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The Death You Deserve | David Bowker Billy Dye is a Manchester horror novelist whose books go unsold and whose journalism may very well be the death of him. In David Bowker`s fifth novel, The Death You Deserve, Billy lands an interview with notorious gangster Malcolm Priest who then hires cheeky Billy to ghost write his memoirs. Soon Billy's job description is no longer a euphemism; Priest puts out a contract for smart aleck Dye`s murder. It turns out that Priest`s longtime trusted hit man, Rawhead, is an old schoolboy chum of Billy's; in fact, Billy was Rawhead`s (then known as Steve Ellis) only friend, a kindness Rawhead refuses to ignore. A psychopath and a loner, Rawhead spirits Billy away to his lair in an old vicarage in a remote village, where he demands Billy remain for one year until Priest`s extreme discontent blows over. Read review. |
Trainspotting | Irvine Welsh A jarring, fragmented ride through the dark underbelly of Edinburgh, the festival city. There is not an advocate, a festival performer or a fur coat in sight as, with bitter passion and rancid humour, Welsh lays bare the lives of this ill-starred bunch of addicts, alcoholics and no-hopers. |
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