The Man Who Walks

After the scandalous theft of of GBP27,000 from a local pub, a homeless drifter pursues his eccentric uncle, ‘The Man Who Walks’, up into the Highlands to recover the money. The nephew’s frantic, stalled progress and other bizarre diversions form this wickedly hilarious novel. But who is The Man Who Walks? Is he simply a water-carrying madman with one glass eye and a fondness for whisky and pony nuts, and who has a physiological inability to handle slopes? Or is he a savant, touched by the hand of God, wandering the back roads along ancient, ancestral tracks? And as the sinister, unstable nephew gains on The Man Who Walks, can it be that it will all end in a field and that this field is Culloden Moor?

Reviews of The Man Who Walks

"A brilliant road movie (on foot) of a book" Irvine Welsh "The Man's a genius – one of the most influential literary mould-breakers ever" Time Out "Nobody takes literary and inventive risks that pay off quite like Warner's do… The book is an immense pleasure" — Ali Smith Guardian "Warner is unique and treasurable" Daily Telegraph "A triumph of blackly comic modern gothic… Warner's a brilliant writer and his wild imagination is captured in prose of demented lyricism" Big Issue