Trainspotting

Irvine Welsh was born and raised in Edinburgh. His first novel, Trainspotting, has sold over one million copies in the UK and was adapted into an era-defining film. He has written fifteen further novels, including the Sunday Times bestseller Men in Love and the Crime series, four books of shorter fiction and numerous plays and screenplays. Irvine Welsh currently lives between London, Edinburgh and Miami.

"The voice of punk, grown up, grown wiser and grown eloquent" Sunday Times "The best book ever written by man or woman... Deserves to sell more copies than the bible" Rebel Inc "Welsh writes with a skill, wit and compassion that amounts to genius. He is the best thing that has happened to British writing for decades" Sunday Times "An unremitting powerhouse of a novel that marked the arrival of a major new talent... Loud with laughter in the dark, this novel is the real McCoy" Herald "A novel perpetually in a starburst of verbal energy - a vernacular spectacular... The stories we hear are retched from the gullet" Scotland on Sunday