Louise Welsh

A vivid, action-packed journey through a post-apocalyptic world. Terrifying and touching in equal measure, the novel is a love story, an adventure, a road movie, a family drama and a murder mystery rolled into one' The Times ScotlandIt is seven years after the Sweats wiped out most of the world's population. Survivors settled on the Orkney Islands are trying to build a new society but their world crashes for a second time when the islands' teenagers vanish. Stevie and Magnus are the only ones who can bring them home.Stevie hasn't been back to the mainland since she escaped to the islands after a desperate flight north from London. Magnus never saw himself leaving either. After all, what's left for him there? But Shug was born on the islands and has never known anything different; has never left them. Until now.And what starts out as a journey to bring home some young people intent on adventure soon turns into a race against time to find Shug before he comes down with the Sweats. Or worse. A pacy, page-turning ride through a post-apocalyptic world, No Dominion sets the pulse racing and doesn't let up until the last thrilling page.

The long-awaited new novel from the author of The Cutting Room and The Bullet Trick...

A thrilling novel from the author of A LOVELY WAY TO BURN.It is seven years after the first outbreak of the sweats. Stevie Flint and Magnus McFall have both washed up on the Orkney Islands. A rural community is clinging to survival and a generation of orphans, who barely remember a time before the pandemic, are reaching maturity. Magnus''s foster son Shuggie is fourteen years old and angry. He and his friends blame the adults for the loss of the technological wonders of the past.When the foster parents of Shug''s girlfriend Misty are found murdered and the young couple vanishes, Magnus fears the worst. He and Stevie set off on a quest into the decaying city of Glasgow and into the heart of a post-apocalyptic world they tried to leave behind.

William Wilson es un joven mago escoces que se gana la vida como puede en Londres. Acepta actuar, en un club nocturno del Soho, como telonero de dos bailarinas que empiezan la función cubiertas con un burka y acaban completamente desnudas. William tiene que seducir a una sala llena de hombres duros, los policias que le ofrecen una fiesta de despedida al inspector James Montgomery. Y eso no es todo. Porque Montgomery y el padre de Bill Noon, el dueño del club, un gangster de poca monta, estaban unidos por una peculiar relacion una mujer misteriosamente desaparecida, y Bill quiere que William sustraiga con sus magicos dedos la prueba del delito, el contenido de ese sobre con el que Montgomery ha extorsionado durante años a su padre y luego a el. Y William Wilson acabara huyendo de los mortiferos secretos del pasado de otros, y encontrando a su propia mujer fatal... "Louise Welsh es la gran esperanza de aquellos que aspiran a borrar el limite entre la literatura sin mas y la novela de genero" (Paul Dunn, The Times) "Una novela que supera los limites de la novela policiaca" (Mark Lawson, The Guardian). a

Set in contemporary Glasgow, The Cutting Room is narrated by Rilke, one of the most engaging, flawed and hedonistic fictional creations of recent years. When this dissolute and promiscuous auctioneer comes upon a hidden collection of violent, and highly disturbing, erotic photographs, he feels compelled to unearth more about the deceased owner who coveted them. What follows is a compulsive journey of discovery, decadence and deviousness.

It''s 1593 and London is a city on edge. Under threat from plague and war, it''s a desperate place where strangers are unwelcome and severed heads grin from spikes on Tower Bridge.

Se llama Rilke pero no es un poeta. Es un experto en arte, y viste siempre de negro, con un aire levemente vampírico. Trabaja en la casa de subastas de Rose, su amiga y a veces su enemiga, que podría ser su novia si Rilke no fuera homosexual. Y un dia lo llaman para tasar y vender el contenido de la ultima gran mansion de Glasgow, la casa de los McKindless. Entre las joyas mas ocultas, Rilke encuentra una esplendida biblioteca de primeras ediciones de libros prohibidos, pornografia mitica, netsukes eroticos que ilustran escenas de sexo y muerte. Y, en medio del arte, irrumpe lo real, la imagen de una joven desnuda, atada a un altar erotico y sacrificial, con heridas sangrantes. ¿Realidad o esplendida ficcion, como los libros que lo rodean? Rilke decide descubrir la verdad...