Louise Welsh

A vivid, action-packed journey through a post-apocalyptic world. Terrifying and touching in equal measure, the novel is a love story, an adventure, a road movie, a family drama and a murder mystery rolled into one' The Times ScotlandIt is seven years after the Sweats wiped out most of the world's population. Survivors settled on the Orkney Islands are trying to build a new society but their world crashes for a second time when the islands' teenagers vanish. Stevie and Magnus are the only ones who can bring them home.Stevie hasn't been back to the mainland since she escaped to the islands after a desperate flight north from London. Magnus never saw himself leaving either. After all, what's left for him there? But Shug was born on the islands and has never known anything different; has never left them. Until now.And what starts out as a journey to bring home some young people intent on adventure soon turns into a race against time to find Shug before he comes down with the Sweats. Or worse. A pacy, page-turning ride through a post-apocalyptic world, No Dominion sets the pulse racing and doesn't let up until the last thrilling page.

A thrilling novel from the author of A LOVELY WAY TO BURN.It is seven years after the first outbreak of the sweats. Stevie Flint and Magnus McFall have both washed up on the Orkney Islands. A rural community is clinging to survival and a generation of orphans, who barely remember a time before the pandemic, are reaching maturity. Magnus''s foster son Shuggie is fourteen years old and angry. He and his friends blame the adults for the loss of the technological wonders of the past.When the foster parents of Shug''s girlfriend Misty are found murdered and the young couple vanishes, Magnus fears the worst. He and Stevie set off on a quest into the decaying city of Glasgow and into the heart of a post-apocalyptic world they tried to leave behind.

William Wilson es un joven mago escoces que se gana la vida como puede en Londres. Acepta actuar, en un club nocturno del Soho, como telonero de dos bailarinas que empiezan la función cubiertas con un burka y acaban completamente desnudas. William tiene que seducir a una sala llena de hombres duros, los policias que le ofrecen una fiesta de despedida al inspector James Montgomery. Y eso no es todo. Porque Montgomery y el padre de Bill Noon, el dueño del club, un gangster de poca monta, estaban unidos por una peculiar relacion una mujer misteriosamente desaparecida, y Bill quiere que William sustraiga con sus magicos dedos la prueba del delito, el contenido de ese sobre con el que Montgomery ha extorsionado durante años a su padre y luego a el. Y William Wilson acabara huyendo de los mortiferos secretos del pasado de otros, y encontrando a su propia mujer fatal... "Louise Welsh es la gran esperanza de aquellos que aspiran a borrar el limite entre la literatura sin mas y la novela de genero" (Paul Dunn, The Times) "Una novela que supera los limites de la novela policiaca" (Mark Lawson, The Guardian). a

The long-awaited new novel from the author of The Cutting Room and The Bullet Trick...

The three stories in this short collection from acclaimed author Louise Welsh all confront fear. In The Face at the Window Fiona is convinced someone is breaking into her house, but the only evidence for the break-in is a face at the window that no one else can see. In Realm of the Census Maryanne travels from house to house, collecting census information from strangers, and encounters a woman who lives with ghosts. In The Queen of Craigielee Ailsa is photographing the interior of an abandoned high-rise which is about to be demolished when she sees the faint figure of a girl in a doorway of one of the condemned flats. These three dark stories are tales to savour; they will linger in the mind long after youve finished reading them.

Enthralling and scary Sunday MirrorA cracking good storyScotsmanMagnus McFall was a comic on the brink of his big break when the world came to an end. Now, he is a man on the run and there is nothing to laugh about.Thrown into unwilling partnership with an escaped convict, Magnus flees the desolation of London to make the long journey north, clinging to his hope that the sickness has not reached his family on their remote Scottish island.He finds himself in a landscape fraught with danger, fighting for his place in a world ruled by men, like his fellow traveller Jeb - practical men who do not let pain or emotions interfere with getting the job done.This is a world with its own justice, and new rules.Where people, guns and food are currency.Where survival is everything.

Set in contemporary Glasgow, The Cutting Room is narrated by Rilke, one of the most engaging, flawed and hedonistic fictional creations of recent years. When this dissolute and promiscuous auctioneer comes upon a hidden collection of violent, and highly disturbing, erotic photographs, he feels compelled to unearth more about the deceased owner who coveted them. What follows is a compulsive journey of discovery, decadence and deviousness.

It''s 1593 and London is a city on edge. Under threat from plague and war, it''s a desperate place where strangers are unwelcome and severed heads grin from spikes on Tower Bridge.

Se llama Rilke pero no es un poeta. Es un experto en arte, y viste siempre de negro, con un aire levemente vampírico. Trabaja en la casa de subastas de Rose, su amiga y a veces su enemiga, que podría ser su novia si Rilke no fuera homosexual. Y un dia lo llaman para tasar y vender el contenido de la ultima gran mansion de Glasgow, la casa de los McKindless. Entre las joyas mas ocultas, Rilke encuentra una esplendida biblioteca de primeras ediciones de libros prohibidos, pornografia mitica, netsukes eroticos que ilustran escenas de sexo y muerte. Y, en medio del arte, irrumpe lo real, la imagen de una joven desnuda, atada a un altar erotico y sacrificial, con heridas sangrantes. ¿Realidad o esplendida ficcion, como los libros que lo rodean? Rilke decide descubrir la verdad...

Jane arrive à Berlin par une triste nuit de novembre. Sa compagne Petra l’a installée dans un bel appartement du quartier branché de Mitte. Pour Jane tout est nouveau : la langue, les rues, les gens,

Lorsque William Wilson, un jeune prestidigitateur alcoolique dans la dèche, décroche un contrat pour une tournée dans des cabarets de Berlin, il croit que sa chance a tourné.En effet, au cours de son

« Avec Louise Welsh, le polar a trouvé un de ses très rares vrais écrivains littéraires. » - The IndependentCertains secrets devraient rester enterrés à tout jamais, se dit Murray Watson, enfoncé jus

A taut thriller so involving that I missed my bus stop!Woman & HomeI read it in two sittings, pausing only to sleep and dream about it. Gripping, perfectly paced and beautifully written ERIN KELLYA pandemic called The Sweats is sweeping the globe. London is a city in crisis. Hospitals begin to fill with the dead and dying, but Stevie Flint is convinced that the sudden death of her boyfriend Dr Simon Sharkey was not from natural causes. As roads out of London become gridlocked with people fleeing infection, Stevies search for Simons killers takes her in the opposite direction, into the depths of the dying city and a race with death. A Lovely Way to Burn is the first outbreak in the Plague Times trilogy. Chilling, tense and completely compelling, its Louise Welsh writing at the height of her powers.

A vivid, action-packed journey through a post-apocalyptic world. Terrifying and touching in equal measure, the novel is a love story, an adventure, a road movie, a family drama and a murder mystery rolled into oneThe Times ScotlandIt is seven years after the Sweats wiped out most of the worlds population. Survivors settled on the Orkney Islands are trying to build a new society but their world crashes for a second time when the islands teenagers vanish. Stevie and Magnus are the only ones who can bring them home.Stevie hasnt been back to the mainland since she escaped to the islands after a desperate flight north from London. Magnus never saw himself leaving either. After all, whats left for him there? But Shug was born on the islands and has never known anything different; has never left them. Until now.And what starts out as a journey to bring home some young people intent on adventure soon turns into a race against time to find Shug before he comes down with the Sweats. Or worse. A pacy, page-turning ride through a post-apocalyptic world, No Dominion sets the pulse racing and doesnt let up until the last thrilling page.No Dominion gripped me and broke my heart in equal measure VAL MCDERMID

Jane Logan is a stranger to Berlin and she finds the city alive and echoing with the ghosts of its turbulent past. At six months pregnant, shes instructed by her partner Petra to rest and enjoy her new life in Germany. But while Petra is out at work, Jane begins to feel uneasy in their chic apartment. Screams reverberate through the walls, lights flicker in the derelict building that looms over the yard, a shadow passes on the stairs . . . Jane meets a neighbours daughter, a girl whose life she tries to mend, but her involvement only further isolates her. Alone and haunted, Jane fears the worst . . . but the worst is yet to come.Louise Welsh, the acclaimed author of The Cutting Room, delivers another masterful suspense novel. The Girl on the Stairs is a powerful psychological thriller packed with twists and turns to keep you reading well into the night. Read it, or be left in the dark.