Their Lips Talk of Mischief, Alan Warner's first novel with Faber, is a darkly comic tale of hope and humanity against the grim urban and political landscape of Margaret Thatcher's Britain.
About the Author
Note: There is more than one Alan Warner, this is the page for the award-winning Scottish novelist. For books by other people bearing the same name seeAlan WarnerAlan Warner (born 1964) is the author of six novels: the acclaimedMorvern Callar(1995), winner of a Somerset Maugham Award;These Demented Lands(1997), winner of the Encore Award;The Sopranos(1998), winner of the Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year Award;The Man Who Walks(2002), an imaginative and surreal black comedy;The Worms Can Carry Me to Heaven(2006), andThe Stars in the Bright Sky(2010), a sequel toThe Sopranos.Morvern Callarhas been adapted as a film, andThe Sopranosis to follow shortly. His short story 'After the Vision' was included in the anthology Children of Albion Rovers (1997) and 'Bitter Salvage' was included inDisco Biscuits(1997). In 2003 he was nominated by Granta magazine as one of twenty 'Best of Young British Novelists'. In 2010, his novelThe Stars in the Bright Skywas included in the longlist for the Man Booker Prize.Alan Warner's novels are mostly set in "The Port", a place bearing some resemblance to Oban. He is known to appreciate 1970s Krautrock band Can; two of his books feature dedications to former band members (Morvern Callar to Holger Czukay and The Man Who Walks to Michael Karoli). Alan Warner currently splits his time between Dublin and Javea, Spain.
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