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The bedroom secrets of the master chefs

Troubled Environmental Health Officer Danny Skinner is engaged on a quest to uncover what he refers to as 'the bedroom secrets of the master chefs'. He regards the unravelling of this classified information as the key to learning genetic facts about himself and the crippling compulsions that threaten to wreck his young life. The ensuing journey takes him from Europe's festival city of Edinburgh to the foodie capital of America, San Francisco. But the hard-drinking, womanising Skinner has a strange nemesis in the form of model-railway enthusiast Brian Kibby. It is his unfathomable, obsessive hatred of Kibby that takes over everything, threatening to destroy not only Skinner and his mission but also those he loves most dearly. When Kibby contracts a horrific and debilitating mystery virus, Skinner understands that his destiny is inextricably bound to that of his hated rival, and he is faced with a terrible dilemma.

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  • "Bedroom secrets of the master chefs"@it
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  • "Danny Skinner is the bad boy of the local restaurant inspection office, partying hearty, keeping irregular hours and doing just enough to keep a tenuous hold on his job and on longtime girlfriend Kay, a dancer. The arrival at the office of eager-to-please Brian Kibby, a virginal nerd fresh from university, completely throws off Danny's game and draws his unmitigated ire ("Another fucking clone, another Foy arse-licking sycophant"). As Brian's father lays dying, Danny, who never knew his father, sets out to discover his father's identity; meanwhile, smarmy celebrity chef Alan De Fretais, with his filthy kitchen, brings things to a buddy-movie flashpoint. With plenty of plot movement"Danny journeys to America; Brian falls prey to a mysterious illness that requires Danny to really function at work"and rich characters, the novel keeps the reader entertained with a full-bodied (those kitchens are hot and cramped) view of life's ironies."
  • "Troubled Environmental Health Officer Danny Skinner is engaged on a quest to uncover what he refers to as 'the bedroom secrets of the master chefs'. He regards the unravelling of this classified information as the key to learning genetic facts about himself and the crippling compulsions that threaten to wreck his young life. The ensuing journey takes him from Europe's festival city of Edinburgh to the foodie capital of America, San Francisco. But the hard-drinking, womanising Skinner has a strange nemesis in the form of model-railway enthusiast Brian Kibby. It is his unfathomable, obsessive hatred of Kibby that takes over everything, threatening to destroy not only Skinner and his mission but also those he loves most dearly. When Kibby contracts a horrific and debilitating mystery virus, Skinner understands that his destiny is inextricably bound to that of his hated rival, and he is faced with a terrible dilemma."@en
  • "Danny l'hédoniste, inspecteur de l'hygiène à la mairie d'Edimbourg, déteste Brian le ringard, nouveau venu dans le même service. Cette haine est si puissante qu'elle se mue en un enchantement maléfique : tous les abus qu'il commettra sur sa propre personne, se répercuteront sur Brian. Danny prend un malin plaisir à observer sa propre déchéance sur le visage de l'autre."
  • "Een aan drank en drugs verslaafde restaurantinspecteur vat een spontane haat op jegens een nieuwe collega."
  • ""This story of two men locked in a war of wills that threatens their very existence is vintage Irvine Welsh. Troubled restaurant inspector Danny Skinner is on a quest to find the mysterious father his mother will not identify. Unraveling this hidden information is the key to understanding the crippling compulsions that threaten to wreck his young life. His ensuing journey takes him from the festival city of Edinburgh to the foodie city of San Francisco. But the hard-drinking, womanizing Skinner has a strange nemesis in the form of mild-mannered fellow inspector Brian Kibby. It is Skinner's unfathomable, obsessive hatred of Kibby that takes over everything, threatening to destroy not only Skinner and his mission but also those he loves most dearly. When Kibby contracts a horrific, undiagnosable illness, Skinner understands that his destiny is inextricably bound to that of his hated rival, and he is faced with a terrible dilemma. Irvine Welsh's work is a transgressive parable about the great obsessions of our time: food, sex, and celebrity."--Publisher's website."
  • "Environmental health officer Danny Skinner embarks on a journey from Edinburgh to San Francisco in search of the father he never knew, and discovers that his identity is entwined with the fate of his despised colleague, Brian Kibby."

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  • "Scottish fiction (English)"
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Erzählende Literatur"
  • "Psychological fiction"@en
  • "Psychological fiction"
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Skotské romány (anglicky)"
  • "Powieść angielska"@pl
  • "Electronic books"@en

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  • "Bedroom secrets of the masterchef"
  • "Al'kovnye sekrety shef-povarov / Irvine Welsh"
  • "The bedroom secrets of the master chefs"
  • "The bedroom secrets of the master chefs"@en
  • "Postelová tajemství mistrů kuchařů"
  • "Sekrety sypialni mistrzów kuchni"@pl
  • "Recettes intimes de grands chefs : roman"
  • "Secretos de alcoba de los grandes chefs"@es
  • "Secretos de alcoba de los grandes chefs"
  • "The bedroom secrets of the master chefs Irvine Welsh"
  • "The bedroom secrets of the Master Chefs"
  • "Alʹkovnye sekrety shef-povarov"
  • "Альковные секреты шеф-поваров"
  • "I segreti erotici dei grandi chef : [romanzo]"
  • "I segreti erotici dei grandi chef"
  • "I segreti erotici dei grandi chef"@it
  • "I segreti erotici dei grandi chef : romanzo"@it
  • "Die Bettgeschichten der Meisterköche : Roman"
  • "Die Bettgeschichten der Meisterköche Roman"
  • "De bedgeheimen van de topkoks"

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