent daily activities, not knowing if they had actually been under secret observation. Hilarious.
The Record Books • Paranoid
Spin-off large-format annual, based on the TV game show of the same name which had contestants having to decide whether to lie about their recent daily activities, not knowing if they had actually been under secret observation. Hilarious.
The Record Books • Rain Dogs
Tropical jungle/nuclear accident/superhuman team-up manga. There’s a monsoon, some flooding, a plutonium leak, a ‘melt-ray-hand-blaster’ (no idea) and, briefly, a cute puppy-robot.
The Record Books • Rain Dogs
Tropical jungle/nuclear accident/superhuman team-up manga. There’s a monsoon, some flooding, a plutonium leak, a ‘melt-ray-hand-blaster’ (no idea) and, briefly, a cute puppy-robot.
The Record Books • Rumours
Graham Greene* said of Fleetwood Mac, ‘While I admire Faulkner’s view of how the heart behaves, it is Miss Mac’s view of how it misbehaves which captivates all the more’.
The Record Books • Rumours
Graham Greene* said of Fleetwood Mac, ‘While I admire Faulkner’s view of how the heart behaves, it is Miss Mac’s view of how it misbehaves which captivates all the more’.
The Record Books • Pretzel Logic
Pop science tome. Highly polished set of arguments for the idea that the universe is a figment of someone’s imagination. A highly overactive imagination.
The Record Books • Pretzel Logic
Pop science tome. Highly polished set of arguments for the idea that the universe is a figment of someone’s imagination. A highly overactive imagination.
The Record Books • Violator
Riding the recent vampire wave, this is aimed squarely at the ‘buying the movie rights’ market. Lesbian TV star goes on a serial-killing blood-sucking rampage over the course of a reality TV series. In leather.
The Record Books • Violator
Riding the recent vampire wave, this is aimed squarely at the ‘buying the movie rights’ market. Lesbian TV star goes on a serial-killing blood-sucking rampage over the course of a reality TV series. In leather.
The Record Books • The Downward Spiral
Autobiographical tale, of the off the rails variety, of ‘adult’ movie star Tyrone ‘Nine-Inch’ Nails.
The Record Books • The Downward Spiral
Autobiographical tale, of the off the rails variety, of ‘adult’ movie star Tyrone ‘Nine-Inch’ Nails.
The Record Books • Sounds of Silence
This study of the brain and its neurological activity when placed in sonic isolation makes its successor – ‘Fear of Music’ from fellow American thinker Tobias Heads – appear juicily supercharged. We’re talking arid, here.
The Record Books • Sounds of Silence
This study of the brain and its neurological activity when placed in sonic isolation makes its successor – ‘Fear of Music’ from fellow American thinker Tobias Heads – appear juicily supercharged. We’re talking arid, here.
The Record Books • Kings of the Wild Frontier
From the hugely popular ‘Ant Books’ series for children, a history of the cowboy in the ‘Wild West’. Unfortunately the lively and colourful paper cover is missing. Published by Lee Miall & Merrick.
The Record Books • Kings of the Wild Frontier
From the hugely popular ‘Ant Books’ series for children, a history of the cowboy in the ‘Wild West’. Unfortunately the lively and colourful paper cover is missing. Published by Lee Miall & Merrick.
The Record Books • Fear of Music
Couldn’t-be-dryer text book dealing with melophobia, so the case study concerning a French serial killer, whose aversion to Village People led to his crime spree, comes as something of a shock. In fact, it could’ve been dryer if its precursor,
The Record Books • Fear of Music
Couldn’t-be-dryer text book dealing with melophobia, so the case study concerning a French serial killer, whose aversion to Village People led to his crime spree, comes as something of a shock. In fact, it could’ve been dryer if its precursor,
The Record Books • Fifth Dimension
Cutting edge* (in 1972) physics exploration, positing a fifth dimension consisting of subatomic ‘sound particles, harmonising in time’. Penned by a group of university graduates (including Uri Geller’s brother, Yaron) calling themselves The Beirut/Yale Relative Dimension Study.
The Record Books • Fifth Dimension
Cutting edge* (in 1972) physics exploration, positing a fifth dimension consisting of subatomic ‘sound particles, harmonising in time’. Penned by a group of university graduates (including Uri Geller’s brother, Yaron) calling themselves The Beirut/Yale Relative Dimension Study.
The Record Books • Welcome To My Nightmare
Although she never gained the respect of highbrow literary critics, Cooper was a very successful writer of teenaged-girl psychodramas.
The Record Books • Welcome To My Nightmare
Although she never gained the respect of highbrow literary critics, Cooper was a very successful writer of teenaged-girl psychodramas.
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