Irvine Welsh

Les mésaventures sombres et hilarantes des héros de Trainspotting, frappés en pleine jeunesse par la fracture sociale des années Thatcher.

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). Using a range of approaches from bitter realism to …

The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs is the sixth novel by Scottish writer Irvine Welsh. It has been compared with Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray and Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.

‘Back to his violent best...dark, gruesome and captivating’ EsquireThe most terrifying character from Trainspotting returns.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 …

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 …

Trainspotting est le premier roman de l'écrivain écossais Irvine Welsh, paru pour la première fois en 1993. Il a inspiré le film du même nom.