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Troubled Environmental Health Officer Danny Skinner is engaged on a quest to uncover what he refers to as 'the bedroom secrets of the master chefs'. He regards the unraveling of this classified information as the key to learning genetic facts about himself and the crippling compulsions that threaten to wreck his young life. The ensuing journey takes him from Europe's festival city of Edinburgh to the foodie capital of America, San Francisco. But the hard-drinking, womanizing Skinner has a strange nemesis in the form of model-railway enthusiast Brian Kibby. It is his unfathomable, obsessive hatred of Kibby that takes over everything, threatening to destroy not only Skinner and his mission but also those he loves most dearly. When Kibby contracts a horrific and debilitating mystery virus, Skinner understands that his destiny is inextricably bound to that of his hated rival, and he is faced with a terrible dilemma. "The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs" is a gothic parable about the great obsessions of our time: food, sex and minor celebrity, and is a brilliant examination of identity, male rivalry and the need to belong in the world.
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"This year the black magic misanthropy of Irvine Welsh's The
Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs amused me."
-- The Irish Times Books of the Year. Rev by Alan Warner.
'A carefully considered blend of three-dimensional realism an expertly judged modern gothic horror...you never doubt his plot for a moment.’ -- Matt Thorne in The Literary Review
‘In the outrageous and exhilarating foul-mouthed book, Welsh once again uses the demonic to create serious comedy.’ -- Peter Parker in Th eSunday Times
‘as uncompromising as ever’ -- The Book Magazine
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Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs amused me."
-- The Irish Times Books of the Year. Rev by Alan Warner.
'A carefully considered blend of three-dimensional realism an expertly judged modern gothic horror...you never doubt his plot for a moment.’ -- Matt Thorne in The Literary Review
‘In the outrageous and exhilarating foul-mouthed book, Welsh once again uses the demonic to create serious comedy.’ -- Peter Parker in Th eSunday Times
‘as uncompromising as ever’ -- The Book Magazine
The first Irvine Welsh novel in three years
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- PublisherJonathan Cape Ltd
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 022407587X
- ISBN 13 9780224075879
- BindingPaperback
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- Number of pages400
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