Beyond Trainspotting: The World of Irvine Welsh review – uniquely funny writer holds court ⊕⊕
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The author discusses his writing, the movies it created and his own youth, but not all the interviewees in this documentary are quite so gripping
Here, in addition to Paul Sng’s recent documentary abo…
31 days ago
The historic port district – and setting for Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting – has evolved into a cultural and culinary hub. In the first of a new series, a local resident visits the venues powering the…
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‘I spent the 90s with Pam – clubbing and partying in the way those times demanded. What I saw was a truly groundbreaking artist, and a life marked by independence, courage and kindness’
• Pam Hogg, fa…
6 months ago
Paul Sng’s documentary finds the Trainspotting author as funny, sharp and unrepentant as ever – from boyhood in Leith to globetrotting fame and a hallucinogenic trip in Canada
No one would reject the …
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The user-friendly short chapter format of Nicci Cloke’s Her Many Faces, design…
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Three decades on from the author’s breakthrough debut, why are we still trapped in the Trainspotting moment?
It has been more than 30 years since Irvine Welsh published Trainspotting. To put that in p…
11 months ago
Fiercely original and stunning live, they should have been massive – but they imploded. As the Scots return, they relive disowning their debut album, blowing Top of the Pops – and getting shocks off …
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