When the film Trainspotting, based on Irvine Welsh’s iconic book, came out in 1996, I was 14 and living not far from ...

Irvine Welsh, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Philippe Sands and Naomi Watts are some of the big-name authors with books out this ...

Irvine Welsh has been revealed as one of the special guests at the world’s most prestigious celebration of crime writing this summer. The Trainspotting author joins the likes of Lee and Andrew ...

Addiction has been a recurring theme in Irvine’s work, in part drawing from his own life. He was a heroin user for about two years in his youth. He calls it “a learning experience that you can ...