Anthony Cummins

More blood and tears

After a spell of clean living in Santa Barbara, Renton’s frenemy returns to Edinburgh, and more carnage, in Irvine Welsh’s The Blade Artist

  • The Blade Artist

    Irvine Welsh

    Cape, pp. 272

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