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Irvine Welsh
**A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** Mark Renton from Trainspotting is back - and he’s finally a success An international jet-setter, he now makes significant money managing DJs, but the constant travel…
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VINTAGE QUARTERBOUND CLASSICS- Bound to be beautiful
A beautiful hardback edition of the hilarious, dark, ingenious novel that changed the face of British fiction.
Choose us. Choose life. Choose mortgage…
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An epic novel about the bonds of friendship from the author of Trainspotting.
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A novel set in surrealist South Africa, where the hero’s mission to eradicate an evil predator-scavenger bird from Lake Torto clashes with the world of his bizarre family, resulting in…
Detective Inspector Ray Lennox has fled to Miami to escape the aftermath of a mental breakdown induced by occupational stress and cocaine abuse, and a harrowing child-sex murder case back…
From #1 Sunday Times bestseller Irvine Welsh, the brand new novel in the CRIME series featuring former detective Ray Lennox
From #1 Sunday Times bestseller Irvine Welsh, the brand new…
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Read the seminal bestselling novel that changed the face of British fiction and inspired Danny Boyle’s film. ‘The best book ever written by man or woman… choose sitting oan a…
The highly-anticipated second instalment in the CRIME trilogy, now a hit TV Series
In Edinburgh, Detective Inspector…
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Suitable only for persons of strong constitution. Contains- Drug use Perversion Murder Corruption Sexism Racism Law Enforcement And a tapeworm
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Oscar Wilde
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY IRVINE WELSH Dorian is a good-natured young man until he discovers the power of his own exceptional beauty. As he gradually sinks deep into a frivolous…
Robert Morace
Provides an introduction to the work of Irvine Welsh , that places his fiction in historical and theoretical context. This work explores Welsh’s biography, his impact on contemporary Scottish fiction…
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This book provides an introduction to the work of Irvine Welsh, placing his fiction in historical and theoretical context. It explores Welsh’s biography, his impact on contemporary Scottish fiction and…
Aaron Kelly
This is the first full-length study of Irvine Welsh’s fiction and provides a sustained textual and contextual analysis and evaluation of his work
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Hubert Selby Jr.
A novel that tells the stories of New Yorkers who at every turn confront the worst excesses in human nature. It includes such creations as: Georgette, the transvestite who falls…
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Three tales of the vicissitudes of love, by the author of Trainspotting and Shallow Grave . Lorraine Goes to Livingston features an authoress who suffers a stroke; Fortune’s Always Hiding…
This collection is made up of The Granton Star Cause , The Acid House and A Soft Touch . All three stories come from the badlands of the schemes of…
An original stage play from the author of Trainspotting . Within the sound-proof walls of a recording studio a score is being settled. Two inner city low-lifes take the law…
A story of four boys growing up in the Edinburgh schemes, and about the loyalties, the experiences - and the secrets - that hold them together into their thirties. What…
Now a major film directed by Danny Boyle reuniting the cast of Trainspotting Years on from Trainspotting Sick Boy is back in Edinburgh after a long spell in London.
With the festive season almost upon him, Detective Sergeant Bruce Robertson is winding down at work and gearing up socially - kicking off Christmas with a week of sex and…
Prepare for another cult-movie/cult-book wave as Ecstasy, the movie, brings new fans to Irvine Welsh’s book of chemical romances.
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A rampaging force of nature is wreaking havoc on the streets of Edinburgh, but has top shagger, drug-dealer, gonzo-porn-star and taxi-driver, ‘Juice’ Terry Lawson, finally met his match in Hurricane…
One of a hand-picked selection of some of the most popular and cult- worthy titles on Faber and Faber’s extensive list of film scripts.
A family saga, a revenge fantasy, a Twilight Zone-esque parable, and, most importantly, a very fun read. -Entertainment Weekly
Lucy Brennan, a Miami Beach personal trainer, disarms an apparently crazed gunman chasing two frightened homeless men at night. Within hours, Lucy becomes a hero. Her celebrity is short-lived, though…
In ‘Rattlesnakes’, three young Americans find themselves lost in the desert, held captive by armed Mexicans; an ex-jockey and table-football star of Cowdenbeath takes on the charms of Jenni Cahill…
An aggressive personal trainer who has just become a media hero after taking down a would-be gunman in Miami. The one witness to the daring rescue is Lena Sorensen -…
First published by Jonathan Cape in the United Kingdom in 2018.
[An] inimitable combination of dark realism, satire and psychological insight … complicated, unsettling and at times beautiful. –Publishers Weekly, starred review
A bestsellig romance author suffers a paralyzing stroke and her philandering husband wonders how this will affect his gambling and whoring budget; two young lovers must come to terms with…
In a dark and disturbing, often scabrously funny novel about the abuse of everything and everybody, the author of the international sensation Trainspotting introduces readers to Detective Sergeant Bruce Robertson…
Prequel to the best-selling phenomenon Trainspotting, this exhilarating and moving novel shows how Welsh’s colorful miscreants first went wrong.
Using a range of approaches from bitter realism to demented fantasy, Irvine Welsh is able to evoke the essential humanity, well hidden as it is, of his generally depraved, lazy…
Irvine Welsh, the author of Trainspotting, is up to his old tricks with his new work of transgressive short fiction.
Never-collected tales, including outrageous early stories from the Trainspotting years, plus a raucous new novella.
Troubled Environmental Health Officer Danny Skinner is engaged on a quest to uncover what he refers to as ‘the bedroom secrets of the master chefs’. He regards the unravelling of…
This novel looks at life in the dark underside of Edinburgh, the AIDS capital of Europe, through the jaded eyes and harsh vernacular of heroin addict Mark Renton, who is…
For anyone who gets high on language, this book is a fantastic trip…a real tour de force. -Madison Smartt Bell, Spin
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…
With a rampaging force of nature is wreaking havoc on the streets of Edinburgh, but has top shagger, drug-dealer, gonzo-porn-star and taxi-driver, ‘Juice’ Terry Lawson, finally met his match in…
Hilarious, shocking and hugely entertaining, Reheated Cabbage has all the classic Irvine Welsh ingredients In Reheated Cabbage you can enjoy Christmas dinner with Begbie and discover how aliens addicted to…
Ten years on from Trainspotting Sick Boy is back in Edinburgh after a long spell in London. In the world of Porno, though, nothing is straightforward, as Sick Boy and…
The characters in this collection by the author of Trainspotting are often - on the surface - depraved, vicious, cowardly and manipulative, but their essential humanity is never undermined. Stereotypes…
