Dangerous Parking

Paperback original. 8vo. Pp. [x], 402, [2]. Pictorial wraps, with cover design by William Webb and Chris Jones; black endpaper inserts.

Author's debut novel, published posthumously. "The screaming ambulance slows down a fraction as it hits the junction of parkway and Camden High Street... It feels as if my bladder is in my head, and any minute now it will explode, and blast piss and blood at a million-foot-pounds pressure out of my coke-scarred nostrils." A modern cult classic and a loud 'shout for life,' about a fêted film director in thrall to alcohol, drugs, casual sex and prey to self-loathing.

In a cruel twist of fate of life mirroring art, Browne was diagnosed with terminal cancer only days after clinching his publishing deal with Bloomsbury. Publication of the book on what would have been his fifty-second birthday was marked with a big party at Waterstone's, Piccadilly, four months after its creator's death. Filmed by Peter Howitt, after his own screenplay, who also starred in it alongside Tom Conti. He was named Best Director at the 2007 Tokyo International Film Festival. "A brilliant first novel... an utterly absorbing book that you won't want to put down... very funny and never morbid, this novel is destined to become a classic." –The Times