John King, Alan Warner & Irvine Welsh interviewed by Dominic Warwick at Rebellion Festival
They’re back with three more doses of comedy in The Seal Club 2: The View From Poacher’s Hill, bringing us fiction that makes you laugh and squirm
In Warner’s Migration, a reluctant teenager is taken to live on the Costa Blanca by her parents, but despite the villa, pool and palm trees as enjoyed through designer shades, Lily struggles to adapt to her new life in Spain. All is not well in paradise.
In Welsh’s In Real Life, the dull existence of disenfranchised Edinburgh youths is eased by the more seductive worlds glimpsed on the likes of Instagram. With drugs, porn, junk food and single-parenthood their everyday obsessions, this romping comedy of no manners asks if our onscreen lives can ever compensate for having nothing in real life.
In King’s Grand Union, the arrival by narrowboat of former lorry driver Merlin and his goat Gary attracts a curious crowd to a canalside pub in West London