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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
A Clocktower Press AnthologyTaking its name from the clock-tower of South Queensferry's town hall, where Duncan McLean worked as a janitor, Clocktower Press has - over the past seven years published some of the most challenging and important writing to come out of Britain since the war. Early drafts of Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting, James Kelman's How Late it Was, How Late, and Janice Galloway's Foreign Parts, appeared alongside stories by the best young Scottish authors: Gordon Legge, James Meek and Alan Warner.With Scottish fiction now acknowledged as the most exciting and influential being written in these islands, this anthology brings together some of the most influential of the original Clocktower publications as well as new pieces written specially for this collection. It is a fitting tribute to a publisher truly ahead of his time.
Een Schots meisje trekt zich niets aan van de zelfdoding van haar vriend en gaat gewoon verder met haar leven.
