Complicity

Author	William J. Weatherby
ISBN	0060692820

The story of two men—Harold Abrahams and Eric Liddell—who run not to run but to prove something to the world. They will sacrifice anything to achieve their goals, except their honor.

Two men, Abrahams and Liddell, one a Jew who runs to triumph over bigotry, the other a Scots missionary who...

Author	Iain M. Banks
ISBN	0553573586

In a world where one can live multiple lives, Count Alandre Sessine VIII has survived seven times and is down to his last, leaving him one final shot at finding his killer. His only clues point to a conspiracy that reaches far beyond his own murder, and survival lies in discovering other fugitives who know...

Author	David Peace
ISBN	1852427442

The bodies, the corpses, the alleys and the wasteland, the dirty men, the broken women.
Wow, this is stunning. Literally. It's like being bludgeoned over the head by a cascade of bloody and relentless grimness. BUT all this violence, this brutality, this hate and corruption, betrayal and greed...

Author	Martin Amis
ISBN	0679735739

Fame, envy, lust, violence, intrigues literary and criminal - they're all here in The Information. How does one writer hurt another writer? This is the question novelist Richard Tull mills over, for his friend Gwyn Barry has become a darling of book buyers, award committees, and TV interviewers, even...

Author	Christopher Brookmyre
ISBN	0349114137

Jack Parlabane, the investigative journalist who is not averse to breaking the law for the sake of a good story, has finally been caught on the petard of his own self-confidence and is experiencing accommodation courtesy of Her Majesty. The fledgling Scottish parliament is in catatonic shock after...

Author	Daniel Defoe
ISBN	0809594625

Defoe was a prolific and versatile writer, producing more than five hundred books, pamphlets, and journals on various topics, including politics, crime, religion, marriage, psychology, and the supernatural. We set out on the 5th of February from Ireland, and had a very fair gale of wind for some days....

Author

Samuel Richardson

2133 pages, consisting of 536 letters (plus conclusion and author's postscript) all cross-referenced - the author must have been a madman. A madman with an impressive filing system.

This is the kind of book that draws you in slowly but completely, with not much happening most of the time. So...

Author	Chester Himes
ISBN	0394759982

At once grotesquely comic and unflinchingly violent, Blind Man With a Pistol is the final entry in Chester Himes's trailblazing Harlem Detectives series.
 
New York is sweltering in the summer heat, and Harlem is close to the boiling point. To Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones,...

Author	D.H. Lawrence
ISBN	0140007555

Written in the years following World War I and set in postwar England and Italy, Aaron's Rod questions many of the accepted social and political institutions of Lawrence's generation, and raises issues as valid for our own time as they were for his. The novel's hero is an Everyman who flees the destruction...

Author	Alan Warner
ISBN	0156012014

As the choir from Our Lady of Perpetual Succor for Girls, in rural Scotland, is bussed into the big city to participate in the national singing finals, five of the teenage schoolgirls let loose for a night of pub crawling, shoplifting, and body piercing. And, since a nuclear submarine has just anchored...

Author	Peter Ackroyd
ISBN	0140171177

I’ll begin with a recommendation and warning: after reading the majority of this book in an evening, I had extremely vivid and unsettling dreams that were clearly inspired by it. There is very little fiction that genuinely manages to capture the feeling of dreaming, so this is a rare example to list...

Author	A.L. Kennedy
ISBN	0749397586

Learn yerself Scotch Part One (With A.L Kennedy and shovelmonkey1)

Greet - Cry
Stovies - Type of meat stew with potatoes, onions and other root veg
Ken - Know
Nip yer head - to nag someone
Gub - to hit or smack
Wean / Wee yun - child
Birl - to spin
Git yer hole - to get laid

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