The Cutting Room (Canons)

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The Sunday Times described The Cutting Room as: "one of the most intriguing, assured and unputdownable debuts to come out of Scotland in recent years". [3] The List was particularly impressed by Welsh's portrayal of Glasgow: "...the city becomes a character in its own right; Gothic, dismal, decaying and frightening in equal measure". [4] 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.' 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. 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.

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I knew in an instant there was no way we were going to get the job. It was just too big to trust to a local auction house. She was a fly old bird getting us in to do a valuation then playing us off against the big boys.

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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.' My brother had a second office at the top of the house. He had the attic floored and worked up there when he wanted total peace. It's one of those pull-down-ladder arrangements, too much for me. I would be grateful if you would work on that yourself. I don't think there will be anything of interest to me, more fuel for the bonfire I suspect, but I would appreciate your discretion.' Well, if it's going to get done, I may as well start now. What about personal effects - papers, letters, anything of a private nature you might want to keep? Have you been through them with someone already?'

Forgotten the title or the author of a book? Our BookSleuth is specially designed for you. Visit BookSleuth The Cutting Room followed an auctioneer by the name of Rilke, who lived in Glasgow, close to the city’s underbelly. He had come into possession of some violent and disturbing photographs and, the more he researched their provenance, the deeper he became immersed in a dangerous underworld. Best true crime documentaries on Netflix: 10 of the most highly rated documentaries on cults and cult leaders

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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] 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.' I'll need to take a look around before I can give you a preliminary estimate of how long it'll take. I'll provide you with a rough valuation by the end of the week.' 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.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. My brother's home help laid out a refreshment for us. I suffer from arthritis and angina, among other things. I like to save my strength for non-domestic tasks.' I halted, my hand resting on the door jamb. She was staring at me hard, hesitating, as if she was trying to make up her mind about something. The Cutting Room is the debut novel of Scottish author Louise Welsh. The book was first published in 2002 by Edinburgh-based publisher Canongate. It has won several awards including the 2002 Saltire Society First Book Award. In the crime fiction genre, sequels can seem unavoidable, these often entirely unnecessary follow-ups to bestselling books in which the story never quite feels as effortless as it did the first time around. While Louise Welsh’s The Second Cut, the follow-up to 2002’s award-winning The Cutting Room, does fall into this category – it exists within a world of bad guys, and is a sequel – it mercifully doesn’t read as a rehash so much as a welcome return to familiar, and clearly fertile, ground.

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Astonishingly this is a first novel, catapulting Welsh straight into the superstar league, while establishing Rilke as a true original” a b c "University of Glasgow - Schools - School of Critical Studies - Our staff - Professor Louise Welsh". gla.ac.uk . Retrieved 12 November 2016. I handed her my card and let her look me up and down. I could almost hear her assessment: hair bad, tie, shirt, suit good, cowboy boots bad. Well, she had a point, but they were genuine snakeskin.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?' Louise Welsh (born 1 February 1965 in London) is an English-born author of short stories and psychological thrillers, resident in Glasgow, Scotland. She has also written three plays, an opera, edited volumes of prose and poetry, and contributed to journals and anthologies. [1] In 2004, she received the Corine Literature Prize. Obsessions are dangerous, yet they are also so human. They drive the most amazing and visionary projects—and fuel the darkest, most horrible passions. Obsessions play a fundamental role in The Cutting Room, both in the actions of the dead antagonist and in Rilke, the protagonist and auctioneer who stumbles across snuff photographs while processing an estate and begins to wonder if they are real. verifyErrors }}{{ message }}{{ /verifyErrors }}{{