Editions

The Deadman's Pedal

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9780099268765

  • Length: 384  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 24mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 266g

  • RRP: £9.99

The Deadman's Pedal

Winner of the James Tait Black Fiction Prize

For 16-year-old Simon Crimmons there is not a lot to do. Going nowhere, fed up with school, he leaves to work as a driver on the trains. That summer he is introduced to a world of grown-up glamour, strikes and girlfriends. When Simon falls for the ethereal, aristocratic Varie, he finds freedom and adventure but will it be at a price? Too ‘posh’ for the railways, too ‘working class’ for Varie, Simon must navigate what it means to be a man as his world is turned upside down.

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9780099268765

  • Length: 384  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 24mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 266g

  • RRP: £9.99

Reviews

  • A delight: a boisterous, kindly, deep, sweet romp of a thing

    Scotsman

  • Absolutely beautiful... As far as I'm concerned he's emerging as the William Faulkner of British fiction: somebody who's created a body of work that has not only animated a language but a period and a place... He has this incredible talent

    Andrew O'Hagan

  • This is the best Scottish fiction since Lanark

    Scottish Review of Books

  • Morally sensitive, exquisitely written and emotionally mature

    Guardian

  • If you still haven’t read it from last year, Alan Warner’s The Deadman’s Pedal was out in paperback in this. Read it

    Janice Galloway, Scotsman

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About the Author

Alan Warner

Alan Warner is the author of eight novels: Morvern Callar, These Demented Lands, 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, The Deadman's Pedal and Their Lips Talk of Mischief. He is Writer in Residence at Edinburgh University.

Alan Warner

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