Garden gnomes mysteriously vanish from suburban lawns... a momentous force enters a 13-year-old boy from the third rail of a train line and gives him powers that he uses to harass a local fishwife... Mick Jagger is killed when a bus runs over him and the most unlikely of prospects is interviewed for his replacement. These are just a few of the predicaments in this eccentric collection of tales, placed in the “desolate southern suburbs” of England as well as Morocco, New York, and Cleveland, all featuring the Zelig-like protagonist Brian Porker. First published by St Martin’s Press in 2000, this new edition of Carp Fishing on Valium by rocker Graham Parker now includes “Kernley Days,” an interconnected trilogy of previously unpublished stories. “a splendid literary debut.... Gruesome and laconic in the tradition of Roald Dahl, Parker’s shorts are equal parts wit, invention and sweet cruelty.” -- Publishers Weekly “A book you should read... a rollicking chronicle of one man’s journey from struggling musician to irascible rock’ n’ roll star...”  — Esquire

Carp Fishing on Valium: stories by Graham Parker

Literature & Fiction

Parker, Graham

Humor & Satire

Tangible Press

Argyle Stevens - brave, loyal, ambitious. His goal is to climb to the top of the crime ladder, and also shoot a lot of guns.
Ben Watson - carefree, independent, fun-loving. His goal in life is to have a good time, and see plenty of action, and also eat a lot of donuts.
Gilbert Alan Martin III - young, eager, fresh new recruit, willing to do whatever it takes to get the job done, even if it means cleaning a shark tank or two.
These are the Henchmen - a brave and loyal group of criminals devoted to THE THRASHER ORGANIZATION and its goal of WORLD DOMINATION!
Have you ever wondered about the lives of henchmen? They work all day for a super evil genius boss, toiling away in the secret hideouts doing their boss' bidding. Without question. In total loyalty.
Finally revealed. What the super evil geniuses don't want you to know. From the commute to the checkout time at the end of the day, and all the capers in between. 
Soon could be a major motion picture... maybe.

Up The Crime Ladder

Hart, N. K.

From ancient times, before calendars and clocks, to the far, far future, where science dares to remake humankind, N. K. Hart’s imagination mixes with hope, resourcefulness, heartbreak, and humor. This volume contains a rare collection of holiday essays spanning several years and there’s no denying that for N. K. Hart… imagination is everything.

Swimming Through Air

Short Stories & Anthologies

Infamous Shocking Crime: Forbidden Crime Comics of the 1950s

Everyone knows the story. In the mid-1950s, a pop psychologist, together with outraged parents and politically motivated Congressmen, sought to put an end to horror comics and succeeded in bringing about a self-governing censorship body which, virtually overnight, put an end to the offensive EC comics and put many publishers of horror comics out of business. But there’s more to the story. Horror comics were really collateral damage in the war against comic books in the 1950s, and the real target was crime comics. Compared to the movies of that decade, they were far more explicit and gruesome, so it is completely understandable that they would come under fire. This volume contains some of the best of these infamous crime comics from the late 1940s through the mid 1950s. They were shocking, they were depraved, and they were like nothing that anyone had ever seen before or since.

Comics & Graphic Novels

Artists, Various

Graphic Novels

Skipping Reels of Rhyme: A Guide to Rare and Unreleased Bob Dylan Recordings

In 1994, the first comprehensive website devoted to the works of Bob Dylan was created. This book presents some of the original articles written for the site, concentrating on the unreleased tapes of Bob Dylan, with commentary on the merits of each tape. Since the articles were written, most of the music described on the site has seen official or semi-official release, but the content contained in this book still holds relevance and acts as a sort of field guide to what's still out there.

Arts & Photography

Howells, John

Music

The Thylacine's Lair

The fascinating back stage world of a very nearly famous rock star, Brian Porker, as hebumps and seethes his way along on an international tour that includes the Down Under,the Up Above, and several points in between. The characters that populate Brian Porker’sworld resonate with personalities so oddly different from one another…An ex-magistratecrazed manager who books tours to far flung venues, a tour manager with connections,the long-legged roadie who seems to know everyone at every tour stop, the StewardessFrom Hell, and an electronics nerd who wires guitars so they will sound great at sub-zerotemperature…All working toward a goal: Brian Porker’s world tour. A tour fraught withstress, sea eagles, suspicion, poison dart frogs, anger, lizards, antediluvian flash-backs,and Vodka Icebergs.

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

40th anniversary edition. All the lyrics, chords, bars, tablature and notation of lead guitar, including solos plus extracts from the rhythm guitar. Some songs with both guitar tabs in their entirety. Acoustic guitar picking intro of You Can’t Be Too Strong. Includes extracts from reviews, adverts, plus live and promo photos from publications such as Rolling Stone, New Musical Express, The Village Voice, and much more.

The Songs of Squeezing Out Sparks: As Recorded By Graham Parker and The Rumour

Belmont, Martin

40th anniversary edition. All the lyrics, chords, bars, tablature and notation of lead guitar, including solos plus extracts from the rhythm guitar. Some songs with both guitar tabs in their entirety. Acoustic guitar picking intro of You Can't Be Too Strong. Includes extracts from reviews, adverts, plus live and promo photos from publications such as Rolling Stone, New Musical Express, The Village Voice, and much more.

The Songs of Squeezing Out Sparks: As Recorded by Graham Parker and The Rumour

Blown Out on the Trail: 20 Years of Unreleased Bob Dylan Recordings

Blown Out on the Trail is the second in a series of books dealing with the unreleased recordings of Bob Dylan. The first edition, Skipping Reels of Rhyme, which was nominated for the 2019 ARSC award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research, dealt with the years 1958 through 1975, often thought of as his peak creative years. This edition deals with the two decades from 1976 to 1996, often thought of as his “lost in the wilderness” years. This book is a guide to the best and most worthwhile of the rare and unreleased recordings from those years.

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Carp Fishing on Valium: stories by Graham Parker

Up The Crime Ladder

Swimming Through Air

Infamous Shocking Crime: Forbidden Crime Comics of the 1950s

Skipping Reels of Rhyme: A Guide to Rare and Unreleased Bob Dylan Recordings

The Thylacine's Lair

The Thylacine's Lair

The Songs of Squeezing Out Sparks: As Recorded By Graham Parker and The Rumour

The Songs of Squeezing Out Sparks: As Recorded by Graham Parker and The Rumour

Blown Out on the Trail: 20 Years of Unreleased Bob Dylan Recordings