Irvine Welsh

Ten years on from Trainspotting, Simon 'Sick Boy' Williamson is back in Edinburgh after a long spell in London. Having failed spectacularly as a hustler, pimp, husband, father and businessman, Sick Boy taps into an opportunity, which to him represents one last throw of the dice. However, to realize his dream of directing and producing a pornographic movie, Sick Boy must team up with old pal and fellow exile Mark Renton and a motley crew that includes the city's favourite ex-aerated-water-salesman, 'Juice' Terry Lawson. In the world of Porno, however, nothing is straightforward, as Sick Boy and Renton find out that they have unresolved issues to address, concerning the increasingly unhinged Frank Begbie, the troubled, drug-addled Spud, but, most of all, with each other.

Irvine Welsh, the author of Trainspotting, is up to his old tricks with his new work of transgressive short fiction.Irvine Welsh's first short-story collection since his debut work The Acid House presents five extraordinary stories, which remind us that he is a master of the short form, a brilliant storyteller, and—unarguably—one of today's funniest and most subversive writers. In "Rattlesnakes" three young Americans, lost in the desert, are accosted by two armed Mexicans. A Korean chef and a Chicago socialite find themselves connected through the disappearance of a pooch named Toto in "The D.O.G.S. of Lincoln Park." And in the title story, Mickey Baker—an ex-pat English bar owner living on the Costa Brava—tries to keep all of his balls in the air: maintaining his barmaid's weight at the sexual maximum, attending to the youthful Persephone, and dodging his ex-wife and Spanish gangsters.In typically Welshian fashion, the characters and settings are anything but typical. These stories will make you laugh and gasp.

With the festive season almost upon him, Detective Sergeant Bruce Robertson is winding down at work and gearing up socially - kicking off Christmas with a week of sex and drugs in Amsterdam. There are irritating flies in the ointment, though, including a missing wife, a nagging cocaine habit, a dramatic deterioration in his genital health, a string of increasingly demanding extra-marital affairs. The last thing he needs is a messy murder to solve. Still it will mean plenty of overtime, a chance to stitch up some colleagues and finally clinch the promotion he craves. But as Bruce spirals through the lower reaches of degradation and evil, he encounters opposition - in the form of truth and ethical conscience - from the most unexpected quarter of all: his anus. In Bruce Robertson, Welsh has created one of the most corrupt, misanthropic characters in contemporary fiction , and has written a dark, disturbing and very funny novel about sleaze, power, and the abuse of everything. At last, a novel that lives up to its name.

Sbírka jednadvaceti povídek a jedné novely skotského autora. Jedná se o Welshovu druhou knihou, plnou „obrázků ze společenského života spodiny", v níž autor nezůstáváí nic dlužen své pověsti; jeho texty opět zkoumají temná zákoutí světa i duše. Ač jsou povídky tématicky rozdílné, mají společné dvě věci: Vypravěčem je zástupce edinburghské ulice, jehož mluva je děsivá, plná vulgarismů, siláckých výroků, slangových obratů, zkomolenin a patvarů, ale rozhodně není fádní a nudná. To proto, že je v ní obsažen humor, sice hodně černý, cynický a brutální, ale jak jinak pravdivě popsat skutečný život, který se taky s nikým nepáře? A pak pravidlo, že žádná povídky neskončí happy endem a že ještě nikdy nebylo tak hrozně, aby nemohlo být ještě hůř.

Fotbalový fanoušek a výtržník Ray Strang se zamyslí nad svými lumpárnami a svým životem, v němž se snažil rozdat co nejvíc ran, a upadne do komatu… Třetí kniha autora románů Trainspotting a Barevnej svět (Acid House).

Nejnovější román Irvina Welshe je volným pokračováním kultovního Trainspottingu. Simon Williamson neboli Šoufek se po deseti letech vrací do Skotska, aby po své tetičce převzal hospodu. A jelikož se užírá, že po něm na světě nic nezbude, rozhodne se v patře nad hospodou natočit pornofilm. Jako hlavní hvězdu angažuje Nikki, občanským povoláním masérku, která si občas nějaký ten chechták přivydělá ruční prací a přitom sní, že bude pornofilmy jednou sama režírovat. Begpie je venku z lapáku, kam se dostal za zabití.Jestli se mu do rukou dostane Renton, půjde tam nejspíš znovu. Renton se stává Šoufkovým "spolupracovníkem" při výrobě filmu. Spud se snaží vychovávat syna, udržet si vztah s přítelkyní a hlavně držet zkrátka svoji závislost na drogách. Takhle nějak děj začíná. Těžko říct, jak skončí.

Tíz évvel a Trainspotting után Simon "Beteg Srác" Williamsot ismét Edingburgban találjuk, egy hosszú, Londonban töltött időszak után. A csalóként, striciként, férjként, apaként és üzletemberként is megbukott Beteg Srác váratlanul egy olyan lehetőséget kap, amely az utolsó esélyt jelenti számára kikeveredni a kudarcból. De hogy valóra tudjon válni ez az álma, ahhoz egy pornófilmet kell megrendeznie és sikerre vinnie. A feladatot egyedül nem képes megoldani, ezért össze kell állnia régi haverjával, Mark Rentonnal... A Pornó világában viszont semmi sem egyszerű, így a Beteg Srác és Renton is hamarosan rájön arra, hogy megoldhatatlan problémát jelent irányítani az egykori csapatot.

Glue" is the story of four boys growing up in the Edinburgh schemes, and about the loyalties, the experiences - and the secrets - that hold them together into their thirties. Four boys becoming men: Juice Terry, the work-shy fanny-merchant, with corkscrew curls and sticky fingers; Billy the boxer: driven, controlled, playing to his strengths; Carl, the Milky Bar Kid, drifting along to his own soundtrack; and the doomed Gally - who has one less skin than everyone else and seems to find catastrophe at every corner. As we follow their lives from the seventies into the new century - from punk to techno, from speed to Es - we can see each of them trying to struggle out from under the weight of the conditioning of class and culture, peer pressure and their parents' hopes that maybe their sons will do better than they did. What binds the four of them is the friendship formed by the scheme, their school, and their ambition to escape from both; their loyalty fused in street morality: back up your mates, don't hit women and, most importantly, never grass - on anyone. Despite its scale and ambition, "Glue" has all Irvine Welsh's usual pace and vigour, crackling dialogue, scabrous set-pieces and black, black humour, but it is also a grown-up book about growing up - about the way we live our lives, and what happens to us when things become unstuck."

Rebecca Navarro, best-selling authoress of Regency romances, suffers a paralysing stroke. Assisted by her nurse, Rebecca plans her revenge on her unfaithful husband. But will Freddy Royle, hospital trustee, celebrity and necrophiliac, thwart those plans? Dave Thornton, soccer thug, has lost his heart to flawed beauty Samantha Worthington. Together they go in search of the man who marketed the drug that crippled her - in order to cripple him. Lloyd from Leith has a transfiguring passion for the unhappily married Heather. Together they explore the true nature of house music and chemical romance. Will their ardour fizzle and die in the grim backstreets of Edinburgh, or will it ignite and blaze like a thousand suns?

An electrifying thriller about innocence and absolute evil.