{"product_id":"meantime-9781399801157","title":"Meantime","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003e\u003cb\u003e*\u003cu\u003eFRANKIE BOYLE''S GRIPPING CRIME NOVEL: AN INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER \u003c\/u\u003e*\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch4\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e''A dark and entertaining tranche of Glasgow noir . . .  [A] deft, engaging thriller'' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch4\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e''Full of scintillating sentences and perfect lines of dialogue''\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e_______________________________________________________________\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGlasgow, 2015.\u003c\/b\u003e When Valium addict Felix McAveety''s best friend Marina is found murdered in the local park, he goes looking for answers to questions that he quickly forgets. Felix enlists the help of a brilliant but mercurial GP; a bright young trade unionist; a failing screenwriter; semi-celebrity crime novelist Jane Pickford; and his crisis fuelled downstairs neighbour Donnie.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTheir investigation sends them on a bewildering expedition that takes in Scottish radical politics, Artificial Intelligence, cults, secret agents, smugglers and vegan record shops.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA darkest noir, unputdownable crime novel that swerves and surprises, with a gut-punch ending. I loved it!\u003c\/b\u003e * Denise Mina *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA gloriously funny mystery that bucks the \"cosy crime' trend\" . . . Peppered with one-liners, it reads Raymond Chandler in Glasgow . . . Boyle regularly deploys the beautifully offbeat imagery that characterises the best of his stand-up\u003c\/b\u003e * Daily Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eStarts off the funniest noir - like a Glaswegian Big Lebowski - then takes you somewhere suddenly heartbreaking . . . A debut novel that makes me absolutely INSIST there is more to come\u003c\/b\u003e * Marina Hyde *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe gags are so good that the book doesn't outstay its welcome [...] anybody who loves jet-black humour is in for a treat\u003c\/b\u003e * Daily Express *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReads like a twisted Caledonian take on Robert Altman's \u003ci\u003eThe Long Goodbye\u003c\/i\u003e. Inherent vices and scalpel-sharp jokes vie with a very human concern for those least garlanded in the rat race of life\u003c\/b\u003e * Ian Rankin *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart whodunnit, part social safari, part extended stand-up monologue . . . the novel is full of scintillating sentences and perfect lines of dialogue\u003c\/b\u003e * Sunday Times *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn enjoyably dark and entertaining tranche of Glasgow noir . . . Imagine \u003ci\u003eWithnail and I\u003c\/i\u003e stumbling into a Bond movie co-written by William McIlvanney and Mick Herron . . . [A] deft, engaging thriller\u003c\/b\u003e * Observer *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA surprisingly moving and beautiful journey through one man's sh*tshow of a friend's death\/hangover\u003c\/b\u003e * Lucy Prebble, screenwriter for Succession *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA fine slice of contemporary noir, full of acute insight into the way we live now\u003c\/b\u003e -- John Williams * Mail on Sunday *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJust finished this and f*ck me, it's total class!!  I'm sure all the expletive swears are coming out for this one - and so they should. Ace\u003c\/b\u003e -- Helen Stanton, Forum Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMeantime\u003c\/i\u003e is a tremendous book: a detective story full of twists and turns that is as beautifully written as it is darkly comic. . .  Not surprisingly, \u003ci\u003eMeantime\u003c\/i\u003e is very, very funny. But it is also a gripping work of stylised crime fiction that marks, I suspect, a new and exciting chapter in Boyle's multi-faceted career\u003c\/b\u003e -- Matthew D’ancona * Tortoise *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRemarkably moving\u003c\/b\u003e * Scotsman *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA sharply written, memorable read\u003c\/b\u003e * Scottish Field *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMeantime\u003c\/i\u003e flies along, filled with laughs and moments that pull you up sharp\u003c\/b\u003e * Sun (Scotland) *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBoyle's key strength is in creating such a believable milieu, even when events are exaggerated, underpinned but never derailed by a tongue-in-cheek humour\u003c\/b\u003e * Chortle *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrankie Boyle's fiction debut is genuinely engrossing\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e * Independent *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIt's both funny and moving\u003c\/b\u003e * Guardian *\u003cbr\u003e[Frankie Boyle] has graduated into \u003cb\u003ean extremely fine author \u003c\/b\u003ewith his first novel . . . The book lays bare the various worlds of Glasgow . . .  and it slowly becomes that awful word, unputdownable, as the \u003cb\u003efascinating mixture of violence, drugs and unexpected humour \u003c\/b\u003esurround the reader * On Yorkshire Magazine *\u003cbr\u003eBoyle's darkly comic debut unfolds amid vivid scenes of the seamy Glasgow underworld, its \u003cb\u003ehard-bitten humour offset by an unexpectedly tender conclusion\u003c\/b\u003e * Daily Mail *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWord-perfect dialogue and wild imagination\u003c\/b\u003e * Strathspey \u0026amp; Badenoch Herald *","brand":"John Murray Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48738922201431,"sku":"9781399801157","price":13.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/meantime-9781399801157","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}