The Greatest Show Off Earth

Raymond's had a rough couple of days. Snatched from his allotment by a flying starfish from Uranus and sold as a delicacy in a Venusian food market, it seems like his luck has changed when he is rescued by the travelling circus. But then this isn't an ordinary circus.

'EVERYBODY SHOULD READ AT LEAST ONE ROBERT RANKIN IN THEIR LIFE' - Daily Express

What they say about Robert Rankin:

'One of the rare guys who can always make me laugh' - Terry Pratchett

'To the top-selling ranks of humourists such as Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett, let us welcome Mr Rankin' - Tom Hutchinson, The Times

'A born writer with a taste for the occult. Robert Rankin is to Brentford what William Faulkner was to Yoknaptawpha County' - Time Out

'One of the finest living comic writers ... a sort of drinking man's H.G. Wells' - Midweek