Irvine Welsh

It is the late 1980s, the closing years of Thatcher’s Britain. For the Trainspotting crew, a new era is about to begin – a time for hope, for love, for raving. Leaving heroin behind and separated after a drug deal gone wrong, Renton, Sick Boy, Spud and Begbie each want to feel alive. They fill their days with sex and romance and trying to get ahead; they follow the call of the dance floor, with its promise of joy and redemption. Sick Boy starts an intense relationship with Amanda, his ‘princess’ – rich, connected, everything that he is not. When the pair set a date for their wedding, Sick Boy sees a chance for his generation to take control at last. But as the 1990s dawn, will finding love be the answer to the group’s dreams or just another doomed quest?

Choose life. Choose love? The Trainspotting crew fall for rave and romance in Irvine Welsh's blazing new novel. * A Best Summer Read for the Guardian, i Paper, Esquire, Scotsman and more * It is the late 1980s, the closing years of Thatcher's Britain. For the Trainspotting crew, a new era is about to begin - a time for hope, for love, for raving. Leaving heroin behind and separated after a drug deal gone wrong, Renton, Sick Boy, Spud and Begbie each want to feel alive. They fill their days with sex and romance and trying to get ahead; they follow the call of the dance floor, with its promise of joy and redemption. Sick Boy starts an intense relationship with Amanda, his 'princess' - rich, connected, everything that he is not. When the pair set a date for their wedding, Sick Boy sees a chance for his generation to take control at last. But as the 1990s dawn, will finding love be the answer to the group's dreams or just another doomed quest?

Choose life. Choose love? The Trainspotting crew fall for rave and romance in the blazing new novel from the No.1 bestseller.* A Guardian and Standard ‘Book to Look Out For’ 2025 *It is the late 1980s, the closing years of Thatcher’s Britain. For the Trainspotting crew, a new era is about to begin – a time for hope, for love, for raving.Leaving heroin behind and separated after a drug deal gone wrong, Renton, Sick Boy, Spud and Begbie each want to feel alive. They fill their days with sex and romance and trying to get ahead; they follow the call of the dance floor, with its promise of joy and redemption.Sick Boy starts an intense relationship with Amanda, his ‘princess’ – rich, connected, everything that he is not. When the pair set a date for their wedding, Sick Boy sees a chance for his generation to take control at last.But as the 1990s dawn, will finding love be the answer to the group’s dreams or just another doomed quest? *****PRAISE FOR NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER IRVINE WELSH:‘The arrival of Trainspotting was an earth-shaking cultural moment . . . It shines with humour and friendship. Every character here is alive’DOUGLAS STUART‘So propulsive . . . about as much fun as you can have between two book covers’ THE TIMES‘The voice of punk, grown up, grown wiser and grown eloquent’SUNDAY TIMES

Audiokniha Trainspotting, kterou napsal Irvine Welsh. Feťák Mark Renton alias Rentboy a jeho kámoši z edinburského sídliště se potácejí v životě ode zdi ke zdi nebo spíš od dávky k dávce. Spojují je krádeže a potyčky s policií, sexuální eskapády, kamarádství i zrady, blaho ze super fetu i bolesti z propadů do absťáku. Vypadnout z bludného kruhu bezradné existence není hračka – ne každému se to podaří a někteří o to ani nestojí.

A beautiful hardback edition of the seminal novel that changed the face of British fiction. Choose us. Choose life. Choose mortgage payments; choose washing machines; choose cars; choose sitting oan a couch watching mind-numbing and spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fuckin junk food intae yir mooth. Choose rotting away, pishing and shiteing yersel in a home, a total fuckin embarrassment tae the selfish, fucked-up brats ye've produced. Choose life.

The highly-anticipated second instalment in the CRIME trilogy, now a hit TV Series. In Edinburgh, Detective Inspector Ray Lennox is investigating a brutal crime... 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. As Lennox unravels the truth, and the list of shocking attacks grows, he must put his personal feelings aside. But one question refuses to go away: who are the real victims here?

*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?

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 spot of disc jockeying and closes in, gradually, on some kind of redemption... Selected from Irvine Welsh's novel Ecstasy. VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS. A series of short books by the world's greatest writers on the experiences that make us humanAlso in the Vintage Minis series:Home by Salman RushdieDreams by Sigmund FreudEating by Nigella LawsonWork by Joseph Heller

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.

V revidovaném překladu vychází nejslavnější Welshova kniha. Autorovi se v ní podařilo něco nevídaného: vzít téma zralé pro sociologické studie o deprivované mládeži a napsat zábavný a propracovaný román, s jehož hrdiny musí čtenář sympatizovat, přestože ho jejich jednání často děsí a odpuzuje. Ne nadarmo podle románu vznikl jeden z nejpopulárnějších filmů britské kinematografie. Welshův román i film Dannyho Boyla donutil ty slušné, aby svůj životní styl konfrontovali s životem lidí, kteří unikají před správným životem i za cenu sebezničení.

Hrdinové Trainspottingu se vracejí na místo činu, do Edinburghu: Mark Renton z Amsterdamu, Simon Williamson z Londýna, Frank Begbie z vězení... Leith je příliš malý, než aby na sebe nenarazili. Všichni jsou o pár let starší, ze společné minulosti jako by přetrvaly hlavně křivdy, je lepší mít se před ostatními na pozoru - hlavně před Begbiem. Heroin je minulostí, finanční nouze je však věčná. Simon je odhodlaný prorazit v pornoprůmyslu, a groteskní peripetie natáčení pornofilmu Welsh s gustem líčí na mnoha stránkách svého románu. v pozadí však cítíme jiné téma: všichni hrdinové dospívají do věku, kdy rekapitulují dosavadní život, což nevede k radostným úvahám. Porno se stalo východiskem pro nový napjatě očekávaný film Dannyho Boyla, režiséra legendárního Trainspottingu, který dostal název T2 Trainspotting.

Now a major film directed by Danny Boyle reuniting the cast of Trainspotting. Years on from Trainspotting, Sick Boy 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 realise his ambitions within the Adult industries, Sick Boy must team up with old pal and fellow exile Mark Renton. Still scheming, still scamming, Sick Boy and Renton soon find out that they have unresolved issues to address concerning the unhinged Frank Begbie, the troubled, drug-addled Spud, but, most of all, with each other. T2 Trainspotting was previously published as Porno.

This book is shortlisted for the 2015 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse prize for comic fiction. A rampaging force of nature is wreaking havoc on the streets of Edinburgh, but has top shagger, drug-dealer, gonzo-porn-star and taxi-driver, 'Juice' Terry Lawson, finally met his match in Hurricane 'Bawbag'? Can Terry discover the fate of the missing beauty, Jinty Magdalen, and keep her idiot-savant lover, the man-child Wee Jonty, out of prison? Will he find out the real motives of unscrupulous American businessman and reality-TV star, Ronald Checker? And, crucially, will Terry be able to negotiate life after a terrible event robs him of his sexual virility, and can a new fascination for the game of golf help him to live without...A Decent Ride? A Decent Ride sees Irvine Welsh back on home turf, leaving us in the capable hands of one of his most compelling and popular characters, 'Juice' Terry Lawson, and introducing another bound for cult status, Wee Jonty MacKay: a man with the genitals and brain of a donkey. In his funniest, filthiest book yet, Irvine Welsh celebrates an un-reconstructed misogynist hustler - a central character who is shameless but also, oddly, decent -and finds new ways of making wild comedy out of fantastically dark material, taking on some of the last taboos. So fasten your seatbelts, because this is one ride that could certainly get a little bumpy...

This book is short-listed for the 2015 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse prize for comic fiction. A rampaging force of nature is wreaking havoc on the streets of Edinburgh, but has top shagger, drug-dealer, gonzo-porn-star and taxi-driver, 'Juice' Terry Lawson, finally met his match in Hurricane 'Bawbag'? Can Terry discover the fate of the missing beauty, Jinty Magdalen, and keep her idiot-savant lover, the man-child Wee Jonty, out of prison? Will he find out the real motives of unscrupulous American businessman and reality-TV star, Ronald Checker? And, crucially, will Terry be able to negotiate life after a terrible event robs him of his sexual virility, and can a new fascination for the game of golf help him to live without...A Decent Ride? A Decent Ride sees Irvine Welsh back on home turf, leaving us in the capable hands of one of his most compelling and popular characters, 'Juice' Terry Lawson, and introducing another bound for cult status, Wee Jonty MacKay: a man with the genitals and brain of a donkey. In his funniest, filthiest book yet, Irvine Welsh celebrates an un-reconstructed misogynist hustler - a central character who is shameless but also, oddly, decent -and finds new ways of making wild comedy out of fantastically dark material, taking on some of the last taboos. So fasten your seatbelts, because this is one ride that could certainly get a little bumpy...

This book is short-listed for the 2015 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse prize for comic fiction. A rampaging force of nature is wreaking havoc on the streets of Edinburgh, but has top shagger, drug-dealer, gonzo-porn-star and taxi-driver, 'Juice' Terry Lawson, finally met his match in Hurricane 'Bawbag'? Can Terry discover the fate of the missing beauty, Jinty Magdalen, and keep her idiot-savant lover, the man-child Wee Jonty, out of prison? Will he find out the real motives of unscrupulous American businessman and reality-TV star, Ronald Checker? And, crucially, will Terry be able to negotiate life after a terrible event robs him of his sexual virility, and can a new fascination for the game of golf help him to live without...A Decent Ride? A Decent Ride sees Irvine Welsh back on home turf, leaving us in the capable hands of one of his most compelling and popular characters, 'Juice' Terry Lawson, and introducing another bound for cult status, Wee Jonty MacKay: a man with the genitals and brain of a donkey. In his funniest, filthiest book yet, Irvine Welsh celebrates an un-reconstructed misogynist hustler - a central character who is shameless but also, oddly, decent -and finds new ways of making wild comedy out of fantastically dark material, taking on some of the last taboos. So fasten your seatbelts, because this is one ride that could certainly get a little bumpy...

Miután Lucy Brennan, a Miami Beachen élő személyi edző lefegyverez egy férfit, aki két rémült hajléktalant üldöz pisztollyal a kezében, nem kell sokat várni, hogy feltűnjenek a színen a rendőrök és a szenzációra éhes hírcsatornák kamerái is. Míg Lucyt alig néhány óra leforgása alatt hőssé avatja a média, az eset egyetlen szemtanúja, a depresszióval küzdő, túlsúlyos Lena Sorenson az újdonsült híresség megszállottjává válik, és felkeresi, hogy a kliense lehessen - de hamarosan kiderül, hogy sokkal inkább a tréner teste érdekli, mintsem a sajátja. Az igazi problémák pedig akkor kezdődnek, amikor a két nő fokozatosan egyre közelebb kerül egymáshoz, és azon kapják magukat, hogy folyamatosan a sziámi ikrek szexuális életén jár az eszük... Pályafutásának két legmarkánsabb női főhőse, az agresszív, mocskos szájú Lucy Brennan és a szeretetéhes, manipulatív Lena Sorenson bizarr szadomazochista viszonyán keresztül Irvine Welsh korunk két nagy rögeszméjét járja körbe: a külsőnkkel és a lakhelyünkkel kapcsolatos megszállottságot. Noha a helyszín a borongós Edinburgh helyett ezúttal a napfényes Florida, a kegyelmet soha nem ismerő skót író most is olyan felzaklató történetet mesél, amelytől sötétbe borul a táj. Irvine Welsh 1958-ban született Edinburgh-ban. Az írói pályára meglehetősen kacskaringós úton jutott el (dolgozott tévészerelőként, feltűnt Londonban az aranykorát élő punkszíntér aktív alakjai között, sőt a rendőrség nyilvántartásába is bekerült), a sikerre viszont nem kellett sokat várnia, miután tollat fogott: első regénye, az edinburgh-i junkie-król szóló 1993-as Trainspotting azonnal klasszikussá vált, és egy kultuszfilm alapjául is szolgált. A sokkolóan tragikomikus sztori problémás hőseihez Welsh azóta többször is visszatért, de nyolc újabb regényében jó pár további emlékezetes - és jellemzően zűrös - figurát is teremtett. A színdarabokat és forgatókönyveket is jegyző író jelenleg Chicagóban él.