How would he describe Renton to somebody who has never met him? “He has ideas above his station and is a bit full of himself. He oscillates between being really cool and in control of everything, and socially inept. Which is probably me!”

McGregor still mad at Boyle - Sunday Times". Timesonline.co.uk . Retrieved 31 October 2011. (subscription required) Lewis, Rebecca (16 May 2015). "Danny Boyle's Trainspotting sequel finally has a name – and a release date". metro.co.uk . Retrieved 16 May 2016. The ‘Trainspotting’ writer recently released latest novel ‘A Decent Ride’, telling the story of “top-shagger, drug-dealer, gonzo-porn-star and taxi driver Terry Lawson”, and while reading it, we couldn’t help but notice that a few of the hilariously obscene quotes could easily be turned into motivational posters for the outdoors adventurer.

Welsh co-directed "The Right to liberty", a chapter of the documentary film The New Ten Commandments, in 2008.

Ecstasy is three short stories about love under the influence. Each is written in Welsh’s signature style, outrageous, imaginative, often absurdly hilarious and Scottish as hell. In 2009 Welsh directed the film Good Arrows (co-directed by Helen Grace). It was written by Welsh and Cavanagh. The film is about a darts player who suffers from depression which causes him to lose his skill. [11] Themes [ edit ] In 2021, a TV adaptation of Crime was launched in the UK on BritBox as a 6-episode series starring Dougray Scott as detective Lennox. Welsh worked on the project with Dean Cavanagh. This is the first TV adaptation ever made out of a book by Irvine Welsh. [10] Film and stage [ edit ] A corrupt police officer and his tapeworm served as the narrators for his third novel, Filth (1998). The main character of Filth was a vicious sociopathic policeman. The novel was adapted to a film with the same name in 2013. I enjoyed Welsh’s take on love stories, the way he develops characters makes you really invested in them, each is unique and I find them relatable. Welsh truly captures the mentality of young people’s lives and falling in love, showing that although generations change the experience of youth stays similar (this was written in the 90s). As a big fan of the rave culture the many references to clubbing and partying had me fantasising of being a part of the times.

10) Let Risks Rule, (A Decent Ride, 2015)

Welsh returned to Edinburgh in the late 1980s, where he worked for the city council in the housing department. He then studied for an MBA at Heriot-Watt University. [4] Fiction [ edit ] Irvine Welsh in Warsaw, 13 March 2006 Irvine Welsh’s Porno review – coarse and gutsy Trainspotting sequel, The Guardian, 14 August 2022. Retrieved 4 September 2022 Probably what might have been is that it might’ve been shite. I can’t think of a working-class British writer who’s done massively well out of winning the Booker prize; it didn’t do [James] Kelman much good.

Berthold Schoene, ed.: The Edinburgh Companion to Irvine Welsh. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010. I really enjoyed the first two stories in this collection, but wasn't such a fan of the third. Which is a shame, as that was the longest. Overall though I can say I did like it more than Trainspotting, which I found good but quite painful to read. I'm really glad I've finally read this book; I've been meaning to since I was about 14 years old (10/11 years ago), as it is My Chemical Romance's namesake. Haha.

21) Don’t Fight Bears, (Trainspotting, 1993)

Welsh is known for writing in his native Edinburgh Scots dialect. He generally ignores the traditional conventions of literary Scots, used for example by Allan Ramsay, Robert Fergusson, Robert Burns, Robert Louis Stevenson, and James Orr. Instead, he transcribes dialects phonetically. Rab "Second Prize" McLaughlin - a recovering alcoholic, the fifth of the gang robbed by Renton at the end of Trainspotting (though not in the film). Has turned to religion in an attempt to cure his alcoholism and distance himself from his former friends. Sam Leith, writing in the Financial Times, argues that: "Welsh's concerns are with sin and salvation, with the exercise of free will and with the individual soul. He's much more interested in teleology than sociology." [12] Style [ edit ]