Irvine Welsh: 44 books

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,...

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...

If you put four dwarfs in a room with enough opium and alcohol, it's bound to end in tears. In 1935, MGM studios embarked on a movie adaptation of L. Frank Baum's The Wizard of Oz. The production called for the casting of many dwarfs to play the Munchkins of the mythical Land of Oz, and the...

From the celebrated author of the bestselling cult classic Trainspotting, a new work of fiction that triumphantly puts the E back in Eros. With three delightful tales of love and its ups and downs, the ever-surprising Irvine Welsh virtually invents a new genre of fiction: the chemical romance...

SKAGBOYS, TRAINSPOTTING, PORNO: DA QUESTI LIBRI I FILM TRAINSPOTTING E T2 TRAINSPOTTING  Diretti da Danny Boyle e Ewan McGregor Un pugno di ragazzi a Edimburgo e dintorni: Mark Renton, Sick Boy, Spud, Begbie e i loro «soci». Il racconto sboccato e travolgente della loro vita, fatta di sesso,...

Miami. Ciudad de contrastes: aquí conviven los cuerpos esculturales con la obesidad más desbocada. Una de las poseedoras de un cuerpo escultural, la entrenadora personal y experta en fitness Lucy Brennan, se convierte en una heroína local cuando en plena calle desarma a un hombre con una pistola...

Muy pocas veces alguien se atrevió a recomendar tan fervientemente una novela. «Merece vender más ejemplares que la Biblia», afirmó Rebel Inc., una insolente revista literaria escocesa. De inmediato celebrada por los críticos más estrictos pero leída también por aquellos que raramente se...

Ésta es la primera colección de cuentos de Welsh desde aquel Acid House que cambió nuestra mirada sobre una época y una generación. En «Serpientes de cascabel», dos chicos y una chica vuelven del festival Burning Man y el coche se les para en el desierto. Se preparan a pasar la noche, pero...

Because I am a girl I am less likely to go to school Because I am a girl I am more likely to suffer from malnutrition Because I am a girl I am more likely to suffer violence in the home Because I am a girl I am more likely to marry and start a family before I reach my twenties. Seven...

The Trainspotting lads are back...and 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,...

The International Bestseller from the author The New York Times called "blisteringly funny" — it's the wild and wooly crew from Trainspotting back for one last adventure You don't need to have seen the blockbuster movie—nor read the earlier mega-bestselling books—to get what's...

SBOCCATI, VIOLENTI, MALEDETTI: TORNANO I "RAGAZZI" DI TRAINSPOTTING Mark Renton ha fatto bingo: i deejay della sua agenzia fanno ballare i ragazzi sulle due sponde dell’oceano e un bel po’ di soldi entrano in cassa, ma non riesce a sentirsi davvero appagato di una vita passata...

“[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....

A play from the author of Trainspotting Within the sound-proofed walls of a disused recording studio, a score is being settled. Two inner city low-lifes take the law into their own hands to satisfy their craving for fun, fear and a freakish sense of justice. "You'll Have Had Your Hole"...