Description
At Edinburgh's Department of Environmental Health, hard-drinking, womanising officer Danny Skinner wants to uncover secrets: 'the bedroom secrets of the master chefs', secrets he believes might just help him understand his self-destructive impulses. But the arrival of the virginal, model-railway enthusiast Brian Kibby at the department provokes an uncharacteristic response in Skinner, and threatens to throw his mission off course. Consumed by loathing for his nemesis, Skinner enacts a curse, and when Kibby contracts a horrific and debilitating mystery virus, Skinner understands that their destinies are supernaturally bound, and he is faced with a terrible dilemma.
'An exquisitely paced black comedy. It has clever and funny things to say. There was a rumour that Porno was to be Welsh's last book. You'll be glad it wasn't' Evening Standard
About the Author
Irvine Welsh was born and raised in Edinburgh. His first novel, Trainspotting, has sold over one million copies in the UK and was adapted into an era-defining film. He has written thirteen further novels, including the number one bestseller Dead Men's Trousers, four books of shorter fiction and numerous plays and screenplays. Crime and The Long Knives have been adapted into a television series starring Dougray Scott as Ray Lennox. Irvine Welsh currently lives between London, Edinburgh and Miami.
Reviews
Irvine Welsh is in a class of his own...[his books have] a seething life in them that rivets attention and an inventiveness with story and language that continually amuses and amazes * Guardian *
It is an exquisitely paced black comedy. It has clever and funny things to say. There was a rumour that Welsh's last novel, Porno was to be his last. You'll be glad it wasn't * Evening Standard *
Flickers with the dynamism, black humour and imaginative bravado that is Welsh at his best * Financial Times *
An outrageous and exhilarating foul-mouthed book * Sunday Times *
Vintage Welsh: Brilliant, graphic, with frequent forays into the grotesque * Sunday Tribune *
Book Information
ISBN 9780099483588
Author Irvine Welsh
Format Paperback
Page Count 448
Imprint Vintage
Publisher Vintage Publishing
Weight(grams) 309g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 27mm
'An exquisitely paced black comedy. It has clever and funny things to say. There was a rumour that Porno was to be Welsh's last book. You'll be glad it wasn't' Evening Standard
About the Author
Irvine Welsh was born and raised in Edinburgh. His first novel, Trainspotting, has sold over one million copies in the UK and was adapted into an era-defining film. He has written thirteen further novels, including the number one bestseller Dead Men's Trousers, four books of shorter fiction and numerous plays and screenplays. Crime and The Long Knives have been adapted into a television series starring Dougray Scott as Ray Lennox. Irvine Welsh currently lives between London, Edinburgh and Miami.
Reviews
Irvine Welsh is in a class of his own...[his books have] a seething life in them that rivets attention and an inventiveness with story and language that continually amuses and amazes * Guardian *
It is an exquisitely paced black comedy. It has clever and funny things to say. There was a rumour that Welsh's last novel, Porno was to be his last. You'll be glad it wasn't * Evening Standard *
Flickers with the dynamism, black humour and imaginative bravado that is Welsh at his best * Financial Times *
An outrageous and exhilarating foul-mouthed book * Sunday Times *
Vintage Welsh: Brilliant, graphic, with frequent forays into the grotesque * Sunday Tribune *
Book Information
ISBN 9780099483588
Author Irvine Welsh
Format Paperback
Page Count 448
Imprint Vintage
Publisher Vintage Publishing
Weight(grams) 309g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 27mm
