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The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs

By Irvine Welsh

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| Paperback | 9780224075879

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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 unraveling of this classified information as the key to learning genetic facts about himself and the crippling compulsions that threatenContinue

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 unraveling 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, womanizing 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.

Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs is a gothic parable about the great obsessions of our time: food, sex and minor celebrity, and is a brilliant examination of identity, male rivalry and the need to belong in the world.

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  • Kitchen confidential, Scottish style

    The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs by Irvine Welsh Jonathan Cape £10.99, pp392 Compared with the bold-faced terseness with which Irvine Welsh titled his last four novels - Ecstasy, Filth, Glue and Porno - The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

  • The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs

    The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs Irvine Welsh W.W. Norton Paperback 400 pages May 2007 This picaresque novel revolves around two main characters, Danny Skinner and his unwitting nemesis, Brian Kibby. Danny is an Environmental Health Officer at ... (read full critics)

    curledup published on Tue, 7 Sep 2010

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  • Well written and intriguing story of how fate brinfs people together, even if it is in the worst kind of way. Not completely my cup of tea, but that's a matter of personal preferences.

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  • I knew it was a mistake to buy this. What people see in Welsh's writing I'll never know.

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