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This new edition of the critically-acclaimed biography of Alexander Trocchi has been revised, extended and updated since its first publication in 1991 when it helped to create new interest in the celebrated - and notorious - author of Young Adam and Cain's Book. It was highly influential, led to the reprinting of his novels and inspired a wave of new writers to discover Trocchi for themselves. A story of heartbreak and pain, the minutiae of squalor, tragedy, obsession, of chemical addictions, sexual experimentations, promiscuity and desertion, suicide - and literary genius. So begins this...

Who wouldn't like to make so much money you could give up work and spend your days lazing on a beach? But how far would you go to make your dream come true? Three St Andrews' University graduates fond of magic mushrooms become terrorists, kidnap vulnerable elderly people, indulge in crude heart surgery and threaten the government with a 'dirty bomb' extortion plot from their lair in rat-infested tunnels 200 feet under central London. If Hunter S. Thompson, Thomas De Quincey and Flann O'Brien could have got together to write a crime comedy this would be it... An anarchic comedy of terrorists...

It is under a deep impression that the place and power of prayer in the Christian life is too little understood that this book has been written. I feel sure that as long as we look on prayer chiefly as the means of maintaining our own Christian life, we shall not know fully what it is meant to be. But when we learn to regard it as the highest part of the work entrusted to us, the root and strength of all other work, we shall see that there is nothing that we so need to study and practice as the art of praying correctly. This edition is lavishly illustrated with twelve illustrations by Robert...

Having only ever known the uncivilized wake of nuclear and biological apocalypse, three friends-and their wheelchair-bound hostage-set out on a perilous fool's mission: to cross from one side of the devastated United States to the other, in the desperate, half-believed hope of finding a rumored haven. Spurred by a dark vision and the murder of their parents, rageaholic Derek Cane and his oversized, simple-minded brother Teddy flee the only home they've ever known, a struggling shantytown on the edge of the vast wasteland. Heading ever eastward, they are accompanied by their friend John, an...