Scottish writer Irvine Welsh is best known for his slang-laced tales of existential debauchery in the damp, booze-soaked climes of his native Edinburgh (the most famous of those being Trainspotting).

The 73 color photos here seem artless: the working-class English subjects look like slobs; the house is a mess and overrun with rowdy kids. Yet even stuffy readers will have a great time at this ...

Scottish author Irvine Welsh is best known for several things, not the least of which is his propensity for writing much of his dialogue in the impenetrable, phonetically rendered brogue of his ...

This week, Irvine Welsh spoke about his latest addition to the Trainspotting canon on two podcasts while Kit de Waal revisited her 2016 novel. When asked why he keeps returning to the characters of ...

Today in books and publishing: An excerpt from Michael Chabon's latest novel; pricey e-books hit the top of the charts; the myth of Gen-Y illiteracy; Irvine Welsh accuses the Man Booker Prize of ...

A pit bull with a head the size of a medicine ball lazily guards the open door to the Third Street Gym, the new Dogpatch fitness center specializing in boxing and self-defense. On a recent weekday ...

Irvine Welsh entertained Liverpool book lovers at Oh Me Oh My for the launch of his new novel The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins during the Writing On The Wall Festival. Welsh, the author of acclaimed ...

Britain, the 1980s. Thatcher. Black Monday. Riots. Strikes. Racism. In 1984, George Orwell’s 1984 became a bestseller again, slotting right into the nightmarish dystopia it had predicted. As ...

Irvine Welsh is releasing a disco album. The 66-year-old novelist, playwright, and screenwriter - who is best known for his 1993 tome 'Trainspotting', which was adapted into the cult-classic film of ...

This piece originally appeared on Substance.com. It’s 1 am, we’ve been kicked out of the Jesus and Mary Chain show and Irving Place is choked with gawkers and drunks, scalpers and psychos and other ...