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  • Published: 1 July 2010
  • ISBN: 9781407018485
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 416

Filth




Now a major motion picture starring James McAvoy, Jamie Bell and Jim Broadbent.

From the No. 1 bestselling author of Trainspotting.

Suitable only for persons of strong constitution.

Contains:
Drug use
Perversion
Murder
Corruption
Sexism
Racism
Law Enforcement

And a tapeworm

  • Published: 1 July 2010
  • ISBN: 9781407018485
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 416

About the author

Irvine Welsh

Irvine Welsh is the author of eleven previous novels and four books of shorter fiction. He currently lives in Chicago.

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Praise for Filth

A peculiar kind of brilliance

Sunday Telegraph

A snarling epic of a book...ugly, devastatingly funny, unremittingly nasty and pulls no punches... Don't dare miss it

Scotsman

It is surely a remarkable cultural moment when a reviewer is offered cash in a bar for an advance copy of a literary novel... Filth is a masterpiece...squarely in the classic line of classic scottish writing

Independent

One of the joys of this novel is that it reminds us of his strengths as a story-teller... It is an exploration into the fragility of a conscience, a tale of how memory and imaginings can make madmen of us all

Express

Things are going well for Detective Sergeant Bruce Robertson. Promotion is in the offing, he's got all the booze and drugs he needs, and his various plots aimed at friends and colleagues seem to be working out. Robertson, compulsive and repulsive by turns, has only two problems. One is a case of racially-motivated murder on his patch. The other is that there's a nasty tapeworm in his gut and it seems intent on having its say... A brutally sustained achievement

Evening Standard

Welsh firing on all cylinders... The best thing he has done since Trainspotting

Sunday Times

We're used to tough cops with non-PC attitudes, but Welsh trumps the lot with his evil-scheming, ball-scratching, foul-mouthed hero-with-haemorrhoids... Welsh's jet-black comedy at once entertains and appals... Gloriously grotesque

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