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Irvine Welsh – Can Noting Save Us?

Irvine Welsh Can Noting Save Us? review and information of the content of the novel by the Scottish author. Jonathan Cape will publish the Irvine Welsh novel on August 13, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

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  • “A new book by Irvine Welsh is always an event… No living author is as entertaining to read.” (GQ)
  • “Can Nothing Save Us? is a big American novel and applies the same sharp-eyed realism that Trainspotting brought to working-class Edinburgh to Trump’s US. Set in the scorching heat of Las Vegas, it’s a multigenerational thriller.” (Guardian)

Irvine Welsh Can Noting Save Us

Can Nothing Save Us?

  • Author: Irvine Welsh (Scotland)
  • Book type: novel, thriller
  • Publisher: Jonathan Cape
  • To be released: August 13, 2026
  • Length: 496 pages
  • Format: hardback / ebook / audiobook
  • Prize: £ 20.00 / £ 10.99 / £ 16.00
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Blurb of the Irvine Welsh novel

Molly and George Warburton are used to living life their own way. She was an actress; he was her lawyer. Now, in the ferocious heat of Sin City, the couple are facing up to their failures and final years.

They announce that their grandson Luke – college dropout, aspiring writer, electronic dance music aficionado – will inherit their millions. It is sudden news that leaves their daughter Gina hell-bent on revenge.

Yet Luke’s good fortune, and his freedom, will not last. When a strange newcomer to the neighbourhood insinuates himself into the Warburtons’ world, it is the beginning of a chain of chilling events that could split the family permanently and put all their lives at risk.

The question is, do they have what it takes to survive?

Irvine Welsh was born on 27 September 1958 in Edinburgh, Scotland. His first novel, Trainspotting, has sold over one million copies in the United Kingdom and was adapted into an era-defining film. He has written fifteen further novels, including the Sunday Times bestseller Men in Love and the Crime series, four books of shorter fiction and numerous plays and screenplays. Irvine Welsh currently lives between London, Edinburgh and Miami.

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Douglas Stuart – John of John

Douglas Stuart John of John review and information the novel of the Scottish writer. Picador will publish the new novel by Douglas Stuart, on May 21, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication. The novel has been included on the longlist for the 2026 Booker Prize. The Dutch translation of the novel, John, zoon van John is released May 5, 2026.

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Douglas Stuart John of John

John of John

  • Author: Douglas Stuart (Scotland)
  • Book type: novel
  • Publisher: Picador
  • To be released: May 21, 2026
  • Length: 416 pages
  • Format: hardcover / ebook
  • Prize:
  • Longlist Booker Prize 2026
  • Order book from: Amazon 

Blurb of the new Douglas Stuart novel

The stunning new novel from the Booker Prize-winning, Sunday Times-bestselling author of Shuggie Bain and Young Mungo.

Out of money and with little to show for his art school education, John-Calum Macleod takes the ferry home to the island of Harris to find that not much has changed except for him. In the windswept croft where he grew up, Cal resumes his old life, caught between the two poles of his childhood: his father John, a sheep farmer, weaver, and pillar of their local Presbyterian church, and his Glaswegian grandmother Ella, who has kept a faltering peace with her son-in-law for decades.

While Cal wonders if any lonely men might be found on the barren hillsides of home, John is dismayed by his son’s long hair and how he seems unwilling to be Saved. As the seasons pass, everything is poised to change as the threads holding together the fragile community become increasingly entangled.

John of John is the heartbreaking story of a young man’s return home and how the bonds of family life are torn by the weight of expectation. It confirms Douglas Stuart as one of the great British writers at work today.

Douglas Stuart was born May 31, 1976 in Sighthill, Glasgow, Scotland. After graduating from the Royal College of Art, he moved to New York, where he began a career in fashion design. Shuggie Bain, his first novel, won the Booker Prize and both ‘Debut of the Year’ and ‘Book of the Year’ at the British Book Awards. It was also shortlisted for the US National Book Award for Fiction, among many other awards. His second novel, Young Mungo, was a number one Sunday Times Bestseller. His short stories have appeared in The New Yorker and his essay on gender, anxiety and class was published by Lit Hub.

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Janice Galloway – The Trick Is to Keep Breathing

Janice Galloway The Trick Is to Keep Breathing review and information about the novel from 1989 by the Scottish author. Dalkey Archive Press will publish the reissue of the 1989 novel written by Janice Galloway, the author from Scotland on May 26, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

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  • “This is like a Scottish Catcher in the Rye. You actually feel you’re inside this woman’s head, it is that visceral. And having experienced a downward spiral myself, I so admire her accuracy in every detail.” (Alan Cumming, The New York Times)
  • “A real achievement; its dialogue sparks and its voice is true. For Janice Galloway the trick is simply to keep writing.” (Scotsman)

Janice Galloway The Trick Is to Keep Breathing

The Trick Is to Keep Breathing

  • Author: Janice Galloway (Scotland)
  • Book type: Scottish novel from 1989
  • Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
  • To be released: May 26, 2026
  • Length: 350 pages
  • Format: paperback / ebook
  • Prize: € 16,95 / € 8,95
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Blurb op de 1989 novel by Janice Galloway, the Scottish author

The widely-celebrated debut from one of Scotland’s most important authors, which tells the stark and honest story of a woman struggling to cope with the loss of her lover, that is often compared to The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath. 

Now available again after its initial Dalkey Archive publication in 1994, Janice Galloway’s inventive first novel is about the grief and breakdown of Joy Stone, who is pushed to the limits of loneliness. The 27-year-old drama teacher spirals into anguish and self-blame after the accidental drowning of her married lover. While the novel paints a portrait of a woman enduring great emotional suffering, it is also a story of warmth and humanity; it’s the wit and irony found in moments of despair that prove to be Joy’s salvation.

First published by Polygon, an independent Scottish press, in 1989, the re-release of The Trick Is To Keep Breathing is a gift to today’s readers.

Janice Galloway was born December 2, 1955 in Ayrshire, Scotland Janice Galloway The Trick Is to Keep Breathing first edition of the 1989 novelHer debutnovel, The Trick Is To Keep Breathing, was initially published by Polygon in 1989. This novel, now regarded as a Scottish classic,  was shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel, Scottish First Book, Italia Premio Acerbi and Aer Lingus Awards. In 2023, Galloway was prestigiously elected A Fellow of The Royal Society of Literature.

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