Marabou Stork Nightmares

Author : Irvine Welsh
Publisher : Random House
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781407019390

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Marabou Stork Nightmares by Irvine Welsh Pdf

Roy Strang is engaged in a strange quest in a surrealist South Africa. His mission is to eradicate an evil predator-scavenger bird, the marabou stork, before it drives away the peace-loving flamingo from the picturesque Lake Torto. But behind this world lies another: the world of Roy's bizarre family, the Scottish housing scheme in which he grew up, his mundane job, a disastrous emigration to Africa, and his youthful life of brutality with a gang of soccer casuals. As one world crashes into the other, this potentially charming story of ornithological goodwill mutates into a filthy tale of violence, abuse and redemption.

Author : Irvine Welsh
Publisher : Random House
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781407018485

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Filth by Irvine Welsh Pdf

Suitable only for persons of strong constitution. Contains: Drug use Perversion Murder Corruption Sexism Racism Law Enforcement And a tapeworm

Author : Irvine Welsh
Publisher : Random House
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2008-11-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781407018300

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Ecstasy by Irvine Welsh Pdf

Lloyd from Leith has a transfiguring passion for the unhappily married Heather. Together they explore the true nature of house music and chemical romance. Will their ardour fizzle and die or will it ignite and blaze like a thousand suns? Ecstasy follows them and others through the backstreets of Edinburgh, stifling suburban sitting rooms and the bright lights of London. Exhilarating and dazzling, this is Welsh at his very best.

Author : Irvine Welsh
Publisher : Random House
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2008-12-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781407018072

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Glue by Irvine Welsh Pdf

'Welsh is at the top of his game' The Face 'His most readable and memorable novel since Trainspotting' Independent on Sunday Glue is the story of four boys growing up in the Edinburgh schemes, and about the loyalties, the experiences and the secrets that hold them together into their thirties. As we follow their lives from the 70s into the new century - from punk to techno, from speed to Es - we can see each of them trying to struggle out from under the weight of the conditioning of class and culture, peer pressure and their parents' hopes that maybe their sons will do better than they did. What binds the four of them is the friendship formed by the scheme, their school, and their ambition to escape from both; their loyalty fused in street morality: back up your mates, don't hit women and, most importantly, never grass - on anyone. 'His most complete and engaging work to date... arguably, his best book' TLS 'A coming-of-age story carved out with a broken bottle' Elle

Author : Irvine Welsh
Publisher : Random House
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Black humor
ISBN : 9780099563075

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Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh Pdf

Irvine Welsh's controversial first novel, set on the heroin-addicted fringe of working-class youth in Edinburgh, is yet another exploration of the dark side of Scottishness. The main character, Mark Renton, is at the center of a clique of nihilistic slacker junkies with no hopes and no possibilities, and only "mind-numbing and spirit-crushing" alternatives in the straight world they despise. This particular slice of humanity has nothing left but the blackest of humor and a sharpness of wit. American readers can use the glossary in the back to translate the slang and dialect--essential, since the dialogue makes the book. This is a bleak vision sung as musical comedy. Amazon.

Author : Irvine Welsh
Publisher : Random House
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2009-09-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781409078739

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Reheated Cabbage by Irvine Welsh Pdf

Hilarious, shocking and hugely entertaining, Reheated Cabbage has all the classic Irvine Welsh ingredients In Reheated Cabbage you can enjoy Christmas dinner with Begbie and discover how aliens addicted to Embassy Regal have Midlothian under surveillance. You will meet a husband who values a televised Hibs v Hearts game more than his wife's life and see two guys fighting over a beautiful girl agree - after a few pills and pints of lager - that their friendship is actually more important. And you will be delighted to welcome back 'Juice' Terry Lawson, and to watch what happens when he meets his old nemesis under the strobe-lights of a Miami Beach nightclub. 'The stories combine sly humour with the tang of lived experience. It makes for a terrific collection, showcasing a writer who...has blossomed into one of the most distinctive, and distinguished, observers of British life' Sunday Telegraph

Author : Irvine Welsh
Publisher : Random House
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781448129157

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If You Liked School, You'll Love Work... (Storycuts) by Irvine Welsh Pdf

Mickey Baker, an ex-pat English bar owner living in Spain, returns to England to see his daughter and mother but must face the wrath of his ex-wife, a woman who pulls no punches. Part of the Storycuts series, this short story was previously published in the collection If You Liked School, You'll Love Work.

Author : Harry Gibson
Publisher : Arrow
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015053039833

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4-Play by Harry Gibson Pdf

Author : Irvine Welsh
Publisher : Random House
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2009-05-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781407019901

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T2 Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh Pdf

Now a major film directed by Danny Boyle reuniting the cast of Trainspotting Years on from Trainspotting Sick Boy is back in Edinburgh after a long spell in London. Having failed spectacularly as a hustler, pimp, husband, father and businessman, Sick Boy taps into an opportunity which to him represents one last throw of the dice. However, to realise his ambitions within the Adult industries, Sick Boy must team up with old pal and fellow exile Mark Renton. Still scheming, still scamming, Sick Boy and Renton soon find out that they have unresolved issues to address concerning the unhinged Begbie, the troubled, drug-addled Spud, but, most of all, with each other. T2 Trainspotting was previously published as Porno.

Author : Irvine Welsh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Subculture
ISBN : OCLC:1335928626

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The Irvine Welsh Omnibus by Irvine Welsh Pdf

Author : Dean Cavanagh,Irvine Welsh
Publisher : Random House
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011-12-20
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781446449868

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Babylon Heights by Dean Cavanagh,Irvine Welsh Pdf

If you put four dwarfs in one room with enough opium and alcohol, it's bound to end in tears... In 1935 MGM studios embarked on a movie adaptation of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. The production called for the casting of many dwarfs to play the Munchkins of the mythical Land of Oz and the studio began recruiting 'small persons' from all over the world. During production, rumours spread around Hollywood of wild Munchkin sex orgies, drunken behavior and general dwarf debauchery. More sinisterly, a Munchkin is said to have committed suicide by hanging himself on the set during filming - what appears to be a small human body is clearly visible hanging from a tree in the Tin Man scene. It is a claim that has passed into Hollywood legend. Set in a hotel room in Culver City, California, Babylon Heights is Irvine Welsh and Dean Cavanagh's scabrous and hilarious imagining of what could, very possibly, have led to that dwarf suicide. Babylon Heights premiered at the Exit Theatre, San Francisco, in June 2006.

Author : Irvine Welsh
Publisher : Random House
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781409028239

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Skagboys by Irvine Welsh Pdf

*Number #1 Bestseller** BEFORE TRAINSPOTTING CAME SKAGBOYS Mark Renton has it all: he's good-looking, young, with a pretty girlfriend and a bright future. But there's no room for him in the 1980s and when his family starts to fracture, Mark's life swings out of control. The way out is heroin. It's no better for his friends - Spud Murphy is laid off from his job, Tommy Lawrence finds himself sucked into a life of petty crime, violence and the world of the psychotic Franco Begbie. Only Sick Boy seems to ride the current, scamming and hustling his way through it all. Exhilarating and moving, Skagboys charts their journey from likely lads to young addicts in a decade which changed Britain forever. 'Masterful... its banter, outrage and razor wit sing off the page' Independent 'Funny...visceral and true... Welsh's finest work to date' The Times

Author : Irvine Welsh
Publisher : Random House
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473520974

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A Decent Ride by Irvine Welsh Pdf

Shortlisted for the 2015 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse prize for comic fiction A rampaging force of nature is wreaking havoc on the streets of Edinburgh, but has top shagger, drug-dealer, gonzo-porn-star and taxi-driver, ‘Juice’ Terry Lawson, finally met his match in Hurricane ‘Bawbag’? Can Terry discover the fate of the missing beauty, Jinty Magdalen, and keep her idiot-savant lover, the man-child Wee Jonty, out of prison? Will he find out the real motives of unscrupulous American businessman and reality-TV star, Ronald Checker? And, crucially, will Terry be able to negotiate life after a terrible event robs him of his sexual virility, and can a new fascination for the game of golf help him to live without... A DECENT RIDE? A Decent Ride sees Irvine Welsh back on home turf, leaving us in the capable hands of one of his most compelling and popular characters, ‘Juice’ Terry Lawson, and introducing another bound for cult status, Wee Jonty MacKay: a man with the genitals and brain of a donkey. In his funniest, filthiest book yet, Irvine Welsh celebrates an un-reconstructed misogynist hustler – a central character who is shameless but also, oddly, decent –and finds new ways of making wild comedy out of fantastically dark material, taking on some of the last taboos. So fasten your seatbelts, because this is one ride that could certainly get a little bumpy...

Author : Irvine Welsh
Publisher : Random House
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2008-12-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781407019376

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The Acid House by Irvine Welsh Pdf

The characters in this extraordinary book are often - on the surface - depraved, vicious, cowardly and manipulative, but their essential humanity is never undermined. Two professors of philosophy turn pugilists; Leith removal men become the objects of desire for Hollywood goddesses; God turns Boab Coyle into a house-fly; and in the novella, 'A Smart Cunt', the drug-addled young hero spins off on a collision course with his past. The Acid House is a bizarre, disturbing and hilarious collection from one of the most uncompromising and original writers around.

Author : Peter Kravitz
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1016121989

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The Vintage Book of Contemporary Scottish Fiction by Peter Kravitz Pdf

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