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Irvine Welsh

    September 27, 1958
    Irvine Welsh
    Trainspotting ; & Shallow grave
    Trainspotting
    Performers
    Skagboys
    The Irvine Welsh Omnibus
    Vintage Youth. "Oliver Twist", "Trainspotting"
    • 2024

      Available for pre-order now From #1 Sunday Times bestseller Irvine Welsh, the brand new novel in the CRIME series featuring former detective Ray LennoxOLD TRUTHS HAVE NEW CONSEQUENCESRay Lennox is determined to move on from his darkest days. The maverick former detective has left Edinburgh for a fresh start in Brighton. Soon, his fixations and addictions have been replaced with quiet evenings and a rigorous fitness regime.Then Lennox meets Mathew Cardingworth. Rich, smooth-talking and immaculately dressed, he presents himself as a successful, and respectable, property developer. Yet their encounter reawakens memories that have haunted Lennox for decades, sending him into a spiral of confusion and rage.Lennox has no choice - he must confront the events of his childhood. But the more he identifies the links between Cardingworth, the disappearance of a group of foster care boys and the violence of his past, the more he finds himself asking:What will he sacrifice to achieve resolution at last?

      Resolution
    • 2023
    • 2022

      The highly-anticipated second instalment in the CRIME trilogy, now a hit TV Series Justice can be a blunt instrument "Men like him usually tell the story. In business. Politics. Media. But not this time: I repeat, he is not writing this story." Ritchie Gulliver MP is dead. Castrated and left to bleed in an empty Leith warehouse. Vicious, racist and corrupt, many thought he had it coming. But nobody could have predicted this. After the life Gulliver has led, the suspects are many: corporate rivals, political opponents, the countless groups he's offended. And the vulnerable and marginalised, who bore the brunt of his cruelty - those without a voice, without a choice, without a chance. As Detective Ray Lennox unravels the truth, and the list of brutal attacks grows, he must put his personal feelings aside. But one question refuses to go away... Who are the real victims here? *A 2022 Book to Look Forward To in the Evening Standard*

      The Long Knives
    • 2021
    • 2020

      The Seal Club

      • 304 pages
      • 11 hours of reading

      The Seal Club is a three-novella collection by the authors Alan Warner, Irvine Welsh and John King, three stories that capture their ongoing interests and concerns, stories that reflect bodies of work that started with Morvern Callar, Trainspotting and The Football Factory - all best-sellers, all turned into high-profile films.

      The Seal Club
    • 2018

      Rave

      • 128 pages
      • 5 hours of reading

      Irvine Welsh, 'poet laureate of the chemical generation', exposes the seamy underbelly of rave's utopian dream. Lloyd, our permanently pilled-up protagonist, pushes his weekends to breaking point and beyond in this frazzled trip through Scottish clubland. He experiences the vertiginous uppers and downers of the Second Summer of Love, dabbles in a…

      Rave
    • 2018

      Dead men's trousers

      • 336 pages
      • 12 hours of reading
      4.0(1365)Add rating

      *THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER* Mark Renton is finally a success. An international jet-setter, he now makes significant money managing DJs, but the constant travel, airport lounges, soulless hotel rooms and broken relationships have left him dissatisfied with his life. He's then rocked by a chance encounter with Frank Begbie, from whom he'd been hiding for years after a terrible betrayal and the resulting debt. But the psychotic Begbie appears to have reinvented himself as a celebrated artist and - much to Mark's astonishment - doesn't seem interested in revenge. Sick Boy and Spud, who have agendas of their own, are intrigued to learn that their old friends are back in town, but when they enter the bleak world of organ-harvesting, things start to go so badly wrong. Lurching from crisis to crisis, the four men circle each other, driven by their personal histories and addictions, confused, angry - so desperate that even Hibs winning the Scottish Cup doesn't really help. One of these four will not survive to the end of this book. Which one of them is wearing Dead Men's Trousers? Fast and furious, scabrously funny and weirdly moving, this is a spectacular return of the crew from Trainspotting.

      Dead men's trousers
    • 2017

      When genial amateur detective, Alistair MacTavish takes a much anticipated holiday in the South Downs, which was supposed to be a peaceful rest, he finds fate has other plans in store for him. Should he follow his instinct or dismiss his well-known imagination and its developing theory as absurd? For the missing Findlay McQuarrie, Alzheimer's may have dimmed his immediate perceptions, but not enough to stop his crucial help. Both Alistair's instinct and Findlay's limited brightness play their extraordinary and intriguing part in trying to solve a wicked crime. Once again, Robert Irvine has written a thought-provoking mystery with a fine series of surprises, twists and turns.

      Limited Brightness
    • 2017

      Alte Messer schneiden gut Jim Francis hat endlich seinen Frieden gefunden. Zusammen mit seiner Frau und den beiden Töchtern führt er ein beschauliches Leben unter der Sonne Kaliforniens. Nichts mehr deutet darauf hin, dass er einst ein berüchtigter Straftäter war. Doch dann wird sein Sohn aus erster Ehe ermordet. Um der Beerdigung beizuwohnen, reist Jim noch einmal in die Stadt, die er nie wieder betreten wollte. Und auf Edinburghs Straßen flüstern die Leute: Franco Begbie ist zurück ...

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