A _GUARDIAN_ AND _STANDARD_ BOOK OF 2025
_CHOOSE LIFE. CHOOSE LOVE?_ THE _TRAINSPOTTING_ CREW FALL FOR RAVE AND ROMANCE IN THE BLAZING NEW NOVEL FROM LEGENDARY IRVINE WELSH.
Irvine Welsh was born and raised in Edinburgh. His first novel, _Trainspotting_, has sold over one million copies in the UK and was adapted into an era-defining film. He has written thirteen further novels, including the number one bestseller _Dead Men's Trousers_, four books of shorter fiction and numerous plays and screenplays. _Crime_ and _The Long Knives_ have been adapted into a television series starring Dougray Scott as Ray Lennox.
Irvine joins us for the latest sequel to his seminal _Trainspotting._ Opening in the late 1980s as rave culture is born and moving into the 1990s, _Men In Love_ reunites the _Trainspotting_ crew for a riotous new journey.
_There wasn't an album they wouldn't buy, or a drug they wouldn't try._
_Then it spiralled out of control . . ._
_They were left with nothing._
_Nothing but the eternal quest of all men: the search for love._
Renton, Spud, Sick Boy and Begbie leave heroin behind and seek joy, and the hope of redemption, on the dance floor. Each wants to feel alive in the closing years of Thatcher's Britain, and they fill their days with sex and romance and trying to get ahead. Taking in Edinburgh, London, Amsterdam and Paris, the group charges towards an unexpected event: Sick Boy's wedding day.
But is falling in love the answer, or just another doomed quest?
'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_