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Alan Warner

Alan Warner was born in the Scottish Highlands in 1964 and published his first novel, Morvern Callar, in 1995. He has written four more novels since then, the most recent of which is The Worms Can Carry Me to Heaven (Jonathan Cape). He has won a Somerset Maugham as well as the Encore and Saltire prizes.

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Five Things Right Now | The Online Edition
Five Things Right Now | The Online Edition

Alan Warner | Five Things Right Now

Alan Warner

Granta Best Young British Novelist, Alan Warner, shares five things he’s reading, watching and thinking about right now.

Fiction | The Online Edition
Fiction | The Online Edition

The Deadman’s Pedal

Alan Warner

‘Each man’s right hand was stained black with glossy wet muck.’

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Fiction | The Online Edition padlock

The Costa Pool Bums

Alan Warner

‘We were a helpless community put in motion together.’

Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

Persian Love

Alan Warner

‘It is 6:22 of what beauty and life's joy there is to extract’

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