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 ...

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 ...