Irvine Welsh, the author – still, after all these years - best known for Trainspotting, is to release a disco album. Yes, you heard that right. It’s called Men In Love and it’s a companion piece to a ...

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 ...

This year’s Edinburgh Film Festival (EIFF) will close with Reality Is Not Enough, the latest documentary feature from Paul Sng. The film is an exploration of Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh. The ...

Irvine Welsh is pointing up to the second floor of a grey stone building in Leith, the port district of Edinburgh. As he gets ready to publish a sequel to his 1993 cult novel Trainspotting, the author ...

“It’s not really about debate and discussion, discourse, community anymore,” the Scottish writer warned at London's Voiced: The Festival for Endangered Languages. “We have to watch the technology, and ...

Scottish author Irvine Welsh on Friday described the new sequel to his cult novel "Trainspotting" as an antidote to a world full of "hate and poison", as he took aim at social media, the internet and ...

The year’s Edinburgh Film Festival will end, just like it did in 2023, with a feature documentary on the cult Scottish writer Irvine Welsh, best known for the Trainspotting novels. As a factoid, that ...