At Edinburgh's Department of Environmental Health, hard-drinking, womanising officer Danny Skinner wants to uncover secrets: 'the bedroom secrets of the master chefs', secrets he believes might just help him understand his self-destructive impulses. But the arrival of the virginal, model-railway enthusiast Brian Kibby at the department provokes an uncharacteristic response in Skinner, and threatens to throw his mission off course. Consumed by loathing for his nemesis, Skinner enacts a curse, and when Kibby contracts a horrific and debilitating mystery virus, Skinner understands that their destinies are supernaturally bound, and he is faced with a terrible dilemma.
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"Irvine Welsh is in a class of his own...[his books have] a seething life in them that rivets attention and an inventiveness with story and language that continually amuses and amazes" (Guardian)
"It is an exquisitely paced black comedy. It has clever and funny things to say. There was a rumour that Welsh's last novel, Porno was to be his last. You'll be glad it wasn't" (Evening Standard)
"Flickers with the dynamism, black humour and imaginative bravado that is Welsh at his best" (Financial Times)
"An outrageous and exhilarating foul-mouthed book" (Sunday Times)
"Vintage Welsh: Brilliant, graphic, with frequent forays into the grotesque" (Sunday Tribune)
The first Irvine Welsh novel in three years.
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Paperback. Condition: VG++/GD++/ND. y First Edition, 1st. Imp. FNL. Non Basic Stock Line, 2007-08-01. First Edition, 1st. Imp. FNL. VG++/GD++/ND. 11 x 2.9 x 18 cm. Box 79 SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st. full number line.* Date of Publication: 2007* Publisher: Vintage Books.* Binding and cover condition: Colour-illustrated soft card covers. No bumps or rubs. Some slight shelf wear to corners. Single crease to spine & some creases to front cover. Slight label damage to front as well. Seems lightly used. GD++* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text. No tanning. Very slight colouration to page edges. VG++* Illustrations: None. Coloured illustrations to inside of covers.* Pages: 437 pp. text. v pp. after-word, acknowledgements & blank pages at rear.* Product Description:- This is the story of two men locked in a war of wills that threatens their very existence. Troubled restaurant inspector Danny Skinner is on a quest to find the mysterious father his mother will not identify. Unravelling this hidden information is the key to understanding the crippling compulsions that threaten to wreck his young life. His nemesis is another inspector Brian Kibby whom he meets head-on and who threatens to lead him to self-destruction.* This is a NEAR VG+ copy of the 1st./1st. with some cover wear reducing it to GD++* 0 442 pp. 2007-08-01. n. Seller Inventory # 4668
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Paperback. Condition: Fine. Bedroom Secrets Of The Master Chefs by Irvine Welsh. Published by Central Book House in 2007. Paperback ISBN:9780099513445. Collectible item in very fine condition. Seller Inventory # 0099513445
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