Reissue of a novel first published in the 1970s: Hunter S. Thompson's ether-fuelled, savage journey to the heart of the American Dream.

Reconstructs the murder in 1959 of a Kansas farmer, his wife and both their children. The author's comprehensive study of the killings and subsequent investigation explores the circumstances surrounding this terrible crime and the effect it had on those involved.

It is said that the Hell's Angels could paralyse whole towns with fear. This book explores the questions such as: How much of that reputation was myth and how much was brutal reality?

The best, the fastest, the hippest and the most unorthodox account ever published of the US presidential electoral process in all its madness and corruption.

Looks at the American scene of the early 1960s and zeroes in on the forms of status-seeking then in vogue from New York to Los Angeles. This book finds a unique American energy in the dances, bouffant hairdos, stock-car racing and rock concerts. It eulogizes the flamboyant 'kustomized kars' California teens constructed with artistic dedication.

Tom Wolfe introduces a wide range of journalistic reportage by writers including Truman Capote, Terry Southern, George Plimpton, Norman Mailer and Hunter S. Thompson.

What is it, that makes a man willing to sit on top of an enormous Roman Candle and wait for someone to light the fuse? Ask a few of the astronauts and find out. They had it. The first Americans in space, battling the Russians for control of the heavens, putting their lives on the line. This book is about the quality beyond bravery, beyond courage.

A collection of journalism, social commentary, short fiction and autobiography, this book is divided into sections of writing on each decade: 1950s, '60s, '70s, '80s and '90s. The book begins with a furious condemnation of the US justice system.

A retrospective collection of Wolfe's work, twenty-one essays and extracts, from 1964 to 1981, running through the whole mad circus of his American subcultures - from Surfers, Acid Freaks, West Side Divorcees and Soho Bohos to Astronauts, Moonies, Manhattan Socialites, Mid-Atlantic Men, Pop Painters and Down-filled People.

A memoir of Hunter S Thompson that exposes the darkness at the heart of America: a nation that thralls to Bush's War on Terror, War on Evil, War on Iraq, and even War on Fat... a time when fear and loathing are greater than ever.

From one of America's iconic writers, a portrait of a marriage and a life -- in good times and bad -- that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child. A stunning book of electric honesty and passion.

Hunter S Thompson's most eccentric book in a new, limited edition. Originally published in 1983, this book features all the zany, hallucinogenic wordplay and feral artwork for which the Hunter S Thompson/Ralph Steadman duo have become known and loved.

Takes a satirical look at how, during that period of cultural upheaval, minority groups from the ghettoes refined the art of intimidating the white bureaucracy. This work includes essays that aim to transport the reader back to the heady days of hippie revolution and Black Power.

In 1993 Norman Mailer spent six months in Minsk retracing Lee Harvey Oswald's two and a half years in the USSR, interviewing his former friends and sweethearts. This book provides insights into Oswald's involvement with the KGB, and an account of his disastrous childhood and death in Dallas.

One night in the Bronx a millionaire, Sherman McCoy, and his mistress have an accident. The next day a young Black is in hospital in a coma as McCoy heads for disaster. His humiliation is at the centre of a satire on the decaying class, racial and political structure of New York in the 1980s.

A review on men and war, this book brings alive the terror of combat.