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The Cut Up

Series: A Rilke novel
Brief Description
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... Read More
Format: Hardback
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The keenly anticipated third Rilke thriller exploring the dark underbelly of contemporary Glasgow, from the Award-winning author of the cult classic The Cutting Room

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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 thingβ€”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.

The Cut Up navigates the murky waters of friendship and desperation in a fast-paced, sharply observed narrative that is as much about the cost of living as it is about the price of survival.

Series: A Rilke novel

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781838859862

Publisher: Canongate Books

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 29 January 2026

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Canongate Books

Edition: Main

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 27.0mm

Width: 141.0mm

Height: 220.0mm

Weight: 426g

Pages: 320

About the Author

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 a 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.

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