This series explores the life of a young woman navigating profound loss and trauma amidst the stark beauty of the Scottish Highlands. Her unconventional and morally ambiguous responses to life-altering events challenge societal norms and personal ethics. With a darkly poetic style, raw sensuality, and biting humor, these novels offer a visceral and thought-provoking journey into the complexities of human resilience and desire.
When Morvern Callar finds her boyfriend dead, her routine remains unchanged. She discovers an abandoned manuscript, submits it under her name, and achieves success. She then embarks on a journey to the sunny south, partying until a revelation changes her life once again.
"It is off-season in a remote Highland sea port- 21-year-old Morvern Callar, a low-paid employee in the local supermarket, wakes one morning to find her strange boyfriend has committed suicide and is dead on their kitchen floor. Morvern's laconic reaction is both intriguing and immoral. What she does next is even more appalling. . . Brutal, erotic, jarringly poetic and rich in a blood-dark humour, Morvern Callar is a powerful debut novel from a new Scottish writer.
An aircrash investigator haunts the hinterlands of an island. A woman makes landfall on the island, and DJ Cormorant is trying to organise a rave on the adjacent airstrip. This work features twisted characters - The Arganout, the Knife Sharpener, The Devil's Advocate and others - converging for one final Saturday night at the Drome Hotel.