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The Cut Up

Louise Welsh

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English
Canongate
12 May 2026
Series: A Rilke novel
It's hard to be good when living is expensive. And times are tough on the streets these days. Luckily for Rilke at Bowery Auctions the demand for no-questions-asked cash is at an all-time high, and business is booming.

When Rilke hears his old acquaintance Les is fresh out of prison, his inclination is to stay well out of his way. Letting sleeping dogs lie is one thing - but when one of Bowery's customers winds up dead on their tarmac, Rilke needs a bit of help from his friends to tidy things up. If only his friends didn't have such a habit of making things worse.
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Imprint:   Canongate
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Edition:   Export/Airside - Export/Airside/Ireland
Dimensions:   Height: 220mm,  Width: 141mm,  Spine: 24mm
Weight:   329g
ISBN:   9781838859879
ISBN 10:   183885987X
Series:   A Rilke novel
Pages:   320
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming

Louise Welsh is an award-winning author of ten novels. The Cutting Room, her debut novel, won the Crime Writers' Association John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger Award and the Saltire First Book of The Year Award. In 2018, she was named the Most Inspiring Saltire First Book Award winner by public vote. She is Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow. In 2022 she published The Second Cut, which was shortlisted for the Bloody Scotland McIlvanney Prize for Crime Book of the Year and named by The Times as their Crime Book of the Year. @louisewelsh00

Reviews for The Cut Up

Praise for Louise Welsh's CUTTING ROOM books: 'Rilke's return is a treat' -- PAULA HAWKINS Intriguing, assured and unputdownable * * Sunday Times * * Astonishing . . . Rilke is a true original * * The Times * * I doubt I'll read a better book this year. Dark, funny and humane -- VAL McDERMID Compelling, immersive and brimming with life -- GRAEME MACRAE BURNET Richly layered, gloriously carnal, bursting with patter and irresistibly seductive -- CHRIS BROOKMYRE Rilke's world feels rife with possibilities . . . and Welsh's writing is fresh, funny, fearless and fun -- JOSEPH KNOX


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