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

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Morvern Callar

<p>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</p>

The Deadman's Pedal

Jonathan Cape Ltd.

Beatles Guitar Intros

Music Sales Limited

Celluloid Rock: Twenty Years of Movie Rock

Philip Jenkinson

Lorrimer

Before the Bottom Line: A Story of the Working Capital Challenge

Simon Woolley

The Management Training Partnership/BP Amoco

Improving the Bottom Line

MTP & BP

Morvern Callar (BOOK PLUS) (2000) ISBN: 4048973045 [Japanese Import]

Artist House

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