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Irvine Welsh

    27. září 1958

    Irvine Welsh se ve své tvorbě soustředí na temnější stránky lidské povahy a užívání drog, často s drsným zobrazením života edinburské spodiny. Jeho romány, zasazené do rodného Skotska, oživují antihrdiny, drobné podvodníky a výtržníky. Navzdory jejich morálním nedostatkům dokáže Welsh postavám vdechnout lidskost, která je činí sympatickými. Jeho jedinečný styl, charakteristický použitím edinburského skotského dialektu, představuje pro čtenáře výzvu, ale zároveň dodává dílům autenticitu a syrovou sílu.

    Irvine Welsh
    Slušná jízda
    Noční můry s Čápem Marabu
    Lepidlo
    Kalhoty po mrtvém
    Heráci
    Trainspotting
    • Kitchen Confidential

      25th Anniversary Edition

      The classic bestseller from the star of Parts Unknown and No Reservations: 25th Anniversary edition, with a new introduction by Irvine Welsh. BEFORE THERE WAS THE BEAR, THERE WAS BOURDAIN. 'Elizabeth David written by Quentin Tarantino' A.A. Gill 'Fantastic: as lip-smackingly seductive as a bowl of fat chips and pungent aioli' Daily Telegraph After twenty-five years of sex, drugs, bad behaviour and haute cuisine, chef and novelist Anthony Bourdain decided to tell all - and he meant all. From his first oyster in the Gironde as a child, to his lowly position as a dishwasher in a honky-tonk fish restaurant in Provincetown; from the kitchen of the Rainbow Room atop the Rockefeller Center to drug dealers in the East Village, from Tokyo to Paris and back to New York again, Bourdain's tales of the kitchen are as passionate as they are unpredictable, as shocking as they are funny. Kitchen Confidential will make your mouth water and your belly ache with laughter and leave you wanting more. 'Compelling ... with its intriguing mix of clever writing and kitchen patois ... more horrifically gripping than a Stephen King novel' Sunday Times 'Extraordinary ... written with a clarity and a clear-eyed wit to put the professional food-writing fraternity to shame' Observer

      Kitchen Confidential2025
    • Resolution

      • 416 stránek
      • 15 hodin čtení

      Available for pre-order now From #1 Sunday Times bestseller Irvine Welsh, the brand new novel in the CRIME series featuring former detective Ray LennoxOLD TRUTHS HAVE NEW CONSEQUENCESRay Lennox is determined to move on from his darkest days. The maverick former detective has left Edinburgh for a fresh start in Brighton. Soon, his fixations and addictions have been replaced with quiet evenings and a rigorous fitness regime.Then Lennox meets Mathew Cardingworth. Rich, smooth-talking and immaculately dressed, he presents himself as a successful, and respectable, property developer. Yet their encounter reawakens memories that have haunted Lennox for decades, sending him into a spiral of confusion and rage.Lennox has no choice - he must confront the events of his childhood. But the more he identifies the links between Cardingworth, the disappearance of a group of foster care boys and the violence of his past, the more he finds himself asking:What will he sacrifice to achieve resolution at last?

      Resolution2024
      3,8
    • The Painter

      • 278 stránek
      • 10 hodin čtení
      The Painter2023
      5,0
    • *A 2022 Book to Look Forward To in the Evening Standard* Justice can be a blunt instrument Men like him usually tell the story. In business. Politics. Media. But not this time: I repeat, he is not writing this story. Ritchie Gulliver MP is dead. Castrated and left to bleed in an empty Leith warehouse. Vicious, racist and corrupt, many thought he had it coming. But nobody could have predicted this. After the life Gulliver has led, the suspects are many: corporate rivals, political opponents, the countless groups he's offended. And the vulnerable and marginalised, who bore the brunt of his cruelty - those without a voice, without a choice, without a chance. As Detective Ray Lennox unravels the truth, and the list of brutal attacks grows, he must put his personal feelings aside. But one question refuses to go away... Who are the real victims here?

      The Long Knives2022
      3,7
    • The Seal Club

      • 304 stránek
      • 11 hodin čtení

      The Seal Club is a three-novella collection by the authors Alan Warner, Irvine Welsh and John King, three stories that capture their ongoing interests and concerns, stories that reflect bodies of work that started with Morvern Callar, Trainspotting and The Football Factory - all best-sellers, all turned into high-profile films.

      The Seal Club2020
      4,1
    • Kill Your Friends: Kill 'Em All

      • 352 stránek
      • 13 hodin čtení

      But it's also a proper novel about the Trumpian era, of the reality TV era, the fake news era.

      Kill Your Friends: Kill 'Em All2019
      4,1
    • Rave

      • 128 stránek
      • 5 hodin čtení

      Irvine Welsh, 'poet laureate of the chemical generation', exposes the seamy underbelly of rave's utopian dream. Lloyd, our permanently pilled-up protagonist, pushes his weekends to breaking point and beyond in this frazzled trip through Scottish clubland. He experiences the vertiginous uppers and downers of the Second Summer of Love, dabbles in a…

      Rave2018
    • Kalhoty po mrtvém

      • 400 stránek
      • 14 hodin čtení

      Další a patrně poslední návrat k hrdinům Trainspottingu ke čtenáři opět přivádí starou známou čtveřici – Marka, Begbieho, Simona, Spuda. Všichni jsou zas o něco starší, v nových životních rolích. Mark vydělává slušné peníze pořádáním tanečních parties; nikde nezakotvil, cestuje po celém světě, ale ve světě letišť a hotelů spokojenost a spočinutí nenachází. Z Franka Begbieho se překvapivě stal uznávaný umělec, který dokáže zapomenout na staré křivdy a při náhodném setkání už nemá potřebu se Markovi pomstít. Simon i Spud mají vlastní projekty na hraně zákona i za ní; černý obchod s lidskými orgány je ale velké sousto i na ně. Opětovné shledání někdejších přátel nevede k idylickému vzpomínání, ale ke sledu nehod a krizí, který nemůže dopadnout dobře. Jeden z nich z tohoto románu nevyvázne živý. Někdo z nich nosí kalhoty mrtvého muže. Zběsile rychlý, přisprostle zábavný a znepokojivě dojemný návrat ke staré partě z Trainspottingu.

      Kalhoty po mrtvém2018
      4,0