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Tuesday, 15 October 2013

Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh

Trainspotting is the novel that first launched Irvine Welsh’s spectacular career-an authentic, unrelenting, and strangely exhilarating episodic group portrait of blasted lives. It accomplished for its own time and place what Hubert Selby, Jr.’s Last Exit to Brooklyn did for his. Rents, Sick Boy, Mother Superior, Swanney, Spuds, and Seeker are as unforgettable a clutch of junkies, rude boys, and psychos as readers will ever encounter. Trainspotting was made into the 1996 cult film starring Ewan MacGregor and directed by Danny Boyle.
Unabridged.

Saturday, 20 April 2013

The Welsh Girl – Peter Ho Davies

From the acclaimed writer Peter Ho Davies comes an engrossing wartime love story set in the stunning landscape of North Wales during the final, harrowing months of World War II. The arrival of the Germans in the camp is a source of intense curiosity in the local pub, where Esther pulls pints for both her neighbors and the unwelcome British guards. One summer evening she follows a group of schoolboys to the camp boundary. As the boys heckle the prisoners across the barbed wire fence, one soldier seems to stand apart. He is Karsten Simmering, a German corporal, only eighteen, a young man of tormented conscience struggling to maintain his honor and humanity.
Unabridged.
Read by Richard Mitchley.

The Girl on the Stairs – Louise Welsh

Jane Logan is six months pregnant and has moved to Berlin to live with her long-term lover, rich banker, Petra. The women’s chic new apartment is in a trendy part of the city but Jane finds herself increasingly uneasy there. She conceives a dread of the derelict back house across the courtyard and begins to suspect something sinister is happening in the flat next door, where gynecologist Alban Mann lives with his teenage daughter Anna. Petra believes her lover’s pregnancy is affecting her judgement, butt Jane is increasingly convinced that all is not well. Her decision to turn detective has devastating results when her own past collides with the past of the building and its inhabitants.
Unabridged.
Read by Jane Wymark.

Saturday, 13 April 2013

The Bullet Trick – Louise Welsh

When down-at-heel conjurer William Wilson gets booked for a string of cabaret gigs in Berlin, he is hoping his luck is on the turn. There were certain spectators from the last show hed rather forget Amongst the showgirls and tricksters of Berlins scandalous underground, William can abandon his heart, his head, and more importantly, his past. But secrets have a habit of catching up with him, and the line between the act and reality starts to blur. Bringing the seedy glamour of the burlesque scene magnificently to life, Louise Welshs deft contemporary tale is her richest and most macabre yet.
Unabridged.
Read by Ewan Stewart.