Robert Rankin

His great-great-grandfather died at the Battle of Little Big Horn after going to complain about the noise; his grandfather spoke only in rhyming couplets; his father practised body modification; and then there was him - he was the weird one. The theme of sprouts pervades this

This is the story of Billy, whose Grandmother left him the "voodoo handbag" in her will, after he had sold her soul to science. The tales it tells Billy will change his life forever--and the lives of other people as well.

Somewhere over the rainbow and just off the Yellow Brick Road stands Toy City, and things are not...