Our list of some of the best Irvine Welsh books & series in recent years. Get inspired by one or more of the following books.
- Dead Men’s Trousers ()
- Skagboys (2013)
- The Blade Artist (2017)
- Porno (Norton Paperback) (2003)
- Marabou Stork Nightmares (1997)
- Filth (1998)
- Trainspotting (1996)
- The Acid House (2013)
- A Decent Ride (Vintage International) (2017)
- The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins (Vintage International) (2016)
- A Man With One of Those Faces (The Dublin Trilogy) (2016)
- Crime: A Novel (2009)
- Last Exit to Brooklyn (Evergreen Book) (1994)
- Kill ’Em All (2019)
- Mesopotamia (The Margellos World Republic of Letters) (2018)
Dead Men’s Trousers ()
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Skagboys (2013)
Prequel to the best-selling phenomenon Trainspotting, this exhilarating and moving novel shows how Welsh’s colorful miscreants first went wrong. Mark Renton’s life seems to be on track: university, pretty girlfriend, even social success. But, in this prequel to Trainspotting, after the death of his younger brother, Rent falls apart and starts hanging around with his old pals, including Sick Boy, Spud, and Begbie, and being drawn irresistibly into their wacked-out plans.
The Blade Artist (2017)
Jim Francis has finally found the perfect life – and is now unrecognisable, even to himself. A successful painter and sculptor, he lives quietly with his wife, Melanie, and their two young daughters, in an affluent beach town in California. Some say he’s a fake and a con man, while others see him as a genuine visionary. But Francis has a very dark past, with another identity and a very different set of values.
Porno (Norton Paperback) (2003)
The Trainspotting lads are backand in worse shape than ever. In the last gasp of youth, Simon “Sick Boy” Williamson is back in Edinburgh. He taps into one last great scam: directing and producing a porn film. To make it work, he needs bedfellows: the lovely Nikki Fuller-Smith, a student with ambition, ego, and troubles to rival his own; old pal Mark Renton; and a motley crew that includes the neighborhood’s favorite ex-beverage salesman, “Juice” Terry.
Marabou Stork Nightmares (1997)
“For anyone who gets high on language, this book is a fantastic tripa real tour de force.”―Madison Smartt Bell, Spin The acclaimed author of the cult classics Trainspotting and The Acid House, Irvine Welsh has been hailed as “the best thing that has happened to British writing in a decade” (London Sunday Times).
Filth (1998)
With the Christmas season upon him, Detective Sergeant Bruce Robertson of Edinburgh’s finest is gearing up socially―kicking things off with a week of sex and drugs in Amsterdam. There are some sizable flies in the ointment, though: a missing wife and child, a nagging cocaine habit, some painful below-the-belt eczema, and a string of demanding extramarital affairs.
Trainspotting (1996)
Trainspotting is the novel that first launched Irvine Welsh’s spectacular career―an authentic, unrelenting, and strangely exhilarating episodic group portrait of blasted lives. It accomplished for its own time and place what Hubert Selby, Jr.’s Last Exit to Brooklyn did for his. Rents, Sick Boy, Mother Superior, Swanney, Spuds, and Seeker are as unforgettable a clutch of junkies, rude boys, and psychos as readers will ever encounter.
The Acid House (2013)
Irvine Welsh’s scintillating, disturbing, and altogether outrageous collection of stories―the basis for the 1998 cult movie directed by Paul McGuigan. He is called “the Scottish Celine of the 1990s” (Guardian) and “a mad, postmodern Roald Dahl” (Weekend Scotsman).
A Decent Ride (Vintage International) (2017)
‘Juice’ Terry Lawson is a man who contains multitudes: he’s a top shagger, a drug dealer, a gonzo pornstar, and a taxi driver. As we ride along in Juice’s cab through the depraved streets of Edinburgh, we encounter a series of charmingly filthy characters, each of whom present their own unique challenges. Has he finally met his match in Hurricane ‘Bawbag’? Can he discover the fate of the beautiful Jinty Magdalen and keep her idiot-savant lover, Wee Jonty, out of prison?
The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins (Vintage International) (2016)
When Lucy Brennan, a Miami Beach personal-fitness trainer, disarms an apparently crazed gunman, the police and the breaking-news cameras are not far behind. Within hours, Lucy becomes a hero. The solitary eye-witness, the depressed and overweight Lena Sorenson, thrilled by Lucy’s heroism and decisiveness, becomes obsessed with the trainer and enrolls as a client at her Bodysculpt gym.
A Man With One of Those Faces (The Dublin Trilogy) (2016)
The first time somebody tried to kill him was an accident. The second time was deliberate. Now Paul Mulchrone finds himself on the run with nobody to turn to except a nurse who has read one-too-many crime novels and a renegade copper with a penchant for violence. Together they must solve one of the most notorious crimes in Irish history . . . . . .
Crime: A Novel (2009)
“[An] inimitable combination of dark realism, satire and psychological insight . . . complicated, unsettling and at times beautiful.”–Publishers Weekly, starred review In the wake of a nasty child-murder case, Detective Ray Lennox of the Edinburgh PD has suffered a full-scale breakdown. He’s placed on leave for mental retuning and takes off for a few days of sun in Miami.
Last Exit to Brooklyn (Evergreen Book) (1994)
Last Exit to Brooklyn remains undiminished in its awesome power and magnitude as the novel that first showed us the fierce, primal rage seething in America’s cities. Selby brings out the dope addicts, hoodlums, prostitutes, workers, and thieves brawling in the back alleys of Brooklyn. This explosive best-seller has come to be regarded as a classic of modern American writing.
Kill ’Em All (2019)
Now Stelfox works occasionally as a music industry ‘consultant’. A fixer. He’s had a call from his old friend James Trellick, president of one of the largest record companies in America. Trellick has a huge problem on his hands in the shape ofLucius Du Pre. Once the biggest pop star on earth. Now he’s a helpless junkie, a prolific sexual predator, and massively in debt to Trellick’s record company.
Mesopotamia (The Margellos World Republic of Letters) (2018)
"One of the most astounding novels to come out of modern Ukraine. Mesopotamia is seductive, twisted, brilliant, and fierce."— This captivating book is Serhiy Zhadan’s ode to Kharkiv, the traditionally Russian-speaking city in Eastern Ukraine where he makes his home.
Best Irvine Welsh Books That You Need
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Man the footballer : homo passiens : the missing link in human evolution (arguably)
Author(s): McInnes, Mike; Welsh, Irvine
ID: 2356733, Publisher: Meyer & Meyer Sport, Year: 2018, Size: 8 Mb, Format: pdf
The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins
Author(s): Irvine Welsh
ID: 2370565, Publisher: Jonathan Cape, Year: 2014, Size: 574 Kb, Format: mobi
Lust for Life!: Irvine Welsh and the Trainspotting Phenomenon
Author(s): John Neil Munro
ID: 3605839, Publisher: Birlinn, Year: 2013, Size: 11 Mb, Format: epub
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