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Irvine Welsh

June 2024

  • Irvine Welsh

    The books of my life
    Irvine Welsh: ‘If reading gives you comfort, you’re not doing it right’

    The Scottish author on having his mind changed by Orwell, how Trainspotting was influenced by Ulysses, and his wariness of novels created with AI

March 2024

  • Hollie McNish

    The books of my life
    Hollie McNish: ‘Being a writer didn’t enter my mind – I wanted a job that involved roller-skating’

    The poet on discovering Seamus Heaney, revisiting Alice Walker and the joy of Allan Ahlberg

August 2023

  • Jacqueline Wilson

    ‘Times change’: what authors think about rewriting older books

    Jacqueline Wilson is latest writer to wade into debate over changing dated and offensive language

July 2023

  • A ceramicist dogged by anxiety … Michelle Williams in Showing Up, playing at Edinburgh film festival.

    Edinburgh film festival announces lineup after seeing off closure threat

  • Ewen Bremner (Spud), Ewan McGregor (Renton) and Robert Carlyle (Begbie) in Danny Boyle’s 1996 film adaptation

    ‘Choose drugs?’ 30 years after he wrote Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh says life is tougher now

December 2022

  • Benicio Del Toro and Johnny Depp in the film version of Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 books about hellraisers

    The full facts about debauched lives do not make happy reading, but authors from Robert Louis Stevenson to Hunter S Thompson offer thrilling reading without concealing the cost

October 2022

  • Everything is turned up to 11 … Greg Esplin and Andrew Barrett in Trainspotting Live.

    Trainspotting Live review – ferocious drama plunges you into world of Irvine Welsh

    An exhilarating production shifts Renton, Sick Boy and pals into the acid house era – and is even more visceral than the book

August 2022

  • Edinburgh, Scotland. UK. 23rd March 2018. Author Irvine Welsh pictured before an event at Leith's Biscuit Factory presented by Edinburgh International Book Festival and Neu. Reeky to introduce his new novel, Dead Men's Trousers. Fast and Furious, scabrously funny and weirdly moving, this is a spectacular return of the crew from Trainspotting. Pako Mera/Alamy Live News.<br>M973TH Edinburgh, Scotland. UK. 23rd March 2018. Author Irvine Welsh pictured before an event at Leith's Biscuit Factory presented by Edinburgh International Book Festival and Neu. Reeky to introduce his new novel, Dead Men's Trousers. Fast and Furious, scabrously funny and weirdly moving, this is a spectacular return of the crew from Trainspotting. Pako Mera/Alamy Live News.

    Sunday with Irvine Welsh: ‘If you sit around waiting for Monday morning, you’re going to feel blue’

    The writer tells Rich Pelley how he gets out and about on Sundays in Miami, Edinburgh, the Chilterns and London
  • Irvine Welsh in Edinburgh, July 2022.

    Books interview
    Irvine Welsh: ‘Everything has become so shouty’

    The Trainspotting author on his new novel’s transgender storyline, using humour to give his readers a break and the debt he owes to Evelyn Waugh
  • Jeopardy … Simon Weir as Sick Boy, left, in Irvine Welsh’s Porno

    Irvine Welsh’s Porno review – coarse and gutsy Trainspotting sequel

    Welsh’s band of unruly misfits reunite – 15 years older – in an intense, dark farce that rushes to a conclusion all too soon

March 2022

  • Sunrise at Bellahouston Park in Glasgow.

    The Voids by Ryan O’Connor review – Irn-Bru and benders

    This luminous debut novel, set in a squalid, hyper-hedonistic Glasgow, is a wild and gratifying literary ride

November 2021

  • DOUGRAY SCOTT as Ray Lennox in Crime.

    Observer TV reviews
    The week in TV: Crime; Dopesick; Tiger King 2; Bridget Riley: Painting the Line

    Dougray Scott delivers a triple espresso-shot performance as Irvine Welsh’s maverick detective; America’s struggle with opioid addiction makes for serious pharma drama; and the unwelcome return of Joe Exotic
  • Dougray Scott and Joanna Vanderham in Crime.

    TV review
    Crime review – Irvine Welsh’s first TV drama is a dreich and plodding affair

    This Edinburgh cop show is disappointingly conventional stuff from the author known for his exuberance and excess – and its dialogue is deathly
  • ‘I’m happy everywhere. All the shit comes out in my writing …’ Irvine Welsh.

    Irvine Welsh: ‘We’re heading for an anarchist paradise where we play football and make love’

    The notorious author is breaking new ground with his TV debut. He talks about messed up cops, exorcising Sick Boy … and writing the tunes for Trainspotting: The Musical

October 2021

  • SC 79 2

    Trainspotting: behind the scenes by Danny Boyle, Ewan McGregor, Irvine Welsh and more

  • Bobby Gillespie photographed for the Observer New Review by David Vintiner, October 2021.

    Bobby Gillespie: ‘For the first 10 years of my life, I lived in a Glasgow tenement … that stuff stays with you’

March 2021

  • Alan McGee in 1997.

    Creation myths: Alan McGee tells the real story of those wild Britpop years

    The maverick label boss on why he didn’t let the truth get in the way of a good movie … and why he may owe an apology to Tony Blair
  • Ewen Bremner as Alan McGee in Creation Stories.

    Creation Stories review – generic biopic of record label supremo Alan McGee

    Ewen Bremner stars as the fiery Scots label boss in this cliche-ridden drama co-written by Irvine Welsh
  • Trainspotting’s Ewen Bremner in Creation Stories, about record label supremo Alan McGee.

    Creation Stories review – mythmaking and megalomania in likable Alan McGee biopic

    Irvine Welsh’s cracking adaption of an autobiography by the ‘President of Pop’ flashes from My Bloody Valentine to his discovery of Oasis

November 2020

  • Some of the stolen books recovered this month by UK and Romanian police after the ‘Mission Impossible’ £2.5m heist.

    Passing sentences … what’s the worst kind of book thief?

    Theft is never a great thing, but there must be a special place in hell for those who steal shared cultural treasures from libraries
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