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Can's Tago Mago 33 1/3 by Alan Warner
Category: Film | Series: 331/3
Finally, a brilliant exploration of the German rock band Can's 1971 album Tago Mago. This hugely unique and influential album deserves close analysis from a fan, rather than a musicologist. Novelist Alan Warner details the concrete music we hear on the album, how it was composed, executed and recorded ...Show more
Here (Book 1 of Elsewhere) by Alan Warner
Category: Fiction | Series: Elsewhere
Here is about the elsewhere at home. With insightful new work fromTheresa Breslin, Ali Smith, Alasdair Gray and Miguel Syjuco,Here moves between countries and continents, through families and unlikely encounters to find hope and reconciliation. Naked horseback riding. Being on a carousel for 24 hours. ...Show more
Morvern Callar by Alan Warner
Category: Fiction
It is off-season in a remote Highland sea port: 21-year-old Morvern Callar, a low-paid employee in the local supermarket, wakes one morning to find her strange boyfriend has committed suicide and is dead on their kitchen floor. Morvern's laconic reaction is both intriguing and immoral. What she does nex ...Show more
Morvern Callar by Alan Warner
Category: Fiction | Series: Morvern Callar Cycle Ser.
It is off-season in a remote Highland seaport: twenty-one-year-old Morvern Callar, a low-paid employee in the local supermarket, wakes one morning to find her strange boyfriend has committed suicide and is dead on their kitchen floor. Morvern's laconic reaction is both intriguing and immoral. What she ...Show more
Morvern Callar O/P by Alan Warner
Category: Fiction
Morvern Callar, a low-paid employee in the local supermarket in a desolate and beautiful port town in the west of Scotland, wakes one morning in late December to find her strange boyfriend has committed suicide and is dead on the kitchen floor. Morvern's reaction is both intriguing and immoral. What she ...Show more
Nothing Left to Fear from Hell - Darkland Tales by Alan Warner
Category: Fiction
A battle lost. A daring escape. A long walk into obscurity. The ultimate failure....In the aftermath of the disastrous Battle of Culloden, a lonely figure takes flight with a small band of companions through the islands and mountains of the Hebrides. His name is Charles Edward Stuart: better known today ...Show more
Nothing Left to Fear from Hell: Darkland Tales by Alan Warner
Category: Fiction
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 Bonnie Prince Charlie, a man who hi ...Show more
The Deadman's Pedal by Alan Warner
Category: Fiction
For 16-year-old Simon Crimmons there is not a lot to do. Going nowhere, fed up with school, he leaves to work as a driver on the trains. That summer he is introduced to a world of grown-up glamour, strikes and girlfriends. When Simon falls for the ethereal, aristocratic Varie, he finds freedom and adven ...Show more
The Sopranos by Alan Warner
Category: Fiction
The choir from our Lady of Perpetual Succour School for Girls is being bussed to the national finals in the big, big city. And it's an important day for the Sopranos - Orla, Kylah, (Ra)Chell, Amanda Konky and Fionnula (the Cooler) - pub-crawling, shoplifting and body-piercing being the top priorities. T ...Show more
The Worms Can Carry Me to Heaven by Alan Warner
Category: Fiction
Manolo Follano, a 40-year-old Spanish roué, 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, heâs on friendly terms with his two ex-wives and happily free to enjoy the charms of women much ...Show more