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 ...
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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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New. 2007. New Ed. Paperback. 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 unravelling of this classified information as the key to learning genetic facts about himself and the crippling compulsions that threaten to wreck his young life. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 28. Weight in Grams: 314......We ship daily from our Bookshop.
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If compared to Welsh's previous works of fiction, this novel certainly stands out because of its "unwelshlike" style. Here the "bad boy" seems more mature. Despite dealing with the usual themes (Scotland's provincialism, sex, footbal rows, alcoholism and drug abuse), Welsh has sort of lost his impressionist technique (which was brilliant though) so that the narrative sequences are more coherent. His writing is less frenzied than in his other novels. Language itself is slightly different. Not only is it less explicit, but the characters speak dialect only in moments of high emotional stress. As to the characters, Danny and Brianare both well-rounded, complex and convincing. Welsh's fan will love this fantastic parabole of power obession in which the author mocks and denounces the false idols if our age. Excellent read.
