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Mark Renton is finally a success. An international jet-setter, he now makes significant money managing DJs, but the constant travel, airport lounges, soulless hotel rooms and broken relationships have left him dissatisfied with his life. He's then rocked by a chance encounter with Frank Begbie, from whom he'd been hiding for years after a terrible betrayal and the resulting debt. But the psychotic Begbie appears to have reinvented himself as a celebrated artist and doesn't seem interested in revenge. Sick Boy and Spud, who have agendas of their own, are intrigued to learn that their old friends are back in town, but when they enter the bleak world of organ-harvesting, things start to go so badly wrong. Lurching from crisis to crisis, the four men circle each other, driven by their personal histories and addictions, confused, angry - so desperate that even Hibs winning the Scottish Cup doesn't really help. One of these four will not survive to the end of this book. Which one of them is wearing Dead Men's Trousers?

Mr Bones is the canine sidekick and confidant of Willy G. Christmas, a brilliant but troubled poet-saint from Brooklyn. Together they sally forth in search of Willy's beloved high-school teacher, who years ago knew him in his previous incarnation as William Gurevitch, son of Polish war refugees.

Shortlisted for the 2015 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse prize for comic fiction A rampaging force of nature is wreaking havoc on the streets of Edinburgh, but has top shagger, drug-dealer, gonzo-porn-star and taxi-driver, ‘Juice’ Terry Lawson, finally met his match in Hurricane ‘Bawbag’? Can Terry discover the fate of the missing beauty, Jinty Magdalen, and keep her idiot-savant lover, the man-child Wee Jonty, out of prison? Will he find out the real motives of unscrupulous American businessman and reality-TV star, Ronald Checker? And, crucially, will Terry be able to negotiate life after a terrible event robs him of his sexual virility, and can a new fascination for the game of golf help him to live without… A DECENT RIDE? A Decent Ride sees Irvine Welsh back on home turf, leaving us in the capable hands of one of his most compelling and popular characters, ‘Juice’ Terry Lawson, and introducing another bound for cult status, Wee Jonty MacKay: a man with the genitals and brain of a donkey. In his funniest, filthiest book yet, Irvine Welsh celebrates an un-reconstructed misogynist hustler – a central character who is shameless but also, oddly, decent –and finds new ways of making wild comedy out of fantastically dark material, taking on some of the last taboos. So fasten your seatbelts, because this is one ride that could certainly get a little bumpy…

Part noir, part psychedelic romp, and all Pynchon, "Inherent Vice" spotlights private eye Doc Sportello who occasionally comes out of a marijuana haze to watch the end of an era, as the free love of the 1960s slips away and paranoia creeps in with the L.A. fog.

L'amore secondo Irvine Welsh: una storia ambienta in un'anonima cittadina di una popolosa regione a nord di Edimburgo e raccontarla in prima persona dai due protagonisti, Jason King e Jenni Cahill da Cowdenbeath, Fife centrale, Scozia. Lui, ventisei anni e poco più di un metro e mezzo d'altezza, ha archiviato le giovanili speranze di diventare un fantino professionista e si barcamena in un presente non troppo radioso da sottoccupato cronico e stella locale del subbuteo. Tra una partita e l'altra del «meraviglioso gioco da tavolo» e lavoretti più o meno leciti, Jason inganna la monotonia delle giornate di provincia ascoltando Cat Stevens, scolandosi quantità esagerate di Guinness e tampinando quasi ogni ragazza gli capiti a tiro. Da un po', però, a dare materia alle sue fantasie sono le morbide forme della dolce Jenni Cahill. Cavallerizza di scarso talento, con una passione per Marilyn Manson e vaghe aspirazioni suicide, lei non sembra tuttavia troppo entusiasta di ricambiare le attenzioni di quel «nanerottolo schifoso» di Jason. Ma si sa, le apparenze possono ingannare e al cuor non sempre si comanda, e saranno prima il caso e poi un tragico incidente a far scoprire ai due ragazzi di poter condividere qualcosa: il sogno di una nuova vita, lontana dal grigiore di ogni Cowdenbeath del mondo.

Qual è l'attività segreta che consente a un (apparentemente) rispettabile libraio antiquario londinese di condurre una vita lussuosa e spregiudicata, in compagnia della sua segretaria e amante? Be', sempre di libri si tratta, ma... Il lettore scoprirà il mistero lungo le avvincenti pagine di questo racconto, il cui epilogo imprevedibile è quello di una detective story, amara e scanzonata al tempo stesso. Al Libraio che imbrogliò l'Inghilterra fa seguito Lo Scrittore automatico , la storia di un giovane aspirante scrittore che, stanco di vedere le sue creazioni rifiutate dalle riviste letterarie, risolve il problema inventando una strana macchina... I due racconti, dunque, si fondono in un insieme perfettamente amalgamato, accomunati come sono dallo sguardo impietoso che Roald Dahl sa gettare sul mondo dei libri e della cultura, mostrando ancora una volta la sua originalità di visione, il suo stile rapido e graffiante, la sua straordinaria bravura nel delineare situazioni e personaggi.

August Brill ha sufrido un accidente de coche y se está recuperando en casa de su hija, en Vermont. No puede dormir, e inventa historias en la oscuridad. En una de ellas, Owen Brick, un joven mago que ha adoptado el nombre artístico del Gran Zavello, despierta en el fondo de un foso de paredes muy lisas que no puede escalar. No sabe dónde está ni cómo ha llegado hasta allí, pero oye el ruido de una batalla. Hasta que aparece el sargento Serge, que le ayuda a salir del pozo para que Brick pueda cumplir su misión. América está inmersa en una oscura guerra civil. Los atentados del once de septiembre no han tenido lugar, y tampoco la guerra de Irak. Y el joven mago descubre que los Estados Unidos combaten desde hace tiempo, pero contra ellos mismos. Unos cuantos estados -ahora desunidos- han declarado la independencia.

Gautam Malkani tells of a Britain that has never before been explored in the novel: a country of young Asian and white boys (desis and goras) trying to work out a place for themselves in the shadow of the divergent cultures of their parent's generation.

Nine-year-old Oskar Schell is an inventor, amateur entomologist, Francophile, letter writer, pacifist, natural historian, percussionist, romantic, Great Explorer, jeweller, detective, vegan, and collector of butterflies. When his father is killed in the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Centre, Oskar sets out to solve the mystery of a key he discovers in his father's closet. It is a search which leads him into the lives of strangers, through the five boroughs of New York, into history, to the bombings of Dresden and Hiroshima, and on an inward journey which brings him ever closer to some kind of peace.

'Can I explain why I wanted to jump off the top of a tower block?' For disgraced TV presenter Martin Sharp the answer's pretty simple: he has, in his own words, 'pissed his life away'. And on New Year's Eve, he's going to end it all . . . But not, as it happens, alone. Because first single-mum Maureen, then eighteen-year-old Jess and lastly American rock-god JJ turn up and crash Martin's private party. They've stolen his idea - but brought their own reasons. Yet it's hard to jump when you've got an audience queuing impatiently behind you. A few heated words and some slices of cold pizza later and these four strangers are suddenly allies. But is their unlikely friendship a good enough reason to carry on living? 'Extremely funny . . . and wise' Sunday Times 'A page-turning plot and rich, funny characters with several big laughs on every page . . . Hornby's best yet.' Literary Review 'Hornby pins down the age in which we live with precision and comic brilliance.' Guardian 'Hugely enjoyable.' Irish Times 'Masterful . . . some of the finest writing, and some of the most outstanding characters I've ever had the pleasure of reading.' Johnny Depp

Obertura - Un encuentro inesperado - Adiós a la corte - Purgatorio - Cae un velo - Revelaciones inquietantes - Sobre granujas - La sorpresa del banco de esperma - La reina de Brooklyn - Sobre l a estupidez de los hombres - Cenando y bebiendo - Pausa para fumar - Sobre la estupidez de los hombres - Chanchullos - Llaman a la puerta - Rumbo al norte - Nuestra niña, o marchando una Coco-cola - Traición - Contraataque - Más acontecimientos - La niña risueña - Volando al norte - Una nueva vida - Inspiración - La cruz marca el lugar.

David Zimmer, un escritor y profesor de literatura, se pasa los días bebiendo y cavilando sobre el minuto aquel en que su mujer y sus hijos todavía no habían subido al avión que estalló. Una noche, mirando la televisión, y por primera vez tras seis meses, algo lo hace reír. El cau-sante es Hector Mann, uno de los últimos cómicos del cine mudo. Zimmer descubre que aún que todavía quie-re vivir. Comenzará entonces a escribir un libro sobre Mann, un joven y enigmático cómico nacido en Argentina, que hace sesenta años se desvaneció sin dejar rastro. Después de publicar el libro, Zimmer recibe una carta de una mujer que afirma ser la esposa de Mann, y le sugie-re que los visite a ella y a su marido en Nuevo México. Zimmer le pide pruebas. Una noche una extraña joven llama a su puerta y, amenazándolo con una pistola, lo obliga a acompañarla.

Empieza Ciudad de cristal, con un escritor de novela policiaca que, por azar, se ve actuando como un detective por las calles de la ciudad de los rascacielos mientras se cuestiona quién es en realidad. En Fantasmas, se conforma un laberinto de búsquedas que Azul, el detective, deberá desentrañar. En La habitación cerrada, el protagonista recibe el encargo de buscar a un amigo de la infancia desaparecido que ha dejado una maleta llena de manuscritos inéditos que deseaba que fueran publicados, por razones un tanto confusas.En las obras de Paul Auster, los acontecimientos se precipitan tras sucesos de una naturaleza, aparentemente, insignificante: lo pequeño marca la diferencia y el azar condiciona las decisiones. La investigación de lo otro se convierte en la búsqueda de uno mismo, en el afán de hallar una identidad propia y distintiva.

Después de pasar una larga temporada en el hospital al borde de la muerte, el escritor Sidney Orr compra en una papelería de Brooklyn un extraño cuaderno de color azul. Esa misma noche empieza a escribir en él una historia que no sabe adónde le conducirá. Estamos en septiembre de 1982, y durante nueve días Orr vivirá bajo el influjo mágico de este cuaderno, atrapado en un mundo de inquietantes premoniciones y sucesos enigmáticos que amenazan con destruir su relación y su fe en la realidad. La noche del oráculo es una novela de inmensa fuerza narrativa que precipita al lector en el imaginario de Paul Auster.

Enviado a un casino en Royale-les-Eaux, James Bond tiene como objetivo eliminar la amenaza del mortal Le Chiffre al arruinar al implacable operativo de SMERSH en la mesa de baccarat. Sin embargo, cuando la suerte favorece a su enemigo, 007 se convierte en el objetivo de asesinos y torturadores en un juego de alto riesgo de gato y ratón.

An astonishing feat - The Times. A young man arrives in the Ukraine, clutching in his hand a tattered photograph. He is searching for the woman who fifty years ago saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Unfortunately, he is aided in his quest by Alex, a translator with an uncanny ability to mangle English into bizarre new forms; a blind old man haunted by memories of the war; and an undersexed guide dog named Sammy Davis Jr, Jr. What they are looking for seems elusive - a truth hidden behind veils of time, language and the horrors of war. What they find turns all their worlds upside down.

In 1965, the happy Bedloe family is living an ideal, apple-pie existence in Baltimore.  Then, in the blink of an eye, a single tragic event occurs that will transform their lives forever--particularly that of seventeen-year-old Ian Bedloe, the youngest son, who blames himself for the sudden "accidental" death of his older brother.Depressed and depleted, Ian is almost crushed under the weight of an unbearable, secret guilt.  Then one crisp January evening, he catches sight of a window with glowing yellow neon, the CHURCH OF THE SECOND CHANCE.  He enters and soon discovers that forgiveness must be earned, through a bit of sacrifice and a lot of love...A New York Times Notable Book

On a day in April, just after three o'clock in the afternoon, Robert Maitland's car crashes over the concrete parapet of a high-speed highway onto the island below, where he is injured and, finally, trapped. What begins as an almost ludicrous predicament in Concrete Island soon turns into horror as Maitland--a wickedly modern Robinson Crusoe--realizes that, despite evidence of other inhabitants, this doomed terrain has become a mirror of his own mind. Seeking the dark outer rim of the everyday, Ballard weaves private catastrophe into an intensely specular allegory. Author Biography: J. G. Ballard is the author of numerous books, including Empire of the Sun, the underground classic Crash, and The Kindness of Women. He is revered as one of the most important writers of fiction to address the consequences of twentieth-century technology. His latest book is Super-Cannes. He lives in England.