Rave by Irvine Welsh

Rave by Irvine WelshIrvine Welsh, 'poet laureate of the chemical generation', exposes the seamy underbelly of raves utopian dream. Lloyd, our permanently pilled up protagonist, pushes his weekends to breaking point and beyond in this frazzled trip through Scottish clubland. He experiences the vertiginous uppers and downers of the Second Summer of Love, dabbles in a spot of disc jockeying and closes in, gradually, on some kind of redemptionSelected from Irvine Welsh's

shaking the British forces in Helmand to the core

as a young child and as an adult

but she's smuggled a cursed American Normal into London

we have the story of a North African-born slave turned Austrian courtier stuffed and put on display after his death

the two young friends grow closer than ever

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