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Alan Warner

    1 janvier 1964

    Alan Warner est un romancier écossais primé dont les œuvres se déroulent fréquemment dans son fictif « The Port ». Son style est connu pour sa comédie noire imaginative et surréaliste, explorant les perspectives uniques de ses personnages. Il crée des mondes riches et atmosphériques qui entraînent les lecteurs dans ses récits. Ses romans abordent souvent des thèmes existentiels tout en conservant une voix littéraire distinctive.

    These Demented Lands
    Their Lips Talk of Mischief
    Morvern Callar
    The Sopranos
    The Stars in the Bright Sky
    The Deadman's Pedal
    • 2023

      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
    • 2023

      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
    • 2021

      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
    • 2020

      The Seal Club

      • 304pages
      • 11 heures de lecture

      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
    • 2014

      Their Lips Talk of Mischief

      • 320pages
      • 12 heures de lecture
      3,6(267)Évaluer

      High up in the Conrad Flats that loom bleakly over Acton, two future stars of the literary scene - or so they assume - are hard at work, tapping out words of wit and brilliance between ill-paid jobs writing captions for the Cat Calendar 1985 and blurbs for trashy novels with titles like 'Brothel of the Vampire'. Just 21 but already well entrenched in a life eked out on dole payments, pints and dollops of porridge and pasta, Llewellyn and Cunningham don't have it too bad: a pub on the corner, a misdirected parental allowance, and the delightful company of Aoife, Llewellyn's model fiancee, mother of his young baby - and the woman of Cunningham's increasingly vivid dreams.

      Their Lips Talk of Mischief
    • 2007

      The Stars in the Bright Sky

      • 394pages
      • 14 heures de lecture
      3,9(37)Évaluer

      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
    • 1999

      The Deadman's Pedal

      • 375pages
      • 14 heures de lecture
      4,1(20)Évaluer

      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
    • 1998

      Morvern Callar bleibt nach dem Tod ihres Freundes gelassen und schickt dessen Romanmanuskript unter ihrem Namen an Verlage. Während sie auf Antworten wartet, arbeitet sie im Supermarkt und feiert mit Freunden. Als der Roman ein Erfolg wird, reist sie nach Spanien und erlebt dort eine Reihe von Partys und eine persönliche Erleuchtung.

      Hin und Weg. Roman
    • 1998

      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
    • 1998

      The Sopranos

      • 256pages
      • 9 heures de lecture
      3,7(46)Évaluer

      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