Alan Warner

(born 1964 - ) - Argyll

Wining a Somerset Maugham award for Morvern Callar, the Encore Award for These Demented Lands and the Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year for The Sopranos, and one of Granta Magazine’s Best 20 Young British Novelists, Alan Warner has enjoyed enviable success with his four novels. His books are largely set in the fictional village of The Port, a location that many will nonetheless recognise as Warner’s birthplace of Oban.

Once considered part of the ‘chemical generation’ along with fellow Scot Irvine Welsh, the rural settings of his books are gritty and modern. His most recent novels are The Worms Can Carry Me To Heaven and The Stars in the Bright Sky.

In May 2011, Warner was appointed a writer in residence at the University of Edinburgh.

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The Deadman's Pedal
Alan Warner - Hardback - Jonathan Cape
It is the early 1970s and for 16-year-old Simon Crimmons there's really not much to do in the Highlands of Scotland. The only local drama and romance is the West Highland Line, so Simon joins up as a train driver. But that summer he is introduced to a world far more glamorous and strange than the railways can provide.
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The Man Who Walks
Alan Warner - Paperback - Vintage
A scandalous theft has left a pub's World Cup cash kitty missing, causing a homeless drifter to pursue his eccentric uncle into the Highlands. This novel concerns the nephew's progress and bizarre diversions, in pursuit of his uncle.
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Morvern Callar
Alan Warner - Paperback - Vintage
This contemporary debut novel from Scottish author Alan Warner centres on Morvern Callar who wakens one morning to discover her boyfriend has committed suicide in the kitchen. Her reaction is both intriguing and immoral and her ensuing actions appalling.
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The Stars In The Bright Sky
Alan Warner - Paperback - Vintage
Out of school & out in the world, gathered in Gatwick to plan a super-cheap last-minute holiday to celebrate their reunion. Kay, Kylah, Manda, Rachel & Finn are joined by Finn's gorgeous friend Ava - a half-French philosophy student - & they are ready to go on the rampage.
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These Demented Lands
Alan Warner - Paperback - Vintage
In this sequel to the cult novel Morvern Callar, an aircrash investigator haunts the hinterlands of an island, gathering the fallen pieces of planes that have crashed there. Meanwhile, DJ Cormorant is trying to organise a massive rave.
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The Worms Can Carry Me To Heaven
Alan Warner - Paperback - Vintage
Manolo Follano, a 40-year-old Spanish roué, has built a comfortable life for himself in his hometown by the sea. For a playboy like Manolo to be told by his doctor that he is HIV positive is, it would seem, the end of everything. However, this devastating news is only the beginning.