These Demented Lands

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'Alan Warner has a gift greater than the gift of telling a story. He can make what he chooses to tell us seem like a story we were waiting to hear' - Adam Mars-Jones, Observer 'A sequel to his acclaimed debut Morvern Callar, These Demented Lands, confirms that Alan Warner boasts an extravagant talent... This novel is set on a Scottish island that contains a variety of weird landmarks and an hallucinogenic cast of characters - including a DJ who wants to set up the rave to end all raves, a visitor whose job is to assess candidates for sainthood and the wonderfully unfazed heroine, Morvern Callar' - Harry Ritchie, Mail on Sunday A powerful, hilarious and original novel about the intersection of lives in the rough and ready communities and wild landscapes of the Scottish Highlands.

Alan Warner is the author of six other novels- Morvern Callar, The Sopranos, The Man Who Walks, The Worms Can Carry Me To Heaven, The Stars in the Bright Sky, which was longlisted for the 2010 Man Booker Prize, and The Deadman's Pedal. He is Writer in Residence at Edinburgh University.

Warner's second novel is a classic like his first one... glorious... powerful * Independent * A moving evocation of post- apocalyptic rave culture in the West Highlands of contemporary Scotland * Independent on Sunday * Prodigious powers of invention... marvellously dynamic prose... brilliant visual imagination... A greatly ambitious novel * Times Literary Supplement * Think of the inventiveness of Iain Banks filtered through the lurid lens of a David Lynch, with a soundtrack from Verve and Bob Dylan... These Demented Lands is fiction 'on the Outer Rim of everything'. Rave on, child * Scotsman * With a style that fuses poetic discipline with the riff-based scat of a hedonist * Esquire *