Manolo Follano, a 40-year-old Spanish roue, has built a comfortable life for himself in his hometown by the sea. His architectural design company is thriving, his suits are Italian linen, his cigars Cuban, and he's on friendly terms with his two ex-wives and happily frees to enjoy the charms of women much younger. For a playboy like Manolo - handsome, fastidious, opinionated and more than a little vain - to be told by his doctor and friend that he is HIV Positive is, it would seem, the end of everything. In Alan Warner's fifth novel, however, this devastating news is only the beginning. Manolo strolls around his familiar haunts recalling, with Proustian clarity, the loves of his life, as he prepares to tell each of them his terrible secret - all the while bracing himself for the final reckoning, and the thin hope of redemption. In a series of vivid, erotic, hilarious flashbacks, he plays back his life in glowing Technicolor: each wild and glorious set-piece building towards a complete picture of a life - flawed, certainly, but passionate, richly imagined and deeply humane. A novel of stunning visual invention that manages to be both provocative and profound, both shocking and riotously funny, "The Worms Can Carry Me To Heaven" is further proof of Alan Warner's prodigal gifts of spirit and imagination, and his position in the first rank of contemporary writers.

Worms Can Carry Me to Heaven

Literature & Fiction

ALAN WARNER

Contemporary

Vintage Books USA

The Man Who Walks

Humor & Satire

Vintage

Stars in the Bright Sky

The Sopranos are back: out of school and out in the world, gathered in Gatwick to plan a super-cheap last-minute holiday to celebrate their reunion. Kay, Kylah, Manda, Rachel and Finn are joined by Finn's equally gorgeous friend Ava - a half-French philosophy student - and are ready to go on the rampage. Just into their twenties and as wild as ever, they've added acrylic nails, pedicures, mobile phones and credit cards to their arsenal, but are still the same thirsty girls: their holiday bags packed with skimpy clothes and condoms, their hormones rampant. Will it be Benidorm or Magaluf, Paris or Las Vegas? One thing is certain: a great deal of fast-food will be eaten and gallons of Guinness will be drunk by the alpha-female Manda, and she will be matched by the others' enthusiastic intake of Bacardi Breezers, vodkas and Red Bull...

Literary

Vintage Books

It is the early 1970s in the highlands of scotland and for 16-year-old simon crimmons theres really not much to do he can hang around with his pals or his first-ever girlfriend, nikki, he can dream about a first motorbike to get him out of the port and among the hills, but in truth hes going nowhere the only local drama and romance is provided by the rural railway, and simon ends up working on the trains by chance, thrown into a community of jaded older men but that summer he is introduced to a world far more glamorous and strange he meets the louche, bohemian alex, and his dark, gorgeous sister, varie: all that remains of the doomed family of the great house at broken moan, where their father, andrew bultitude, is commander of the pass when simon falls in love with the otherworldly varie he is suddenly given a freedom and mobility that is both thrilling and vertiginous with the deadmans pedal, alan warner returns to the landscapes of morvern callar and his early novels: a world where the real and the surreal, grim trade unionists and the crazed aristocracy, live under the shadows of the same great mountains, along the same railway line a demented comedy, a wild romantic fling - the deadmans pedal is another thrillingly imagined adventure by one of our finest novelists

The Deadman's Pedal

JONATHAN CAPE.

Change and the Bottom Line (Gower Novel) (Gower Novel)

Business & Money

Gower

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. 
In Warner's Those Darker Sayings, a gang of Glaswegian nerds ride the mainline trains of northern England on a mission to feed the habit of their leader Slorach. Frustrated, cynical and a big disappointment to his family, Slorach is also a man of great intelligence and deep knowledge, a British Rail timetables call-centre guru who just happens to be addicted to gambling machines. And pubs. Welcome to the world of the quiz-machine casual. 
In Welsh's The Providers, the Begbie family gather in Edinburgh for a terminally ill woman's last Christmas, but everyone needs to be on their best behaviour, and that includes her Trainspotting son Frank, recently released from prison and trying to forge a new life as an artist. Also present is his brother Joe, who arrives in a state of alcoholic dissolution. The ultimate nightmare family Christmas looms, where secrets and lies explode like fireworks. 
In King's The Beasts Of Brussels, thousands of thirsty Englishmen assemble in the city ahead of a football match against Belgium, their behaviour monitored by two media professionals who spout different politics but share the same interests. Meanwhile, The Football Factory's Tommy Johnson and a small crew of purists run the gauntlet in Germany, eager to join the fun. As order breaks down and the media goes into overdrive, we are left to identify the real beasts of the story. 
The Seal Club - maverick, free-thinking fiction for the 2020s.

The Seal Club

John, King

IRVINE WELSH

Short Stories & Anthologies

London Books

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