Brentford Books in Order

The final Brentford novel finds the End truly nigh, with apocalyptic omens piling up around the borough. Old allies – from Professor Slocombe to Elvis and Barry the Time Sprout – gather as Pooley and Omally face one last, absurdly high‑stakes fight for Brentford’s soul.

A supernatural storm has wrecked Brentford and awoken the First Folk, ancient faerie beings determined to reclaim Earth from 'Darwinian' humanity. With a wizard, a giant and two battered drinkers from the Flying Swan as its only defence, the town staggers into a last, wildly unpredictable battle.

Back in Brentford, an unnecessary ring road is pushed through by unnervingly charismatic town clerk Mr Pocklington. As construction begins, Pooley, Omally and their friends suspect a buried enemy and a scheme that threatens not just their shabby borough but the whole world.

Grand magus Hugo Rune recruits amnesiac assistant Rizla to solve twelve bizarre cases linked to the hidden 'Brighton zodiac'. From bog trolls to space crabs and sinister conspiracies, each mystery brings them closer to the schemes of Count Otto Black – and to the truth about who Rizla really is.

Developers want to demolish Brentford’s beloved football ground to build executive homes, unaware the pitch sits atop the buried serpent from Eden. Press‑ganged into saving both club and cosmos, Pooley, Omally and the lads of the Flying Swan marshal magic, time travel and very dubious football skills.

John Omally finally chases his rock‑and‑roll dreams by managing Gandhi’s Hairdryer, a local band whose frontman can literally heal the sick. As fame and miracles spread through Brentford, Pooley and Omally discover that mixing divine powers with dodgy management attracts interest from forces far beyond the music business.

Brentford decides to hold the millennium celebrations two years early, while a geneticist quietly clones Jesus from the Turin Shroud. As strange vanishings, fake messiahs and a sinister committee converge, Pooley, Omally and the locals must prevent a very literal retail‑driven apocalypse.

When the Olympic Games are inexplicably awarded to shabby Brentford, a vast stadium threatens to crush Pooley’s illicit fishery and maybe the world. Training as unlikely athletes, Pooley and Omally uncover a sponsor whose plans for the Games are monstrously literal.

A towering office block and a cashless barcode scheme mark the arrival of Lateinos & Romiith, a high‑tech cabal planning a Satanic takeover. Cut off from the outside world, Pooley and Omally team with Professor Slocombe and Sherlock Holmes to stop the Beast going digital.

A strange arcade machine and failing electrics herald an alien invasion centred on Brentford. With inventor Norman Hartnell’s dubious gadgets in tow, Pooley and Omally must unravel the mystery of the Brentford Triangle before refugees from a lost planet claim Earth as their new home.

In the quiet London suburb of Brentford, ne’er‑do‑wells Jim Pooley and John Omally discover that a shabby local tramp is really a resurrected Borgia pope. Between pints at the Flying Swan, they must somehow stop his plans for a very unholy new Holy See.