The Cutting Room

'Unputdownable' Sunday Times
'I was hooked from page one' Guardian

When Rilke, a dissolute auctioneer, comes upon a hidden collection of violent and highly disturbing photographs, he feels compelled to discover more about the deceased owner who coveted them. Soon he finds himself sucked into an underworld of crime, depravity and secret desire, fighting for his life.

About the author

Louise Welsh is an award-winning author of ten novels. The Cutting Room, her debut novel, won the Crime Writers' Association John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger Award and the Saltire First Book of The Year Award. In 2018, she was named the Most Inspiring Saltire First Book Award winner by public vote. She is Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow. In 2022 she published The Second Cut, which was shortlisted for the Bloody Scotland McIlvanney Prize for Crime Book of the Year and named by The Times as their Crime Book of the Year.

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Summary

The award-winning and atmospheric crime cult classic from bestselling author Louise Welsh - 'Unputdownable' Sunday Times

Additional text

An astonishingly accomplished debut, this is always in my top ten books of any genre . . . Welsh brilliantly draws a gothic Glasgow of despair and decay as she lays bare the depths of human deviance

Report

One of the most intriguing, assured and unputdownable debuts to come out of Scotland in recent years . . . A stunning work of fiction Sunday Times

Product details

• Authors: Louise Welsh, Welsh Louise
• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 27.01.2022
• EAN: 9781838850906
• ISBN: 978-1-83885-090-6
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 19 mm
• Series: The canons
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Suspense; Glasgow, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Thriller / suspense fiction, Thriller / suspense, Modern and contemporary fiction, Central Scotland, FICTION / LGBTQ+ / Gay, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary