And was it?
yes
It has a strange history, originally published in 1965 and totally ignored until someone republished in 2005 (ish).
I thought it was excellent, makes you wonder how many books disappeared due to poor sales on release which are actually very good.
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Breaks the Heisenberg uncertainty principle
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Interesting, maybe I’ll give it a go.
I love the precis on Amazon*
A top-ten NY Times Bestseller
Paramount adapted it into an incomprehensible film directed by Michael Mann
And now the classic international bestseller is an ebook.
* my dirty little champagne socialist secret is that while I boycott quite a few companies for various reasons, including Amazon, I still buy crappy fiction on Kindle because it’s so damned convenient
It’s absolutely ages (like, 30 years) since I’ve read this.
I remember it being laugh-out-loud, and I felt that the series caught the seedier side of Edinburgh well at the time.
I still mutter the “fuckinnnn waaaank” catchphrase today, although I can’t remember which specific book it’s from.
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Finally collected my copy , tearing through it in between busman’s holiday jobs , replaced fridge and am repairing Smeg seal and a very stuck push up on the bath ( this has taken an hour or stormtrooper swearing but has now released
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Finely gauged profanity is the mark of a skilled craftsperson.
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LOVE the Gormenghast trilogy - and it equipped me perfectly to go and work in an enormous old museum 
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Well this was a bit shit.
The next book is advertised as the second part of a “duology”.
This “book” just came to a screeching halt smack in the middle of the plot effectively saying “now you have to buy the other one, sucker”.
Very cynical if you ask me.
This sounds promising…
https://x.com/MrEwanMorrison/status/1841465836919234623?t=Sxy9WICQoQsnDVBHGGyVfw&s=19
Selling fast - better not hang-about…