Alan U Warner

The Sopranos

Who Sang What on the Screen

Morvern Callar

The Worms Can Carry Me to Heaven

The Worms Can Carry Me to Heaven

Pricing For Long-term Profitability

A Guide to Anglo-Irish Literature

The Sopranos

Finance Business Partnering - the search for value

This book throws light on one of an emerging feature of the modern Finance Function which has previously received little attention in academic and research circles - the development of Finance Business Partnering as the model for cross-functional communication and decision support. It covers the to...

The Sopranos: A Novel

As the choir from Our Lady of Perpetual Succor for Girls, in rural Scotland, is bussed into the big city to participate in the national singing finals, five of the teenage schoolgirls let loose for a night of pub crawling, shoplifting, and body piercing. And, since a nuclear submarine has just ancho...

Stars in the Bright Sky

The Sopranos are back: out of school and out in the world, gathered in Gatwick to plan a super-cheap last-minute holiday reunion. Kay, Kylah, Manda, Rachel and Finn are joined by Finn's equally gorgeous friend Ava and are ready to go on the rampage. Will it be Benidorm or Magaluf, Paris or Las Vegas...

These Demented Lands

After the critical success of his first novel,  Morvern Callar, Alan Warner has written an extraordinary, stirring sequel to Morvern's odyssey, confirming him as one of the most original, uniquely gifted writers to have appeared this decade.An air-crash investigator haunts the hinterlands of an isla...

The Deadman's Pedal

This is the winner of the James Tait Black Fiction Prize. For 16-year-old Simon Crimmons there is not a lot to do. Going nowhere, fed up with school, he leaves to work as a driver on the trains. That summer he is introduced to a world of grown-up glamour, strikes and girlfriends. When Simon falls fo...

Their Lips Talk of Mischief

High up in the Conrad Flats that loom bleakly over Acton, two future stars of the literary scene - or so they assume - are hard at work, tapping out words of wit and brilliance between ill-paid jobs writing captions for the Cat Calendar 1985 and blurbs for trashy novels with titles like Brothel of t...

Can's Tago Mago (33 1/3)

Finally, a brilliant exploration of the German rock band Can's 1971 album Tago Mago. This hugely unique and influential album deserves close analysis from a fan, rather than a musicologist. Novelist Alan Warner details the concrete music we hear on the album, how it was composed, executed and record...

Morvern Callar

Morvern Callar, a low-paid employee in the local supermarket in a desolate and beautiful port town in the west of Scotland, wakes one morning in late December to find her strange boyfriend has committed suicide and is dead on the kitchen floor. Morvern's reaction is both intriguing and immoral. What...