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Irvine Welsh is the author of Trainspotting, Ecstasy, Glue, Porno, Filth, Marabou Stork Nightmares, The Acid House, If You Liked School, You’ll Love Work, The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs and Reheated Cabbage. He divides his time between Florida, Ireland, and Scotland. show more

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Irvine Welsh's Books

Speaking With the Angel - Robert Harris, Roddy Doyle, Dave Eggers, Nick Hornby, Helen Fielding, Colin Firth, Melissa Bank, Giles Smith, John O'Farrell, Patrick Marber, Irvine Welsh, Zadie Smith

The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs - Irvine Welsh

If You Liked School, You'll Love Work - Irvine Welsh

The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins: A Novel - Irvine Welsh

The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins - Irvine Welsh

Rotten English: A Literary Anthology - Roddy Doyle, Langston Hughes, James Baldwin, Jonathan Safran Foer, Chinua Achebe, Rohinton Mistry, Amy Tan, Ntozake Shange, Robert Burns, Tom Leonard, Zora Neale Hurston, Peter Carey, Junot Díaz, Alan Duff, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Gloria E. Anzaldúa, John Kasaipwalova, R. Z

Irvine Welsh Omnibus, The - Trainspotting - The Acid House - Marabou Stork Nightmares - Irvine Welsh

Open City #3 - Richard Yates, Irvine Welsh, Patrick McCabe

You'll Have Had Your Hole - Irvine Welsh

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Carmilla Reads rated it

6 years ago

text Heroin, Homebreaking and Rehab.

Twenty years after the release of Trainspotting in 1993, Irvine Welsh wrote a prequel “Skagboys”. We are introduced to the main characters before they encounter heroin, and taken through the degradation of the working class in Scotland and elsewhere during the Thatcher years, including a poignant sc...

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capriceum rated it

6 years ago

text Filth

I loved the recurring theme of filth in this book. The main character is dirty in every sense of the word, so much so that he has worms. He's filthy in body and morals, a bad person in every sense. Of course he's a pig.

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Portable Magic rated it

8 years ago

text Skagboys DNF/Not Rated

Since this is a prequel to Trainspotting, I decided to read this one first. I got about an hour into the audio before realizing my mistake, as this seems like a series of disconnected vignettes about characters that the reader is supposed to already recognize. Not having read Trainspotting first, I ...

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Hol rated it

10 years ago

text A Decent Ride by Irvine Welsh

I’m so unbelievably bummed this book is finished! I’ve had a lot of *stuff* going on lately and this book took my mind off it all and I got really attached to the brilliant character’s that Irvine Welsh always does so well. A transgressive style comedy, this book focused on Terry, a taxi driver fr...

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KatieMc rated it

10 years ago

text reality TV meets Stockholm syndrome

Would you want to read a book where the protagonist is fitness fanatic professional who uses abuse and shame to kick her victims clients into shape?Do you enjoy when this sort of thing happens?Me neither. And it's a shame because this was actually a good dark and twisty tale that kept me quite enter...

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