Irvine Welsh
Author
Series
Trainspotting volume 3
Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Mark Renton is finally a success. He now makes significant money managing DJs, but the constant travel, airport lounges, soulless hotel rooms, and broken relationships have left him dissatisfied with life. Then he runs into his old partner in crime, Frank Begbie, from whom he'd been hiding for years. But the psychotic Begbie appears to have reinvented himself as a celebrated artist in Los Angeles, and doesn't seem interested in revenge. Meanwhile,...
Author
Series
Trainspotting volume 1
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
Trainspotting is the novel that launched the sensational career of Irvine Welsh - an authentic, unrelenting, and strangely exhilarating group portrait of blasted lives in Edinburgh that has the linguistic energy of A Clockwork Orange and the literary impact of Last Exit to Brooklyn. Rents, Sick Boy, Mother Superior, Swanney, Spuds, and Begbie are as unforgettable a clutch of rude boys, junkies, and nutters as readers will ever encounter.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
In "Lorraine Goes to Livingston," a best-selling author of Regency romances, paralyzed and bedridden, plans her revenge on a gambling, whoring husband with the aid of her nurse, Lorraine. In "Fortune's Always Hiding," flawed beauty Samantha Worthington enlists a smitten young soccer thug to find the man who marketed the drug that crippled her from birth--in order to give him a taste of his own disastrous medicine. In the upbeat final tale, "The Undefeated,"...
5) Filth
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
A satirical crime novel with a repulsive hero. As he investigates the murder of an African in Edinburgh, detective Bruce Robertson indulges in every imaginable obscenity, his activities commented on periodically by the tapeworm in his gut.
6) Porno
Author
Series
Trainspotting volume 2
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
The Trainspotting lads are back...and in worse shape than ever. In the last gasp of youth, Simon "Sick Boy" Williamson is back in Edinburgh. He taps into one last great scam: directing and producing a porn film. To make it work, he needs bedfellows: the lovely Nikki Fuller-Smith, a student with ambition, ego, and troubles to rival his own; old pal Mark Renton; and a motley crew that includes the neighborhood's favorite ex-beverage salesman, "Juice"...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Irvine Welsh returns to Edinburgh, the home of Trainspotting and so many of his novels since, with a new novel featuring one of his most iconic and beloved characters 'Juice' Terry Lawson that's thick on the Scottish brogue, heavy on the filth and masterful in its comedic timing. A Decent Ride sees Irvine Welsh back in Edinburgh, this time with one of his most compelling and popular characters front and center: the rampaging force of nature that...
8) Skagboys
Author
Series
Trainspotting volume Prequel
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the misadventures of Mark Renton and his friends as they cope with economic uncertainties, family problems, drug use, and the opposite sex in 1980s Edinburgh.
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
A collection of first-person narratives by various authors.
A dozen of the most successful and popular writers today including: Helen Fielding, Robert Harris, Patrick Marber, Zadie Smith, John O'Farrell, Roddy Doyle, Melissa Bank and Irvine Welsh have written 6000-word fictional monologues along the lines of Alan Bennet's Talking Heads. And Colin Firth makes his début as a fiction writer. The result is a book of completely original stories that...
10) Trainspotting
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
A young heroin addict in Edinburgh tries to kick the habit but his junkie friends aren't making it easy for him.
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