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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.

    Seal Club 2: The View From Poacher's Hill
    The Sopranos
    The Stars in the Bright Sky
    The Seal Club
    The Deadman's Pedal
    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 Deadman's Pedal

      • 375bladzijden
      • 14 uur lezen

      Winner of the James Tait Black Fiction PrizeFor 16-year-old Simon Crimmons there is not a lot to do. Too posh' for the railways, too working class' for Varie, Simon must navigate what it means to be a man as his world is turned upside down.

      The Deadman's Pedal
      4,1
    • 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 Stars in the Bright Sky

      • 394bladzijden
      • 14 uur lezen

      The Sopranos are back: out of school and out in the world, gathered in Gatwick to plan a super-cheap last-minute holiday reunion. Pitch perfect, darkly comic and brimming with life - in all its squalor, rage, tears and laughter - this is an unforgettable story of female friendship.

      The Stars in the Bright Sky
      3,9
    • 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
    • The Seal Club returns with The View From Poacher's Hill, featuring new novellas by Alan Warner, Irvine Welsh and John King. Three literary chums, three more doses of bold contemporary fiction. In Warner's Migration, a reluctant teenager is taken to live on the Costa Blanca by her parents, but despite the villa, pool and palm trees as enjoyed through designer shades, Lily struggles to adapt to her new life in Spain. All is not well in paradise. In Welsh's In Real Life, the dull existence of disenfranchised Edinburgh youths is eased by the more seductive worlds glimpsed on the likes of Instagram. With drugs, porn, junk food and single-parenthood their everyday obsessions, this romping comedy of no manners asks if our onscreen lives can ever compensate for having nothing in real life. Perhaps the dapper Uncle Glen recently returned from Hemel Hempstead has the answer? In King's Grand Union, the arrival by narrowboat of former lorry driver Merlin and his goat Gary attracts a curious crowd

      Seal Club 2: The View From Poacher's Hill
      3,5
    • 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