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The Blade Artist (Mark Renton, #4) by Irvine Welsh
Category: Fiction
Jim Francis has finally found the perfect life - and is now unrecognisable, even to himself. A successful painter and sculptor, he lives quietly with his wife, Melanie, and their two young daughters, in an affluent beach town in California. Some say he's a fake and a con man, while others see him as a g ...Show more
The Blade Artist audio by Irvine Welsh
Category: Audio
The most terrifying character in Trainspotting returns - with his own novel. Jim Francis has finally found the perfect life - and is now unrecognisable, even to himself. A successful painter and sculptor, he lives quietly with his wife, Melanie, and their two young daughters, in an affluent beach town i ...Show more
The Long Knives by Irvine Welsh
Category: Fiction | Series: The\CRIME Ser.
The highly-anticipated second instalment in the CRIME trilogy, now a hit TV SeriesIn Edinburgh, Detective Inspector Ray Lennox is investigating a brutal crime...Ritchie Gulliver MP is dead. Castrated and left to bleed in an empty Leith warehouse. Vicious, racist and corrupt, many thought he had it comin ...Show more
The Long Knives by Irvine Welsh
Category: Fiction | Series: The CRIME series
*A 2022 Book to Look Forward To in the Evening Standard* Justice can be a blunt instrument "Men like him usually tell the story. In business. Politics. Media. But not this time: I repeat, he is not writing this story." Ritchie Gulliver MP is dead. Castrated and left to bleed in an empty Leith warehouse ...Show more
The Man With the Golden Arm by Welsh, Irvine
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
A novel of rare genius, The Man with the Golden Arm describes the dissolution of a card-dealing WWII veteran named Frankie Machine, caught in the act of slowly cutting his own heart into wafer-thin slices. For Frankie, a murder committed may be the least of his problems.The literary critic Malcolm Cowle ...Show more
The People's City - One City Trust by Irvine Welsh (Introduction by); Nadine Aisha Jassat; Anne Hamilton; Alexander McCall Smith; Ian Rankin; Sara Sheridan
Category: Travel
The world's first UNESCO city of literature, Edinburgh is steeped in literary history. It is the birthplace of a beloved cast of fictional characters from Sherlock Holmes to Harry Potter. It is the home of the Writer's Museum, where quotes from writers of the past pave the steps leading up to it. A city ...Show more
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Vintage Wilde) by Oscar Wilde; Irvine Welsh (Introduction by)
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
The Picture of Dorian GrayBy Oscar WildeOscar Wilde's story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is one of his most popular works. Written in Wilde's characteristically dazzling manner, full of stinging epigrams and shrewd observations, the tale of Dorian Gray's mor ...Show more
Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
Category: Fiction
"Choose us. Choose life. Choose mortgage payments; choose washing machines; choose cars; choose sitting on a couch watching mind-numbing and spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fuckin junk food intae yir mooth. Choose rotting away, pishing and shiteing yersel in a home, a total fuckin embarrassment tae ...Show more
Trainspotting 2 Film Tie-in by Irvine Welsh
Category: Fiction | Series: Trainspotting
Now a major film directed by Danny Boyle reuniting the cast of TrainspottingYears 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 o ...Show more
Trainspotting (Vintage Classics) by Irvine Welsh
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Hardbacks Ser.
VINTAGE QUARTERBOUND CLASSICSBeautiful editions of great books to last a lifetimeA beautiful hardback edition of the seminal novel that changed the face of British fiction.Choose us. Choose life. Choose mortgage payments; choose washing machines; choose cars; choose sitting oan a couch watching mind-num ...Show more
Trainspotting (Vintage Loves Film Classic) by Irvine Welsh
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Loves Film Classic
Choose us. Choose life. Choose mortgage payments; choose washing machines; choose cars; choose sitting on a couch watching mind-numbing and spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away, pishing and shiteing yersel in a home, a total fucking embarrassment to ...Show more