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Trainspotting to dziś powieść już niemal kultowa. Ten literacki debiut Irvine'a Welsha sprzedał się na Wyspach Brytyjskich w blisko milionowym nakładzie, doczekał się przekładów na kilkanaści języków i wreszcie został sfilmowany przez Danny'ego Boyle'a. Irvine Welsh (ur. 1958) to w tej chwili jeden z najpopularniejszych angielskich, a właściwie co sam zaznacza szkockich pisarzy, choć obecnie autor mieszka w Irlandii. Ale tę szkockość widać w jego powieściach, ich akcja toczy się w Edynburgu (najczęściej) i to stamtąd pochodzi sam Welsh i bohaterowie jego książek, w tym także oczywiście także powieści Trainspotting, która jest portretem grupy przyjaciół, młodych ludzi, ćpunów, śworów, a przy tym ludzi wrażliwych i na swój specyficzny sposób inteligentnych. Zarzucano Welshowi, że gloryfikuje narkomanię. Istotnie, główny bohater powieści Mark Renton wychwala heroinowego kopa pod niebiosa, a autor wydaje się patrzyć na świat oczami swoich bohaterów i opisywać go ich językiem. Ale przecież Welsh pokazuje także koszmarne strony narkotykowego uzależnienia, a to że stroni od taniej dydaktyki to tylko zaleta.

Bohaterowie Trainspotting powracają!Życie Marka Rentona zdaje się biec zwyczajnym torem: uczelnia, śliczna dziewczyna, a nawet pewien status społeczny. Jednak po śmierci młodszego brata wszystko po kolei mu się rozpada, a on sam zaczyna szwendać się ze starymi kumplami. Sick Boy, Spud Murphy, Tommy Lawrence, Matty Connell oraz Franco Begbie szybko wciągają go w swoje szalone plany.Irvine Welsh ponownie zabiera nas do Edynburga lat 80. Do epoki thatcherowskiej ? wysokiego bezrobocia, kiepskich widok�w na przyszłość, do czas�w, kiedy kasa i dragi były trudne do zdobycia.

Jim Francis jest wzorowym obywatelem stanu Kalifornia. Mieszka w domu przy plaży wraz z żoną i dwiema córkami. Jim jest też artystą, a jego rzeźby i obrazy pełne przemocy są antytezą życia prywatnego. Jim lubi tańczyć salsę i czyta Mechaniczną Pomarańczę na tablecie. Można by powiedzieć sielanka – nic jednak nie jest takie jak się wydaje. Pewnego dnia dostaje dramatyczną wiadomość z Edynburga. W poprzednim życiu w stolicy Szkocji miał też żonę i dwóch synów. Młodszy, którego prawie nie znał zostaje zamordowany w tajemniczych okolicznościach. Już lecąc do Europy ponownie zmienia się w dobrze znanego z kilku książek Irvine Welsha Franka Begbiego, łotra spod ciemnej gwiazdy, któremu lepiej schodzić z drogi. Begbie wini policję za opieszałość i postanawia sam wymierzyć sprawiedliwość. Znajomi Franka podejrzewają, że wszystko skończy się krwawą jatką… Begbie jednak ma inne plany. Tymczasem żona w Ameryce odkrywa, że nic nie wie o swoim mężu. Wszystko zaczyna sunąć w przepaść po równi pochyłej. Irvine Wesh autor kultowego Trainspotting w swojej najnowszej, najlepszej od wielu lat książce.

Irvine Welsh, uznawany za jednego z najwybitniejszych i najbardziej kontrowersyjnych angielskich pisarzy, powraca w nowej powieści, w której łączy zbrodnię, humor oraz ostry język swoich bohaterów. Głównym wątkiem jest morderstwo posła Ritchiego Gullivera, który został brutalnie zamordowany i pozostawiony w magazynie. Jego kontrowersyjna postać, znana z rasistowskich i skorumpowanych działań, przyciąga uwagę wielu potencjalnych podejrzanych, w tym rywali biznesowych i politycznych przeciwników. W miarę jak detektyw Ray Lennox bada sprawę, zmaga się z brutalnością otaczającego go świata, a jego osobiste uczucia zostają wystawione na próbę. Lennox stara się odkryć prawdę, jednocześnie zadając sobie pytanie, kto tak naprawdę jest ofiarą w tej skomplikowanej układance. Powieść ukazuje nie tylko brutalność życia, ale także marginalizację ludzi, którzy zostali skrzywdzeni przez Gullivera. W obliczu tej mrocznej narracji, autor wciąga czytelnika w świat, w którym granice między ofiarą a oprawcą są niejasne.

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This work explores masculinity during the sexual revolution, a time of confusion for many working-class men caught between liberation and traditional values. In 1968 London, filmmaker Donald Cammell collaborated with cinematographer Nicolas Roeg on “Performance,” featuring James Fox, Mick Jagger, and Anita Pallenberg. Cammell's vision included casting “real villains” to enhance the authenticity of the story, leading him to dialogue coach David Litvinoff, who connected him with London criminals for auditions. As Cammell experimented with the script, themes of dualism emerged, influenced by Borges and Francis Bacon, intertwining violence, psychedelia, and a homoerotic subtext that reflected the fractured male psyche. The film faced significant backlash upon release, being disowned by Warner Brothers and banned in some countries for its explicit content, yet it ultimately achieved critical acclaim and cult status. The intense filming experience took a toll on Fox, who suffered a nervous breakdown, attributed to his immersive method acting. Today, the film is recognized as a major influence on directors like Martin Scorsese and is celebrated for its portrayal of swinging London. The accompanying play, “Performers,” is a dark comedy featuring two gangsters auditioning for a role, blending homoerotic elements with cultural references from the era, offering a unique twist on the casting couch narrative.

The Seal Club is a three-novella collection by the authors Alan Warner, Irvine Welsh and John King, three stories that capture their ongoing interests and concerns, stories that reflect bodies of work that started with Morvern Callar, Trainspotting and The Football Factory - all best-sellers, all turned into high-profile films.

These two blackly humorous screenplays are both set in Edinburgh. "Trainspotting" is based on Irvine Welch's novel about heroin addicts and the underbelly of Edinburgh life. In "Shallow Grave" three young people discover a dead body and a suitcase full of money in their flat.

"It is 2017 - the time of Trump and Brexit. The time for the return of Steven Stelfox - exactly twenty years on from his Britpop heyday. Now forty-six, and rich beyond the dreams of avarice, he works only occasionally as a music industry 'consultant'. A fixer. A problem solver. He's had a call from his old friend James Trellick, who is now president of Unigram, one of the largest record companies in America. Trellick has a huge headache on his hands in the shape of... Lucius Du Pre. The biggest pop star on earth. Well, he was the biggest pop star on earth. Now he's a helpless junkie and a prolific, unrepentant paedophile. Through a programme of debt restructuring so complex even Trellick can barely understand it, Du Pre is also now massively in hock to the record company. The only way he can possibly pay it off is to embark on an enormous comeback tour he's in no shape to do. The picture is further complicated when the parents of one of Du Pre's 'special friends' begin blackmailing him. If their video gets out, Du Pre's brand will be utterly toxic, taking Unigram down with it. With stealth and cunning Stelfox begins to chart a road out of the nightmare. Needless to say, the body count on this road will be high."--Provided by publisher

*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? Fast and furious, scabrously funny and weirdly moving, this is a spectacular return of the crew from Trainspotting.

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 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.

Roy Strang is engaged in a strange quest in a surrealist South Africa. His mission is to eradicate an evil predator-scavenger bird, the marabou stork, before it drives away the peace-loving flamingo from the picturesque Lake Torto. But behind this world lies another: the world of Roy's bizarre family, the Scottish housing scheme in which he grew up, his mundane job, a disastrous emigration to Africa, and his youthful life of brutality with a gang of soccer casuals. As one world crashes into the other, this potentially charming story of ornithological goodwill mutates into a filthy tale of violence, abuse and redemption.

Available for pre-order now From #1 Sunday Times bestseller Irvine Welsh, the brand new novel in the CRIME series featuring former detective Ray LennoxOLD TRUTHS HAVE NEW CONSEQUENCESRay Lennox is determined to move on from his darkest days. The maverick former detective has left Edinburgh for a fresh start in Brighton. Soon, his fixations and addictions have been replaced with quiet evenings and a rigorous fitness regime.Then Lennox meets Mathew Cardingworth. Rich, smooth-talking and immaculately dressed, he presents himself as a successful, and respectable, property developer. Yet their encounter reawakens memories that have haunted Lennox for decades, sending him into a spiral of confusion and rage.Lennox has no choice - he must confront the events of his childhood. But the more he identifies the links between Cardingworth, the disappearance of a group of foster care boys and the violence of his past, the more he finds himself asking:What will he sacrifice to achieve resolution at last?

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…

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.

"Irvine Welsh's scintillating, disturbing, and altogether outrageous collection of stories—the basis for the 1998 cult movie directed by Paul McGuigan"--

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 Begbie, the troubled, drug-addled Spud, but, most of all, with each other. T2 Trainspotting was previously published as Porno.

When Lucy Brennan, a Miami Beach personal-fitness trainer, disarms a gunman chasing two frightened homeless men, the police and the breaking-news cameras are not far behind and, within hours, Lucy is a media hero. The solitary eye-witness is the depressed and overweight Lena Sorensen, who becomes obsessed with Lucy and signs up as her client - though she seems more interested in the trainer's body than her own. When the two women find themselves more closely aligned, and can't stop thinking about the sex lives of Siamese twins, the real problems start

Hilarious, shocking and hugely entertaining, Reheated Cabbage has all the classic Irvine Welsh ingredients.In these pages you can enjoy Christmas dinner with Begbie, and see how warmly Franco greets his sister's boyfriend and the news of their engagement. You will discover, in 'The Rosewell Incident', how aliens addicted to Embassy Regal have Midlothian under surveillance, and plan to install the local casuals as the new governors of Planet Earth. You will not be surprised to read that a televised Hibs vs. Hearts game might matter more to one character than the life of his wife, or that two guys fighting over a beautiful girl might agree -- on reflection, and after a few pills and many pints of lager -- that their friendship is actually more important. And you will be delighted to welcome back 'Juice' Terry Lawson, and to watch what happens when he meets his old nemesis, retired schoolmaster Albert Black, under the strobe-lights of a Miami Beach nightclub.

Detective Inspector Ray Lennox finds himself trying to protect an abused girl from a gang of pedophiles while vacationing in Florida.

Troubled environmental health officer Danny Skinner is engaged on a quest to uncover what he refers to as "the bedroom secrets of the master chefs." He regards the unraveling of this classified information as the key to learning genetic facts about himself and the crippling compulsions that threaten to wreck his young life. The ensuing journey takes him from Europe's festival city of Edinburgh to the foodie capital of America, San Francisco. But the hard-drinking, womanizing Skinner has a strange nemesis in the form of model-railway enthusiast Brian Kibby. It is his unfathomable, obsessive hatred of Kibby that takes over everything, threatening to destroy not only Skinner and his mission but also those he loves most dearly. When Kibby contracts a horrific and debilitating mystery virus, Skinner understands that his destiny is inextricably bound to that of his hated rival, and he is faced with a terrible dilemma. Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs is a gothic parable about the great obsessions of our time: food, sex and minor celebrity, and is a brilliant examination of identity, male rivalry and the need to belong in the world.

These five stories remind us that Welsh is a master of the shorter form, a brilliant storyteller and, unarguably, one of the funniest and filthiest writers alive. In Rattlesnakes, when three young Americans find themselves lost in the desert, how is it that one find himself performing fallatio on another while being watched by the bare-breasted Madeline and two armed Mexicans? Who is the mysterious Korean chef who has moved in with Chicago socialite Kendra Cross, in The D.O.G.S. of Lincoln Park, and what does he have to do with the disappearance of her faithful pooch, Toto? In the title story, can Mickey Baker, an English bar-owner on the Costa Brava, manage to keep all his balls in the air: maintaining his barmaid Teresa’s body weight at the sexual maximum while attending to the youthful Persephone, and dodging his persistent ex-wife and a pair of Spanish gangsters? In Miss Arizona, Raymond Wilson Butler is writing a biography of a legendary U.S. movie director. By what train of events does he end up as a piece of movie memorabilia? And how, in The Kingdom of Fife, will Jason King — diminutive ex-trainee jockey and Subbuteo star of Cowdenbeath — fare in the world of middle-class female equestrians?Irvine Welsh is the author of seven previous works of fiction, includingThe Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs. He lives in Dublin.

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 or will it ignite and blaze like a thousand suns? Ecstasy follows them and others through the backstreets of Edinburgh, stifling suburban sitting rooms and the bright lights of London. Exhilarating and dazzling, this is Welsh at his very best.

Dopo l'esperienza africana di Weekenders, ancora una volta il Daily Telegraph ha riunito lrvine Welsh, Monica Ali, Michel Atherton, Bella Bathurst, Jenny Colgan, Simon Garfield, W. F. Deedes, Tony Hawks, Victoria Glendinning, Sam Millet e Colm Toibin per catapultarli a Calcutta: dal confort e dalla modernità delle loro occidentalissime città, Londra e Edimburgo, a un luogo dove il passato parla ancora e il futuro chiama più forte che mai. Da quell'esperienza sono nati i racconti compresi in questa antologia che, mescolando la fiction al reportage di viaggio, riflettono modi diversi di vedere una metropoli che è nel mondo simbolo di povertà e miseria e che i suoi abitanti chiamano la Città della Gioia.

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…

A play from the author of TrainspottingWithin the sound-proofed walls of a disused recording studio, a score is being settled. Two inner city low-lifes take the law into their own hands to satisfy their craving for fun, fear and a freakish sense of justice. "You'll Have Had Your Hole" premièred at the West Yorkshire Playhouse and toured internationally - although it was banned in Belgium.

The classic bestseller from the star of Parts Unknown and No Reservations: 25th Anniversary edition, with a new introduction by Irvine Welsh. BEFORE THERE WAS THE BEAR, THERE WAS BOURDAIN. 'Elizabeth David written by Quentin Tarantino' A.A. Gill 'Fantastic: as lip-smackingly seductive as a bowl of fat chips and pungent aioli' Daily Telegraph After twenty-five years of sex, drugs, bad behaviour and haute cuisine, chef and novelist Anthony Bourdain decided to tell all - and he meant all. From his first oyster in the Gironde as a child, to his lowly position as a dishwasher in a honky-tonk fish restaurant in Provincetown; from the kitchen of the Rainbow Room atop the Rockefeller Center to drug dealers in the East Village, from Tokyo to Paris and back to New York again, Bourdain's tales of the kitchen are as passionate as they are unpredictable, as shocking as they are funny. Kitchen Confidential will make your mouth water and your belly ache with laughter and leave you wanting more. 'Compelling ... with its intriguing mix of clever writing and kitchen patois ... more horrifically gripping than a Stephen King novel' Sunday Times 'Extraordinary ... written with a clarity and a clear-eyed wit to put the professional food-writing fraternity to shame' Observer

Britský deník Daily Telegraph pozval sedm rozdílných anglických autorů na jeden víkend do Súdánu, „aby se osobně angažovali ve válce, která byla do té doby mimo jejich dosah...“ Každý z autorů je mistrem svého žánru – a každý z nich musel vykročit ze svého odlišného, nicméně podobně výlučného světa. Irvine Welsh, znalec drogové subkultury Edinburghu; Alex Garland, nonkonformní autor dobrodružných románů; Victoria Glendinningová, autorka zachycující životy z jiných století; Andrew O’Hagan, pronikavý kronikář současných životů; Bill Deedes, který je již 70 let novinářem, psal poprvé v životě beletrii; a Tony Hawks se pokoušel složit se súdánskými domorodci píseň. Pouze Giles Foden se skupinou necestoval. Jeho příspěvek, o který jsme požádali až později, jelikož jeho zkušenosti z Afriky dodaly knize další rozměr, byl napsán před hrozivými událostmi 11. září.

L'amore secondo Irvine Welsh: una storia ambienta in un'anonima cittadina di una popolosa regione a nord di Edimburgo e raccontarla in prima persona dai due protagonisti, Jason King e Jenni Cahill da Cowdenbeath, Fife centrale, Scozia. Lui, ventisei anni e poco più di un metro e mezzo d'altezza, ha archiviato le giovanili speranze di diventare un fantino professionista e si barcamena in un presente non troppo radioso da sottoccupato cronico e stella locale del subbuteo. Tra una partita e l'altra del «meraviglioso gioco da tavolo» e lavoretti più o meno leciti, Jason inganna la monotonia delle giornate di provincia ascoltando Cat Stevens, scolandosi quantità esagerate di Guinness e tampinando quasi ogni ragazza gli capiti a tiro. Da un po', però, a dare materia alle sue fantasie sono le morbide forme della dolce Jenni Cahill. Cavallerizza di scarso talento, con una passione per Marilyn Manson e vaghe aspirazioni suicide, lei non sembra tuttavia troppo entusiasta di ricambiare le attenzioni di quel «nanerottolo schifoso» di Jason. Ma si sa, le apparenze possono ingannare e al cuor non sempre si comanda, e saranno prima il caso e poi un tragico incidente a far scoprire ai due ragazzi di poter condividere qualcosa: il sogno di una nuova vita, lontana dal grigiore di ogni Cowdenbeath del mondo.

С тремя остроумными и мучительными рассказами о любви и её взлётах и падениях, Иервин Уэлш, автор «На игле», практически переосмысляет новый жанр прозы: химическую романтику. В «Лоррейн едет в Ливингстон» бестселлерный автор регентских романов, парализованный и прикованный к постели, планирует месть своему азартному, развратному мужу с помощью своей медсестры Лоррейн. В «Счастье всегда скрыто» несовершенная красавица Саманта Уорингтон привлекает влюблённого молодого футбольного хулигана, чтобы найти человека, который продал наркотик, из-за которого она стала инвалидом с рождения, чтобы отомстить ему его же лекарством. В оптимистичном финальном рассказе «Непобеждённые» мы переживаем преображающую страсть несчастливо замужней молодой яппи Хизер и рэйвера Ллойда из Лита — грандиозный роман, разыгрывающийся под ритмы хаус-музыки.

Состоит из трех самых мощных рассказов Уэльша, все происходят в суровых и жестоких районах Северного Эдинбурга и погружают нас в темный, но смешной мир наркотиков, девиантного секса и футбольного хулиганства, наполненный страстью Уэльша и яркой рок-н-ролльной энергией.

Celebrating the 10th anniversary of the birth of Acid House, this anthology of new stories includes works by Alan Warner, Irvine Welsh and Jeff Noon.