It's clean. Christ, I remember a time when you weren't bothered whether you had a glass or not, so long as there was some alcohol on the go. Now drink up and tell me all about it.' Blue eyes that used to be bluer looking straight at me. I should have stopped right there and asked her why, but I was already making calculations in my head, adding up time, manpower and money, wheeling straight into business as she knew I would.

The Cutting Room by Louise Welsh The Cutting Room by Louise Welsh

The novel was adapted for the stage a year after publication, the world premiere taking place in the Citizens Theatre in Glasgow in October 2003. [5] The literary beauty of a Glaswegian beast: The Cutting Room by Louise Welsh". The Independent. 9 August 2002. Archived from the original on 11 November 2012 . Retrieved 14 August 2011. The novel won several awards, including the Saltire Society First Book Award 2002, the Crime Writers’ Association John Creasey Memorial Dagger Award 2002 and the BBC Underground Award 2003. [3] Adaptations [ edit ] In 2011, Welsh participated in the International Writing Program Fall Residency at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa. [9] She contributed, with Zoë Strachan, a short story entitled "Anyone Who Had a Heart" to Glasgow Women's Library's 21 Revolutions Project. 21 Revolutions commissioned 21 writers and 21 artists to create works to celebrate the 21st Birthday of Glasgow Women's Library. [10] She is Honorary President of the Ullapool Book Festival. [1] Personal life [ edit ] Woolworth's has had better sales. It's sad, Rose, sad. Crap furniture for DHSS landlords and it's been like that for weeks, months. This is good stuff, the best. I've seen it, you've not. We can shift it, but only if we stop arguing and get moving.'Never expect anything, son. They'll tell you they've got the crown bloody jewels in their attic and all you'll get's guff. But sometimes - not often mind, just now and again - you'll go to the pokiest wee hole, a council estate, high-rise even, and you'll find a treasure. So keep an open mind, try and filter out the nonsense merchants, sure, but never look at a map and think there'll be nothing there for us, because you can be surprised. I've been here thirty-five years and I'm still surprised at what we find and where we find it.' In 2009, she donated the short story "The Night Highway" to Oxfam's Ox-Tales project, four collections of UK stories written by 38 authors. Her story was published in the Air collection. [8] The latest book in the Lincoln Lawyer series comes out this month. This will be the 7th book in that series, and the 41st book in the Bosch Universe. Harry Bosch also plays a big part in this book. The reason you never had kids, Rose, is you would strangle them in the first week. But if you've changed your mind we could probably have them together. I owe you that much. You're forever getting me out of trouble and I never have to hit anyone in your defence or mind you when you're on a tear.' For God's sake, Rose, look at those wardrobes. The Sally Ann had a sign in their window last week, Buy one wardrobe, get another one free.'

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The amateur detective, the cruising flaneur, the queer auctioneer and his dubious friends: it's the kind of set-up that makes the reader anticipate further adventures for Rilke and co; his crew of rough trannies, bent coppers and Merlot-slugging femmes fatales. Like any genre plot it makes us want more, and its world is strangely cosy. We know we're confined by the safe walls of certain conventions.My apprenticeship had been served in an atmosphere of regret. The regret of my elders at the passing of 'the good stuff', the Georgian silver, treasures and spoils of empire that according to CP had littered the salerooms of his day. I'd rolled my eyes and cursed him for an old man. Now I mourned junk-shop Victoriana and art-deco bibelots. I missed the street hawkers and book barrows of Paddy's Market's prime, shook my head at what passed for quality, and pitied youth. The best was not yet to come. It had vanished for ever. Or so I had thought. It was take it or leave and it's unbelievable stuff. Christ knows why they've called us in, but be glad they have. This could make us, and if we pull our finger out we can do it in a week. Look around you. What's in here right now?'

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Welsh studied history at Glasgow University and after graduating established and worked at a second-hand bookshop [2] for several years before publishing her first novel. I'm too old to discuss things, Mr Rilke. Either you can do it or you can't. I know it's a big job. I'm asking a lot, so there will be a commission paid directly to you on top of the auction house fee as a token of my appreciation - if you manage to get the work done on time.' The stained glass of the front door cast a red glow across the hallway, a staircase with an ornately carved mahogany banister was to our left, the parquet floor laid with thinning Turkish rugs; this family had been rich for a long time. A heavy mahogany table stood to the right of the door. It was bare, none of the usual family photographs, and I guessed she'd been doing some clearing out already.We can shift it, Rose. There's no we about it. You made this decision all on your owney-oh. What if I'd arranged something else?' And I believed her. I stood my ground half-heartedly, telling her she'd not get top price, that there was only so much possible in a week, but we both knew it was a useless dance. Hopefully this conveys the almost hyperaware way Welsh sets a scene through Rilke's observations. And I don't mean this as criticism, because it's not a bad stylistic choice at all. However, I do think it prevented me from viewing any of the other characters as fully three-dimensional personalities; to me, they all seemed too distilled when filtered through Rilke. This is a danger of any story narrated in first-person, but it is not one that The Cutting Room overcomes.

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Yes, Mr McPhee,' I'd said. Looking all the while at a pile of furniture reaching almost to the ceiling and thinking, You stupid old git, thirty-five years in this place.

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This review was published 12 years ago. Some of its information or my opinions might be out of date. Any issues with the book list you are seeing? Or is there an author or series we don’t have? Let me know! Plans to produce a film version of the novel were at an advanced stage in 2004. The film was set to star Robert Carlyle as Rilke with a screenplay from Andrea Gibb, and was due to be filmed on location in the West End of Glasgow, but the project failed to materialise. [4] [6] Carlyle did, however, contribute to an audiobook version of the novel in 2006. [7] References [ edit ] More tease, less stip; Review: The Cutting Room". The Guardian. 31 August 2002 . Retrieved 14 August 2011.