Irvine Welsh

Trainspotting

a novel

Filth

Skagboys

Short stories offer a satiric look at modern life, telling the stories of a man who survives with just a brain, a soccer player who is turned into a fly, and a drug addict who exchanges consciousnesses with an infant

The Acid House

Glue

Bret Easton Ellis

American Psycho

The most terrifying character in "Trainspotting "returns -- with his own novel. Jim Francis has finally found the perfect life -- and is now unrecognisable, even to himself. A successful painter and sculptor, he lives quietly with his wife, Melanie, and their two young daughters, in an affluent beach town in California. Some say he's a fake and a con man, while others see him as a genuine visionary. But Francis has a very dark past, with another identity and a very different set of values. When he crosses the Atlantic to his native Scotland, for the funeral of a murdered son he barely knew, his old Edinburgh community expects him to take bloody revenge. But as he confronts his previous life, all those friends and enemies -- and, most alarmingly, his former self -- Francis seems to have other ideas. When Melanie discovers something gruesome in California, which indicates that her husband's violent past might also be his psychotic present, things start to go very bad, very quickly. "The Blade Artist" is an elegant, electrifying novel -- ultra violent but curiously redemptive -- and it marks the return of one of modern fiction's most infamous, terrifying characters, the incendiary Francis Begbie from "Trainspotting."

The Blade Artist

Ecstasy

A Novel

The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs

Detective Inspector Ray Lennox finds himself trying to protect an abused girl from a gang of pedophiles while vacationing in Florida.

Crime

TRAINSPOTTING is set in Edinburgh without knickers, and certainly without a fur coat. There is not an advocate or a festival performer in sight as the world of the addict in the darker side of the city is explored with bitter, mesmerising passion and rancid humour. Written in the uncompromising language of the streets, TRAIN- SPOTTING is a stark and highly original debut.

Dead Men's Trousers [May 29, 2018] Welsh, Irvine

The gang from Trainspotting have mostly cleaned up their act ... until they are drawn back together to Scotland for one last scheme -- a scheme one of them won't survive. It's an action-packed, hilarious and rollicking trip, as well as a moving elegy to the crew.

Dead Men's Trousers

Roy Strang is engaged in a strange quest in a surrealist South Africa. His mission is to eradicate an evil predator-scavenger bird, the marabou stork, before it drives away the peace-loving flamingo from the picturesque Lake Torto. But behind this world lies another: the world of Roy's bizarre family, the Scottish housing scheme in which he grew up, his mundane job, a disastrous emigration to Africa, and his youthful life of brutality with a gang of soccer casuals. As one world crashes into the other, this potentially charming story of ornithological goodwill mutates into a filthy tale of violence, abuse and redemption.

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