Author:Irvine Welsh
'Welsh is brilliant at what he does... This is his most readable and memorable novel since Trainspotting' Independent on Sunday
Glue is the story of four boys growing up in the Edinburgh schemes, and about the loyalties, the experiences and the secrets that hold them together into their thirties.
As we follow their lives from the 70s into the new century - from punk to techno, from speed to Es - we can see each of them trying to struggle out from under the weight of the conditioning of class and culture, peer pressure and their parents' hopes that maybe their sons will do better than they did. What binds the four of them is the friendship formed by the scheme, their school, and their ambition to escape from both; their loyalty fused in street morality: back up your mates, don't hit women and, most importantly, never grass - on anyone.
'His most ambitious, but also his most complete and engaging work to date... arguably, his best book' TLS
Wild, brave and funny
—— Sunday TimesWelsh is brilliant at what he does... This is his most readable and memorable novel since Trainspotting
—— Independent on SundayHis most ambitious, but also his most complete and engaging work to date... arguably, his best book
—— Times Literary SupplementFull of incident, mad, crackling dialogue, attractively appalling characters and some of the funniest and rudest sex scenes I have read since Philip Roth's Portnoy's Complaint
—— Sunday TimesWith razor-sharp dialogue, a powerful odour of ordinary desperation and an incisive understanding of what makes these men's friendship tick, Welsh is at the top of his game
—— The FaceWelsh slams back into form with his sixth book - all brutal sentimentality and bleak, edgy humour... You have a coming-of-age story carved out with a broken bottle
—— ElleEasily his best book since the one that made his name
—— Independent on SundayI've never felt so attached to characters as I did in that book and have definitely never stayed awake all night sobbing after reading a book, but I did when I read that
—— Hollie McNish , Good HousekeepingMorrison writes about endless sex without missing a beat, partly because his warm, witty, poignant novel is as much about 21st-century consumption as its is consummation
—— MetroSeedy and undeniably erotic, this is the best book on sex since John Updike's Couples
—— ArenaAs dirty a debut as Adam Thirlwell's brilliant Politics.... And just as funny and thought-provoking
—— Daily SportA daring, poetic, provocative, cleansing novel
—— De VolkskrantI constantly find myself drooling with admiration at the sublime way Wodehouse plays with the English language
—— Simon BrettQuite simply, the master of comic writing at work
—— Jane MooreTo pick up a Wodehouse novel is to find oneself in the presence of genius - no writer has ever given me so much pure enjoyment
—— John Julius NorwichCompulsory reading for anyone who has a pig, an aunt - or a sense of humour!
—— Lindsey DavisThe Wodehouse wit should be registered at Police HQ as a chemical weapon
—— Kathy LetteWitty and effortlessly fluid. His books are laugh-out-loud funny
—— Arabella WeirThe funniest writer ever to put words to paper
—— Hugh LaurieThe greatest comic writer ever
—— Douglas AdamsP.G. Wodehouse wrote the best English comic novels of the century
—— Sebastian FaulksSublime comic genius
—— Ben Elton
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