Reissue of one of Robbins's bestloved books.

James Frey wakes up on a plane, with no memory of the preceding two weeks. His face is cut and his body is covered with bruises. He has abused alcohol and every drug he can lay his hands on for a decade - and he is aged only twenty-three. This work presents an account of a life destroyed and a life reconstructed.

Trainspotting

Mr Verloc, the secret agent, is involved in an anarchist plot to blow up the Greenwich Observatory which goes disastrously wrong. Based on the text which Conrad's first English readers enjoyed, this new edition includes a critical introduction which describes Conrad's great London novel as the realization of a 'monstrous town', a place of idiocy, madness, criminality, and butchery.

A modern day fable set in New York. Lonely widow Sara Goldfarb nurtures fanstasies about appearing on prime-time television, while her son Harry, along with his girlfriend plans his break into big-time drug dealing. Their eyes fixed on an impossible future, they move blindly onwards, contorting their lives into coils of self-deception as they struggle to keep their dreams alive.

A powerful and perceptive coming-of-age story, in the tradition of The Catcher in the Rye, from a talented young filmmaker, screenwriter and novelist.