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Danny Skinner es una joven versión contemporánea del Dr. Jekyll y Mr Hyde. Reparte su tiempo libre entre el fútbol, las mujeres, las borracheras monumentales y las grescas apocalípticas por un lado, y la lectura de Rimbaud, Verlaine y Schopenhauer por el otro. Y en su tiempo de asalariado, trabaja en Sanidad y Medio Ambiente y se dedica a inspeccionar restaurantes. Aunque tambien aqui la dualidad se repite, porque Danny Skinner oficialmente esta interesado en la salubridad e higiene de los lugares donde cocinan los grandes chefs, y tambien los menos grandes, y en recibir algun que otro soborno, pero extraoficialmente pretende averiguar sus mas turbios secretos de alcoba: el joven es hijo de madre soltera, una pionera del punk que jamas ha querido abrir la boca, y sospecha que su progenitor puede ser uno de estos divos contemporaneos, uno de los emperadores de esas cocinas que el visita con ojo avizor. Hasta que un dia, en medio de este inestable equilibrio laboral y vital, aparece Brian Kibby, un perfecto buen chico un tanto friky, que jamas se emborracha, es aficionado a los trenes electricos de juguete, hace higienicas excursiones a la montaña y asiste a las convenciones de Star Trek. Y Brian se pone a trabajar junto a Danny, que comienza a experimentar un odio inmediato

Many questions are posed, and answered, in these five extraordinary stories: stories that remind us that Irvine Welsh is a master of the shorter form, a brilliant storyteller, and - arguably - one of

A rampaging force of nature is wreaking havoc on the streets of Edinburgh, but has top shagger, drug-dealer, gonzo-porn-star and taxi-driver, 'Juice'. Terry Lawson, finally met his match in Hurricane 'Bawbag'? Can Terry discover the fate of the missing beauty, Jinty Magdalen, and keep her idiot savant lover, the man-child Wee Jonty, out of prison? Will he find out the real motives of unscrupulous American businessman and reality-TV star, Ronald Checker? And, crucially, will Terry be able to negotiate life after a terrible event robs him of his sexual virility, and can a new fascination for the game of golf help him to live without. A Decent Ride? A Decent Ride sees Irvine Welsh back on home turf, leaving us in the capable hands of one of his most compelling and popular characters, 'Juice' Terry Lawson, and introducing another bound for cult status, Wee Jonty MacKay: a man with the genitals and brain of a donkey. In his funniest, filthiest book yet, Irvine Welsh celebrates an un-reconstructed misogynist hustler - a central character who is shameless but also, oddly, decent -and finds new ways of making wild comedy out of fantastically dark material, taking on some of the last taboos. So fasten your seatbelts, because this is one ride that could certainly get a little bumpy.

The most terrifying character in Trainspotting returns with his own novel.Jim Francis has finally found the perfect life and is now unrecognisable, even to himself. A successful painter and sculptor, he lives quietly with his wife, Melanie, and their two young daughters, in an affluent beach town in California. Some say hes a fake and a con man, while others see him as a genuine visionary.But Francis has a very dark past, with another identity and a very different set of values. When he crosses the Atlantic to his native Scotland, for the funeral of a murdered son he barely knew, his old Edinburgh community expects him to take bloody revenge. But as he confronts his previous life, all those friends and enemies and, most alarmingly, his former self Francis seems to have other ideas.When Melanie discovers something gruesome in California, which indicates that her husbands violent past might also be his psychotic present, things start to go very bad, very quickly.The Blade Artist is an elegant, electrifying novel ultra violent but curiously redemptive and it marks the return of one of modern fictions most infamous, terrifying characters, the incendiary Francis Begbie from Trainspotting.

Shortlisted for the 2015 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse prize for comic fiction.A rampaging force of nature is wreaking havoc on the streets of Edinburgh, but has top shagger, drug-dealer, gonzo-porn-star and taxi-driver, Juice Terry Lawson, finally met his match in Hurricane Bawbag?Can Terry discover the fate of the missing beauty, Jinty Magdalen, and keep her idiot-savant lover, the man-child Wee Jonty, out of prison?Will he find out the real motives of unscrupulous American businessman and reality-TV star, Ronald Checker?And, crucially, will Terry be able to negotiate life after a terrible event robs him of his sexual virility, and can a new fascination for the game of golf help him to live without... A DECENT RIDE?A Decent Ride sees Irvine Welsh back on home turf, leaving us in the capable hands of one of his most compelling and popular characters, Juice Terry Lawson, and introducing another bound for cult status, Wee Jonty MacKay: a man with the genitals and brain of a donkey.In his funniest, filthiest book yet, Irvine Welsh celebrates an un-reconstructed misogynist hustler a central character who is shameless but also, oddly, decent and finds new ways of making wild comedy out of fantastically dark material, taking on some of the last taboos. So fasten your seatbelts, because this is one ride that could certainly get a little bumpy...

Ésta es la primera colección de cuentos de Welsh desde aquel Acid House que cambió nuestra mirada sobre una epoca 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 triangulo.El pretende que ella lo salve chupandole el veneno, pero es su compañero quien se ofrece. Y entonces llegan dos mexicanos, homofobos y armados. En el relato que da titulo al libro, Mickey es un expatriado ingles que tiene un bar en las Canarias, una ex mujer cargante en Inglaterra y una hija adolescente que llega de improviso. Y Mickey tendra que sortear a sus amantes, ademas de vigilar a dos presuntos gangsters que quiza planean un golpe. A continuacion nos encontraremos con unas chicas muy esnobs, que se reunen en un restaurante coreano. A una de ellas le desaparece el perro y sospecha de su vecino, que es el chef del restaurante... Y asi siguen otras historias estimulantemente retorcidas. "Historias gamberras con situaciones sorprendentes... El rastro de Bukowski, Amis y Roald Dahl" (M. Rodriguez Cueto, La Nueva España).

Choose us. Choose life. Choose mortgage payments; choose washing machines; choose cars; choose sitting oan a couch watching mind-numbing and spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fuckin' junk food intae yir mooth. Choose rotting away, pishing and shiteing yersel in a home, a total fuckin' embarrassment tae the selfish, fucked-up brats ye've produced. Choose life.

Jim Francis has finally found the perfect life - and is now unrecognisable, even to himself. A successful painter and sculptor, he lives quietly with his wife, Melanie, and their two young daughters, in an affluent beach town in California. Some say he's a fake and a con man, while others see him as a genuine visionary. But Francis has a very dark past, with another identity and a very different set of values. When he crosses the Atlantic to his native Scotland, for the funeral of a murdered son he barely knew, his old Edinburgh community expects him to take bloody revenge. But as he confronts his previous life, all those friends and enemies - and, most alarmingly, his former self - Francis seems to have other ideas. When Melanie discovers something gruesome in California, which indicates that her husband's violent past might also be his psychotic present, things start to go very bad, very quickly. The Blade Artist is an elegant, electrifying novel - ultra violent but curiously redemptive - and it marks the return of one of modern fiction's most infamous, terrifying characters, the incendiary Francis Begbie from Trainspotting.

Presents a collection of stories that reflect the author''s vaulting imagination, vernacular ear, dark, scabrous humor and the ability to create some of the most memorable characters in contemporary

Detective Inspector Ray Lennox is recovering from a mental breakdown induced by occupational stress and cocaine abuse, and a horrifying child sex murder case back in Edinburgh. On vacation in Florida, he meets two women in a seedy bar, ending up at their apartment for a coke binge interrupted by two menacing strangers.

At Edinburghs 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.

In Rattlesnakes, three young Americans find themselves lost in the desert, held captive by armed Mexicans an ex-jockey and table-football star of Cowdenbeath takes on the charms of Jenni Cahill and h

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.

Shortlisted for the 2015 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse prize for comic fiction.A rampaging force of nature is wreaking havoc on the streets of Edinburgh, but has top shagger, drug-dealer, gonzo-porn-star and taxi-driver, Juice'' Terry Lawson, finally met his match in Hurricane Bawbag''?Can Terry discover the fate of the missing beauty, Jinty Magdalen, and keep her idiot-savant lover, the man-child Wee Jonty, out of prison?Will he find out the real motives of unscrupulous American businessman and reality-TV star, Ronald Checker?And, crucially, will Terry be able to negotiate life after a terrible event robs him of his sexual virility, and can a new fascination for the game of golf help him to live without... A DECENT RIDE?A Decent Ride sees Irvine Welsh back on home turf, leaving us in the capable hands of one of his most compelling and popular characters, Juice'' Terry Lawson, and introducing another bound for cult status, Wee Jonty MacKay: a man with the genitals and brain of a donkey.In his funniest, filthiest book yet, Irvine Welsh celebrates an un-reconstructed misogynist hustler a central character who is shameless but also, oddly, decent and finds new ways of making wild comedy out of fantastically dark material, taking on some of the last taboos. So fasten your seatbelts, because this is one ride that could certainly get a little bumpy...

Roy Strang, antiguo seguidor ultra de un equipo de fútbol, yace en coma en el hospital, a donde le ha enviado una joven a la que violara en compañía de sus correligionarios. Recibe visitas de los extravagantes y demenciales de su familia y tambien de la muchacha violada, que espera el momento de rematar su venganza; entre tanto, Roy rememora poco a poco -y con interrupciones oniricas cuando se acerca a temas que no quiere recordar- su vida desde su dura infancia en una barriada de Edimburgo y su breve pero decisivo paso por Surafrica (donde fuera objeto de los abusos sexuales de su tio), hasta los acontecimientos que le condujeron al hospital, todo ello intercalado con frecuentes descensos a un mundo de ensoñaciones donde recorre Africa en compañia de su fiel amigo Sandy Jamieson en busca del Marabu -simbolo de la crueldad depredarora- al que quiere dar muerte.