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Morvern Callar is a twenty-one-year-old supermarket worker from a small coastal town in the West of Scotland, who believes that life is something you get on with - as best you can, and with what you've got. One morning Morvern finds that what she's got is a dead boyfriend on the kitchen floor, and the completed novel that he never got round to sending to a publisher. The choices she then makes propel Morvern on a journey that transforms her life.

Before turning her attention to this novel by fellow Scot Alan Warner, Lynne Ramsay's first feature was the celebrated Ratcatcher.

Manolo Follano, a 40-year-old Spanish rogue, has built a comfortable life for himself in his hometown by the sea. His architectural design company is thriving, his suits are Italian linen, his cigars Cuban, he's on friendly terms with his two ex-wives and happily free to enjoy the charms of women much younger. For a playboy like Manolo - handsome, fastidious, opinionated and more than a little vain - to be told by his doctor and friend that he is HIV Positive is, it would seem, the end of everything. However, this devastating news is only the beginning. Manolo strolls around his familiar haunts recalling, with Proustian clarity, the loves of his life, as he prepares to tell each of them his terrible secret - all the while bracing himself for the final reckoning, and the thin hope of redemption. In a series of vivid, erotic, hilarious flashbacks, he plays back his life in glowing technicolor with each wild and glorious set-piece building towards a complete picture of a life - flawed, certainly, but passionate, richly imagined and deeply humane. A novel of stunning visual invention that manages to be both provocative and profound, both shocking and riotously funny.