Alan Warner

(born 1964 - ) - Argyll

Alan Warner

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 novel is The Worms Can Carry Me To Heaven.

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    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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    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 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.
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    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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    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.

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