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Alan Warner

    1 januari 1964

    Alan Warner is een bekroonde Schotse romanschrijver wiens werken zich vaak afspelen in zijn fictieve "The Port". Zijn stijl staat bekend om zijn fantasierijke en surrealistische zwarte komedie, die de unieke perspectieven van zijn personages onderzoekt. Hij creëert rijke, sfeervolle werelden die lezers in zijn verhalen trekken. Zijn romans duiken vaak in existentiële thema's, terwijl ze een uitgesproken literaire stem behouden.

    Kitchenly 434
    These Demented Lands
    Their Lips Talk of Mischief
    The Sopranos
    The Seal Club
    Movern callar
    • Een Schots meisje trekt zich niets aan van de zelfdoding van haar vriend en gaat gewoon verder met haar leven.

      Movern callar
      3,6
    • The Seal Club

      • 304bladzijden
      • 11 uur lezen

      The Seal Club is a three-novella collection by the authors Alan Warner, Irvine Welsh and John King, three stories that capture their ongoing interests and concerns, stories that reflect bodies of work that started with Morvern Callar, Trainspotting and The Football Factory - all best-sellers, all turned into high-profile films.

      The Seal Club
      4,1
    • The Sopranos

      • 256bladzijden
      • 9 uur lezen

      The choir from Our Lady of Perpetual Succour School for Girls is being bussed to the national finals in the big city. It's an important day for the Sopranos - pub-crawling, shoplifting and body-piercing being their top priorities

      The Sopranos
      3,7
    • Their Lips Talk of Mischief

      • 352bladzijden
      • 13 uur lezen

      Their Lips Talk of Mischief, Alan Warner's first novel with Faber, is a darkly comic tale of hope and humanity against the grim urban and political landscape of Margaret Thatcher's Britain.

      Their Lips Talk of Mischief
      3,6
    • An aircrash investigator haunts the hinterlands of an island. A woman makes landfall on the island, and DJ Cormorant is trying to organise a rave on the adjacent airstrip. This work features twisted characters - The Arganout, the Knife Sharpener, The Devil's Advocate and others - converging for one final Saturday night at the Drome Hotel.

      These Demented Lands
      3,2
    • A wistfully charming spin on the classic English Country House novel transposed to the late 70s: comic fiction at its very finest by one of Scotland's most celebrated literary figures

      Kitchenly 434
      3,4
    • Nothing Left to Fear from Hell

      • 145bladzijden
      • 6 uur lezen

      In the aftermath of the disastrous Battle of Culloden, a lonely figure takes flight with a small band of companions through the mountainous landscapes of the north-west Highlands of Scotland. Award-winning author Alan Warner traces the last journey through Scotland of Bonne Prince Charlie, a man who history will come to define for his failure.

      Nothing Left to Fear from Hell
      3,3
    • Celluloid Rock

      Twenty Years of Movie Rock

      • 142bladzijden
      • 5 uur lezen
      Celluloid Rock
    • Disco biscuits

      • 347bladzijden
      • 13 uur lezen

      Celebrating the 10th anniversary of the birth of Acid House, this anthology of new stories includes works by Alan Warner, Irvine Welsh and Jeff Noon.

      Disco biscuits