{"product_id":"big-time","title":"Big Time","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the not-too-distant future, Australia's eastern states have become the world's newest autocracy - a place where pop music is propaganda, science is the enemy and moral indecency is punished with indefinite detention.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Julian Ferryman, bass player for the Acceptables, returns to Melbourne after a year overseas and reconnects with his bandmates as they prepare to record their hotly anticipated second album. On a whirlwind tour of the east coast, he gets hooked on a new designer drug, F, a powerful synthetic hallucinogen that gives users a glimpse of their own future. Rumour says, the more you take, the further you see ... maybe even to the end of time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Meanwhile, the outside world is gripped by an escalating pandemic of \"extreme coincidences\" and temporal anomalies: identical football matches played sixty years apart, cancer patients reporting visions of the afterlife, and other world-altering events that all point back to the Acceptables' mysterious second - and final - album.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eBig Time\u003c\/i\u003e is an addictive debut about different forms of time travel: the people in our lives, the art we make together, the moments and movements that will live on long after we're gone. It's a psychedelic road trip across a dystopian Australia, through a world on the brink of temporal collapse, and out to the furthest reaches of time and space.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback \/ softback | 368 pages | Published September 2025\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GARDNERS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":63970705342813,"sku":"9781915368881","price":13.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0978\/3459\/8749\/files\/9781915368881.jpg?v=1774376915","url":"https:\/\/www.thebookmark.ie\/products\/big-time","provider":"The Bookmark ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}