While accompanying an old friend on a debt collection errand, he meets Kate and begins a relationship with her. Terry Lawson - an arrogant lothario, his sexual exploits find him involved in the local dogging / amateur pornography scene, into which Rab introduces Nikki, becoming the star of Seven Rides.

Soon after, Terry, Rab and several other friends arrive and begin discussing their upcoming road trip to Amsterdam, a bachelor celebration for Rab. His excessive life style hides his underlying desires to meet someone he can have a real relationship with. Trainspotting, published in 1993, is a violent black comedy about working-class heroin addicts in Edinburgh. The Long Knives, his 13th novel, is a sequel to 2008’s Crime, which screened last year as a six-part BritBox series with Dougray Scott in the lead role of DI Ray Lennox.I like to have somebody I love and am loved by, but at the same time I’m always running away from them, too. They're nice for a quick injection, and something to go to when you're not quite in the mood to have your heed blown off your shoulders into pitch black darkness. He spent most of his 20s moving between Edinburgh and London, trying – and failing – to make it as a punk rocker in bands. It is the blackest of comedies, filmed with a ferocious guffaw, and yet acted with so much energy and intensity.

He hates everything the EU stands for in terms of centralised power and big business, but he would still rather be in than out. It’s almost like Welsh doesn’t trust readers to maintain an interest in the plot, and feels the need to hurry us along; or perhaps it’s himself he doesn’t quite trust. Simon David "Sick Boy" Williamson - bitter by a string of failed business ventures, Sick Boy decides to make a porn film.Despite the historical source material, Welsh has set the story in the familiar confines of present-day Edinburgh, with Burke and Hare depicted as brothers who steal human organs to meet the demands of the global transplant market. In 1993, Welsh built us a dark and squalid world, which he then revealed, piece by piece, via a series of curious vignettes — some funny, some sad, some dark and some deeply depraved — all compelling. I start every review on here of one of his books with that because I think it'll be very difficult for me to ever be too critical of his work.

The stories are much more loosely packed and episodic than that would suggest, which is part of what I love about Welsh so much: the punch, gutterfuck, quality of his mad-dash, almost ADHD storytelling. Like, you’d always think Trainspotting would be a very autobiographical novel and that something like The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins, with these two much younger female American narrators, would be different.Hapless addict Spud is here for the ride too, as is deranged psychopath Begbie, who is about to taste freedom for the first time in a decade after ten years in the slammer. You want to do something with your life, not fucking ponce around doing up fucking flats and selling them. Que se passe-t-il quand les fantasmes qu'on a dans la tête se répandent dans la vie - et vice versa ?

This is not the type of book I would normally read, but the bold, ballsy cover art seduced me and I was hooked.The first story of the three is slightly more bizarre than I've come to expect but still entertaining. Sick Boy is the most cynical of the Trainspotting characters, an amoral con artist always sniffing out a chance to screw the next sucker. As a big fan of the rave culture the many references to clubbing and partying had me fantasising of being a part of the times. Probably most famous for his gritty depiction of a gang of Scottish Heroin addicts, Trainspotting (1993), Welsh focuses on the darker side of human nature and drug use. In the novel Filth, the tapeworm's internal monologue is imposed over the top of the protagonist's own internal monologue (the worm's host), visibly depicting the tapeworm's voracious appetite, much like the "Climax of Voices" in Gray's novel 1982, Janine.