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Mark Renton's life seems to be on track: university, pretty girlfriend, even social success. But, in this prequel to Trainspotting, after the death of his younger brother, Rent falls apart and starts hanging around with his old pals, including Sick Boy, Spud, and Begbie, and being drawn irresistibly into their wacked-out plans. Set against 1980s Thatcher-era Edinburgh-with its high unemployment, low expectations, and hard-to-come-by money and ...

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Per me è stato amore al primo buco, matrimonio alla prima fumata. Esatto, io amo la mia ero. La vita dovrebbe essere come quando sei strafatto." È questa la filosofia degli skagboys, i tossici scozzesi resi famosi da Trainspotting. In questo libro Irvine Welsh racconta l'antefatto, il momento in cui Mark Renton, Sick Boy, Spud e i loro "soci" scivolano inesorabilmente nel baratro dell'eroina. Fra scene di devastante crudezza e depravazione, ep...

The best book ever written by man or woman...deserves to sell more copies than the Bible."-"Rebel, Inc.

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Hard-edged and iconoclastic, the new wave of Scottish writers and their godfather, Irvine Welsh, write a darkly funny brand of fiction about people on the fringes--junkies, soccer hooligans, ravers, working-class youth. This anthology of six full-length novellas features raw and exciting works by Welsh and such up-and-coming authors as Alan Warner, James Meek, Gordon Legge, and Laura J. Hird.

A Cowdenbeath, un'anonima cittadina di una popolosa regione a nord di Edimburgo, Jason King, fantino mancato di ventisei anni, si barcamena in un presente da sottoccupato cronico e stella locale del subbuteo. Tra una partita e l'altra e lavoretti più o meno leciti, Jason inganna la monotonia ascoltando Cat Stevens, tracannando Guinness e tampinando quasi ogni ragazza gli capiti a tiro. Da un po', però, a dare materia alle sue fantasie sono le ...

If you put four dwarfs in a room with enough opium and alcohol, it's bound to end in tears.

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.

His first short story collection since "The Acid House", this includes five extraordinary tales from the hugely acclaimed and popular author of "Trainspotting", Irvine Welsh. Welsh is a master of the shorter form, a brilliant storyteller and one of the funniest and filthiest writers in Britain. In stories ranging from the American desert to Chicago, to the Costa Brava and, of course, Scotland, Welsh reveals the often obscene and always enterta...

Reheated Cabbage gathers stories showcasing Irvine Welsh's trademark skills: vaulting imagination, brilliant vernacular ear, scabrous humor, and the ability to create some of the most memorable characters in contemporary fiction. You can enjoy Christmas dinner with Begbie at his Ma's and see how he greets his sister's boyfriend and news of their engagement. You'll discover in "The Rosewell Incident" why aliens speak hardcore Scots English and ...

Nell'America di oggi, ossessionata dal successo, dalla celebrità mediatica, dalla perfezione del corpo, può accadere che una personal trainer di Miami Beach finisca sotto i riflettori della televisione per aver disarmato e immobilizzato un uomo, grazie a una testimone che ha avuto la prontezza di riprendere tutto con il telefonino. Le due donne sono Lucy Brennan, l'eroina sportivissima e salutista, e Lena Sorenson, artista bulimica in crisi d'...

Irvine Welsh's latest novel, now in paperback, is a thriller about the corruption and abuse of the human soul, the possibilities of redemption, and deals with the challenging subject-matter of organised paedophile gangs. 'By some distance Welsh's most restrained and thoughtful work... The themes...are distressing, but Welsh's take is surprisingly considered and compassionate, and ultimately an old-fashioned moral one' "Times

Ésta es la primera colección de cuentos de Welsh desde aquel Acid House que cambió nuestra mirada sobre una época y una generación. En «Serpientes de cascabel», dos chicos y una chica vuelven del festival Burning Man y el coche se les para en el desierto. Se preparan a pasar la noche, pero al conductor lo pica una cascabel en la entrepierna mientras soñaba con la chica del triángulo.Él pretende que ella lo salve chupándole el veneno, pero es s...

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Jim Francis è felice e realizzato: vive in California con la moglie Melanie e le loro due splendide bambine, e ha da poco scoperto una vena artistica che non sospettava di avere. Le sue sculture di creta, ritratti di personaggi famosi sottoposti a crudeli mutilazioni, riscuotono un grande successo. Strumenti preferiti? Lame di ogni tipo: non solo quelle convenzionali, ma anche coltelli da caccia, bisturi... eredità di un passato nascosto che p...

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Rebecca Navarro, best-selling authoress of Regency romances, suffers a paralysing stroke. Assisted by her nurse, Rebecca plans her revenge on her unfaithful husband. Together they go in search of the man who marketed the drug that crippled her - in order to cripple him. Together they explore the true nature of house music and chemical romance.