- Literature, Diseases, Food habits, Fiction
The first Irvine Welsh novel in three years. 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'.
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Contemporary, spare, bleak and grave.
- contemporarynostalgic
- sparerichly built
- warmbleak
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
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About the book
- Author
- Irvine Welsh, Laura Derajinski
- First published
- 1999
- Pages
- 400
- Publisher
- De Arbeiderspers, Jonathan Cape, Vintage
- Editions
- 19
- Language
- Italian, Dutch, English
- ISBN
- 9788433960887
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