Irvine Welsh has slammed Nicola Sturgeon for trying to shove her trans beliefs “down people’s throats”. Welsh, 66, believes ...

Irvine Welsh was one of the best known and most articulate supporters of Scottish independence in the run-up to the 2014 ...

Irvine Welsh has revealed how a psychedelic drug turned him from being an atheist into believing in the afterlife. The ...

Irvine Welsh is full of stories, one reason he is such a prolific author. He isn’t short of anecdotes, either, or of opinions. These range from politics to what he mockingly refers to as his “practice ...

The 66-year-old Trainspotting author tells Scotland Tonight he doesn't dwell on leaving a legacy and explains why he doesn't ...

Edinburgh Festival is great but I’m more excited about Hibs - Reality is Not Enough, a documentary about the Trainspotting author and his take on consciousness, will close the International Film ...

The writer Irvine Welsh, actor Hugh Bonneville, comedian Michael Palin and former politician Nick Clegg have been confirmed ...

The author has now written a sequel, picking up where Trainspotting left off and catching up with the exploits of the gang. The writer speaks to Katie Razzall about class, the way music influences his ...

Men in Love, a doorstopper nodding to DH Lawrence, is a proper, traditional novel, intricately weaving multiple lives and ...

Especially music. Welsh was born in Leith, Edinburgh, where most of Trainspotting takes place. His father was a dockworker, his mother a waitress whose cooking Welsh once compared to waterboarding.

The boxer in training is Irvine Welsh, the Scottish author whose headlong tales of drinking, drugging and black-comic depravity among Edinburgh's youth tend to suck the wind from readers like so ...

It won't be another 15 years before an Irvine Welsh is adapted. Porno, the long anticipated sequel to Trainspotting, has already been announced for production.