Reheated Cabbage
- Published: 1 October 2010
- ISBN: 9781409078739
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 288
A total hoot to read. The first thing that strikes you about much of the material here is the amazing energy of Welsh's writing
Independent on Sunday
All the elements of Welsh's best work remain in tact here: the brilliant imagination, the phonetically-transcribed Scots dialect, the humour, the gritty realism
Woman's Way
An enjoyable Welsh outing, by turns brutish and funny
Adrian Turpin, Financial Times
As you would expect, the stories in this collection involve a certain amount of cultural tourism to the lower depths, undertaken with black humour... Welsh's relish for degradation covers up a strong sentimental streak
Victor Sebestyen, Sunday Times
Brilliantly ghastly
Stuart Kelly, Scotland on Sunday
Customary wit, flair and energy
WBQ
Full of fun, frenzy and filth
Sebastian Shakespeare, Tatler
His customary strengths are in place. The stories are very funny in their black, often cartoonish way. There's also a degree of zest to the storytelling
James Walton, Daily Telegraph
It's good to be brought back to Welsh's original hellfire
Observer
The stories combine sly humour with the tang of lived experience. It makes for a terrific collection, showcasing a writer who...has blossomed into one of the most distinctive, and distinguished, observers of British life
Sunday Telegraph
Welsh's transcription of Scots dialect is brilliant... Welsh also has a fabulous sense of the absurd... The overall vibe of these stories is dark and grim. And fierily, fiercely funny
Brandon Robshaw, Independent on Sunday
Welsh's work remains at once moving, repellent and worryingly funny
TLS
What's striking about these early stories is that the thicker Welsh was steeped in the primordial goo of his Edinburgh Scots phonetics, the better the storytelling got
Alexander Linklater, Observer