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3 unusual facts about the Brentford Trilogy


Count Dante

Count Dante is one of the many eccentric characters referred to in Robert Rankin's Brentford stories.

The Brentford Trilogy

# The Antipope (1981) - Pooley and Omally take on the resurrected Pope Alexander VI the last Borgia pope.

For example the character of shopkeeper Norman Hartnell (not that one) is abandoned by his wife yet is inexplicably reunited with her in later books.


Knees Up Mother Earth

Knees Up Mother Earth is the seventh book by Robert Rankin in the Brentford Trilogy, as well as the second book in the The Witches of Chiswick Trilogy.

Lazlo Woodbine

The Brightonomicon (Rizla – later revealed to be Jim Pooley of The Brentford Trilogy – dresses as Lazlo to tackle The Curious Case of the Woodingdean Chameleon in Hugo Rune's absence)


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