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Choose us. Choose life. Choose mortgage payments; choose washing machines; choose cars; choose sitting on a couch watching mind-numbing and spirit-...

Roy Strang is engaged in a strange quest in a surrealist South Africa. His mission is to eradicate an evil predator-scavenger bird, the marabou sto...

Jim Francis has finally found the perfect life - and is now unrecognisable, even to himself. A successful painter and sculptor, he lives quietly wi...

Product Description It accomplished for its own time and place what Hubert Selby, Jr.'s Last Exit to Brooklyn did for his. Rents, Sick Boy, M...

Product Description 'An unremitting powerhouse of a novel that marks the arrival of a major new talent. Trainspotting is a loosely knotted st...

Choose us. Choose life. Choose mortgage payments; choose washing machines; choose cars; choose sitting on a couch watching mind-numbing and spirit-...

Ten years on from Trainspotting Sick Boy is back in Edinburgh after a long spell in London. Having failed spectacularly as a hustler, pimp, husband...

With the festive season almost upon him, Detective Sergeant Bruce Robertson is winding down at work and gearing up socially - kicking off Christmas...

'A major talent' Irvine Welsh 'Remarkable, beautiful, magic. Like Ulysses for those who can't cope with reading Ulysses' Paolo Hewitt 'We're all ...

Review For sheer excitement, there's just no-one else like Irvine ― SFX The sort of book you'd pick up if you were prepared to be late for your n...

Product Description A ROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE YEAR'A joy to read' Guardian'I loved this book' Irvine Welsh 'What a story! I adored it' Lauren...

Review This is more than a stunning debut. It reminds me how vacuous, banal and insipid most highly-touted fiction is. [He] asks - and answers - s...

'Effortlessly cool, funny yet sad, breezy but thoughtful - this is an edgy and unputdownable work of modern literature' Sharlene Teo, author of Pon...

Review "Sings from its first lines . . . unbearably poignant . . . a truly uplifting emotional journey; a tender, wise, brutally funny novel" ...

Winner of the Saltire Literary Award Fiction Book of the Year 'Literary gold . . . Morrison has published his masterpiece' Sunday Times 'Sensatio...