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    Death of a Ladies' Man

    Alan Bissett

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    By day, Charlie Bain is the school's most inspiring teacher. By night he prowls the stylish bars of Glasgow seducing women. Fuelled by art, drugs and fantasies of being an indie star, Charlie journeys further into hedonism, unable to see the destruction his desires are leading everyone towards...

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    Praise for Death of a Ladies' Man

    • F*cked up, funny and fantastic - Lauren Laverne

    • An insane, hallucinatory mosaic of sexual dysfunction, pathos, humour and narrative energy - A.L. Kennedy

    • Bissett's third novel is delivered with invention and flair - Esquire

    • Hilarious, disturbing and hugely entertaining... Bain is a remarkable creation - Big Issue

    • [Alan Bissett] has pulled the sheets back on Lothario men and shown them lying there wriggling, pathetic, and bare-bummed...Bissett proves himself to be a fresh, compelling and distinctly Scottish literary talent - Scotland on Sunday

    • Devilishly funny and disturbingly accurate. A real gem - News of the World

    • A high-speed, coke-fuelled rollercoaster ride through bars, classrooms and bedrooms - Scotsman

    • This is a novel of real ambition and complexity, at its heart a delicious tension between the desire to be good and darker urges in a world of ever fewer boundaries - Gutter magazine

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    Alan Bissett

    Alan Bissett

    Alan Bissett was born in Falkirk in 1975. His acclaimed first novel, BOYRACERS, published whilst he was still a student, was based on his adolescent experiences growing up there. His ambitious second novel, THE INCREDIBLE ADAM SPARK, was extraordinarily well received and is now being turned into a play. He is a former English teacher and has lectured in Creative Writing at the Universities of Leeds and Glasgow. Alan is now a full-time writer and playwright, and is much in demand as a live performer of his own work.

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