Nick Waplington, Author, Irvine Welsh, Author, Nick Waplington, Photographer Aperture $40 (80p) ISBN 978-0-89381-607-0
The 73 color photos here seem artless: the working-class English subjects look like slobs; the house is a mess and overrun with rowdy kids. Yet even stuffy readers will have a great time at this wedding. Waplington's pictures suggest he's a simple...
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Irvine Welsh, Author . Norton $24.95 (512p) ISBN 978-0-393-05723-2
The Trainspotting
gang returns in a sequel to Welsh's cult novel, this time trying to scheme their way into the annals of adult entertainment. Ten years older, but criminally irresponsible as ever, Sick Boy, Renton, Begbie and Spud are still...
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Irvine Welsh, Author . Norton $24.95 (390p) ISBN 978-0-393-06453-7
Welsh, who will probably never live down Trainspotting
(1993), gets considerable comic mileage from dual Edinburgh protagonists and their disparate perspectives. Danny Skinner is the bad boy of the local restaurant inspection office, partying...
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Irvine Welsh, Author . Norton $14.95 (391p) ISBN 978-0-393-33077-9
The author of Trainspotting
gives a master class in gallows humor in his first story collection since The Acid House
(1995). Three of the five stories take place in the U.S., and Welsh relishes punishing ugly Americans. In “Rattlesnakes,̶
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Irvine Welsh, Author . Norton $24.95 (344p) ISBN 978-0-393-06819-1
Welsh's most coherent and satisfying novel in a decade showcases the Scottish author's inimitable combination of dark realism, satire and psychological insight. Having been placed on leave after suffering an emotional meltdown, Edinburgh...
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Irvine Welsh, Author . Norton $14.95 (273p) ISBN 978-0-393-33802-7
Welsh returns to the world of drug-ingesting, lager-swigging and “fitba”-loving Scotsmen in this hilarious collection from his Trainspotting
years. The material may be old, but the slang still sings in these stories of scrappers...
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Irvine Welsh, Author W. W. Norton & Company $13.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-393-31280-5
In Welsh's (Trainspotting) gritty proletarian universe, everyone from God to Madonna (the Material Girl, not the Virgin) speaks tough, working-class Scottish dialect: ``That cunt Nietzsche wis wide ay the maark whin he sais ah wis deid,'' confides a
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Irvine Welsh, Author W. W. Norton & Company $13.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-393-31581-3
The ecstasy involved in rave-writer Welsh's three novellas at first may seem exclusively the chemical kind (""e,"" ""ecky,"" ""MDMA"") downed at Dionysian dance parties by alienated post-Thatcher youth and nearly every character here. But Welsh's...
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Irvine Welsh, Author W. W. Norton & Company $14.95 (393p) ISBN 978-0-393-31868-5
Another scabrous, lurid, blackly comic novel from America's favorite Scottish enfant terrible, this one does for present-day Edinburgh what James Ellroy does for 1950s Los Angeles. Welsh begins with a detective's investigation into a murder--the...
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Irvine Welsh, Author W. W. Norton & Company $14.95 (480p) ISBN 978-0-393-32215-6
Spanning four decades, Welsh's first full-length novel since 1998's Filth chronicles the friendship of four boys from the Edinburgh projects who cling together through football brawls, ""shagging"" ordeals, encounters with the law, drug...
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Irvine Welsh, Author W. W. Norton & Company $21 (0p) ISBN 978-0-393-03845-3
When the narrator's polished account of a surreal African safari suddenly gives way to an Edinburgh soccer thug's obscenity-laced vernacular, it's clear that Welsh's unrelenting exploration of the Scottish underclass has undergone an unexpected...
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Irvine Welsh. Norton, $26.95 (560p) ISBN 978-0-393-08873-1
Built upon 100,000 words set aside in the process of writing Trainspotting comes this prequel set in gritty early ’80s Leith, Edinburgh. The familiar voices of Mark “Rent Boy” Renton, Simon “Sick Boy” Williamson, Danny “Spud” Murphy, Frank Begbie,...
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Irvine Welsh. Doubleday, $26 (368p) ISBN 978-0-385-53938-8
In his latest, a reliably maniacal spin on the Pygmalion tale, Welsh (Skagboys) leaves his familiar Edinburgh for Miami Beach, a “sun-drenched refuge for strutting grotesques and desperate narcissists.” Lucy Brennan is a tough, foulmouthed, sadistic,
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Irvine Welsh, Author, Alan Warner, Author, Gordon Legge, Author Overlook Press $22.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-87951-775-5
Six Scottish authors--Irvine Welsh, Gordon Legge, Alan Warner, James Meek, Laura J. Hird and Paul Reekie--contribute novellas to this raw-edged collection edited by fellow Scot Williamson, former publisher of Rebel, Inc. magazine. In Welsh's (Trainsp
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Irvine Welsh. Melville House, $26.99 (432p) ISBN 978-1-61219-755-5
More than 25 years after they first appeared in Trainspotting, all four of Welsh’s hard-living Scottish friends reunite in Edinburgh, roped into an appropriately bizarre and macabre organ harvesting caper. Told from the perspectives of the four...
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