Review: The Bullet Trick

Louise Welsh

Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd (20 Jul 2006)

Hardback 368pp, £12.99 RRP

ISBN: 1841958034

By Christopher Johnstone

(Note: This review was written in summer 2006)

This is Louise Welsh's third book and if you read The Cutting Room and enjoyed it, you are in for a treat. Louise Welsh fulfills her promise and has written a very special book. She has a very sleazy touch and veers from sleazy London to sleazy Berlin to back to her sleazy Glasgow. It combines a slick, subtle story revolving around magic and despair and possibly redemption, but you have to read the book to find out if she will give our hero what he may or may not deserve. I would recommend all her books, an original Scottish voice.

The Bullet Trick is published by Constable and Robinson
and is available from Amazon for £7.79

Other hoolet online articles by Chris Johnstone can be found at:
hoolet edition 51 - Enough And No More
hoolet edition 50 - Now We Are 50
hoolet edition 49 - The Policy Palsy
hoolet edition 48 - The Last Waltz
hoolet edition 47 - The Old New Contract
hoolet edition 46 - Teaching to the Converted
hoolet edition 45 - Turkeys Voting For Christmas
hoolet edition 44 - That's a nasty QOF
hoolet edition 43 - Calm Down, Calm Down, It's only the NHS
hoolet edition 42 - Perpetually Fooled Initiative
hoolet edition 41 - Crisis? What Crisis?
hoolet edition 40 - Doing What You Are Told
hoolet edition 39 - A History of hoolets
hoolet edition 38 - Where did it all go wrong?
hoolet edition 37 - Commodificationalising the NHS
hoolet edition 36 - The Cost of Everything and the Value of Nothing
hoolet edition 35 - Much Too Much, Much Too Soon
hoolet edition 34 - What Shall It Profit a Government?
hoolet edition 33 - A Long Career in Applied Cynicism
hoolet edition 32 - My Greatest Pleasure
hoolet edition 31 - Goodbye to the NHS
hoolet edition 30 - The National Health Service is Sorry
hoolet edition 29 - MMR More Media Rubbish
hoolet edition 28 - A Life of Pleasure
hoolet edition 27 - Barricade medicine

Other hoolet reviews by Chris Johnstone:
Bad Medicine
Armed Madhouse
The Bullet Trick
The Medical Detective
Plundering the Public Sector

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