Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Writing Best Novel (nominee)
Shortlisted for the 2015 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse prize for comic fiction
A rampaging force of nature is wreaking havoc on the streets of Edinburgh, but has top shagger, drug-dealer, gonzo-porn-star and taxi-driver, ‘Juice’ Terry Lawson, finally met his match in Hurricane ‘Bawbag’?
Can Terry discover the fate of the missing beauty, Jinty Magdalen, and keep her idiot-savant lover, the man-child Wee Jonty, out of prison?
Will he find out the real motives of unscrupulous American businessman and reality-TV star, Ronald Checker?
And, crucially, will Terry be able to negotiate life after a terrible event robs him of his sexual virility, and can a new fascination for the game of golf help him to live without… A DECENT RIDE?
A Decent Ride sees Irvine Welsh back on home turf, leaving us in the capable hands of one of his most compelling and popular characters, ‘Juice’ Terry Lawson, and introducing another bound for cult status, Wee Jonty MacKay: a man with the genitals and brain of a donkey.
In his funniest, filthiest book yet, Irvine Welsh celebrates an un-reconstructed misogynist hustler – a central character who is shameless but also, oddly, decent –and finds new ways of making wild comedy out of fantastically dark material, taking on some of the last taboos. So fasten your seatbelts, because this is one ride that could certainly get a little bumpy…
Genre: General Fiction
A rampaging force of nature is wreaking havoc on the streets of Edinburgh, but has top shagger, drug-dealer, gonzo-porn-star and taxi-driver, ‘Juice’ Terry Lawson, finally met his match in Hurricane ‘Bawbag’?
Can Terry discover the fate of the missing beauty, Jinty Magdalen, and keep her idiot-savant lover, the man-child Wee Jonty, out of prison?
Will he find out the real motives of unscrupulous American businessman and reality-TV star, Ronald Checker?
And, crucially, will Terry be able to negotiate life after a terrible event robs him of his sexual virility, and can a new fascination for the game of golf help him to live without… A DECENT RIDE?
A Decent Ride sees Irvine Welsh back on home turf, leaving us in the capable hands of one of his most compelling and popular characters, ‘Juice’ Terry Lawson, and introducing another bound for cult status, Wee Jonty MacKay: a man with the genitals and brain of a donkey.
In his funniest, filthiest book yet, Irvine Welsh celebrates an un-reconstructed misogynist hustler – a central character who is shameless but also, oddly, decent –and finds new ways of making wild comedy out of fantastically dark material, taking on some of the last taboos. So fasten your seatbelts, because this is one ride that could certainly get a little bumpy…
Genre: General Fiction
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Title: A Decent Ride: A Novel
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Title: A Decent Ride
Author(s): Irvine Welsh
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Title: A Decent Ride
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April 2015 : USA Audio edition
April 2015 : USA Audio edition

Title: A Decent Ride
Author(s): Irvine Welsh
Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd
Availability: Amazon
April 2015 : Australia Audio edition

Title: A Decent Ride
Author(s): Irvine Welsh
Publisher: Random House Audiobooks
Availability: Amazon AU
April 2015 : Australia Audio edition

Title: A Decent Ride
Author(s): Irvine Welsh
Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd
Availability: Amazon AU
April 2015 : Canada Audio edition

Title: A Decent Ride
Author(s): Irvine Welsh
Publisher: Random House Audiobooks
Availability: Amazon CA
April 2015 : UK Audio edition

Title: A Decent Ride
Author(s): Irvine Welsh
Publisher: Random House Audiobooks
Availability: Amazon UK
April 2015 : UK Audio edition

Title: A Decent Ride
Author(s): Irvine Welsh
Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd
Availability: Amazon UK
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February 2016 : USA Kindle edition
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