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Chapters: Iain Banks, Donald Dewar, Irvine Welsh, Shirley Manson, Robin Cook, Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham, Duncan Bannatyne, Hugh Macdiarmid, Momus, Donald Findlay, John Oswald, Iain Crichton Smith, Justin Currie, Limmy, Fyfe Robertson, Gregg Kincaid. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 110. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Shirley Ann Manson (born 26 August 1966) is a Scottish musician and actress, best known internationally as the lead singer of the grunge band Garbage. For much of her international career Manson commuted between her home city of Edinburgh to the United States to record with Garbage but now lives and works in Los Angeles. Manson gained media attention for her forthright style, rebellious attitude, and distinctive voice, which also won her fans throughout the world. She began her musical career in the early 1980s, performing backing vocals and keyboards for Scottish band Goodbye Mr. Mackenzie before being signed in 1993 as a solo artist, recording as Angelfish. After seeing Manson in an Angelfish video on MTV, Garbage invited Manson to record with the band for one album: the multiple Grammy Award nominated Garbage. Manson remained with Garbage, writing and recording a further three studio albums and touring worldwide, racking up 17 million record sales over ten years. In 2006, Manson began to write and record solo material after Garbage was put on "hiatus" and in 2008 was cast in her first professional acting role on the second and final season of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles as series regular Catherine Weaver, a liquid metal T-1001 Terminator. Shirley Manson was born in 1966 to John Mitchell and Muriel Flora Manson (née MacKay) at the Queen Mary Maternity Home in Edinburgh, Scotland. John Mitchell, a descendant from the fishing community of Northmav...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=504461 ... Read more

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Chapters: Irvine Welsh, Super Furry Animals, My Bloody Valentine, Primal Scream, Oasis, the Jesus and Mary Chain, Ride, the Boo Radleys, Fluke, Bill Drummond, Slowdive, Ruby, Swervedriver, Ivor Cutler, Bob Mould, Teenage Fanclub, 3 Colours Red, Saint Etienne, the Times, the Telescopes, Ed Ball, Momus, Bernard Butler, a Certain Ratio, the Membranes, the House of Love, the Chills, Felt, Teenage Filmstars, the Bodines, Poster Children, the Lilac Time, Velvet Crush, Dreadzone, Bmx Bandits, the Pastels, Moonshake, Nikki Sudden, Adorable, 'o' Level, Biff Bang Pow!, Hurricane No. 1, Kevin Rowland, Two Lone Swordsmen, Slaughter Joe, the Moodists, 18 Wheeler, the Weather Prophets, Paul Heeren, Mishka, Blow Up, Sugar, Superstar, Medicine, the Revolving Paint Dream, Clive Langer, Technique, Silverfish, the Jazz Butcher, Peter Astor, the Loft, Arnold, Bass Bumpers, Ultra Living, Meat Whiplash, Heidi Berry. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 359. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Oasis were an English rock band that formed in Manchester in 1991. Originally known as The Rain, the group was formed by Liam Gallagher (vocals and tambourine), Paul "Bonehead" Arthurs (guitar), Paul "Guigsy" McGuigan (bass guitar) and Tony McCarroll (drums, percussion), who were soon joined by Liam's older brother Noel Gallagher (lead guitar and vocals). They have had eight UK number-one singles, seven UK number-one albums, fifteen NME Awards, nine Q Awards, four MTV Europe Music Awards and six BRIT Awards, including one in 2007 for outstanding contribution to music and one for the best album of the last 30 years as voted by the BBC Radio 2 listeners, and also for being nominated for three Grammy Awards. As of 2009, the band have sold an estimated 70 million records worldwide. Also the band was listed in the Guinness Boo...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=161515 ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Édimbourg, Chronologie D'édimbourg, William Rankine, Irvine Welsh, Aéroport D'édimbourg, Château D'édimbourg, Festival International Du Film D'édimbourg, Université D'édimbourg, Princes Street, Université Napier D'édimbourg, Morningside, Scott Monument, Bibliothèque Nationale D'écosse, Musée Royal D'écosse, Archives Nationales D'écosse, Zoo D'édimbourg, Luckenbooth, Bâtiment Du Parlement Écossais, Inverleith, Festival International D'édimbourg, Laboratoire Océanographique Écossais, Traité D'édimbourg-Northampton, Greenhill, Tramway D'édimbourg, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Musée de L'écosse, Edinburgh Military Tattoo, Royal Mile, Cathédrale Saint-Gilles D'édimbourg, Portobello, Granton. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait :, Édimbourg (Edinburgh ] en anglais, Dùn Èideann en gaélique, Edinburrie, Edinburra et Edimbra en scots, Aneda en latin) est une ville de la côte est de l'Écosse au Royaume-Uni, et sa capitale depuis 1437. Elle est le siège du Parlement écossais, qui a été rétabli en 1999. Sa population était de 457 830 habitants en 2005 (c'est la deuxième ville d'Écosse derrière Glasgow). Depuis 1329, Édimbourg possède officiellement le statut de cité. La ville est construite sur des collines volcaniques qui fournissent chacune un point de vue différent sur la ville. Elle est dominée par son château dont les fondations remontent au siècle mais c'est à partir du siècle que fut construite cette résidence royale avant de devenir une forteresse redoutable au siècle. Édimbourg fut affranchie en 1329 et s'entoura de murailles au siècle. Après la défaite de Flodden (1513) contre les Anglais, les bourgeois de la ville décidèrent de construire à titre préventif une seconde enceinte baptisée le mur ...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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This first full-length study of Welsh provides a sustained textual and contextual analysis of all his work, from Trainspotting and The Acid House to Glue and Porno. A detailed chronological survey also considers the appropriateness of cultural, postmodern and postcolonial theories to Welsh's incendiary fiction. Kelly gives fascinating insight into the writer's formal and political ambitions, placing him in the context of the "brat pack" which exploded onto the Scottish literary scene in the 1990s. He explores the social, class and political conditioning of Welsh's early life, and its impact on his motivations for writing. ... Read more

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How Not To Learn To Speak Welsh.
This is a truly terrible book. The author, a middle class academic teaching at Edinburgh University in Scotland, clearly knows nothingof Scottish working class culture, which is the societal level which spawned Welsh's abrasive wordwork. Kelly basically makes up (seriously) most of this book, reading far-too-deep-and-tortuously-over-articulated meanings into short stories and novels that simply do not exist, supplemented by a selection of over-analytical, under-understanding quotes from other deluded examiners of Welsh's stuff.

When an author doesn't know that the use of the word 'us' in colloquial Scottish is simply a different way of saying 'me' and instead attributes this word in a sentence to a character talking about a 'multiplicity of personalities'...EVERYTHING he says is rendered suspect and void. If you want a critical analysis of Welsh that resonates with reason and reality, you will have to wait for another one, this being the first, because this man just doesn't know what the hell he is talking about. And he teaches this garbage to students too. Glad I'm not a student in his literature class.

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Chapters: Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson, Iain Banks, Alexander Trocchi, Josephine Tey, Irvine Welsh, J. M. Barrie, George Macdonald, John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, Andrew Lang, Nigel Tranter, Kenneth Grahame, A. J. Cronin, Arthur Conan Doyle, Craig Ferguson, Bruce Marshall, William Boyd, Ian Rankin, Dorothy Dunnett, Naomi Mitchison, Peter May, Alexander Mccall Smith, Muriel Spark, Stuart Macbride, Janice Hally, Michel Faber, James Hogg, John Galt, Alasdair Gray, Christopher Brookmyre, Edwin Muir, Neil M. Gunn, James Kelman, Gavin Esler, Tobias Smollett, Glenn Chandler, Jack House, Muriel Gray, Graham Mcneill, Quintin Jardine, Allan Massie, Margaret Oliphant Oliphant, Richard Gordon, Mona Caird, Thomas Dick Lauder, Compton Mackenzie, Catherine Carswell, George Mackay Brown, Gilbert Cannan, Jane Harris, Iain Crichton Smith, Alan Bissett, Jackie Kay, Ali Smith, Hugo Charteris, Robert Williams Buchanan, John Henry Mackay, Marion Chesney, Henry Mackenzie, A. L. Kennedy, Carol Anne Davis, Sir Herbert Maxwell, 7th Baronet, Adam Fergusson, David Walker, D. E. Stevenson, George Macbeth, Sophie Cooke, James Robertson, Neil Paterson, Jane Findlater, Denise Mina, Jane Duncan, John Hay Beith, William Mcilvanney, Tom Morton, Janice Galloway, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Jane Porter, Eric Linklater, Emily Gerard, Haldane Burgess, Emma Maree Urquhart, List of Scottish Novelists, Mary Louisa Molesworth, Stuart Hood, George Douglas Brown, George Makgill, James Kennaway, Martin Millar, Margaret Elphinstone, Angus Peter Campbell, Storer Clouston, Candia Mcwilliam, O. Douglas, Archie Hind, Christian Isobel Johnstone, Peter Kerr, John Joy Bell, Bernard Maclaverty, Archie Roy, Laura Marney, Shena Mackay, Fionn Maccolla, Chancery Stone, Samuel Rutherford Crockett, Ruth Thomas, William Watson, Luke Sutherland, Violet Jacob, David Wishart, Christopher Whyte, Mollie Hunter, Colin Douglas, Mary Brunton, Bill Napier, Grace Monroe, Alan Sharp, Sheila ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=26444 ... Read more

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Chapters: Doric Dialect, Irvine Welsh, Loch, Lallans, Ulster Scots, List of English Words of Scots Origin, Auld Lang Syne, Phonological History of Scots, Early Scots, Middle Scots, Royal Burgh, Anglicisation, History of the Scots Language, Provost, Apologetic Apostrophe, Ane Pleasant Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis, Makar, Campbeltown, Not Proven, Oor Wullie, Phonological History of Wh, a Red, Red Rose, Feck, Shetlandic, Glasgow Patter, Wee Willie Winkie, Links, Cutty-Sark, Scots Wha Hae, Alexander Gray, Skerry, Bonspiel, Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue, Liam Logan, But'n'ben A-Go-Go, Hector Boece, Ulster-Scots Agency, the Bonny Earl of Murray, Royal Caledonian Curling Club, John Jamieson, the Complaynt of Scotland, Murdoch Nisbet, Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speech, Jock Tamson's Bairns, Scottish National Dictionary, Records of the Parliaments of Scotland, Comin' Through the Rye, Burns Stanza, Clootie, Scottish Cant, It Isnae Me, Dictionary of the Scots Language, Burgh of Barony, Weaver Poets, Adam Jack Aitken, South Scots, Is There for Honest Poverty, Spurtle, Cornkister, Barmkin, Wirry-Cow, Scottish Vowel Length Rule, Lord Provost, Burgh of Regality, Scottish Language Dictionaries Ltd, Dominie, Older Scots, Orcadian Dialect, Auld Robin Gray, Report and Recommendations of the Scots Spelling Committee, Central Scots, the Sea-Law of Scotland, Insular Scots, Schemie. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 335. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Scots is the Germanic language variety traditionally spoken in Lowland Scotland and parts of Ulster. It is sometimes called Lowland Scots to distinguish it from Scottish Gaelic, the Celtic language variety spoken in the Highlands and Hebrides. Since there are no universally accepted criteria for distinguishing languages from dialects, scholars a...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=63892 ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Chronologie D'édimbourg, William Rankine, Irvine Welsh, Aéroport D'édimbourg, Château D'édimbourg, Festival International Du Film D'édimbourg, Université D'édimbourg, Princes Street, Université Napier D'édimbourg, Morningside, Scott Monument, Bibliothèque Nationale D'écosse, Musée Royal D'écosse, Archives Nationales D'écosse, Zoo D'édimbourg, Luckenbooth, Bâtiment Du Parlement Écossais, Inverleith, Festival International D'édimbourg, Laboratoire Océanographique Écossais, Traité D'édimbourg-Northampton, Greenhill, Tramway D'édimbourg, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Musée de L'écosse, Edinburgh Military Tattoo, Royal Mile, Cathédrale Saint-Gilles D'édimbourg, Portobello, Granton. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait :, Édimbourg (Edinburgh ] en anglais, Dùn Èideann en gaélique, Edinburrie, Edinburra et Edimbra en scots, Aneda en latin) est une ville de la côte est de l'Écosse au Royaume-Uni, et sa capitale depuis 1437. Elle est le siège du Parlement écossais, qui a été rétabli en 1999. Sa population était de 457 830 habitants en 2005 (c'est la deuxième ville d'Écosse derrière Glasgow). Depuis 1329, Édimbourg possède officiellement le statut de cité. La ville est construite sur des collines volcaniques qui fournissent chacune un point de vue différent sur la ville. Elle est dominée par son château dont les fondations remontent au siècle mais c'est à partir du siècle que fut construite cette résidence royale avant de devenir une forteresse redoutable au siècle. Édimbourg fut affranchie en 1329 et s'entoura de murailles au siècle. Après la défaite de Flodden (1513) contre les Anglais, les bourgeois de la ville décidèrent de construire à titre préventif une seconde enceinte baptisée le mur de Flodden....http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Chapters: Irvine Welsh, Eric Brown, Frank Doran, Eduardo Paolozzi, John Hunter, Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham, Robert Jameson, Sir John Gladstone, 1st Baronet, Willie Macfarlane, Willie Groves, Clarice Shaw, David Whitehead, Gordon Gray, John Home, Jock Fleming, James Walker, Gabriel Scott, Willie Stevenson, Thomas Walker, Tom Farmer, John Cheyne, Danny Swanson, Peter Simpson, Gordon Donaldson, Allan Preston, Alf Bucher, Bobby Combe, John Duncan Fergusson, Paddy Buckley, Peter Heatly, William Lindsay Alexander, George Gordon Mccrae, William Henry Johnston, John Scougal, Charles Aitchison Smith, James Morton, Pat Buckley, Adam Archibald, Ben Sayers, Steve Vantsis, Jimmy Smith, Charles Shirreff, George Mckenzie, Sam Mccluskie, James Brown. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 162. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Irvine Welsh (born 27 September 1957 Leith, Edinburgh) is a contemporary Scottish novelist, best known for his novel Trainspotting. His work is characterised by raw Scottish dialect, and brutal depiction of the realities of Edinburgh life. He has also written plays and screenplays, and directed several short films. Irvine Welsh was born in Leith, a port area to the east and now part of the Scottish capital Edinburgh and moved with his family to Muirhouse, in Edinburgh, when he was four, where the family stayed at local housing schemes. His mother worked as a waitress. His father was a dock worker at Leith until bad health forced him to become a carpet salesman; he died when Welsh was 25. Welsh left Ainslie Park High School when he was 16 and then completed a City and Guilds course in electrical engineering. He became an apprentice TV repairman until an electric shock persuaded him to move on to a series of other jobs. He left Edinburgh for the London punk scene in 1978, whe...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=48555 ... Read more

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This is nonfiction commentary. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Novels by Irvine Welsh, Plays by Irvine Welsh, Screenplays by Irvine Welsh, Short Story Collections by Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting, Porno, Filth, the Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs, Ecstasy: Three Tales of Chemical Romance, Glue, Marabou Stork Nightmares, the Acid House, Skagboys, You'll Have Had Your Hole, Crime, if You Liked School You'll Love Work, Reheated Cabbage. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt:Crime Crime is a 2008 novel by Scottish writer Irvine Welsh . It is the sequel to his earlier novel, Filth .Plot summary Detective Inspector Ray Lennox is recovering from a mental breakdown induced by stress and taking drugs, and a child murder case back home in Edinburgh . On vacation in Florida his fiancée, Trudi, is only interested in planning their wedding and, after an argument, abandons Lennox in a mall.He meets two women in a bar and goes back to their place to have a cocaine binge, but they are interrupted by two strangers. After a fight Lennox is left in the apartment with Tianna, the 10-year-old daughter of one of the women.Lennox takes her across the state to an exclusive marina where he walks right into a hornets' nest of paeodophiles , just like the one that had haunted him on a similar case in Edinburgh. Now he must protect the girl from them at all costs.Reviews References (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Ecstasy Ecstasy: Three Tales of Chemical Romance is a collection of three novellas by Irvine Welsh .Stories Lorraine Goes To Livingston After suffering a stroke, Rebecca Navarro, a best-selling romance novelist, discovers the truth about her corrupt, pornography-loving husband. With the help of Lorraine, her sexually confused nurse, she plots her revenge.Another nurse at the hospital, Glen, has been secretly ... ... Read more

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This is nonfiction commentary. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Trainspotting, Porno, Filth, the Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs, Ecstasy: Three Tales of Chemical Romance, Glue, Marabou Stork Nightmares, Skagboys, Crime. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Trainspotting is the first novel by Scottish writer Irvine Welsh. It is written in the form of short chapters narrated in the first person by various residents of Leith, Edinburgh who either use heroin, are friends of the core group of heroin users, or engage in destructive activities that are implicitly portrayed as addictions that serve the same function as heroin addiction. The novel is set in the mid to late 1980s. The novel has since achieved a cult status, added to by the global success of the film based on it, Trainspotting (1996), directed by Danny Boyle. Welsh later wrote a sequel, Porno, in 2002. Skagboys, a novella that will serve as a prequel, is expected for publication in 2010. The novel is split up into seven sections: the first six contain multiple chapters of varying length and differing focus. The novel's origins in short fiction are still visible though no segment or chapter is wholly independent of the others. Each character narrates differently, in a fashion comparable to stream-of-consciousness or representative of psychological realism. For example, Spud will refer to people internally as "cats" (Begbie is a jungle cat, while he himself is a house cat), and Sick Boy will occasionally entertain an inner-dialogue between himself and Sean Connery. Chapters narrated by Renton are written with Scots dialogue terms spelled phonetically, which conveys the character's accent and use of Scots, while Davie's chapters ("Bad Blood", "Traditional Sunday Breakfast") are narrated in Scottish English with dialogue appea...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=233084 ... Read more

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Inspiring Story
Interesting read about a man who started out in a life of crime, alcohol and drugs and turned around and helped many in his old neighborhood who suffered from the same problems. He did it all with soccer (or football in Scotland). His team only includes former drug addicts. A great story. ... Read more

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Probably worth it if you speak (and read) fluent Spanish
"Cola" translates as "Glue". This is one of a series of Spanish translations, with copious amounts of notes, so well worth buying if you know the language, although the price may be enough to put all but the most ardent of Welsh's fanbase off.

What's this then?
I've read everything this man has written...but haven't heard of this before...what's going on?

Someone send me a copy of this so I can review it properly!

I'm sure it will be brilliant. ... Read more

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Features a classic novella by Jerome Badanes and HelenThorpe on the murder of Ireland's most famous female journalist. PlusDelmore Schwartz on T.S. Eliot's squint. ... Read more

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These tiny exceptions
How is it that the Final Opus of Leon Solomon is out of print in both hardcover and paperback?

The book's author, Jerome Badanes, died halfway through the sequel to The Final Opus of Leon Solomon. What he had written,and revised himself, was a pretty amazing 100 page novella called Change orDie which appears in Issue number #5 of Open City in its entirety.

It isalways a peculiar thing when you take a piece of writing that has so muchpeculiar character and substance, and lump it in with all the other stuffthat happens to comprise that issue of the magazine.

This issue has someabsurd wild cards - when seen in the light of its central feature,"Change or Die,"- such as an Irvine Welsh story he wroteshortly after completely Trainspotting, and this wonderful piece ofnon-sense that Delmore Schwartz wrote about T.S. Eliot's anti-Semitism.That is the one interesting thematic thread in this issue--Both Shwartz andthe academic protagonist of Change or Die (a man trying to recover fromShakespeare,) have a certain lovely fatedness about them.

And Change orDie has one of my favorite short lead sentences:

"The Blik familywas a dream and an education."

What a great beginning to such agreat story!

(And what a concise and honest use of the short sentence,which has been bastardized and beaten up on any number of fronts, fromHemingway imitators to the cold pragmatism of news providers).

If thiswhole computer as a means to shop for books is to have any good side, thenit is that finding a book like, "The Final Opus of Leon Solomon,"or getting your hands on the novella "Change of Die" is somethingyou MUST GET! If only to make use of the fact that you are sitting in frontof a computer and perusing.

Jerome Badanes. He is coming back in theonly way he can. ... Read more